Meet The Team!
Jamie Kaufman
Jamie is a vocalist and music educator from New Jersey, currently attending the University of The Arts majoring in Vocal Performance with a minor in Music Education. Her performance experience includes All South Jersey Choir, All State NJ Treble Choir, UArts Choir, UArts Women’s Ensemble, Silvertones A Capella Choir and Show Choir, Sterling HS Concert Choir, and the Spring Musicals at Sterling HS (Velma in Chicago, Fantine in Les Miserables). Miss Kaufman, just shy of her fifth year teaching and performing, she offers private lessons in voice, piano, music theory, and ear training.
Aaron Breslau
Aaron is a well-rounded percussionist that grew up in Sicklerville, New Jersey. He currently goes to school at Camden County College but plans to transfer very soon to Rowan University for a degree in music education. He has plenty of teaching experience including numerous private students and teaching at marching bands across the South Jersey area.
Aaron has been playing since the humble age of 9 and been a part of several successful percussion ensembles including Timber Creek HS Percussion ensemble 2019, in which they were region champions. He is also a current member of the United Percussion World Class Drumline as their drumset player. He can teach idiophone (mallet keyboard) percussion, concert snare, marching snare, and drumset.
Abby Bernhardt
Abby is a senior at Rowan University, where she studies instrumental music education- concentration; French Horn. Her main instrument may be the French Horn, but she loves teaching music in any form! Abby has been teaching high school marching band for 3 years, but also loves teaching younger students as well. She has played in many musicals as a pit musician, and also has been an active member of Rowan University’s Wind Ensemble, Brass Band, and Orchestra over the past four years. Abby is very excited to begin teaching students through private lessons, and looks forward to learning from her students!
Lorin Barry
Lorin is a singer and music teacher for the School District of Philadelphia, where she teaches choir, piano lab, bucket drumming and music appreciation. Other teaching experience includes music for early childhood and English language learners. She holds a Bachelor’s in Music from Temple University and a Master’s in Education from California University of Pennsylvania. Lorin has loved singing her whole life and has experience singing in grade school, high school, state honors chorus and college chorus. Although she loves to perform, Lorin strongly feels a purpose to provide a safe, fun and expressive space for children of all ages to discover their voice, creativity, confidence, self awareness and any other artistic talents. Performance concentration includes voice, piano and ukulele.
Sarah Troutman
Sarah attended Temple University for Music Education (Camden County College for music performance) ; concentration flute and piccolo. She served as Section Leader for the Temple Diamond Marching and Basketball Bands for two years (member for four), principal flute/piccolo in Temple’s Symphonic Band, saxophonist in the Temple Collegiate Band, and a member of the Temple Choral. In high school, Miss Troutman was a member of the All South Jersey Band, TNCJ Honors Band, Concert, Pit, Jazz Band, and member of the Broadway Bound Players Orchestra. Miss Troutman served as Lindenwold High School Marching Band’s Woodwind Tech in 2014, taught as a private instructor at the “Muzique” music therapy school, Music Director and Founder of the Temple and South Jersey Flute Choirs, served as Music and Pit Director of Franklinville’s Broadway Bound Players summer theater program, and a member of the wedding ensemble, Flutes4. Ms. Troutman studied flute with Ronna Ayscue, Adeline Tomasone and Vincent DuBeau, piano with Betty White and beginner flute, piano and voice with Miss Nora Patterson. Sarah currently teaches her fifty private students through her self-made business; beginner-intermediate piano, voice, alto and tenor sax, beginner-advanced flute and piccolo lessons, while also spending her time freelancing for Pit Orchestras, art shows, weddings and other events. Miss Troutman continues to share her passion of music with her students always; big and small!