Flute, Piccolo, Alto & Bass Flutes, Baroque Flute
A former member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Mary Barto is the recipient of the Distinguished University Teaching Award from Mannes School of Music, The New School University. Her major teachers include Julius Baker, John C. Krell, Herbert Levy and Sandra Miller. She has performed with the New York Philharmonic, New York City Opera, New York City Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre. She has toured Western Europe with harpsichordist Eve Kugler and across the United States as soloist for the legendary Skitch Henderson, founder of the New York Pops.
A Part-time Associate Teaching Professor at Mannes, Mary Barto teaches Flute and is the Director of the Preparatory Division’s Flute Ensemble as well as coaching mixed Chamber Music. These groups performed in May of 2018 in the Black Box Theatre at Mannes. She also founded and directs the Flute Ensemble at Fordham University. In May of 2018, the Fordham Flutes, gave their Spring Concert at Steinway Hall on Sixth Avenue. For eleven years, she was the coordinator of the Adult Chamber Music Program at the Lucy Moses School – Kaufman Center, where she continues as a Chamber Music teacher and instructor of Flute.
Mary Barto performs solo concerts and offers Master Classes across the US and has performed on New York’s “Artists in Concert”, WQXR. She was a soloist with the Mannes Community Orchestra. She performs with the New York Composers Circle, dedicated to the showcasing of innovative new works by living composers. Last January, she was featured in a chamber music program at the Kaufman Center’s Merkin Hall.
She is an Adjunct Instructor of Flute at Columbia University-Teachers College, Adjunct Professor at Fordham University and Assistant Professor at Hunter College of the City of New York where she also coaches mixed Ensembles. She performed at Hunter’s Lang Hall last April. She is the Woodwinds Coach for the Carnegie Hill and Concert Orchestras of the InterSchool Orchestras of NY – ISO.
Among her Broadway Orchestral credits are “Annie”, “The King and I” and “Les Miserables”. Her film score recordings include numerous works by Academy Award winning composer John Barry. Her work for Eric Selch’s Federal Music Society was performed on authentic period instruments and recorded by New World Records.
Her Quintet, The New York Five, has the unusual instrumental combination of Flute, Bassoon, Violin, Viola and Piano. All of their music was composed by pianist George Quincy. Their CD, “Choctaw Nights” is available from Albany Records. Their latest CD, “Journey of the Red Feather” is available from Amazon, CD Baby and Flute World.
2014 brought the rare honor of a GRAMMY AWARD nomination.
A product of the school system he now proudly serves, Paul Corn has been teaching for two decades. He is a builder of quality programs wherever he goes. He began his teaching career at Marine Park Middle School (Brooklyn) where upon arrival he quickly changed the program from a three-day-a-week program to a school with Marching Band, tiered concert bands, and a jazz ensemble that continues to thrive after two leadership changes.
From Marine Park, Mr. Corn moved on to Fort Hamilton High School (Brooklyn) where he succeeded his mentor Mr. Laurence Laurenzano as the conductor of the symphonic band, director of the marching band and during his time, he established the school’s highly competitive jazz ensemble, receiving a Gold with Distinction from The New York State School Music Association in both the symphonic and jazz bands. After raising the bar he then went on to accept an appointment as Assistant Principal of The Arts at Wagner High School (Staten Island). In his thirteen years at the helm, Mr. Corn has revitalized the arts program, created a fully tiered concert band program, a highly competitive jazz program, a marching band with more than one hundred and fifty members, a top level theater program, which has performed multiple times on Broadway as part of the Schubert fellows, and a thriving Visual Arts and Dance program. In conjunction with the Staten Island Borough Presidents Office, The Mayors Office and the Office of the Chancellor, Mr. Corn helped design and procure a new Center for The Performing Arts on the Wagner H.S. campus, which opened in 2016. This facility offers new space for all of the performing arts classes to rehearse and a new black box theater for performances. Of the students taught by Mr. Corn at Wagner, Fort Hamilton, and Marine Park, many have gone on to careers in music education and are now leading music programs of their own.
Mr. Corn’s dedication to education brings him outside his classroom to a number of other rewarding projects. He is working as a conductor for Jazz at Lincoln Center where he leads one of their Middle School Jazz Academy Big Bands. Most recently Paul has been appointed the new conductor of The New York City Symphonic Band (formerly ISO Wind Symphony) at Third Street. His passion for education also led him to The French Woods Festival of The Performing Arts where he has led the jazz studies program, the concert band, and numerous pit orchestras for countless musical productions. He has commissioned works for his many ensembles by composers such as Frank Lacy, Salim Washington and Michael Markowski.
A graduate of Brooklyn College in Performance (BM, MM) he studied clarinet with David Weber and saxophone with Salim Washington and Lawrence Feldman. He has served as adjunct faculty at Brooklyn College, leading their big band and wind ensemble programs. He is a professional saxophonist, clarinetist and composer having penned numerous jazz works for his professional ensemble, The Modern Jazz Workshop as well as his own students.
Earl McIntyre Bass Trombone, Tuba,
At Mannes College of Music he studied Bass trombone with Simone Karasick and tuba with Thompson Hanks. Later he studied arranging with Slide Hampton and Bob Brookmeyer and studied privately with the famous brass teacher Carmine Caruso
Mr. McIntyre has played, recorded or arranged for Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Taj Mahal, the Band, Stevie Wonder, McCoy Tyner, J.J. Johnson, Aretha Franklin, Levon Helm, the Count Basie Orchestra, the Ellington Orchestra, the Thad Jones -Mel Lewis Orchestra, Slide Hampton, the Mingus Big Band, Cecil Taylor, Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra and Fred Ho.
He has received numerous grants as a composer, player and educator from. The National Endowments of the Arts, New York State Council of the Arts, Meet the Composer, and others.. He appears on many Grammy award-winning recordings, has numerous film & Broadway credits and been involved in a number of Tony winning productions. Faculty credits include Long Island University, The New School for Social Research and SUNY at Purchase. Mr. McIntyre has also been a teaching artist for Young Audiences, Brooklyn Arts Council and The New Jersey Performing Arts Center. He’s done clinics through various arts organizations as well. At the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music he served as Director for the Jazz division. He was also producer and founder of the “Brooklyn Brass Fest” which featured a number of world class brass players and teachers In 2013 he and Renee Manning founded the Excelsior Music Studio, and educational program geared towards adults and seniors in Brooklyn. His latest CD is “Brass Carnival & Tribute.” For more information go to excelsiormusicstudio.com
Steven Rochen conducts ISO’s Carnegie Hill Orchestra. He has based his career on teaching children to perform with confidence. He has served for more than two decades on the faculties of Third Street Music School, Trinity School, and Meadowmount School of Music. Performances of his piece for solo violin, A Piece of Pi, (Ovation Press, pub.) have been mentioned in articles published worldwide by Agence France-Presse and other media services.
He studied violin with Sally Thomas and Fredell Lack and studied conducting with Igor Buketoff. In 2008 he was appointed the Paul-Philippe Bolduc Fellow, with research trips to Berlin, Vienna, and Prague. He has enjoyed working with the indie band The Baskervilles on their latest CD and also performs with his band The New Lost Faculty Ramblers.
Page Silverman-Primm is currently the Principle String Coach for InterSchool Orchestras, responsible for overseeing the coaches in all 4 ensembles. She currently teaches at Tottenville High School and directs 4 orchestras as well the THS String Quintet. Many of her groups have been adjudicated and received ratings of Gold with Distinction. She is the current orchestral director for the Staten island Salute to Music String Orchestra which regularly performs in Carnegie hall. In addition, she is the Orchestra Director at the Summer Arts Institute at Frank Sinatra High School for the Arts. Page is the professor of Orchestral and String Studies at Wagner College. She has performed violin, viola, and cello with various orchestral organizations and also maintains a private studio of musicians ranging from primer level to pre college and college level in violin, viola, cello, and piano. She is currently a member of NAfME and ASTA. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam and her Master’s Degree from the Cali School of Music at Montclair State University.
Barry Stern is beginning his second season as conductor of ISO’s Symphony Orchestra, after having served as conductor of the ISO Concert Orchestra for one season, and the ISO Turtle Bay Orchestra for three seasons. Barry is an alumnus of the ISO Symphony, having been in the orchestra from 1985 – 1987 under the tutelage of Music Director Emeritus, Jonathan Strasser. Barry currently serves as Principal Conductor of the All City High School Orchestra, and is the orchestra director at Brooklyn’s Fort Hamilton High School, leading the string program and conducting the orchestra in out-of-state competitions, and through many concerts over the course of the school year. As a violist, Barry has collaborated and performed with artists such as Quincy Jones, Mark Wood, Tevin Campbell, and Sarah Brightman. Barry is the founding conductor of NYC’s Summer Arts Institute String Studio, meeting at Frank Sinatra High School for the Arts in Astoria. Barry is a co-author of the New York City Department of Education’s Commencement Music Examination, and a lead facilitator for professional development for New York City music teachers, in addition to serving on the committee that created the Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts. For the 2020 – 2021 school year, Barry will serve on the music education faculty of Brooklyn College. Previously, Barry was the guest conductor of the NYSSMA Area All State Middle School Festival at Bishop Laughlin High School in Brooklyn, and served on the faculty of the New York State Music Camp and Institute at Hartwick College. Prior to becoming a full time educator, Barry had been Director of Orchestral Operations at Manhattan School of Music, and Director of the Bronx House School for the Performing Arts. He is a graduate of Lehman College (MAT), and the Manhattan School of Music (BM, MM), where he studied viola with Burton Kaplan and Karen Dreyfus, and conducting with David Gilbert and Jonathan Strasser.
Scott Still is a former pupil of ISO, both the Symphonic Band and the Symphony Orchestra. Upon aging out, he became the coach of those groups, as well as a stint with Carnegie Hill. In 2006, he led the Symphonic Band percussion section in a performance of Carlos Chavez’s Toccata for percussion ensemble, where he conducted the group at Symphony Space.
As a freelance classical percussionist, Scott has performed with such groups as One World Symphony, New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, the Dicapo Opera, Staten Island Philharmonic, Greenwich Village Orchestra and Astoria Symphony Orchestra. He is also an avid lover of new music and has done many world premieres by living composers.
During the summers, Scott is head of percussion at French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts. While there he overlooks all the groups as well as running and conducting the percussion ensemble. He plays over 12 musicals a summer, and combined with other freelance opportunities, Mr. Still has played well over 70 different musicals.
To help balance out his musical interests, Scott is in 2 rock bands and does as much recording for other groups and artists as possible.
Violinist Marc Szammer has performed as a soloist and in chamber music recitals across Europe and North America.
As a New York-based freelancer, Marc plays and records with numerous groups including Manhattan Chamber Orchestra and Artemis Chamber Ensemble. He performs regularly in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center as well as other New York venues such as The Blue Note and Le Poisson Rouge. He has also appeared with various pop artists such as Shakira, Gloria Estefan, Patti LaBelle, Carlos Santana, John Legend, The Miami Sound Machine, Amy Grant and Olivia Newton-John.
Born in Quebec, Canada, Marc began his musical studies at the age of five. He later pursued his musical training by attending New York City’s Mannes College of Music. As a student of Sally Thomas, he received the degrees of Bachelor of Music, Master of Music and also completed the Professional Studies Diploma in violin performance. A dedicated teacher, Marc is also a certified ski instructor and enjoys teaching both skiing and music to students of all ages.
