Joan O. Epstein, Professor of Music, M.M., Yale University, is a composer and scholar with a special interest in American music and in connections between music and other fields including environmental studies. She teaches courses in western music history, World Music, American Music, and composition as well as in interdisciplinary humanities. Epstein is also a trumpeter and an active member of the Florida Composers’ Forum.

Marion Smith, Professor of Music and Director of Choral Music, Ph.D., Washington University, conducts the Eckerd Concert Choir, the Eckerd Ringers and small vocal ensembles, groups that concertize frequently and tour here and abroad. He also teaches courses in music history and theory and a popular Winter Term course set in Austria and the Czech Republic.

David Irwin, Director of Instrumental Music and Adjunct Professor of Music, M.M., Yale University, conducts the Eckerd Community Band, the Eckerd College Orchestra and the Eckerd Jazz Band. He also teaches clarinet and saxophone lessons and a course in music fundamentals. Irwin is one of the region’s finest clarinetists and frequently performs chamber music and jazz with other area musicians. He also teaches clarinet at St. Petersburg College and directs an adult band that is part of a national program called New Horizons founded at the Eastman School of Music.

Rebecca Penneys, Artist in Residence, Artist's Diploma, Indiana University, is a renowned piano soloist and chamber performer, also a long-time faculty member at the Eastman School in Music and director of the piano program at the Chautauqua Institute. Pennys gives regular masterclasses, lecture recitals and private instruction for the benefit of Eckerd College piano students.

Max Bygrave, Instructor in French Horn, M. E. and B.S, University of South Florida, is a respected performer and teacher on horn on Florida’s West Coast as well as the band director at Azalea Middle School in St. Petersburg. He assists with the New Horizons adult band program that rehearses at Eckerd College.

Amy Collins, Instructor in Oboe, B.A., University of South Florida, is an accomplished teacher and performer who plays English horn with the Florida West Coast Symphony and teaches at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts, St. Petersburg College and the University of Tampa as well as at Eckerd.

Mussie Eidelman, Instructor in Cello, M.M., Eastman School of Music, is an exceptional teacher of students young and old on the west coast of Florida. She was a driving force in the establishment of a string program at the Pinellas Country Center for the Arts and continues to nurture young musicians throughout the region.

Thomas Glaister, Instructor in Percussion, B.A., University of South Florida, Ed. Cert., Florida Southern College, teaches music courses and directs the band at Shorecrest Preparatory School in addition to teaching at Eckerd.

William Goodwin, Instructor in Violin and Viola, B.M., The Curtis Institute of Music, performs viola with the Naples Philharmonic, the Florida Orchestra and Musical Reflections. Active as a teacher, he maintains a private studio in Tampa and teaches at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts as well as at Eckerd.

Cory Hall, Instructor in Piano, B.M. in Piano, CSU-Sacramento, M.M. in Piano, the Eastman School of Music and D.M.A in Piano and M.M. in Musicology, University of Kansas, accompanies the Eckerd College Concert Choir and teaches piano. He is a specialist in the music of Bach but also performs contemporary music with special skill, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. Hall also teaches piano and humanities at St. Petersburg College and is a church musician.

Janet Harris, Instructor in Bassoon, B.M., The Harid Conservatory (now Lynn University) is bassoonist with the Florida West Coast Symphony and an associate with the Florida Orchestra and Naples Philharmonic. She teaches at St. Petersburg College as well as at Eckerd.

John King, Instructor in Classical Guitar, is a frequent Florida recitalist and a superb teacher who studied with Michael Lormer and Pepe Romero.

David Manson, Instructor in Low Brass, D.M.A., College Conservatory, University of Cincinnati, teaches and coaches at St. Petersburg College and other area institutions. He is also a composer and a well known performer of avant garde and jazz trombone music.

Linda Pointer, College Organist, D.M.A., Indiana University, performs regularly on Eckerd’s Flentrop organs and gives private organ instruction. She also maintains an active piano studio and choral conducting career.

Barbara Prescott, Instructor in Flute, B.M., University of Wisconsin, previous principal flutist of the Chicago Civic Orchestra, is an acclaimed area soloist, ensemblist, chamber music coach and teacher. She teaches at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts, St. Petersburg College and Clearwater Christian College in addition to Eckerd.

Dawn Eubanks, Instructor in Voice, B.M., Florida State University, teaches Eckerd’s student singers in both class and one-on-one formats. Sanchez is a respected soprano soloist who has appeared in regional operatic performances and as a regular performer at First Baptist Church of St. Petersburg and other local congregations.