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Michael Lisicky is second oboist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He
is also an author and historian and has written five books on the histories of
downtown urban department stores. (Visit here or here to purchase.) He has been sought out by CBS Sunday Morning,
Bloomberg, Fortune, and other leading news sources as an expert on this field.
Dawn Webster
is a freelance trumpeter and an acupuncture student at Yo San University of
Traditional Chinese Medicine in Los Angeles.
Dawn studied music and environmental
geology in her undergrad at Rutgers University and earned a Master of Music from Temple University
studying with David Bilger.
Mezzo-soprano
Shannon Langman teaches and performs frequently in Houston, where she resides
with her husband, tenor Gregory Smith. Shannon was a Young Artist with
Tri-Cities Opera in Binghamton, New York and spent two seasons with The Ohio
Light Opera. She has sung solo parts with The Houston Symphony and the Orquesta
Sinfónica Nacional de Mexico.
Shannon received her Master of Music Degree
in Opera Performance at The Moores School of Music at the University of Houston
where she was the recipient of the prestigious Cynthia Woods Mitchell
Scholarship. She is also the owner of Shannon Langman Photography, specializing
in musician headshots.
Last week, I did three
interviews in three days, so I am busy transcribing a lot of new
exciting content that will be posted in the coming
weeks.
I've now done more than a dozen interviews, and I'm even more amazed at the level of talent and passion of these people. I am honored that they took time out of their busy schedules to talk to me. Some common themes are starting to emerge:
Joe was one of my first friends in Philly and I have found his creativity, talent, passion, and kind personality to be inspriring ever since we first met. I hope reading this interview is as enjoyable for you as it was for me to do! --AM
Composer Joseph Hallman has written works performed by brilliant musicians including Alisa Weilerstein and members of The Philadelphia Orchestra. He is adjunct professor at Drexel University. He earned a Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Margaret Brouwer.
Joe is an Administrator at the College of Liberal Professional Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also earning a Master of Liberal Arts at Penn. His capstone work is an ethnography of African-American Gay Male Youth at The Attic Youth Center in Philadelphia.
Jacob Smith is principal bassoonist with the Academy of Vocal Arts
Orchestra and plays frequently with the Opera Company of Philadelphia,
the Pennsylvania Ballet, and is a substitute with The Philadelphia Orchestra. He is a former member of The Chamber Orchestra of
Philadelphia. He studied with Nancy Goeres at Carnegie Mellon University
and Danny Matsukawa at Temple University. 
