Adjunct Instructors
Patrick Anderson currently teaches private guitar lessons at Westmont College. He earned a bachelor degree in music from the University of the Pacific and received a masters degree from and is currently working on a doctorate degree at the University of Southern California.
Nichole Dechaine currently teaches private voice lessons at Westmont College. She graduated from the University of Redlands and earned her master’s degree and doctorate from UC Santa Barbara, where she taught for six years. Dechaine is an active performer with UCSB, Opera Santa Barbara, the Music Academy of the West, the Amherst Early Music Festival Baroque Academy in Connecticut, and numerous local ensembles including Vocal Scholars, Santa Barbara Quire of Voyces and the Santa Barbara Choral Society. She also sings at All Saints’-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church.
John Enrico Douglas currently conducts a jazz seminar and teaches private piano lessons at Westmont College. He is a pianist, songwriter and composer whose performing credits include tours with the Pointer Sisters (1983), Donald O’Connor and Eddie Fisher (1979-81), as well as performances with Aretha Franklin (Santa Barbara Bowl 2005) and Dizzy Gillespie (1978). John Douglas also works with the music and theatre departments of Harding Elementary School, Goleta Valley Junior High School and Dos Pueblos High School. He also works with Arts at Laguna, PVAC and Stage Left summer performing arts camps, and is music director for Santa Barbara’s youth mediation program, City at Peace. John accompanies the Inner Light Community Gospel Choir, and plays jazz, salsa, blues and rock & roll with local bands. He is a retired deputy public defender for Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties.
Steven Gross currently teaches private horn lessons at Westmont College. He is the Principal Horn of both Opera Santa Barbara and the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, a member of the Oregon Coast Festival Orchestra, and has appeared with the Denver Symphony. His international solo appearances include those with the Orchester der Stadt Vocklabruck in Austria, the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Moscow Conservatory, L’Abri International Arts Festival in Switzerland, and the Nairobi Symphony in Kenya. Dr. Gross is also currently a Professor of Horn and Director of the Wind, Brass & Percussion Program at UC Santa Barbara.
Paula Hatley earned a bachelor of arts degree in music from the University of Arkansas, where she studied with William Gant. She has worked as a vocal studio accompanist, performing in numerous song recitals, and has been a member of various chamber ensembles. In addition to her work at Westmont, she has accompanied the Santa Barbara Children’s Chorus and the Santa Barbara Master Chorale.
Rebecca Hodson currently teaches private voice lessons and directs the Women’s Chorale at Westmont College. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in music from Westmont College and a Master of Music in choral conducting with an emphasis in vocal performance and pedagogy from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Prior to her work in Santa Barbara, Ms. Hodson taught choral music in the public schools, where her choirs regularly earned top honors in festivals and competitions.
Stuart Horn currently teaches private oboe lessons at Westmont College. He has been the oboist for “Southwest Chamber Music” since its founding in 1987 and plays regularly with the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Santa Barbara Opera, the Los Angeles Master Chorale Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Stuart Horn has performed with the New Music America, Olympic Arts, Ojai, Summerfest La Jolla, Holland and San Luis Obispo Mozart festivals, both as a soloist and in the festival orchestras. He is also on the woodwind faculty at U.C. Santa Barbara and teaches oboe for the California State Summer School for the Arts.
Egle Januleviciute teaches private piano lessons at Westmont. She holds her Diploma with Honors in Piano Performance from the Lithuanian Academy of Music, Master of Music degree from Bowling Green State University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the Univ. of California, Santa Barbara. Egle has toured Japan, Italy, Germany, Finland, Belgium, U.K. and former Soviet Union, both as a soloist and collaborative artist. She has served on the Keyboard Faculties of the Academy of Music of Lithuania and University of California Santa Barbara. Her international awards are many; for more about Egle, please see www.eglej.com.
Heather Levin holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara, is a member of the Music Teachers Association of California and teaches piano privately. She has accompanied many vocal and instrumental soloists and ensembles in Santa Brbara, including the Santa Barbara City College Theater Group, the Contemporary Music Theater of Santa Barbara, the Santa Barbara Grand Opera, the Gilbert and Sullivan Company, and the El Montecito Presbyterian Church Choir.
Valerie Malvinni currently teaches private viola lessons at Westmont College and works with the Westmont Chamber Orchestra. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Curtis Institute and her masters at UC Santa Barbara. She is a current member of the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra as well as the Santa Barbara Symphony.
Jim Mooy currently teaches private brass lessons at Westmont College.
Paul Mori currently teaches private bassoon lessons, conducts the Westmont Wind Ensembles and works with the Westmont Chamber Orchestra. He earned his doctorate in music at the Peabody Institute.
Nona Pyron currently teaches private cello lessons and works with the Westmont Chamber Orchestra. She earned bachelor, master and doctorate degrees from the University of Southern California.
Celeste Tavera is a winner of the National Metropolitan Opera Auditions NYC. She has sung with the New York City Opera, the Santa Barbara Grand Opera, the San Diego Opera, the Michigan Opera Theatre in solo concert performances with Jose Carreras, and with a number of symphonies throughout the United States and Europe. She has been teaching vocal technique freelance since 1984, and has contributed to programs such as the Yamaha Music Education Center, where she created a vocal program for the school and administered recitals and workshops for all ages.
Laura Roth Laura Roth teaches flute at Westmont and performs regularly with the Santa Barbara Symphony and other chamber groups in the Santa Barbara and Los Angeles area. She received her Master of Music in flute performance from the University of Kentucky, where she played Baroque flute in the Collegium Musicum. Several of her arrangements for flute choir have been published, as well as a book of etudes. In her work with Education Through Music, she works with people through the experience of interactive play to study how sound can effect emotions, and the acquisition of language tied together with movement build the imagistic system and lay the foundation for the growth of intelligence. Many of her students have gone on to win top prizes in several national competitions.
Rebekah Scogin currently teaches private harp lessons at Westmont College.