Contributing Artist Bio’s
Dr. Lauren Harding joined Emory & Henry College as a Student Success Coach in the Fall of 2021. Outside of her
current posison, her experience in higher educason includes a case manager posison at Metropolitan
Community College-Blue River and a teaching assistantship at West Virginia University where she taught aural
skills, lessons, and horn choir. Her specialty at E&H is working with students to build fundamental study and
organizasonal skills and collaborasng with faculty and staff to beuer serve students. She teaches collegiate
developmental courses each semester and collaborates with the E&H music department as a member of the
faculty brass quintet. Dr. Harding has degrees from University of Missouri-Kansas City, University of Tennessee-
Knoxville, and West Virginia University. An award-winning soloist, her previous awards include the Southeast
Horn Workshop’s Collegiate Solo Compesson, WVU’s College of Creasve Arts Young Arssts’ Compesson, and
Midsouth Horn Workshop’s Graduate Solo Compesson. She has held posisons with the Kansas City Civic
Orchestra, Saint Joseph Symphony, and is currently a member of the Johnson City Symphony Orchestra.
Dr. Edward House is a dynamic horn player and teacher commiued to sharing his love of the horn. He is at
home with many styles of music having played in chamber, symphonic, opera, studio, and musical theater
sevngs. Edward has performed numerous smes as a freelance player in the New York Area before moving to
Los Angeles. Some of his past performances include the Schumann Konzertstückwith the Stony Brook
University Symphony, Gounod’s Peste Symphonie as part of the Staller Center’s Starry Nights series, world
premiere performances of both Hrið-Móðr-Ljómiby Jeffrey Holmes with Nu Ensemble, and Mountain Spires by
Emmy Award winning composer Gary Kuo. Edward has also recorded with the Messiah College Brass Cross on
the album Luminosity, and the Messiah College Wind Ensemble on the albums Glorified, and Stained Glass
Windows. He has a parscular interest in how emosons affect musical performance and the process of learning
an instrument. Dr. House completed his DMA at Stony Brook University studying with David Jolley. He also holds
a Master of Music degree from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a Bachelor of Music
degree from Messiah College studying with Dr. Mike Harcrow.
Just Two, a horn and guitar duo featuring Sarah Schouten, horn and Tom Cody, guitar was formed in the
summer of 2012. In addison to performing exissng composisons, the duo acsvely creates its own
arrangements, with the hope of expanding the repertoire for this unique pairing. The arrangements include a
wide variety of genres, from Jazz to Chopin. The duo has performed at the Southeast Horn Workshop, The
Northeast Horn Workshop, and The Internasonal Horn Symposium. They have also given recitals at Edinboro
University of Pennsylvania, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and The University of Dayton.
Dr. Nicholas A. Kenney earned the Bachelor of Music from Western Carolina University and the Master of
Music and Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Nebraska. He has performed in venues around the
globe, including the Conservatorium in Brisbane, Australia, the historic Waterford Opera House in Waterford,
Ireland and New York’s famed Carnegie Hall (twice). Dr. Kenney is an award-winning soloist and chamber
musician –having won both North Carolina and Nebraska’s MTNA compessons twice, winning the 2006
Western Carolina University Concerto Compesson, and in 2009, he was named a finalist in the Internasonal
Horn Compesson of America. Dr. Kenney has been extremely acsve as a teacher and clinician, giving master
classes in Italy, Mexico, North Carolina, Nebraska, Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, and Missouri. He
has served as adjunct professor of horn at UNC-Pembroke and Concordia University and as graduate teaching
assistant at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is currently Associate Professor of horn at Southeast
Missouri State University where he teaches applied horn, horn ensemble, music appreciason, and he is the
assistant director of athlesc bands. For more info visit http://www.nickkenneyhorn.com
Benjamin Lieserserves as Assistant Professor of Music in Applied Horn at the University of Central Florida
School of Performing Arts. He holds degrees from Florida State University (BA, DM) and the University of
Cincinnas (MM). His teachers include William Capps, Randy Gardner, Michelle Stebleton, Duane Duggar, and
Randall Faust. He is currently principal horn of the Brevard Symphony Orchestra, and second horn of the Bach
Fessval Society Orchestra. Dr. Lieserhas been a featured soloist with the OFUNAM orchestra in Mexico City,
andperformed as a regional arsst at the Florida French Horn Fessval, The Southeast Horn Workshops, and the
Internasonal Horn Symposiums.