Category: Accompanists

Erin Crabb is a freelancing accompanist, music director, and piano teacher residing in Madison.

She has worked in various such capacities with the Children’s Theater of Madison, Fresco Opera, Madison Theatre Guild, UW Theatre, Opera For the Young, Edgewood College, and Four Seasons, and works closely with Theatre LILA as a composer and collaborator.

Erin especially enjoys her extensive work with the music and theater students at UW Madison and also teaching privately from her home.

Steve, a Shawano native, was one of our accompanists. He graduated from UW Stevens Point (2007), where he studied piano performance with Dr. Molly Roseman. He also studied composition in London, UK, with Dr. Charles Rochester Young and piano performance with Douglas Weeks at the Brevard Music Festival. He is currently living and working in Madison WI as a freelance accompanist through UW-Madison, Opera for the Young, Madison Youth Choirs and the Savoyards. Steve also plays with the popular local jazz/fusion/funk group, the Nuggernauts.

Joe Ross was one of our accompanists. His bio will be placed here as soon as possible.

Jana Avedvan, pianist, hails from Kharkiv, Ukraine, where she studied with Glazirina Tatiana. Jana majored in piano performance. She studied with Dr. Karen Becker at SUNY Plattburgh (2007) and has participated in master classes with Evgenia Tzarov and Helen Huang. Avedyan made her debut (spring 2011) as soloist with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, playing Mozart’s Piano Concert K. 488. She completed her Bachelor’s degree with a double major in Music and Accounting (May 2012). Jana and flautist David Breisach won the annual Shain Woodwind-Piano Duo Competition (2013), Avedyan won the annual Beethoven Competition (2014).

After her studies with Christopher Taylor she graduated from the University of Wisconsin School of Music (2018) as a Doctor of Musical Arts. Her dissertation explored and promoted the solo piano works of the Ukrainian Composer, Myroslav Skoryk. During her studies. she participated in master classes with Peter Miyamoto and Joel Hastings. She was a finalist at the UW-Madison Concerto Competition (2016). Her performance of Rachmaninoff’s second Piano Concerto with the UW student orchestra took place in 2017. Jana frequently attends festivals such as Brevard Music Festival and Bay View Music Festival.

We are always pleased whenever Jana can fit us into her schedule and make glorious music.