Music-Faculty

Julie Hallama

Music Program Director

A Magna cum Laude graduate of Berklee College of Music, Julie is an accomplished performer and teacher with a strong technical background based in classical music. She was lead vocalist with Far From Blue, an original and cover R&B/funk/blues/pop band and a member of the Music Teachers Collaborative in Boston. As a recording studio vocalist, Julie has worked on numerous projects including commercials, radio jingles, film spots, background vocals and songwriter demos.

Tracey Marble

Music Faculty

Tracey Marble has performed off-broadway, way off-broadway, on TV and on the radio. Tracey is a co-creator/songwriter and producer as well as one of the actresses in Another Day In Paradise, a new musical that has enjoyed three New York productions to date. She produced the first theatrical event for Mamapalooza at Off-Broadway’s Zipper Theater in Manhattan. This is the only cultural festival of its kind, celebrating moms in the arts. Tracey’s an adjunct professor of voice at Fairfield University. She is a lead vocalist for the popular metro area band, Celebration.

Ian McHugh

Music Faculty

Ian McHugh is an accomplished musician, both as a performer and also as a composer. Trained at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, he received a BA in guitar performance and has pursued a career in the recording industry. In 2003, his band Bomb Squad, hand selected by music icon Dick Clark, received the New Music Award for best unsigned act and played live at the American Music Awards along with Metallica, Outkast, and Britney Spears. To date, Bomb Squad has released two full length albums and a DVD, all of which were produced by McHugh. Prior to his work with Bomb Squad, Ian toured the country of Cyprus with Greek pop sensation Maria Korou. He also toured the US with jam band act Hypnotic Clambake who appeared at the Lemonsheel Festival as the opening act for Phish.

Natalya Kraevsky

Music Faculty

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Natalya graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory and was immediately contracted to the St. Petersburg National Opera Theater. Renowned for the beauty of her voice, exquisite musicianship and magnetic stage presence, Natalya made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Oratorio Society of New York in May 2004. She is featured in the CD of Leonardo Ballada’s early opera Hangman, and in 2005 she was invited by the Russian Composers Society to record arias by Banevich with Romances by Rachmaninov for the Melodiya label. Her latest recording is Shostakovich’s Seven Romances with the Pittsburgh Piano Trio.