Erma Mellinger

Lecturer, Voice

M.M., Eastman School of Music

B.M., Northwestern University

In addition to earning a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, Erma also earned both Teaching and Performance Awards. A professional singer, Erma has performed leading roles with many of the country's major opera companies including the Cleveland Opera, the Dallas Opera, the Florida Grand Opera, the Fresno International Grand Opera, and the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh.

Gregory Hayes

Senior Lecturer, Classical Piano

M.M., Manhattan School of Music

B.A., Amherst College

Gregory Hayes has taught piano and occasionally harpsichord at Dartmouth College since 1991. He is a busy chamber musician and orchestral keyboard player, and has appeared as soloist with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. He plays harpsichord, piano, and celesta regularly for the Albany Symphony Orchestra, and has also performed with the Vermont Symphony and the Orchestra of St. Lukeís (New York). He has participated often in the New England Bach Festival and Marlboro Music Festival, and on the Mohawk Trail Concerts series. He is longtime music director for the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence (Massachusetts), and for fourteen years directed Da Camera Singers, an auditioned chorus based in Amherst. Mr. Hayes is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College and the Manhattan School of Music. He has also studied at the Hartt School of Music and, for several summers, at the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin College. His teachers have included Ming Tcherepnin, Kenneth Fearn, Dora Zaslavsky, and Raymond Hanson. He has written frequently on music, including liner notes for many recordings and articles and reviews for magazines and newspapers. He lives in Goshen (Massachusetts) and has taught for many summers at Greenwood Music Camp in nearby Cummington. In his free time he enjoys playing squash and building stone walls.

Thomas Haunton

Senior Lecturer, French Horn

B.M., New England Conservatory of Music

A freelance horn player based in Boston, Thomas Haunton performs as Principal Horn in both the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, and as Third Horn of the Springfield (MA) Symphony Orchestra. As a member of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra for over twenty seasons, Mr. Haunton has toured extensively throughout the United States, Japan, and Korea. A winner of the prestigious Concert Artist Guild Competition as a member of the woodwind quintet, Quintet di Legno, Mr. Haunton has also performed as guest principal horn of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared in two films, "Yes, Giorgio" and "Blown Away," and in a music video for MTV by the rock music group, Aerosmith. Under the baton of conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Arthur Fiedler, John Williams, Henry Mancini, and Keith Lockhart, Mr. Haunton has performed with many notable artists from the fields of classical music (Beverly Sills, Isaac Stern, Itzak Pearlman, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Yo-Yo Ma, Andrea Bocelli), jazz music (Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie), country/folk music (Johnny Cash, John Denver, James Taylor), Broadway show music (Richard Harris, Anthony Quinn, Barbara Cook, Joel Grey, Ben Vereen, Faith Prince, Bebe Neuwirth), comedy (Victor Borge, Dom DeLuise) and rock music (Whitney Houston, Cyndi Lauper, Aerosmith). Mr. Haunton is also the author of numerous publications, including a book of French horn excerpts published by Margun Music entitled Horn Passages of the Symphonies of Franz Joseph Haydn.

Jan Halloran

Lecturer, Clarinet

M.M., Boston University

B.M., Eastman School of Music

A resident of the Boston area, Jan Halloran holds the position of Principal Clarinet with Boston Lyric Opera and regularly appears with many of the city’s preeminent ensembles, including Opera Boston, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Philharmonic and Boston Classical Orchestra. In addition, her busy freelance career features performances throughout New England. She has been a member of the Portland Symphony’s clarinet section since 1993, spends summers with Opera North and the New Hampshire Music Festival, and has performed with the Vermont Symphony and Rhode Island Philharmonic.

As a chamber musician, Ms. Halloran was a founding member of the New England Reed Trio, with whom she performed, recorded and commissioned dozens of new works for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. She has also been a guest artist with the South Coast Chamber Music Society and Classicopia.

She has been on the faculty of Dartmouth College since 2007, and also maintains a private teaching studio.  Ms. Halloran holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, and Master of Music from Boston University. Her primary teachers were Thomas Thompson, Michael Webster and Thomas Martin.

Fred Haas

Adjunct Assistant Professor and Distinguished Lecturer, Saxophone, Jazz Piano
Director, Performance Laboratory in Jazz Improvisation

A.B., Dartmouth College

Fred Haas has performed with Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles, Clark Terry, Milt Jackson, Joe Morello, Don Cherry, Milt Hinton and many others. A Dartmouth graduate (í73), Fred teaches saxophone, jazz piano, jazz improvisation, jazz history and music theory. He is the founder of Interplay Jazz Camp, an intensive, holistic summer workshop in jazz improvisation. Fred has recorded many CDs, including several for his own JazzToons label. He is also an active performer and composer, traveling internationally to play and teach with a variety of jazz groups.

John Dunlop

Lecturer, Cello

M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music

B.M., Oberlin College

John Dunlop has lived in the Northeast for over twenty years, and held positions as Principal Cellist with the Vermont Symphony, Burlington Chamber Orchestra, Opera North, Vermont Mozart Festival and the Green Mountain Opera Festival. He has performed as soloist with both the VSO and BCO, as well as many chamber music performances with notable area musicians. He studied under Richard Kapuscinski at Oberlin Conservatory and Bonnie Hampton at the San Francisco Conservatory, and has played in master classes for Yo-Yo Ma, Jerry Grossman, Steve Doane and others. John has also composed and recorded several award-wining film soundtracks for short films, including a documentary on childhood hunger in Vermont, where he called on his skills as a guitarist and bouzouki player in addition to cello. He has worked with Trey Anastasio of Phish on many of his solo albums. Besides his work at Dartmouth, John teaches privately in Richmond, Vermont where he shares a studio with his partner, VSO violinist Laura Markowitz.

Hafiz Shabazz

Adjunct Associate Professor

M.Ed., Cambridge College

Hafiz Shabazz, master drummer and Director of the World Music Percussion Ensemble, is an ethnomusicologist, percussionist, performer, and lecturer. He teaches courses on improvisation and non-Western music. He has studied at the University of Ghana and the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. He has studied in Cuba with master drummers and folklorists and has performed with Max Roach, Lionel Hampton, Julius Hemphill and Alhaji Bia Konte, Master Cora and Griot of Gambia, West Africa. Professor Shabazz toured for many years with Wind and Thunder, a group devoted to improvisational jazz and non-Western music. He has toured France, the Caribbean, and extensively throughout Canada and the United States. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and at Duke University, and lectured in over 500 schools and universities. He is an initiated member of the Ancestral Shrine of the Ashanti Nation in Ghana, West Africa, has authored articles for the Black Music Research Journal, and was a consultant with John Chernoff in the writing of African Rhythms and African Sensibilities.