About

Noelle Drewes is Assistant Professor of Oboe at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College. In addition to performing and teaching, she has over a decade of experience repairing oboes and English horns, and is the owner of Noelle’s Oboe Workshop in Bowie, MD. Her ever growing list of repair clients include members of the National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra, and the DC premier military bands, as well as show players, students, and hobbyists throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. She was featured as a guest on the podcast “Not Your Average Musician”, where she discussed her oboe repair story among other topics, including the decade she spent training as a repair apprentice to legendary woodwind master Lee Lachman, and staying motivated during the pandemic by launching her @noelle_oboe instagram page.

Having appeared extensively as a substitute with the National Symphony Orchestra and NSO Pops on both second oboe and English horn, from the Kennedy Center to Wolf Trap, as well as on national broadcast television from the U.S. Capitol, Noelle has had the privilege of sharing the stage with such eclectic artists as Gianandrea Noseda, Christoph Eschenbach, Leonard Slatkin, Ben Folds, Sara Bareilles, Renee Fleming, Hansen, Paquito D’Rivera, George Takei, and Misty Copeland, among others.

She has performed with Mannheim Steamroller, the United States Air Force Band, in shows at the Tony Award® winning Signature Theatre, and concerts with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, and National Philharmonic, as well as the Lancaster, Annapolis, Fairfax, Maryland, Charlottesville, and Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestras. She has also performed with the orchestras of the Wolf Trap Opera Company, Washington Concert Opera, Maryland Lyric Opera, Opera Camerata of Washington, the Washington Chorus, Choral Arts Society of Washington, and the Washington National Cathedral Choral Society.

Noelle currently serves as Principal Oboe of both the Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra in Shepherdstown, WV and the Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra, and has appeared frequently in that capacity with the Apollo Orchestra for the past decade. She was a founding member of the reed trio, The Capital Reeds, active from 2013-2018, and is a former member of the Ash Lawn Opera Orchestra, the Summer Opera Theater Company of Washington, DC, and the the Tri-Cities Opera Orchestra in Binghamton, NY.

An Ohio native, Noelle grew up playing in the Columbus Youth Symphony, All-State Orchestra, and the Chamber Music Connection. Noelle received her Bachelor of Music degree in oboe performance from the Ithaca College School of Music, including a semester of study at the Royal College of Music in London, England. She attended the University of Maryland for graduate school, earning both Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. Noelle has spent summers at the Pierre Monteux School, Brevard Music Center, Eastern Music Festival, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Her main oboe teachers were Mark Hill, Paige Morgan, and Robyn Dixon-Costa. She has also worked extensively with Nicholas Stovall, Jane Marvine, John Anderson, Eric Ohlsson, Randall Ellis, Robert Sheena, and Ralph Gomberg.

Aaron Scott is Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College. He currently performs with The United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own” in historic Fort Myer, Virginia. Since arriving to the band, Scott has performed concerts, ceremonies, and master classes throughout the Washington, DC metro area and across the United States at notable halls such as the Kennedy Center, The Academy of Music, and Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In addition to the Concert Band, he performs with The United States Army Wind Quintet. As one of the premiere chamber ensembles, the quintet performs frequently around the DC metro area, as well as colleges and universities around the nation.

Scott previously served as principal clarinet of the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra in Warren, Ohio. He also had the privilege of performing with The New World Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra.

As an active chamber musician, Scott has also performed in a multitude of ensembles and festivals throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. Popular music festivals such as the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy, Sarasota Music Festival in Florida, Brevard Music Center of North Carolina, and Hot Springs Music Festival of Arkansas are some of his favorites.Dr. Scott’s prior faculty positions include clarinet instructor at the Stivers School for the Arts in Dayton, Ohio, where he maintained a clarinet studio (grades 7-12). He also served on the faculty at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lakes, Michigan.

He received a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where he also obtained his Master of Music Degree in clarinet performance. He earned his Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Music Education at Youngstown State University, Dana School of Music. Scott’s principal teachers include Robert Fitzer, Richard Hawkins, Steve Cohen, Richey Hawley, and Ronald Aufmann.

Lynn Moncilovich is Assistant Professor of Bassoon at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College, and additionally serves on the faculties of the Music School of Delaware and the Kolker-Moncilovich Bassoon Academy. She was previously on faculty at the University of Delaware and Peabody Bassoon Week.

As an active performer, Moncilovich is the contrabassoonist of the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra and second bassoonist with the Apollo Orchestra. She frequently performs with the National Philharmonic, Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Annapolis Symphony, and Maryland Lyric Opera. She has formerly served as the second bassoonist with the Mid-Atlantic Symphony and Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra.

Originally from Johnstown, PA, Moncilovich holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Master of Music in Bassoon Performance from the University of North Texas, an Artist’s Certificate from Southern Methodist University, and a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory. While at the University of North Texas, Moncilovich was a featured soloist with the UNT Wind Symphony. Her recording of the Concerto for Bassoon by Gordon Jacob was released on the GIA Composer’s Collection: Gordon Jacob, and she can be heard on many of the North Texas Wind Symphony and Keystone Winds albums under the Klavier label. Her principal teachers include Philip Kolker, Kathleen Reynolds, Jason Worzbyt, and Wilfred Roberts.

Ken Bell is Assistant Professor of Horn at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College. A native of Buffalo, NY, Ken is Operations Manager and Principal Horn of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and is also Principal Horn with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra. Ken has played regularly with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 1997; including three European Tours, several Carnegie Hall appearances, numerous recordings, and extensive work under David Zinman, Yuri Temirkanov, and Marin Alsop. He has also performed with the Buffalo and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestras, the National Symphony Orchestra, Harrisburg Symphony, and Richmond Symphony.

Bell was a member of two premier military bands, The United States Marine Band, and the Army Field Band. In the Marine Band, he wrote and performed educational concerts and recitals with the woodwind quintet. As first horn with the Army Field Band, he performed college clinics across the United States.

Besides his orchestral and military band touring, Bell toured the U.S. and Europe as principal horn with several Broadway shows, including CATS, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Weber, and West Side Story. He has recently performed as solo horn at the Hippodrome in Baltimore on the Sound of Music and Phantom of the Opera.

As a chamber musician, he has performed at the Library of Congress and the National Gallery of Art. He has been an active arranger and publisher of music for horn and chamber music for over 20 years, and a brass repairman for seven years.

Bell has taught students of all ages, from college students at Catholic University and the College of Charleston to beginning horn students in his own private studio. He wrote and produced an interactive history of the horn, as part of “BSO on the Go” at Strathmore Hall.

His teachers have included John Park (Buffalo), Roy Waas (Cleveland Orchestra), Milan Yancich and Verne Reynolds (Eastman), Ted Thayer (National Symphony), Julie Landsman (Metropolitan Opera), and Denise Tryon (Philadelphia Orchestra). His teaching is based on strong fundamentals, and reflects the philosophies of Philip Farkas, Carmine Caruso, Arnold Jacobs, and Milan Yancich. Literature is chosen from the standard solo and orchestral literature, as well as etudes from Kopprasch, Gallay and Maxime-Alphonse. Horn ensembles from duet to large horn choir are a regular part of the curriculum.