Debby Greenebaum holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory (Violin Performance) and Lesley University (M.A. in Education), where she earned her Massachusetts Early Childhood Certification. Debby received her Suzuki training at the School for Strings in NYC and was an intern with Roberta Gauspari Tzavaras in the East Harlem Violin Program, helping prepare NYC youth for performances at Lincoln Center and the White House. Debby is the Associate Director of Neighborhood Strings in Worcester, MA, a program that serves public school youth. Within Neighborhood Strings, she developed a program providing violin lessons to refugee children. Along with freelancing as a violinist, Debby also teaches at the Joy of Music Program and at Clark University. She has been the Director of Greenwood Junior Camp since 2011.

Grammy-Award winning violinist Charles Dimmick enjoys a varied and distinguished career as concertmaster, soloist and chamber musician. Praised by the Boston Globe for his “cool clarity of expression,” Charles is one of New England’s most sought-after orchestral musicians. He is co-concertmaster of the Boston Pops Esplanade and concertmaster of the Portland Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and the New Hampshire Music Festival. Recent concerto engagements include performances with the Boston Pops, Portland Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Arizona Musicfest and Memphis Symphony. He can be heard collaborating with the Sebago Long Lake Chamber Festival, Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Radius Ensemble, and Monadnock Music. Recent recordings include playing concertmaster with BMOP on the Grammy-Award winning opera The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Tobias Picker, concerto soloist in Elliot Schwartz’s Chamber Concerto and a solo violin recording of Lisa Bielawa’s Synopsis #7.

Clara Lyon is an accomplished soloist, chamber musician, and curator who forges meaningful connections across sonic languages to foster spaces for imagination. A Co-Artistic Director of Decoda, Carnegie Hall's only affiliate ensemble, she was a violinist and the Director of Programs for the Chicago-based Spektral Quartet from 2014-2023, during which time they were nominated for three GRAMMY awards, commissioned and performed dozens of new works for string quartet, and were in residence at the University of Chicago’s Music Department. She is a recipient of the Music Academy of the West Alumni Enterprise Award, and is a prizewinner of the Irving M. Klein International Competition and the Schadt International Competition.

Violinist and violist Monica Davis, praised for her “refined and attractive” playing (New York Times), has cultivated a protean performance career collaborating with artists across multiple genres. She is the first-violinist of the “paradigm-shifting” (New York Music Daily) string quartet, The Overlook, dedicated to a more representative and relevant musical practice. A member of The New York Pops and Novus NY, Monica also performs with The Orchestra of St Lukes, The Knights, Mark Morris Ensemble, and Baroklyn. Monica has been on tour and recorded with artists such as Regina Spektor, Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen, Solange, Frank Ocean and Lizzo. She has played for over 15 broadway and off-broadway shows, is the string doubler for the Tony Awards orchestra, and she is currently a member of the band of Hamilton. Monica graduated from Columbia University and the Manhattan School of Music.

In the Greenwood family tree, Susan (Susie) Gottschalk's roots go deep. The daughter of Nathan Gottschalk, beloved Greenwood faculty, she spent many summers at her "second home" progressing from camper to counselor to faculty. A graduate of the Boston University School of Fine Arts, Susie has taught at several schools including Groton Hill, the Concord Conservatory of Music, and the Lincoln Public School along with her own studio. She enjoys an active freelancing career and has performed as a member of the Portland (ME) Symphony and Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston.

Teaching and learning are integral to Susie's life. An avid student of tai chi, she has delighted in sharing the practice with the Greenwood community, where she continues to be influenced and inspired by the extended family of wonderful faculty and students.

Based in Chicago, Geertrui Spaepen is a senior administrator at the University of Chicago and the co-founder of the Hyde Park Chamber Players. Geertrui studied violin with Sophie Vilker and Clayton Hoener, and chamber music with Wolfgang Schocken, Robert Merfeld and David Commanday during her undergraduate studies, and with the Pacifica String Quartet in graduate school. Geertrui has taught violin, viola, and music theory at the Hyde Park Suzuki Institute and for many years served as the soprano section leader of the Rockefeller Chapel Choir and as the second violinist of the now-disbanded Skyway Quartet. Geertrui holds degrees from Harvard College and from the University of Chicago where she also completed training in pedagogy. Geertrui prioritizes returning to Junior Greenwood year after year as the camaraderie, musicianship, and collaborative environment are one in a million.

Violist Emily Rome is currently a free-lance player and teacher in the Boston area. Emily performs with Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Ballet, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Portland Symphony Orchestra, Landmarks Orchestra, and Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra among others. In addition, Emily also has a very active teaching career. She especially enjoys working with children and teaches a number of private students through her program Brioso Strings and at Rivers Conservatory. She has also served as a chamber coach for students at Rivers Conservatory, Harvard University and the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. In the summers Emily is faculty at Greenwood Music Camp and Rivers Conservatory Summer Program. In the past she has served as a coach at Berkshire Summer Music Festival, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, the Youth Festival Orchestra Summer Program at the New England Conservatory, and has led orchestra sectionals, lessons and chamber music coaching for the NEC Preparatory Division. Emily studied with Atar Arad at Indiana University, Kim Kashkashian at New England Conservatory and Martha Katz at Rice University.

Cellist Hannah Collins is a dynamic performer devoted to building community through musical expression. Resonance Lines, her solo debut album on Sono Luminus, is an “adventurous, impressive collection of contemporary solo cello music,” negotiated “with panache” (The Strad). Over the past decade, New Morse Code, her “remarkably inventive and resourceful duo” (Gramophone) with percussionist Michael Compitello, has developed projects responding to society’s most pressing issues and won the Ariel Avant Impact Performance Prize. Hannah has performed recently with A Far Cry, Bach Aria Soloists, The Knights, and Make|Unmake. She holds degrees in biomedical engineering and music from Yale, Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and City University of New York. She teaches at the University of Kansas. www.hannahcollinscello.com

Joe, an accomplished cellist, holds both Bachelor and Master's degrees from The Juilliard School. His career includes solo performances with orchestras such as the Stamford Symphony, Hoboken Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the State of Mexico. He has played principal cellist for several ensembles, including the Jupiter Orchestra and Stamford Symphony, and participated in groups like the Opera Orchestra of New York and EOS Ensemble. His Broadway experience includes "Will Rogers Follies" and "Beauty and the Beast," along with recordings for EOS Ensemble and Riverside Symphony.

Joe currently performs with the Riverside Symphony, Festival Orchestra, and the Hobart Trio. He teaches at William Paterson University and Playweek Maryland, and has been a faculty member at Greenwood Music Camp since 1988.

Greenwood faculty and grammy-award winning flutist Rachel Braude has been hailed as “masterful” by The Boston Globe. Rachel is on the faculties of Dartmouth College and Northeastern University and formerly taught at New England Conservatory of Music, University of Boston, Rhode Island College and the University of Rhode Island. Previously a member of the St. Louis Symphony, she currently holds positions with the Portland Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Philharmonic, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and Odyssey Opera. Rachel is a frequent guest with the Boston Ballet Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera, the Boston Pops Esplanade, the Boston Pops, and the Boston Symphony. In the summers she plays with the Landmarks Orchestra, the New Hampshire Music Festival, and Monadnock Music.

Clarinetist Rebecca Doggett holds a Master of Music degree in clarinet performance from the Yale School of Music where she studied with David Shifrin. Following her graduate studies in clarinet, she went on to become a clinical psychologist and has remained an active musician. She currently performs with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra and was a past member of the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony. Rebecca was a winner of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition and performed as a soloist with the Boston Pops. She has won prizes from the Harvard Musical Association and Boston Woodwind Society.

Bo Young, originally from South Korea, began her journey in the US at age 13. She received her education at the Curtis Institute and Mannes College, studying under Claude Frank. Her career highlights include performing as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1980 and holding numerous concerts throughout the US. Bo Young has served as a faculty member at Rutgers University and Montclair State University, and currently holds a private studio in Manhattan.

Bo Young has been a dedicated faculty member at Greenwood since 1997.

Creative polymath Yaniv Segal has achieved critical success as a conductor, composer, actor, and violinist. Yaniv is Music Director of the Salina Symphony, Conductor Laureate of the Chelsea Symphony, and former Assistant Conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Naples Philharmonic. He has conducted the Minnesota Orchestra, Kansai Philharmonic, Toledo Symphony, Sinfonietta Cracovia, and Beethoven Academy Orchestra, among others, and twice was a violin soloist with the Yonkers Philharmonic. Recently, his music has been performed by the Reno Philharmonic, Norwalk Symphony, Ashland Symphony, and the Naples Philharmonic. Yaniv grew up singing at the Metropolitan Opera, touring with the Broadway tour of The Secret Garden, and speaking three languages as the son of immigrants in New York City.

Composer and choral conductor Geoffrey Hudson has directed the chorus at Junior Greenwood since 1991. His 2019 eco-oratorio A Passion for the Planet (“a powerful and beautiful evening of music”), is an hour-long meditation about climate change. Other recent works include The Quartet Project, a six-volume collection which starts with simple pieces for beginning string quartets and gradually grows more complex. Selections from The Quartet Project have been recorded by leading American ensembles like the Chiara, Borromeo, Brooklyn Rider, Jupiter, Parker, Miró, and Lark quartets. Geoff received his undergraduate degrees from Oberlin, where he studied American history and composition (with Richard Hoffmann), and earned a Master’s in composition at New England Conservatory, where his principal teacher was Malcolm Peyton.