Developing potential, enriching lives and creating community since 1944 Ruth Alperson has played nearly every conceivable role at Hoff-Barthelson Music School. Ruth has been part of the Hoff-Barthelson community as a student, alumna, teacher, parent (her son Jeremy studied trumpet with Joe Albright), Dean, and now Dean Emerita for nearly six decades. Six decades – almost the entire history of the school. During this Read More
Eastchester resident Rohun Rajpal, HBMS class of 2018. Rohun attended Hackley School in Tarrytown, NY for middle and high school and is currently a senior at Brown University where he is studying Applied Mathematics. He joined HBMS in 2006, was an Honors Program student, and was selected as a violinist for the 2018 National Youth Read More
Siblings Emily, Asher (HBMS class of 2017) and Benjamin (HMBS class of 2018) from Pelham Manor, NY, studied at Hoff-Barthelson from 2003 through 2017/18, and continue to take virtual lessons from time to time at the School. They all attended Horace Mann High School. Asher and Emily both did their undergraduate work at Harvard, and Read More
Conductor John Devlin is an innovator of concert design, an ardent champion of American music, and a proponent of cross-genre collaborations. Devlin studied clarinet at Hoff-Barthelson Music School (HB) with Dorothy Duncan and was also an avid participant in our Summer Arts Program and Festival Orchestra. His undergraduate degree is from Emory University, where he Read More
Laura is a professional trumpeter based in London. In addition to gigging with her brass quintet, Pentagon Brass, she is the principal trumpet of Covent Garden Sinfonia and St Paul’s Sinfonia, and freelances with other London orchestras. Laura earned a B.A. from Harvard, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and has a Ph.D. from Cambridge. Laura worked Read More
Charlie Alterman studied at Hoff-Barthelson from 1979-1993. He is a 1997 graduate of Brown University. During his career, Charlie has served as Music Director for the Broadway productions of Next to Normal and Godspell, the National Tour of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and the 2013 Tony Award winning revival of Pippin as well as Read More
Josie Blatt, HBMS Class of 2017, is a rising senior at Hamilton College where she is majoring in Sociology and double minoring in education studies and music. Josie is currently the President of her all women’s a cappella group, Special K, and a member of the Hamilton College Choir. She is working again this summer Read More
Scarsdale resident Samantha Kapner, HBMS class of 2015, earned a B.A. in Elementary Education and Psychology with a minor in Flute Performance from Vanderbilt University. We caught up with her before she departed to Guyana for the Peace Corps. Can you provide a brief overview of your experience at Hoff-Barthelson? I started at Hoff-Barthelson in the Mommy and Me classes when I Read More
Educated at Yale and Columbia, James M. Banner, Jr., taught at Princeton before moving to Washington to pursue other history-related positions and to found a number of organizations. The author of many books and articles, including Being a Historian (2012), he is most recently the editor of Presidential Misconduct: from George Washington to Today (2019). He lives in Washington Read More
Aidan Pasquale is studying Double Bass Performance at the Eastman School of Music (class of 2022). He was born and raised in Rye, New York. How did you get started in music? How did you make your way to Hoff-Barthelson? My mom was a singer and studied voice in college, but opted to follow a liberal Read More
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