Meet the Newest Members of Grier's Faculty
Grier school is happy to introduce three new Faculty members this year: Mrs. Jane Pilch (Music), Ms. Kaitlyn Wyland (Science), and Ms. Julia Natoli (Music). They each have much to offer Grier and look forward to being a part of Grier's tightly-knit community.
The Music Department welcomes two new full-time members, Mrs. Pilch and Ms. Natoli along with a new part-time instruction, Ms. Carolyn Sepp. Ms. Wyland joins the Science Department, teaching chemistry. Ms. Brynda Glazier is serving as a long-term substitute in the English Department this fall.
The Music Department welcomes two new full-time members, Mrs. Pilch and Ms. Natoli along with a new part-time instruction, Ms. Carolyn Sepp. Ms. Wyland joins the Science Department, teaching chemistry. Ms. Brynda Glazier is serving as a long-term substitute in the English Department this fall.
Ms. Natoli, Mrs. Pilch, and Ms. Glazier shared a little about themselves with Grier.
Meet Kailyn Wyland
Kaitlyn received an undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh where she majored in Chemistry. She has a graduate degree in chemistry from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After graduate school, she worked in an environmental research lab.
Meet Julia Natoli
A native of Rochester, NY, Julia received her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Nazareth College in 2012. She appeared in several productions with Nazareth College Opera Workshop, including L’enfant et les sortilèges (L’écureil), Così fan tutte (Dorabella), La Calisto (Diana), and Gianni Schicchi (La Ciesca). At Nazareth, she was a two-time winner of their Concerto and Aria Competition, recipient of the Excellence in Vocal Performance Award, and received the Excellency Certificate of Achievement in French Studies two years in a row. She then maintained an active role as a performer and teacher in the Rochester area for several years while studying voice with Kathryn Cowdrick of the Eastman School of Music.
Julia graduated from Penn State University this past May where she received her Master of Music degree in Voice Performance and Pedagogy while studying with Jennifer Trost. With Penn State Opera Theatre, she appeared as Bradamante in Alcina and the title role in Iolanthe. While pursuing her degree, she was able to cultivate both classical and musical theatre performance pedagogies under the tutelage of Norman Spivey and Mary Saunders Barton. She continues to enthusiastically develop classical and musical theatre style practices in her own performance as well as in her private voice studio. She is also an avid yogi and runner in addition to being a former martial artist and dancer. She enjoys using these experiences to guide her exploration of singing and music-making as part of an integrated experience of the mind and body.
Earlier this summer, Julia sang the role of Mrs. Nolan in The Medium with the Miami Music Festival Opera Institute as an Apprentice Artist. She also performed at Halifax Summer Opera Festival as La Virtue in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea and Hippolyta in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This year, she will be pursuing her Professional Performer's Certificate in Voice at Penn State University to perform Francis Poulenc's La voix humaine and has also joined the voice faculty at the Grier School in Tyrone, PA.
Meet Jane Pilch
Meet Brynda Glazier
Brynda Glazier is an artist, filmmaker, and experimental musician. She received her MFA in 2010 from the San Francisco Art Institute where she was granted the Dennis Patrick Gallagher Award for Excellence in Ceramic Sculpture. Her work was selected for the Cream from the Top: The Best of Bay Area’s Emerging Artists. Glazier is also a published writer and has presented her pseudo-fiction throughout the bay area, including the SFMoMA’s Living Room and San Francisco’s Lit Crawl.
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Meet Kailyn Wyland
Kaitlyn received an undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh where she majored in Chemistry. She has a graduate degree in chemistry from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After graduate school, she worked in an environmental research lab.
Meet Julia Natoli
A native of Rochester, NY, Julia received her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Nazareth College in 2012. She appeared in several productions with Nazareth College Opera Workshop, including L’enfant et les sortilèges (L’écureil), Così fan tutte (Dorabella), La Calisto (Diana), and Gianni Schicchi (La Ciesca). At Nazareth, she was a two-time winner of their Concerto and Aria Competition, recipient of the Excellence in Vocal Performance Award, and received the Excellency Certificate of Achievement in French Studies two years in a row. She then maintained an active role as a performer and teacher in the Rochester area for several years while studying voice with Kathryn Cowdrick of the Eastman School of Music.
Julia graduated from Penn State University this past May where she received her Master of Music degree in Voice Performance and Pedagogy while studying with Jennifer Trost. With Penn State Opera Theatre, she appeared as Bradamante in Alcina and the title role in Iolanthe. While pursuing her degree, she was able to cultivate both classical and musical theatre performance pedagogies under the tutelage of Norman Spivey and Mary Saunders Barton. She continues to enthusiastically develop classical and musical theatre style practices in her own performance as well as in her private voice studio. She is also an avid yogi and runner in addition to being a former martial artist and dancer. She enjoys using these experiences to guide her exploration of singing and music-making as part of an integrated experience of the mind and body.
Earlier this summer, Julia sang the role of Mrs. Nolan in The Medium with the Miami Music Festival Opera Institute as an Apprentice Artist. She also performed at Halifax Summer Opera Festival as La Virtue in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea and Hippolyta in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This year, she will be pursuing her Professional Performer's Certificate in Voice at Penn State University to perform Francis Poulenc's La voix humaine and has also joined the voice faculty at the Grier School in Tyrone, PA.
Meet Jane Pilch
Jane Pilch received her Bachelor of Music Education with an additional Piano Performance Certificate from Western Michigan University. She was one of the winners of the annual Concerto Competition, performing Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto. Completing a Masters of Music in Piano Performance from the Pennsylvania State University, she taught Music Appreciation, Music Fundamentals and Integrated Arts at PSU Du Bois. Jane has acted and music directed in numerous productions ,including Mama Mia, Sister Act and Driving Miss Daisy, at the Iron Bridge Dinner Theater and the Trolley Car Theatre. She also has Music Directed six yearly shows for Grace Prep High School in State College, PA. Jane and her husband, Jim, have three grown sons and she is enjoying working with young ladies for a change!
Meet Brynda Glazier
Brynda Glazier is an artist, filmmaker, and experimental musician. She received her MFA in 2010 from the San Francisco Art Institute where she was granted the Dennis Patrick Gallagher Award for Excellence in Ceramic Sculpture. Her work was selected for the Cream from the Top: The Best of Bay Area’s Emerging Artists. Glazier is also a published writer and has presented her pseudo-fiction throughout the bay area, including the SFMoMA’s Living Room and San Francisco’s Lit Crawl.
Though rooted in ceramic sculpture and installation, her work ranges from oil painting, drawing, collage, photography, video and most recently, to performance and sound installation. Glazier’s figures and environments navigate the constructs of sublime beauty, inescapable monstrosity, and the complexities that occur within a constantly dueling existence. Her installations have exercised a kind of preternatural intimacy where her sculptures act to transpose the reflection of “man” through the confluence of science and artificial dramaturgy. The conceptual basis for Glazier’s work and research echoes the anachronistic variance that continues to incite historical and contemporary states of being and how its pulse vibrates through the infinitum of art and artists. An important vein to her current work focuses on the messages and mirrors caught in the gravity of the mind’s black hole. Glazier’s new work looks through the ground and pause of prehistoric and historical sculpture to create a link with the ancient and the silent.
Glazier has exhibited nationally and internationally, including The Center Of Contemporary Art and Gage Gallery in Seattle, WA, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA, Worksound Gallery, Portland, Oregon, and in spaces throughout the bay area including 2nd Floor Projects, Aggregate Space, Block Gallery, Center for New Music, Gallery Hijinks, The Performance Art Institute, Root division, and the San Francisco Art Fair and Material Art Fair in Mexico City. Her Work was reviewed in The Examiner, Art Practical, Curiously Direct, San Francisco Art Beat, SF Gate, East Bay Express, KQED Arts, and The Stranger (Seattle).
The new faculty and their students are off to a wonderful start to a new school year!
Learn more about Grier's Academics and Faculty.
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R.Woolfrey | Photo credit: C.Fernandes, R.Woolfrey, B.Glazier
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