Music Department Staff
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Gerhold, Tom |
Instructional Assistant-Music
musicala@lacitycollege.edu
(323) 953-4000 Ext. 2880
Lori Musicant is an Instructional Assistant at Los Angeles City College. She received her Bachelor of Music Education from Michigan State University and Master of Clarinet Performance from Florida State University, where she was awarded a graduate assistantship and taught clarinet and chamber music. She has studied with Frank Ell, Frank Kowalsky, Margaret Thornhill and David Howard. After seven years as Director of Instrumental Music at Olive Middle School in Baldwin Park, Lori now directs an elementary band program in La Cañada in addition to her position in the Music Department at LACC and is an active performer as well. Principal clarinetist with the Los Angeles Clarinet Choir and a founding member of the Avenel Chamber Players, Lori is also the bass clarinetist with the Golden State Pops Orchestra. She has played with many other ensembles in the Los Angeles area, including the Santa Monica Symphony, Observatory Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Players, Madera Dulce Clarinet Quartet and the Hour of Power Orchestra at the Crystal Cathedral.
Instructional Assistant-Music
grudejw@lacitycollege.edu
(323) 953-4000 Ext. 2880
James Grude is an Instructional Assistant at Los Angeles City College.
gerholt@lacitycollege.edu
(323) 953-4000 Ext. 2897
Thomas Gerhold is a piano accompanist at Los Angeles City College.
gillesla@lacitycollege.edu
(323) 953-4000 Ext. 2890
Leigh Anne Gillespie is a piano accompanist at Los Angeles City College. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Electronic Music and the Recording Arts from Mills College, where she studied composition with Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, Maggi Payne, and Eliane Radigue. Originally from the Washington, D.C. area, she received a Bachelor's degree in piano from George Mason University and later studied piano with Dean Sanders at the University of Illinois.
Her compositions and multimedia works have been presented at venues including Los Angeles Contemporary Arts, Dance Kaleidoscope in Los Angeles, and the Cal Arts CEAIT Festival. She has also served as a composer/sound designer for Leap Frog Toys.
Ms. Gillespie has worked in the fields of music, theatre, dance and film as a Music Director, teacher, and accompanist since 1980. She taught at Idyllwild Arts Academy for eight years prior to coming to LACC. She has been fortunate during her career to work with organizations and artists such as the National Academy of the Arts, the Washington Chorus, the Joffrey Ballet, the Washington Ballet, Teri Ralston, Marni Nixon, and Ransom Wilson. She has been a staff accompanist and coach at the University of Redlands and Santa Monica College.
stahldq@lacitycollege.edu
(323) 953-4000 Ext. 2890
Born in Cincinnati, I started piano lessons at around 5 years old. Serious studies began privately with Mr. (Eugene) Mancini at 13. Mr. Mancini was a graduate of Julliard and the Paris Conservatoire, and he taught at the University of Akron, the town I lived in. While in high school, I also played a Fender-Rhodes keyboard in a rock band called Summit, played some dances at schools and Bar-Mitzvahs and began writing songs. After graduating from high school, my family moved to Park Ridge, a suburb of Chicago. I'd been accepted to the Oberlin College Music School, but returned to Cincinnati and attended the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) at the University of Cincinnati because I won the Van Cliburn Scholarship which is awarded to 2 incoming or transferring students every year in honor of Cliburn’s mother who studied there. I studied piano first with Jeanne Kirstien and then with David Bar-Illan while at CCM. After graduating, I studied privately with Bela Siki, who had been a judge at the Leeds Competition and was among those who selected Radu Lupu and Murray Perahia as winners. He gave me lessons at a greatly reduced rate because he said that Dinu Lipati had done the same thing for him. I had studied with Aube Tzerko at the Aspen Music Festival and esteemed his teaching so much that I went to study with him in graduate school at UCLA in Los Angeles where I earned my MFA in Piano Performance. I played the Tchaikowsky Concerto #1 with the Maui Symphony on Mr. Tzerko’s referral (still had to audition of course). Other studies include lessons at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. I played piano at Nordstrom as I finished my Master’s degree and from that job played a host of private party events, some of which continue to this day. Besides being music and vocal director of over 20 community theater shows over the years I’ve also written and produced an original musical adaptation of John Bunyan’s “Pilgrims Progress”. I’ve recorded 3 CDs: Guy in a White Shirt, David on the Keys, and Christmas by the Fireside sold at cdbaby.com and multiple music downloading sites.
stendecd@lacitycollege.edu
(323) 953-4000 Ext. 2897
Christian Stendel is a piano accompanist at Los Angeles City College. Besides his at LACC, Christian Stendel is also Music Director/Organist at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Winnetka, CA. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from CSU, Northridge and a Master of Music degree in church music with an emphasis on the collaborative arts from USC. He has recently performed for the Valley Committee of the Los Angeles Philharmonic with members of the Los Angeles Opera and performs widely throughout Southern California. Mr. Stendel is a member of the American Guild of Organists and an affiliate with the Royal School of Church Music, Croydon (London), England and has served on the Board of Directors of the Pasadena Chapter of the Music Teachers Association of California. He has studied with Brigita Lielausis, Dr. Charles Fierro, Dr. James Vail (choral conducting) and Mme. Gwendolyn Koldofsky.