Our Mission:
Our mission is to enrich lives and build community by providing inspiring music education and by offering performance and listening opportunities throughout the area.
What we do:
Mountain Top Music Center is a community music school located in Conway, New Hampshire. Our mission is to enrich lives and build community by providing inspiring music education and by offering performance and listening opportunities throughout the area. We use music to build community through group study and performance, shared listening, and mutually respectful, inter-generational, multi-cultural musical communication. More than 350 people participate in our lessons, classes, workshops, and community ensembles each year. We offer progressive, coordinated music education to students of all ages. For children we provide developmentally appropriate instruction aimed at nurturing the means for music expression. We offer adults a way to begin or extend their musical skills and expertise.
Mountain Top Music Center presents a variety of concerts bringing the work of our students, community ensembles, and faculty to the community. We also present professional musicians and ensembles, often in collaboration with other non-profit organizations. In recent years attendance at MTMC concerts has increased noticeably. We understand that many concert audiences are composed of individuals who were once or still are music students. We link our community of students with our community of listeners, seeking to expand both.
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Mary Bastoni – Voice and musical theatre
Bruce Berquist – Songwriting, musicology, music technology & business
Chad Cummings – Guitar, piano, electric bass
Julia Howell – Director of Education; Viola, violin, composition
Jenny Huang-Dale – Cello, violin, viola
Doug Kendall – Cello
Chris Nourse – Violin, viola
Sharon Novak – Children’s music, piano, guitar, ukulele
Justin Ramos – Piano, electronic music
Eric Rollnick – Percussion
Elizabeth Roth – Voice, harp
Mike Sakash – Saxophone, clarinet, flute
Judy Teehan – Flute, recorder
Laurie Turley – Piano, winds, brass
George Wiese – Executive Director; Piano, trombone, musicology
George Wiese – Executive Director; Piano, Trombone, Musicology
Julia Howell – Director of Education; Viola, Violin, Composition
Kate Vachon – Administrative Assistant, Registrar
Frank Benesh – Treasurer
Linda Vienneau – Bookkeeper
Beth Funicella, Chair
Les Schoof, Vice-chair
Sarah Kimball, Secretary
Dave Mason, Treasurer
Lois Burleigh
Judith English
Jonathan Goodwin
Deb Goulding
Judy Kennedy
Mona L’Heureux
Jeanne Mason
Lynn Parkhurst
Laura Riggs-Mitchell
Ashara Stansfield
Patricia Van Doren Dunn, Emerita
Colleen Albee
Amy Berrier
Karen Carr
Deb Chalmers
Ian Cruickshank
Dr. Therese Davison
Penny Deans
Susan Dugdale
Susan Ferré
Ron Frizzell
Barbara Gartland
Melissa Garvey
Betsey Harding
Al Hospers
Sarah Isberg
Kathryn Karlsson
Russ Lanoie
Julie Levine
Becky Mulkern
Gail Paine
Ceal Peacock
Cindy Priest
Carol Rosenblith
Robert Scolaro
Nora Schwarz
Linda Walker