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this crazy band of ours has a long and very twisted history starting in 1980! following is a list of the two decades of obies who have passed through the panyard. the list is nowhere near complete, so if you have any further information, please, please, please send it to the band. this list starts with our founding members, who started something kinda neat, and we all thank ya: |
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name |
instruments |
years |
contact info & life story |
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Peter L. Mayer |
Tenor |
81-82 |
Founder |
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Toby Gordon |
Seconds |
81-82 |
Founder |
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Mike Geller |
Seconds |
81-83 |
Founder |
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Shannon Dudley |
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Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Washington-Seattle |
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Howard J. Supnik |
Percussion |
83 |
Landscape Architect in Pennsylvania |
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Zoe Sherinian |
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81-83 |
Went to India on Shansi in 1984 |
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Linda Papademas |
Tenor/Percussion |
83-85 |
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Josh Searle-White |
Cellos |
81-82 |
Professor of Psychology |
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David Dunn |
Tenor/Percussion |
81-83 |
Composer of the Oberlin Steel standard "Sarah's Samba." Currently residing in Boulder, CO. |
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Naomi |
Seconds |
Fall 84 |
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Roger Stratton |
Seconds |
85-87 |
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Stuart Paton |
Percussion |
83-85 |
Full-time musician: Japanese taiko drumming, founder and
director of Burlington Taiko; West Afrikan drumming, Cuban-Haitian drumming;
jazz percussion. |
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Tracey Tsugawa |
Seconds |
82-84 |
Independent consultant and part-time university professor at
Springfield College (Boston) and University of Massachusetts-Amherst. |
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Cara Coburn |
Seconds |
82-87 [?] |
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Orestes |
Drumset |
82-85 [?] |
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Lee Erickson |
Seconds |
82-85 [?] |
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Lalit Loomba |
Bass |
82-85 [?] |
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Bob Bedell |
Bass |
82-84 |
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Amy Kelley |
Seconds |
84 |
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Sarah |
Cellos |
82-85 [?] |
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Gavin Smith |
Tenor |
82-85 [?] |
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John Mitchener |
|
83 |
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Alan Herrmann |
Cellos/Tenor |
84 |
Lives in the
San Francisco Bay area and is an engineering manager for a Silicon Valley
semiconductor company. Married with two daughters. Played quads in two
professional steelbands in California, Santa Cruz Steel (which no longer
exists) and Pan Ramajay. Played tenor pan with a band at Chabot
College in Hayward that works with guest artists Andy Narell, Boogsie Sharpe,
and Ray Holman, to name three. now playing pan with the CSM Panhandlers (along with Anna Talamo
'91 and Devon Strolovitch '97, both Can Consortium alums) |
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John Wertheimer |
Tenor |
81-85 |
Assistant Professor of History at Davidson College in
Davidson, North Carolina |
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Jennifer Kahle |
Cellos |
85 |
Biomedical Pre-Publication Services |
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Thomas Major |
Bass/Percussion |
86 |
M.A. in public policy at Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota. Married to Kristen Norman, one daughter, Marissa Lynn. Program analyst with the National Center for Health Statistics |
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Jessica (Gilbertson) Roberts |
Tenor |
83-86 |
Previously Asst. Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at OHSU. Now
in private practice in Portland, Oregon. |
|
Sara Hotchkiss |
Tenor |
87 |
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Meighan Matthews |
Seconds |
85-89 |
Program
Director, Peace Games, Inc. |
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Josh Pawelek |
Drumset |
89 |
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Brian Rice |
Congas |
89 [?] |
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John Campbell |
Cellos |
89 [?] |
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Ben (Saferstein) Cohen |
Tenor, Seconds, Bass |
85-88 |
3745 S. Roslyn Way |
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Alison Hinderliter |
Tenor |
87-89 |
Project Archivist, Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra |
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Janet Lewis |
|
90-92 |
Minneapolis, received masters degree in public health. Works in
youth development for Edina Public Schools. |
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Myla "Torpedo" Goldberg |
Tenor |
93 |
A best-selling novelist living in Brooklyn. |
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Keauxgeigh "Koji" Li |
Tenor |
92 |
Finished law school; did masters in international law. |
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Pete "Dr. Hand" Wolfram |
Tenor |
90s [?] |
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Carol "Ace" Arthur |
Seconds |
89-91 |
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Cassie Dragt |
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89-91 |
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Craig "Air Devo" McCord |
Cellos |
90-92 |
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Tom "Stretch" McFadden |
Cellos |
90s [?] |
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Joshua Rothkopf |
Bass |
90s [?] |
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Andy "The Flash" Russ |
Percussion |
90-92 |
New York |
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Anna Talamo |
Seconds |
91 |
playing pan with the CSM Panhandlers (along with Devon Strolovitch
'97 and Alan Hermann '84, both Can Consortium alums)
Berkeley, CA |
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Jason Mittell |
Cellos |
90-91 |
Associate Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture, Chair of Film & Media Culture Department at Middlebury College. |
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Evan Brubaker |
Bass, Drums, Cellos |
90-92 |
Became a rock star. |
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Chris "Barbalute, AKA Boomboom" Gates |
Drumset |
92 |
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Justin Dudley |
Seconds |
92 |
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Jesse Rowe |
[?] |
92 |
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Dan "Back Door, AKA Boogie" Shafer |
Tenor |
93 |
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Mak "Mac Daddy" Saito |
Cellos |
93 |
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Kelsey "Running Man" Siegel |
Cellos |
93 |
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Trudy "The Intruder" Wyss |
Seconds |
93 |
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Brian Bartel |
Drumset |
93 |
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Alexis "Turbo" Collins |
Seconds/Tenor |
94 |
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Cynthia McGregor |
Seconds |
94 |
Received PhD in music theory from Northwestern University |
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Ian "Ejan" Kisert |
Tenor |
94 |
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Amy "U Turn" Floyd |
Seconds |
94 |
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Jason "Barq's" Ritt |
Bass/Cellos |
94 |
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Carlos "Curiously Strong" Walker |
Percussion |
94 |
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Robbyn Kistler |
Tenor |
94 |
Plays pan in Pan Leggo. |
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Lisa Collins |
Cellos |
94 |
Graduated from Oberlin in '97. |
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Ellen "Thrifty, AKA Java" Clegg |
Cellos/Tenor |
95 |
Founder of Found Sounds |
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Katie "Katydid" Tallman |
Cellos/Seconds |
95 |
5690 Steeplechase Dr. |
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Ben Shaykin |
Seconds |
95 |
1677 Church St. |
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Amy Cullinan |
Cellos |
95 |
Studied biology at University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Eban English |
Percussion |
95 |
Went to Chicago to become a rock star. |
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Ian S. Hisert |
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90s [?] |
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Sara R. Webb |
Bass/Cellos |
96 |
231 Stratford Dr. |
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Rhian Davies |
Seconds |
96 |
Joined the U.S. Army |
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Aryaman Shalizi |
Cellos |
96 |
1507 Varnum St. NW |
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Nikki Bartnicki |
Cellos |
96 |
Graduated from Oberlin in '99, double degree. |
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Margaret Ewing |
Tenor |
96 |
1951 Chestnut St. #310 |
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Erin Marks |
Tenor |
96 |
221 N. Kenilworth #202 |
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Pat "Oh Baby" Buzby |
Drumset |
97 |
Working with Tautologic and various other rock bands in Chicago. |
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Joel "Shakin" Hamburger |
Tenor/Seconds |
97 |
12809 Circle Drive |
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Aashish Sunil Shantilal Meganal Motilal Kantinal Kalidas Mehta |
Bass/Cello/Tenor |
97 |
Completing a
PhD in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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David "Bacchanal" Silva |
Tenor/Percussion |
97 |
330 E 33rd St Apt 5N |
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Devon Levy Ze'ev Louie Velvel Defyn Ap Llywelyn "Beatle
Ed" Strolovich |
Seconds |
97 |
Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2005 from Cornell University, now working in
radio in San Francisco and playing double seconds with the CSM
Panhandlers (along with Anna Talamo '91 and Alan Hermann '84, both Can
Consortium alums) |
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Samir Succar |
Tenor/Seconds/ Engine Room |
97 |
260 N. 3rd St. Apt J |
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Alan Wiser |
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Playing Tenor with Pan Masters in DC |
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Yoko "Can You Ski?" Endo |
Cellos/Percussion |
97 |
Working as a research assistant in Tokyo at Capital Research Company,
an American asset management company. |
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Laura "The Enigmatic" Slocum |
Tenor/Percussion |
98 |
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Matt "Double-Diamond" Hill |
Percussion/Cellos |
98 |
Oberlin College '00 |
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Liz "Cheese Nomad" Blayney |
Cellos/Bass |
98 |
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Amanda "I Am Such A Slackah! (She Really Is!)" Brady |
Cellos |
98 |
Living in D.C., playing Tenor with Panmasters |
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Kristen "Captain Carrot" Jones |
Seconds/Bass |
96-99 |
Playing seconds with Panmasters in D.C. |
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Amber "Quatsch" Ries |
Seconds |
97-99 |
Neubiberger Str. 38 |
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Matt "Sally" Norton |
Seconds/Drumset/ Percussion |
97-99 |
3448 Slade Run Dr |
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Eric "Sinead" Suquet |
Percussion/Tenor/ Cellos |
96-00 |
Ericsuquet
@ hotmail.com |
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Jen "Don't Mess With Me" Prosser |
Tenor |
97-00 |
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Jibrail "Tex" Nor |
Drumset/Seconds |
97-00 |
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Alex "Road Mama" Mack |
Tenor |
97-00 |
2041 Oak St.
#2 |
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Alex "The Noo" Pojedinec |
Seconds |
00 |
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Jackie "Surdu Crack Lady" Davis |
Cellos |
98-01 |
In Alaska. |
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Alexa "Genius" Kunitsugu |
Seconds/Quads |
97-01 |
In Seattle? |
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Lillian "Sunset" Kehler |
Cellos |
98-01 |
In California. |
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Jess "Honey Brown" Boehland |
Cellos |
98-01 |
East Coast somewhere? |
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Luke "Mindy" Fasano |
Drumset/Percussion |
99-01 |
Working in Manhattan. |
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Molly "Rusty" Benson |
Seconds/Quads |
00-01 |
In Los Angeles, working with movie stars. |
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Stefan "Mr. President" Kamola |
Tenor/Bass |
00-01 |
In Siberia throatsinging on a Watson's fellowship. |
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Tom Jeanne |
Tenor/Bass |
99-02 |
Residing in Madison, WI. |
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Abigail Chapin |
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02 |
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Connie Brichford |
Cellos |
02 |
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Anne Siegler |
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02 |
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Peter Meredith |
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02 |
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Joaquin Espinoza |
Percussion |
02 |
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Leah Patriarco |
Tenor/Bass |
01-03 |
Graduate studies at Northwestern. |
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Scott Weaver |
Cellos |
01-03 |
Germany? |
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Patia Maule |
Tenor/Bass |
00-03 |
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Amy Cobden |
Tenor/Quads |
01-03 |
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Cat Richert |
Seconds |
01-03 |
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Lilly Rosenman |
Tenor |
00-03 |
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Sarah Buck |
Cellos |
01-03 |
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Tessa Shanks |
Seconds |
02-04 |
Working
in New York City. |
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Adam Czernikowski |
Guitars |
03-04 |
Graduate
Studies at the University of Florida. |
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Nansamba Ssensalo |
Tenor/Bass |
01-04 |
Tagging music for Pandora in CA. |
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Oliver |
Cellos |
?-04 |
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Timothy Gibbon |
Percussion |
01-04 |
Living
in DC? |
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Abigail Sackmann |
Seconds |
05 |
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Ryan Brazell |
Quads/Bass/Double Tenor/Percussion |
03-05, 07-08 |
Living in San Francisco. |
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Andy Callaway |
Percussion |
02-05 |
Living
in Aspen, CO, giving snowmobile tours. |
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Carolyn Mraz |
Cellos/Seconds/Tenor |
03-05 |
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Emily Schultz |
Tenor/Cellos |
02-05 |
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Noah Smit |
Drumset |
01-05, 08-09 |
Living in Pittsburgh, PA after a stint in D.C. playing drumset for the Pan Masters Steel Orchestra. Recently played drumset for the winning band in the Trinidad National Panorama 2008, Clico Sforzata. |
Nadia Fellah![]() |
Tenor, Seconds, Bass | 03-06 | |
Mia Casale![]() |
Tenor, Seconds | 03-06 | |
Luke Eddins![]() |
Tenor | 03-06 | |
Wayne van Lieu![]() |
Percussion | 03-06 | |
Stephen Lind![]() |
Seconds | 03-06 | Playing organ & doing software engineering in |
Katherine Erickson![]() |
Quads, Cellos, Double Tenor, Tenor | 03-07 | Last seen biking down the Mississippi River. |
Michael P. Geraci![]() |
Cellos, Tenor | 04-07 | Working as a co-founder on The Almanac, a next-generation carbon calculator, after a cross-country bike trip. (email: mgeraci@gmail.com.) |
Lenore Braford![]() |
Quads, Tenor | 04-07 | Making art in Asheville and farming in Australia. |
Paul Drake![]() |
Drumset | 04-07 | |
Hannah Neprash![]() |
Seconds | 04-07 | Doing medicare policy research & writing limericks in Washington, D.C. |
Katelyn Mueller![]() |
Cellos | 05-07 | Going to graduate school at Carnegie Mellon. |
Laila Williams![]() |
Percussion | 05-07 | |
Zeev Saffir![]() |
Double Tenor, Tenor Bass, Tenor | 05-08 | Selling dental supplies, coding websites, & transcribing Panorama arrangements after a year of teaching steelpan at Horace Mann High School in New York. |
Anna Vanderhorst![]() |
Tenor | 05-08 | Doing research at the UCSD Memory Research Laboratory. |
Maya Curry![]() |
Tenor | 06-08 | Working for Time Magazine in Washington, DC. |
Jody-Ann Allen![]() |
Tenor | 06-08 | |
Sam Lasser![]() |
Seconds | 06-08 | Teaching English in Oman. |
Pete Steffy![]() |
percussion | 06-08 | In Mexico on a Fullbright scholarship. |
Jeff "Jaff" Vaudrin-Mcclean![]() |
percussion | f05–s09 | India? |
Mona Barber![]() |
seconds, tenor | s06–s09 | Working at a violin shop in Seattle. |
Toussaint Mears-Clarke![]() |
tenor bass | f06–s09 | At the University of Chicago Medical School. |
Nathaniel "Natty Boom-Boom" Meyer![]() |
tenor | s07–s09 | Working for Green Corps in PA. |
Rebecca Eiseman![]() |
quadrophonics | f07–s09 | Working at a neighborhood market in San Francisco. |
Leah Bakst![]() |
tenor | s08–s09 | Doing research at the Harvard Cognitive Neuroscience Lab. |
updated 23 october 2008