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Gwendolyn Lytle, a native New Yorker, is presently on the faculty at Pomona College as Associate Professor of Music and Resident Artist. A graduate of Hunter College, she went on to receive a Master of Music at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Ms. Lytle began her musical studies with her father, who was a church organist for 30 years. She began performing with her sisters in a singing group when she was nine years old and at the age of fourteen, began solo performances in music of Black American composers, mostly sacred. Rebecca Rollins is a Professor of Music at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California and a pianist who focuses on collaborative and interdisciplinary presentations of women composers. Since 1988, she has traveled throughout the United States, Canada and Europe lecturing on and performing the music of women composers. Dr. Rollins is a founding member of Trio Sirena, a group devoted to the performance of chamber music by women composers. She also designed and teaches a popular course at Saddleback which traces the history of women in music "from St. Hildegard to Madonna".

Robert Sage's primary piano studies were with Lillian Steuber of U.S.C. where he received his D.M.A. in Piano. After graduation he studied with Harry Datyner of the Geneva Conservatory. He teaches at Azusa Pacific University and is music director for St. John's Episcopal Church in La Verne. This appearance will complete his performance of the complete cycle of works by Rachmaninoff for piano and orchestra with the Claremont Symphony. María Pérez-Goodman, pianist, was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico where she received her early musical training. She was a student of Lizzette Rivera and Professor Cecilia Talavera at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music where she was in the Advanced Music Program for High School Students. At age 15, Dr. Pérez-Goodman won a scholarship to the prestigious Eastman School of Music where she earned a Bachelor's of Music degree in Piano Performance with Distinction. She received additional scholarships from the University of Washington in Seattle where she earned her Master's and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees.

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	Gwendolyn Lytle, a native New Yorker, is presently on the faculty at Pomona College as Associate Professor of Music and Resident Artist. A graduate of Hunter College, she went on to receive a Master of Music at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Ms. Lytle began her musical studies with her father, who was a church organist for 30 years. She began performing with her sisters in a singing group when she was nine years old and at the age of fourteen, began solo performances in music of Black American composers, mostly sacred.		Rebecca Rollins is a Professor of Music at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California and a pianist who focuses on collaborative and interdisciplinary presentations of women composers. Since 1988, she has traveled throughout the United States, Canada and Europe lecturing on and performing the music of women composers. Dr. Rollins is a founding member of Trio Sirena, a group devoted to the performance of chamber music by women composers. She also designed and teaches a popular course at Saddleback which traces the history of women in music "from St. Hildegard to Madonna".
	Robert Sage's primary piano studies were with Lillian Steuber of U.S.C. where he received his D.M.A. in Piano. After graduation he studied with Harry Datyner of the Geneva Conservatory. He teaches at Azusa Pacific University and is music director for St. John's Episcopal Church in La Verne. This appearance will complete his performance of the complete cycle of works by Rachmaninoff for piano and orchestra with the Claremont Symphony.		María Pérez-Goodman, pianist, was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico where she received her early musical training. She was a student of Lizzette Rivera and Professor Cecilia Talavera at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music where she was in the Advanced Music Program for High School Students. At age 15, Dr. Pérez-Goodman won a scholarship to the prestigious Eastman School of Music where she earned a Bachelor's of Music degree in Piano Performance with Distinction. She received additional scholarships from the University of Washington in Seattle where she earned her Master's and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees.