Elementary Music Program

Clarinetist Monica Duncan freelances throughout the Greater Boston area, and has performed with Symphony By-The-Sea, Cape Ann, Lexington, and Greater Lansing Symphonies, North Shore Music Theater, Hillyer Festival Orchestra, Chalumeau hamber Ensemble, and Arlington Street Chamber Players. Monica has performed in Japan and Canada, and has premiered works at the 1999 SCI National Conference and the 1998 Latin American Music Festival. She can also be heard on the CDs Awaiting the Sun, FleetingVisions, and Metamorphosis through Beauport Classical, and Basically British with Philharmonia a Vént.

Monica holds a Masters degree from Indiana University where she studied with James and a Bachelors degree from Michigan State University. In addition to her role as performer, Duncan teaches clarinet from her private studio and in the Hamilton- Wenham School District. She is also a chamber music coach with the Northshore Youth Symphony Orchestra.

monicafayduncan@gmail.com

Ms. Hayashi is happy to return to the Buker-Cutler-Winthrop (BCW) Chorus . In addition to directing the elementary chorus and teaching music classes, Ms. Hayashi works for a summer music camp in Wakefield. She also has taught for the Belmont Public Schools, the Gordon College Children's Choir, and adjudicated for the All-State Children’s Choir. Ms. Hayashi looks forward to supporting the HWRSD music programs and growing our musical community.

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Hailed by the Boston Globe as “exceedingly gifted,” Richard Watson’s performance has been described by the Worcester Telegram & Gazette as “stunning perfection.” Principal Trumpet of Symphony NH since 1997, Richard has appeared as a soloist with Symphony NH, the Granite State, Worcester, and Boston Symphony Orchestras, the Salem and North Shore Philharmonic Orchestras, the New England Chamber Orchestra, the Monadnock Music Festival Orchestra, and the Waldstadt Kammerorchester, Karlsruhe. He has recorded extensively, appearing on dozens of albums with the Boston Symphony, the Boston Pops, the Boston Philharmonic, the Albany Symphony, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Majestic Brass, and with organist Douglas Major. Despite a full schedule of rehearsals, performances, and recording sessions, Richard reserves a portion of his calendar for teaching young trumpeters, both in his private studio and as a coach for the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras.

Dr. Yarrison has been teaching children and adults to play the flute since 1980. Many of her students have gone on to become music teachers and professional flutists themselves. What makes Eileen happiest is that her students love to play the flute, no matter what age they are, or to what goals they aspire. Besides teaching small classes of Hamilton-Wenham elementary school students to play the flute, she maintains a full private teaching studio in Beverly. 

A graduate of UNH (music education) and Penn State (flute performance), Eileen holds the DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) degree from the University of Nebraska, where she was the first flutist to earn that degree. 

Eileen is the Applied Instructor of Flute at Gordon College and Visiting Lecturer of Flute at Salem State University. Eileen is also the Conductor of the Me2/Boston Flute Choir, an ensemble which works at the intersection of music performance and mental health. Please visit www.me2music.org for more information. She plays with The Orchestra On The Hill (Ipswich), the North Shore Concert Band (Salem), and Triage Woodwinds (Fitchburg). When not playing the flute, Eileen likes to play piano and accordion, and swims for fun. 

eyarrison@aol.com

Hailed by the New York Music Daily as a "carefree" and "soulful" player, Kevin A. Virgilio is a Boston-based trombonist and educator whose performances run the gamut of contemporary and classical styles.

An active freelance musician, Dr. Virgilio recently appeared with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the New York Festival Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Concert Chorale, the Bergen Symphony Orchestra, and the Westchester Oratorio Society. Dr. Virgilio appears regularly in local musical theater productions, including West-Side Story, In the Heights, A Christmas Carol, An American in Paris, Disney's Frozen, and the Music Man. He is currently on faculty at Groton Hill Music Center, Needham Music in Needham, Massachusetts, and Brookline Public Schools, and has held faculty positions at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Luzerne Music Center in Lake Luzerne, New York, and with the Handel and Haydn Society.

Included among his many engagements in the 2024/2025 season is the New England premier of Tōru Takemitsu's delicate and lyrical Fantasma/Cantos II for trombone and orchestra with the Boston University Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sarah Ioannides, and a presentation at the Scandinavian Cultural Center of his research on environmental factors leading to the Danish contribution to the 20th-century solo trombone catalog.

Kevin lives in Jamaica Plain with his wife Jenna and their grey tabby cat, Daisy. He loves to run and he trains for road races with his running club for wind instrumentalists, Run With the Winds.