C. Stanley Eby

Stan Eby holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in voice performance from Bob Jones University and a doctorate from Boston University. He is an ordained minister and has many years experience as a minister of music. He has taught music on every level from elementary to graduate school. He is presently on the faculty at BJU where he teaches singing and vocal pedagogy and conducts the Chamber String Orchestra. In December 2007, Dr. Eby sang the title role in Simeon, a new Christian opera composed by Dr. Dwight Gustafson. In 2012 he will conduct his fourth major opera production at BJU. He is married and has three children and 2 grandchildren.

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Juliana Witt (staff accompanist)

Juliana Witt has been playing the piano and loving music for as long as she can remember. She was blessed to have musical parents that promoted her musical interests from a young age. In high school, she began teaching beginning piano students and fell in love with teaching. She also studied organ and began playing with a group of local chamber musicians, discovering her love of collaborating. She went on to study with Mr. David Lehman at Bob Jones University and earned a Bachelor's degree in Piano Performance. She currently studies piano with Dr. Kenon Renfrow and serves as a Graduate Assistant at BJU, teaching piano and working on classes toward a Master's in Piano Pedagogy, to be completed in May 2012. She loves to accompany and collaborate with other musicians.

Aside from her music-related aspirations, such as learning guitar and meeting local artists in her community, Juliana loves art, reading, running, old people, travel and promoting health through culinary with fresh foods. Her most recent hobby is making up-cycled jewelry.

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Amanda K. Barrett

Amanda Barrett (B.S. in music ed.; M.A. in flute performance from BJU) teaches flute, directs the flute choir, and plays in the faculty woodwind quintet at BJU. She has done additional study with Dr. Constance Lane and Dr. Tadeu Coelho. She has served as coordinator and faculty member for Dr. Coelho's Inspiration and Praise Flute Master Class. In 2007 she helped found the S.C. Flute Society. For the past four years she has done research through the Moravian Music Foundation in Winston-Salem, NC. In 2007 she oversaw the first modern performance of a 19th-century piccolo polka featuring Dr. Coelho with the BJU Wind Band. She coached chamber music at the Univ. of N.C. School of the Arts Flute Workshop. At the 2011 National Flute Convention she and Dr. Coelho presented a lecture-recital on the Moravian Foundation research, and she conducted the Southern Harmony Flute Choir in a showcase performance.

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Esther Waite

Esther Waite, originally from western New York, received her undergraduate degree in Music Education (B.S.) from Bob Jones University. She completed graduate studies in Flute Performance (M.M.) at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, while serving as teaching assistant for Dr. Tadeu Coelho’s flute studio and the undergraduate Aural Skills department. Currently on leave of absence from a teaching position at BJU, Esther is pursuing doctoral work in flute performance and music theory at Louisiana State University. She was awarded a teaching assistantship with Dr. Katherine Kemler’s flute studio, and recently performed with the LSU Philharmonia as a concerto competition winner. She is involved in several flute organizations, including the National Flute Association and the Louisiana Flute Society, and helped to start the South Carolina Flute Society in 2007. Esther is active in the music ministry at her local church and also substitutes frequently with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra.

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Elizabeth Pabón

Elizabeth Pabón is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico. She received her training at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, obtaining degrees in violin performance (B.M.) and music education (M.M.E.). Her teachers include Franco Gulli, Henryk Kowalski, and Mimi Zweig. She has presented master classes and performed solo recitals in her native Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Ecuador, and in the United States. She accepted Christ as her Savior in 1994 and is currently serving on the faculty at Maranatha Baptist Bible College where she is developing the String Pedagogy and String Preparatory programs.

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Dianne Pinner

Dianne Pinner is a faculty member in the music department at Bob Jones University where she is active teaching and performing as a violinist.

She earned a bachelor of science degree in music education and a master of arts degree in violin performance from Bob Jones University. Dianne currently teaches in the string pedagogy department, and teaches violin and viola lessons and chamber ensembles in the string department.

Previously she supervised and taught in the pre-college string program at Bob Jones Elementary School for thirty years, and also taught in the university’s music theory and music education departments. Dianne performs regularly in solo and chamber recitals and has appeared as soloist and section violinist with the Bob Jones University Orchestra.

She performs as a free lance musician doing recording work, orchestra jobs, and wedding and special events music in a string quartet with her husband and two sons.

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