Instructor Valentina Bashindzhagyan graduated from the Music Concentration School in Baku, Azerbaijan for musically gifted youths as a pianist. She continued her musical education at the Azerbaijan State Conservatory receiving a bachelor’s and master’s degree in operatic singing. She has worked as a soloist in both the Baku State Academic Opera Theater and the Moscow State Academic Russian Chorus. In addition to voice, Valentina teaches piano.
Instructor Samantha Tramack started performing when she was 9 years old. She is currently a student at Plymouth State University studying Music Education focusing in Voice. Samantha is part of the Chorale, Chamber Singers, and is the Music Director of the a cappella group at Plymouth, Mixed Emotions. Samantha also performs in the Symphonic Band on clarinet. She has taught to all ages, as she performs in a barbershop chorus and in a quartet that was named the Harmony Queens in 2016 in Harmony, Incorporated.
Chris Heffernan is a multi instrumentalist and vocalist who has been performing since age six. He is currently pursuing a degree in Music Education from Plymouth State University on trombone. Chris plays trombone in the Symphonic Band, Big Band, Jazz Combo, and Brass Ensemble; baritone saxophone in the Sax Ensemble, and is teaching assistant for the jazz department at Plymouth State. He also plays keyboards, bass, guitar, trombone, saxophone, trumpet, and sings in outside bands.