Nick Scollard

Faculty, Music, Percussion

Nick Scollard (they/he) is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and community organizer whose creative foundations are rooted in DIY spaces and accessibility. Nick is an Ithaca transplant, having grown up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. They later moved to...

Dr. Josh Oxford

Composition, Music, Songwriting

Visit Dr. Josh Oxford to get your cure for a variety of music maladies!  At CSMA, Dr. Oxford teaches classes and private lessons in jazz, music technology, music theory, and beat making. Electronisist, Dr. Josh Oxford, born in 1985, is a composer, arranger, and...

Ashley Ickes

Percussion, Piano

Ashley (she/her) graduated with a BM in Music Performance, Jazz Studies from Western Michigan University in 2013. She has been performing professionally and teaching private and group lessons for well over twenty years. With experience in many styles including rock,...

Jennifer Lawrence Birnbaum

Piano, Recorder

Jennifer Lawrence Birnbaum is a music teacher, choral director, performer and event coordinator with music education degrees from Ithaca College and Columbia University. In addition to serving on the faculty of the Community School of Music and Arts, she also teaches...

Laura Campbell

Flute, Music

Laura Campbell is on the faculties of Colgate University (where she teaches flute and is the personnel manager and principal flutist of the Colgate Orchestra) and Wells College (where she is the director of the chamber orchestra and jazz band). She has taught flute...

Amy Opperman Cash

Piano

B.A. Piano, Ithaca College. Attended High School of Music and Art, NYC. Studied with Kendall Taylor in London, England. Over twenty years teaching experience.