Adria Benjamin:

A viola teacher and conductor at Merrywood, Adria has been a longtime member of Orchestra Lumos’s viola section and serves as the orchestra’s personnel manager.  She has worked at the Mannes College Preparatory Division teaching viola, chamber music, and conducting the orchestra.

Brenda Herschbach Jarrell:

A cello student at Merrywood, she now works as an intellectual property lawyer in Massachusetts.

Meg Lamm:

A violin student at Merrywood, Meg currently lives in Wisconsin where she continues to play violin and has added the viola to her repertoire.

Nikki Levin:

A piano student at Merrywood, Nikki is now a dermatologist and professor at U. Mass Chan Medical School.  She rarely plays the piano these days, but she and her husband are happy beneficiaries of all the musical ensembles in the Boston area and beyond.

Barbara Crouse Vaughan:

A violin teacher at Merrywood, Barbara currently plays both the violin and viola.  She performs with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and with Hop River Chamber Music.  She previously taught violin in the Mansfield Public Schools and violin/viola at Eastern CT State University.  Enjoying travel abroad, she resides in CT.

Sandy Dennis:
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/directory/faculty-staff/sandra-dennis

Fran Bard:
https://www.hoprvrmusic.com
https://musicalclubhartford.org/content/music-by-members---dec-8%2C-2016/906

Adria Benjamin:
https://www.newschool.edu/mannes/faculty/Adria-Benjamin/
https://orchestralumos.org/musicians
https://www.feenotes.com/database/artists/benjamin-adria/

Jeral Benjamin:
https://www.ratdisk.com/jeral.html

Brad Mehldau:
https://www.bradmehldaumusic.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Mehldau

Barbara (Crouse) Vaughan:
https://www.hoprvrmusic.com