Richard DuBois: Flute/Piccolo

Mr. DuBois began his musical training on piano at a young age but became interested in flute when he attended Gorham State Teacher’s College as music major. After graduating from the Navy School of Music and following his four years of service, Mr. Dubois continued his flute study in Boston and played in the Quincy Symphony. He subsequently studied with Frances
Drinker, principal flautist with the Portland Symphony Orchestra and performed on flute and piccolo with the PSO for four years. He has a woodwind instrument repair shop in his home in South Berwick, ME and teaches woodwind instruments at Berwick Academy and River Tree Center for the Arts in Maine and in the Barrington, NH school district. He keeps his piano skills sharp accompanying his students in recitals and as pianist with the Good Mem’ries Big Band out of North Hampton, NH.

Duane Bateman: Oboe

Mr. Bateman graduated from Central State University, Edmond Oklahoma in 1975 and successfully auditioned for the United States Air Force Band career field the following year. During his 30 years in the Air Force, Mr. Bateman performed extensively in the United States and Europe with concert bands, ceremonial bands, show bands and woodwind ensembles including the Chamber Winds and the New England Winds from the Air Force Band of Liberty, Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts. He has also performed on numerous occasions with the New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra and a variety of regional woodwind quintets. He studied oboe primarily with Francine Schutzman, John Mack and Fred Cohen. He stays connected to his love of winter sports by working part time in the winter sports section of the Kittery Trading Post, a short commute from his home in Kittery, Maine.

Jennifer Larson:  Horn

Ms. Larson received her Bachelor of Music Degree in Performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, and her Master of Music in Horn Performance from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. She has performed with numerous ensembles, in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, New York, New Hampshire, and Vermont. She was a founding member of the Barossa Quintet with whom she performed until 2005 and she continues to share with us her passion for performing and promoting chamber music.  Jennifer currently serves on the faculty of Musical Arts in her home town of Dover, NH, the Seacoast Academy of Music in North Hampton, NH and at Berwick Academy in South Berwick, ME.. She has taught and coached both private students and chamber groups, in colleges, public and private schools, community bands, and youth ensembles.

George Muller: Bassoon

Mr. Muller immigrated to the United States from Germany at the age of ten. He studied at SUNY at Fredonia Teacher’s College and then returned to Germany where he graduated from Hamburg, Germany Music College in 1971. In the years that followed, he was Principal Bassoonist with the Hamburg Symphony, Nuernberg Philharmonic, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Assistant Principal Bassoonist with the Bochumer Symphoniker and Beethovenhalle Orchestra in Bonn. Mr. Muller is now retired and living in South Berwick, ME. He is currently a member of the Strafford Wind Symphony and his extensive orchestral experience has resulted in his being placed on the “call first” list for many of the orchestras from Bangor ME to Boston MA including Nashua Symphony, Bangor Symphony, New Philharmonia in Newton MA, Reading Symphony, Granite State Opera, New Hampshire Philharmonic and the Boston Civic Orchestra.

Robert Sinclair: Clarinet

Mr. Sinclair started on clarinet in the mid 1950s and attended the University of Connecticut, majoring in music, until being drafted in 1966. He spent the next twenty years performing all over the United States and the Pacific as a member of the United States Air Force. While stationed in Illinois, Mr. Sinclair studied with Les Scott and George Silfes, principal clarinetists with the St. Louis Symphony. He teaches music privately and in the Excel program in North Berwick, ME. He currently plays bass clarinet and clarinet in the Strafford Wind Symphony and is the lead saxophonist with the Good Mem’ries Big Band. Mr. Sinclair enjoys pit work and has played a number of shows in New Hampshire and Maine. He is the contact for Quint-Essential Winds and can be reached by email at wdwinds4@metrocast.net or by phone at his home in Rochester NH at (603) 335 - 4412 to schedule a performance by the group.