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Ellen Nordstrom (voice) holds a B.A. in Music from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Additional Bozena O’Brien (string department chair, violin, string
studies include a two-year internship with the Lake George ensembles) has studied with Walter Eisenberg at Boston
Opera, studies at Dartmouth and with Mary McDonald University and Marylou Speaker Churchill of the Boston
Klimek, Speech Pathologist at Harvard Medical School at Symphony Orchestra, and has participated as a Young
MEEI. Ms. Nordstrom is a frequent lecturer in northern Artist member at Tanglewood. She performs with the New
New England on vocal health and Italian diction. In Hampshire Music Festival, Vermont Symphony Orchestra,
addition to teaching at the Music School, she works in Musicians of Wall Street, Handel Society of Dartmouth,
conjunction with local speech therapy recovery programs, and several piano trios. Mrs. O’Brien holds a certificate
teaches New England College students through CCMS’s for Suzuki pedagogy and Suzuki Book 1 and has taught at
collaboration with NEC, and teaches group voice classes St. Paul’s School, Plymouth State University, Holderness
at NHTI. Preparatory School, and Kimball Union Academy.
Heather Oberheim R-DMT (music and movement program
director, dance movement therapy, Take Three, Creative Petra Pacaric (voice) holds a Master’s in Vocal Performance
Arts Camp) holds a B.A. in Psychology with dance from the Boston Conservatory. Originally from Austria,
concentration from Colby-Sawyer College and a graduate she spent her previous studies in music and foreign
degree in Dance Movement Therapy from Antioch New languages at the Innsbruck Conservatory of Music and the
England Graduate School. She directs the Music and University of Innsbruck from where she graduated with a
Movement program at the Music School, offering classes MA for Foreign Languages in Conference Interpretation
both on-site and as part of the Music in the Community and Translation. Ms. Pacaric has performed extensively
Initiative in public schools and community agencies, with Boston Symphony and Tanglewood Festival Chorus;
such as Head Start, that benefit low-income children and featured solo engagements include collaborations with
children with special needs. Ms. Oberheim is a frequent New England Light Opera, Longwood Opera, the
presenter of professional development workshops for Metrowest Symphony, Nashua Symphony, and Westford
early childhood educators, as well as educational sessions Chorale. She performs regularly as a jazz vocalist;
for parents, with a specialty in helping children with maintains a private voice studio in Stratham; and is a
disabilities and language delays. She is active in the member of the voice faculty at Phillips Exeter Academy.
Early Childhood Music and Movement Association, the
American Dance Therapy Association, and the NH Early
Learning Association.

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