The Music Studio

Michael Barren is a pianist and vocalist from Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Barren received his bachelor’s degree in music from Birmingham-Southern University, with honors in piano performance and minors in Greek and Roman studies and mathematics. At Youngstown State University, while pursuing his master’s degree in music performance (piano), he became an integral part of the…

Madison Theil grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and earned her Bachelor’s of Music in Piano Performance at Miami University (Ohio), and later completed her Masters of Music in both Piano Pedagogy and Piano Performance at West Virginia University. Ms. Theil was certified in the Musikgarten curriculum in 2018 and has taught in a variety of…

Timothy Dunne is a composer of contemporary classical music, educator, scholar, and a performing classical pianist living in the Hudson Valley. He has written works for large orchestra, chamber ensembles, voice, and solo instruments. He received his doctorate of musical arts in composition from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory of Russia in 2009 and is…

Joseph McDermott is a pianist, accompanist, and educator from the Capital Region. A graduate of Columbia High School in East Greenbush, Dr. McDermott went on to pursue both a bachelor’s and master’s degree at the Crane School of Music (piano performance with a concentration in piano pedagogy); he then earned his doctorate in piano performance…