Contributing Artist Bio’s
Catherine Roche-Wallace is Raymond J. Goodrich/ Lafayette Music Professor of Horn and Theory, Coordinator
of Graduate Studies in Music at University of Louisiana, Lafayette. She holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in
Music from Youngstown State University where she studied with William B. Slocum, and the Doctor of Musical
Arts degree from University of Memphis, where she studied with Richard Dolph.
Dr. Roche-Wallace is second horn in the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, andperforms with the Louisiana Brass
Quintet. She has performed with orchestras in Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio, Michigan, and the Aspen Festival
Orchestra, and has presented recitals in eight U.S. states, Canada, and Finland. Dr. Roche-Wallace is an
adjudicator and clinician for Conn/Selmer Musical Instruments, and has presented programs at Northeast,
Southeast, Mid-South, and International Horn Symposia.
Dr. Emily Schaefer is Assistant Professor of Horn, also teaching Aural Skills. She was fourth horn with Wichita
Symphony Orchestra for the 2018-2019 season. Schaefer has performed with numerous orchestras, including
North Carolina Symphony, NC Opera, Charlotte Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Omaha
Symphony, and Kansas City Symphony. Festival activities have included the Caroga Lake Music Festival,
Maverick Concert Series, National Orchestral Institute, Festival Napa Valley, Kent/Blossom Music Festival, Le
Domaine Forget, Eastern Music Festival. Schaefer received her DMA at the University of Missouri, Kansas City
while a member of the Graduate Fellowship Wind Quintet. She holds degrees in horn performance from The
Juilliard School (MM) and Cleveland Institute of Music (BM). Her teachers including Martin Hackleman, Erik
Ralske, Richard King, and Karen Schubert.
Horn player Andrew Sehmannis a musician and college professor based in Athens, GA. He completed his
doctorate at The University of Georgia in Spring 2020 with James Naigusand Jean Martin-Williams. His
previous teachers have included: Marie-LuiseNeunecker, Wolfgang Vladar, Johannes Hinterholzer, Mick
Sehmann, Richard Deane, Hazel Dean Davis, and Kevin Reid. Andrew's horn of choice is a Rauch (No. 127) and
is highly proficient on both Wagner Tuba and Alto-Horn. He lives with his wife Ashley, a private piano teacher
in Athens with their rescue dog, Stella. Currently, he teaches Horn, aural skills, and music appreciation at
Young Harris College, in Young Harris, GA and Georgia College in Milledgeville, GA in addition to running a
private studio in the north Georgia area. In addition to his teaching experience. Andrew plays with multiple
orchestras in the Southeast. He is third horn in the Augusta Symphony, and second horn with the South
Carolina Philharmonic. Andrew has started making numerous arrangements for horn and piano. Current
arrangements include works by Grieg, Cui, Myaskovsky, Fauré, Humperdinck, Saint-Saens, and Kodaly. Expect
to see some of those soon through Faust Music!
Dr. Maria Serkin is the Associate Professor of Horn at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Previously, she held teaching positions at the University of Virginia and New World School of the Arts, principal
horn positions with the Florida Grand Opera, Palm Beach Symphony, and the Sarasota Orchestra, and was a
fellow with the New World Symphony. Recent performance highlights include extensive work with the Palm
Beach Opera, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, Palm Beach Chamber Music
Festival, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, and the North Carolina Symphony.