Gerard Pellegrino, President, is past Chairman of Board of the Greenwood Credit Union and owner of Pilgrim Pellegrino Adjusting.

 

Craig Kohanski, Vice President, is a retired Rhode Island employee with over 24 years of service as a Systems Analyst and Financial Assistant Director. Prior to state service he was a Captain in the U.S. Army and a Vietnam veteran.

 

Arnold "Nick" Butziger, Treasurer, is a trumpet player, retired after 35 years of teaching Mathematics and Computer Science in the Warwick School System. With a minor in Music from URI, he was manager of the Toll Gate String Orchestra for over 20 years and was on the Board of Directors for the Warwick Music Festival. He currently is an instructor of mathematics at New England Technical Institute as well as Chairman of the Supervisory Committee of Greenwood Credit Union. Nick has been the owner and operator of a charter fishing boat for the past 42 years and is actively involved in the US Coast Guard Auxiliary.

 

Vyra Imondi, Secretary, a pianist, is a retired strategic planner for U.S. Postal Service headquarters in Washington, D.C.  She is an artist whose water colors have been shown in several venues. Ms. Imondi is an active member and former board member of East Greenwich New Neighbors and is credited with being the founder of the Bryant University Washington, D.C. Alumni Association.

 

Lynda Horenstein is a retired Warwick school teacher.  She received her BS and MS from the University of Rhode Island and currently is the program assistant for the East Greenwich Mentoring Program.

 

Maria Kohanski is a retired Warwick, RI public elementary school teacher. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and MA in education from Rhode Island College. Maria enjoys singing with her parish choir and listening to classical music.

 

Cheryl Oakes Osborne is a graduate of Rhode Island College and Johnson & Wales University with a degree in Culinary Arts. Cheryl is the former Coordinator of Food Services for Crittenten Hastings House in Boston. After living in Washington, DC, Boston, MA and Sacramento, CA, Cheryl, a product of the Warwick Public School system, now lives in East Greenwich with her husband and four children.

 

Alice Pellegrino is a retired Assistant Professor of Music Education at the Henry Barnard School, Rhode Island College. Prior to Henry Barnard School she taught public school music in New York and Connecticut, and applied voice at Rhode Island College.

 

Carol Pellegrino has a private violin/viola teaching studio.  She is Executive Director of the Warwick National HS Orchestra Festival, and retired Orchestra Director of Toll Gate HS in Warwick RI.  Carol was a violinist with the RI Philharmonic Orchestra and String Quartet.

 

John Pellegrino, Past President, is a retired Professor of Music from Rhode Island College where he had run the Chamber Music Series for the last 15 years. Retired principal trumpet of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra.

 

John Mark Pellegrino, Artistic Director, is acting principal bassist of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and on the faculty at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio.

 

Larry Rachleff is the music director of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Professor of Music and Music Director of the Shepherd School Symphony and Chamber Orchestras at Rice University.

 

Dr. Donald Rankin taught at the University of Rhode Island from 1963 to 2001 and is currently a Professor Emeritus.  He was principal bassoonist of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra from 1965 to 1973.  He has also been president of the Chopin Club and of the Rhode Island Music Teachers Association.

 

Henry Tarlian is President of the Warwick Music Festival Inc., former Superintendent of the Warwick Public Schools, Life Member of the Tri-M Music Honor Society, and strong supporter of music education.

 

Dr. David Capaldi

David Pellegrino

Andrew Thompson

Len Shalanski

Marie Petrarca

 

Elisa Kohanski is principal cellist in the Wheeling Symphony and an adjunct faculty member at Grove City College and Westminster College.

Kristen Pellegrino is currently pursuing her doctorate in Music at the University of Michigan after teaching in Warwick for eight years and directing the Toll Gate HS and All-City Elementary Orchestras.

 

Dan Gilbert is Associate Professor of clarinet at the University of Michigan. Dan previously held the position of Second Clarinet in the Cleveland Orchsestra.

 

Pat West is Assoicate Professor of Marketing at The Ohio State University.