Alisa Helene Bucchiere
B.M., University of Lowell; M.M., Westminster Choir College.

Ms. Bucchiere is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in music education at Boston University. Prof. Bucchiere presently holds faculty positions at Northern Essex Community College, as both the Choral Director and professor of music theory and music history, and at Fitchburg State College, where she is the assistant to the choral director, the choral accompanist, and also the group piano instructor. Prof. Bucchiere was formerly on the faculty of the New School for Music Study, the Chopin Conservatory at North Shore Community College, and Concord Community Music School (NH). Prof. Bucchiere recently took a sabbatical from being an organist/church choir director. Her most recent tenure was for six years at Tewksbury United Methodist Church.

Joseph DiMarino
B.A., Trinity College, M.M., Eastman School of Music.

Mr. DiMarino started his study of harpsichord at age 16, and has focused his musical interest primarily toward early music. His principal teachers have been Joseph Payne and Arthur Hass, harpsichord; David Craighead and Russell Saunders, organ; and Paul O'Dette, baroque performance practice. Mr. DiMarino joined the Indian Hill faculty in January 2006, where he offers private harpsichord instruction, coaches baroque ensembles and participates in student and faculty recitals. In addition to performing on the harpsichord in the Boston area, he currently serves as choir director and organist at Pilgrim Congregational Church in Leominster.

Stuart Smith
B.A. in music, Rutgers University; M.F.A. in music theory/composition, Brandeis University; Ed.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Stuart Smith has been playing jazz piano since his early teen years. He first learned "popular" piano from his mother, a dance school rehearsal pianist who had to develop piano arrangements of all kinds of music for ballet, tap, and jazz dance groups on short notice. He formed his first jazz combo while in the seventh grade and has continued to play with a variety of jazz groups ever since. In recent years he has performed with his own jazz trio, playing mostly his own original compositions. At UMass Lowell, where he has taught for many years, he has directed and written arrangements for student jazz ensembles and has taught a variety of music courses, including traditional music theory, jazz theory, jazz history, sound synthesis, and keyboard skills. He retired as professor emeritus from UMass Lowell in 2002, but has continued to teach there as adjunct professor of Music.