Patricia Anthony, Flute/Kindermusik, received her Bachelor’s Degree from the Eastman School of Music and her Master’s from the Boston University School of the Arts. She has performed as a concert soloist and principal flutist with the Brookline Symphony Orchestra, New Life Symphony, and the New Life Chamber Symphony. She also free-lances throughout New England with various ensembles, including Ardith and Anthony and the Portland Trio. She also performs with The Anthony Duo with her husband Eric, who is a distinguished free-lance artist and solo guitarist for the Harvard Club of Boston, and the Tasca Restaurant. Ms. Anthony teaches flute and Kindermusik for SCA, and has also taught at the Suzuki School of Newton; as part of the Wellesley, Lincoln, and Weston Public Schools Extension Programs; and at The Home for Little Wanderers.

Catherine Hedberg, Piano, graduated magna cum laude with a BA in music from Boston University. She began piano studies at the age of six with Jeanne Davis Porter and attended the Summer Piano Institute at Oberlin Conservatory. She currently teaches piano at the Brookwood School in Manchester, MA. She also teaches in Classroom Cantatas, an educational outreach program of the Cantata Singers which works with Boston city youth, teaching them about music and singing, and guiding them to compose and perform their own cantatas as a class.  As a performer, Catherine sings professionally as a mezzo-soprano in Boston & throughout New England. She has performed as soloist with groups including Cantata Singers, Musicians of the Old Post Road, Newport Baroque Orchestra. Catherine is happy to be joining the School for Creative Arts faculty this year.

Lili Kaufmann has been sharing her “song” with others since childhood. While working on her Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Delaware she was awarded first place in the Delaware State Music Teachers’ vocal competition. Since then, she has been singing her song in many different venues, specifically, with the Lexington Pops Chorus, in benefit concerts, prisons, and as a worship leader at Grace Chapel in Lexington. She has sung with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and Cantata Singers of Boston, and has performed in the musical Suddenly On Christmas Eve. Lili has taught Kindermusik through the School of Creative Arts for 11 years. Presently, she is the Music Coordinator at Covenant School where she also oversees an instrumental program partnership with the School of Creative Arts. She resides in Bedford with her husband and their three children.

Benedict Petrucci, Woodwinds, studied arranging-composing and instrumental performance at the Berklee School of Music. He studied privately with many notable musicians including Mr. James Forte, noted contemporary classical composer; Mr. Atilio Poto, clarinetist and conductor with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the BSO, as well as faculty member of the Boston Conservatory of Music; and Mr. Joseph Viola, chairman of the woodwind department of Berklee. A member of the American Federation of Musicians, he has performed nationally and internationally with such notable acts as Peaches and Herb, The Drifters, and The Shirelles and was associated with “Steve Colt and the Forty-Fives,” an RCA music recording group. He was the featured soloist on tenor sax with “The Hal MacIntire Jr. Orchestra”; arranger and featured soloist on clarinet with the “Gene Krupa Orchestra”; arranged music for Henny Youngman which was performed on the “Jerry Lewis Telethon”; and was lead alto saxophone and clarinet soloist with the Continental Swing Band. In 2001 Petrucci Music Service was written up in the Henry Mancini Gala Musicale Journal in Hollywood. A professional musician for 47 years, Mr. Petrucci’s teaching career spans over 45 years and includes many Massachusetts public schools and private institutions including Lexington Christian Academy. He is currently a faculty member of SCA and is with The Evangelical Baptist Church of Newton (MA) Music Ministry.

Emily Roos, Kindermusik, Piano, studied music at Indiana University. She has been Music director for ACT’s productions of Peter Pan, The Patchwork Girl of Oz, Oliver, and Into the Woods. She has also been music director for the Concord/ Carlisle public schools, The Bishop School in Arlington as well as several other local theater organizations. Currently, she is Principal flutist in the Hillyer Festival Orchestra, Jr choir director for Trinitarian Congregational Church in Concord and maintains an active teaching studio in Arlington MA. Emily is on the faculty of Dana Hall School and a Kindermusik Educator for the School of Creative Arts.

Gretchen Williams, Piano/Kindermusik (MM Piano Accompanying, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, BA Music, Salem College) has performed as both a solo pianist and collaborator, and has enjoyed motivating and instructing piano students from ages five to seventy-five for over six years. Before coming to the School of Creative Arts, she was on the faculty at Centenary Academy for Music and Performing Arts and the Salem College Community Music School in Winston-Salem, NC. While at Salem, she received the Christian Gregor Music Scholarship and the President’s Prize in Music. She studied with well-known pianist Barbara Lister-Sink, and performed in her award-winning video on injury-preventive technique. Ms. Williams went on to study accompanying with renowned vocal coach Benton Hess at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her performance there included major chamber repertoire for cello, viola, and saxophone, as well as a variety of vocal repertoire. She has also worked with choirs, summer music festivals, and church worship teams, and has directed a children’s musical and contributed to an original Christian music recording.

Sara Wyse-Wenger, Mezzo-soprano/Kindermusik, holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from New England Conservatory. She has taught voice for many years and performed many solo recitals and oratorios. She was recently soloist for Acts from the Heart production of Suddenly On Christmas Eve at the Eleanor Welch Casey Theatre at Regis College. Sara's professional opera roles include Nicholas in Tales of Hoffman and Orpheus in Gluck's Orpheus and Euridice. She is currently soloist/section leader at Payson Park United Church of Christ in Belmont, and has also sung professionally in other church choirs such as Old South Church in Copley Square, Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, and 1st and 2nd Church Unitarian in Back Bay. Sara is co-founder and director of a 130-voice children's chorus of 3rd through 5th graders at the Joyce Kilmer Elementary School in West Roxbury, with performances twice a year at a local retirement village and at the school. Since 1993 she has been a member of the Cantata Singers, a premier Boston chorus, singing under director David Hoose and composer/director John Harbison. She appears frequently as soloist in the Cantata Singers Chamber Series. She has been Coordinator since 1997 of the Cantata Singers' educational program “Classroom Cantatas,” a song-writing and singing program in Boston Public Schools in Roxbury. Sara has taught Kindermusik for 8 years with the School of Creative Arts, and has been Coordinator of its Kindermusik program for the past 5 years. She teaches traditional classroom Kindermusik and has also developed ongoing multi-generational Kindermusik classes in healthcare facilities and retirement homes. 

Acts from the Heart is a company of actors and musicians from professional and community theatre backgrounds who are dedicated to presenting heartfelt, entertaining, humorous, and
inspirational plays, musicals, and revues.