Music Training Center


	Voice Instructors	Piano Voice Guitar Bass Drums Violin, Viola, Cello, Sax, and Clarinet
	Terrance Gaines - Voice Terrance studied Voice at University of the Arts, and has been teaching over 40 students per week at Music Training Center since early 2003. Terrance has extensive performance and teaching experience in opera, soul, funk, jazz, hip-hip, R&B, and gospel styles. Terrance's performance experience includes lead singing roles in a number of operas and Broadway-style plays, percussion performances with the West African Drum Ensemble, played hand bells with Peter Nero at the Kimmel Center, and has otherwise performed at over 100 venues including the Kennedy Center, the Department of State, and the White House.
	Merissa Martignoni - Voice Merissa is a graduate of Temple University with a Bachelor’s of Music in Composition. While at Temple, Merissa studied under Dr. Maurice Wright with a concentration in Vocal Studies under Dr. Lawrence Indik. She also attended Penn State University for Musical Theatre and Rutgers University for Music Theory and History. Prior to attending Temple University, Merissa trained at the Triple Threat Performing Arts School. She has a wide range of performance and recording experience including singing at The Victor Café in South Philadelphia. Merissa has also performed in many stage productions including the role of The Witch in Sondheim’s Into The Woods.
	Megan Newhard – Voice Megan is a graduate of Eastern University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Voice. Prior to her degree, Megan studied voice with Terrance Gaines at the Music Training Center from 2003-2006. Megan traveled with Turning Point!, an Acapella group directed by Dr. Ron Matthews, head of the Eastern University Music Department. The group toured throughout the surrounding states of Pennsylvania, as well as during the summer of 2007 to Paris and Lourdes, France. Megan also performed for 3 years with the All Catholic Chorus of the Philadelphia Archdioceses, and performed in several musicals at Archbishop John Carroll including Annie and My Fair Lady.
	Antonio Rodriguez - Voice Antonio is a graduate of Rice University, with a Master's degree in vocal performance. A native of Guadalajara, Antonio has performed at the Teatro Degollado, in La Traviata and Zarzuela Luisa Fernanda, accompanied by the Jalisco Phillarmonic Orchestra. He has performed as a tenor in operatic performances including the role of Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro, Arturo in Lucia di Lamermoor, Edmondo in Manon Lescaut, Trabuco in La Forza del Destino with Opera in the Heights, Luigi in Il Tabarro at the Amalfi Coast Music Festival in Giffoni and Mercato S. Severino Italy, and Brigella in Ariadne auf Naxos at The Brevard Music Center in Brevard, North Carolina. Antonio joined the Amarillo Opera Company as an Apprentice in 2004 and 2005, as well as an Artist in Residence in 2005. In the summer of 2007 Antonio sang Tamino in The Magic Flute with the Amalfi Coast Music Festival in Minori Italy. Prior to joining Music Training Center's staff, Antonio taught voice at the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara in Mexico, Bridges Academy of Fine Arts in Houston, St. Martins Lutheran School in Austin, and The Amarillo Opera Summer Program in Amarillo.
	Judy Sanger - Voice, Piano Judy is a graduate of Wilkes University, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Music Education. She has been teaching and performing professionally for thirty years. As a classical soprano, Judy has performed for composers’ weekends (Ben Steinberg, others), for The West Coast Chamber Orchestra and as a Cantorial Soloist in Congregation B’nai Brith. As a popular singer and pianist, she has performed venues on both coasts. Judy has performed in theater productions in New York City, California, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey and has garnered several acting, singing, and directing awards. Judy has had leads in over twenty-five shows, and directed and musically directed a dozen more, including “Underground Goddess” at the New York Public Theatre. Judy's choral compositions have been performed recently by choirs on the west coast, her original songs have been performed in California, New Jersey, and New York City, and her own original musical, “LifeSongs”, has had a successful staged reading in California.
	Jon Timmons - Voice Jon holds a Master of Music degree in voice performance from the University of Delaware where he was a graduate assistant teaching private voice lessons to music majors and minors. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in music from York College of Pennsylvania where he graduated summa cum laude with departmental honors. An active singer in the Philadelphia region, Jon is currently a member of The Philadelphia Singers, the resident chorus of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Jon is a classically trained baritone with opera, choral and musical theater experience. From Salt Lake City, Utah, to Beijing, China, Jon has performed internationally with several choral ensembles and has worked with such accomplished conductors as Charles Dutoit, André Thomas and Simon Carrington. Recent performances include Rigoletto as Ceprano, The Merry Wives of Windsor as Mr. Ford, Cosí fan Tutte as Don Alfonso, and Gianni Schicchi as Marco. On the concert stage, Jon has been a soloist for Faurè’s Requiem, John Rutter’s Feel the Spirit and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs.