Member Bios
Trumpet
Tim Deik
A member of BayColonyBrass since 2002, Tim Deik holds degrees in Music and Youth Ministries from Gordon College. He currently teaches 25-30 trumpet students in the Ipswich and Masconomet school districts. He is a founding and current member of the Pneuma Brass Quintet, does some freelance trumpet work in the Boston area, and sings in the choir at Christ Church in Hamilton. Tim and his wife, Amy, live in Beverly where they enjoy cooking, reading, and spending time with their greyhound, Kingsley.
Jim Becker
Jim is a founding member of the BayColonyBrass. He hails from St.Cloud, Minnesota where he studied trumpet with Dr. Albert Moore, at SCSU. In recent years he has performed in many ensembles in the greater Boston area including the Lakeside Bass Quintet, New England Brass Band, New England Philharmonic, and as a member of the trumpet section, has been a featured cornet soloist with the Metropolitan Wind Symphony. In addition, his other musical experiences include singing bass with the University of Wisconsin Choral Union, and Boston's Spectrum Singers. In his youth, Jim played bugle for eight seasons, ending his marching career on flugelhorn with the 1980 Madison Scouts hornline. Jim 's passion for brass instruments does not end there... For the past 27 years, Jim has been repairing brass instruments for professional musicians, and students alike. And, as senior technician for Osmun Music in Arlington, MA he has become the "go to guy" when players require expert repairs on their brass instruments, always making himself available when the need arises.
Ken Laing
Bio coming soon...
Scott Beckman
Bio coming soon...
Chris McGann
Chris has been a member of Bay Colony Brass since 2006. A Boston native, he studied with Seth Hamlin (Brass Planet, Harvard University) and Jeff Luke (Atlantic Brass Quintet, Utah Symphony). He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison where he studied with John Aley and Alan Campbell. While in Madison, he was a member of the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps. Back in the Boston, he has played with Bay Colony Brass, Fanfare Brass, Metropolitan Wind Symphony and the Newton Symphony Orchestra. He is also a cast member of the Tony and Emmy award winning production of Blast!, with which he has toured the United States and Japan.
Laura Kluga
Bio coming soon
Horn
Hadley Reynolds
Hadley Reynolds started playing horn in the Chicago area in the late 1950's. Fortunately, he had many opportunities to attend Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts under Fritz Reiner, and to develop a lifelong appreciation for the exceptional sound being created by the CSO brass of the time, particularly Philip Farkas (horn), Adolph Herseth (trumpet), and Arnold Jacobs (tuba). In these years he played in the Evanston Symphony Orchestra under the CSO's Frank Miller, the North Side Symphony under the CSO's Milton Preves, the Youth Orchestra of Greater Chicago under Dr. Frank Powers, the North Shore Band of Wilmette under nationally renowned Northwestern University Band Director John Paynter, as well as winning state-wide awards for horn solo work with stage band, orchestra, as well as ensemble conducting. Hadley studied with Christopher Leuba, Principal Horn of the CSO, and K. Ethel Merker, the first nationally recognized woman symphony player and recording artist on the horn, and now designer of the Merker Model French Horns for Holton/LeBlanc. In the Philadelphia area, He studied with Ward Fern of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and performed solo concertos and conducted the joint orchestras of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges. In the Boston area, Hadley has kept up his playing over the years with a number of groups, including the Newton Symphony, The Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston, the Boston Summer Opera Theatre, Dover Foundation Community Theater, and a variety of classical and popular performing ensembles in the area. He currently plays in the horn cadre of Bay Colony Brass, Boston's leading independent large brass performing ensemble. Hadley also serves as a Trustee of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston.
Alec Zimmer
Alec Zimmer, horn, joined the Bay Colony Brass in 2005. Originally from Danville, PA, he began his private horn studies with C. Scott Smith at Susquehanna University and later studied with the late Rick Martin. While earning is BS in Engineering at Swarthmore College, he studied with Michael Johns, member of the Pennsylvania Ballet and Opera Company of Philadelphia horn sections. After a brief stint at Stanford University for graduate school, Alec moved to the Boston area. In addition to the Bay Colony Brass, Alec is assistant principal horn with the Newton Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with the Civic Symphony of Boston, the Longwood Symphony, the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, the UMass Boston Chamber Orchestra, and the Charles River Wind Ensemble. Last year, he attended the Kendall Betts Horn Camp in Lyman, NH where his performance of Eugene Bozza’s “En Foret” earned him praise from the camp’s distinguished faculty. Alec is a registered professional engineer and works as a structural engineer for Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Consulting Engineers in Waltham. He lives in Somerville with his extraordinarily patient wife, Elisabeth.
Drew Schroeder
Drew Schroeder is midway through a Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard. He spends at least as much time, though, on musical pursuits. For the past two years, he’s been the musical director of the Dudley Orchestra, Harvard’s graduate student orchestra. Under his leadership, that group has more than doubled in size and has presented such works as Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 12 and the Boston premiere of the Elgar-Payne Symphony No. 3. Drew also served as the assistant conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra during its ’05 -’06 season. As a horn player, Drew has played with the Spoleto Festival (USA) Orchestra, the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra, and the Kalistos Chamber Orchestra, among others. He has spent the past four summers working as the administrative head of the voice department at the Music Academy of the West, Marilyn Horne's training program for young singers.
Neil Godwin
Bio coming soon...
Julie Heinrichs
Bio coming soon...
Trombone
Roger Hecht
Roger Hecht was a trombone student of Emory Remington, Edward Kleinhammer, Byron McCulloh, and Douglas Yeo. Before coming to Boston, he was a member of the Syracuse Symphony and the Lake George Opera orchestra. In New England, he has been a member of the New Bedford Symphony, the Cape Ann Symphony, and the New England Philharmonic. He now performs as a freelance trombonist, and teaches trombone privately. In addition to his playing, Roger is a regular classical CD critic for American Record Guide, the oldest English language record reviewing magazine in the United States. He is also a contributor to Listener's Guide to Classical Recordings, a comprehensive guide to classical recordings (Backbeat Books, 2002). His reviewing specialties include English music, the early 20th Century post-Mahlerians, and neoClassical and neoRomantic Americans. (He wrote the major Overview articles on the English Symphony and Stravinsky for ARG.) Roger has penned articles on music for Positive Feedback magazine and The Elgar Society Journal of the British Elgar Society, of which he is a member. Roger's fiction includes two novels and several stories, including The Audition, a tale about a musician's experience auditioning for a major orchestra (in Positive Feedback).
Tom Spataro
Tom Spataro, Assistant Conductor of BCB, is a graduate of Boston College. He has been a Band Director at Boston College, built trombones for Steve Shires, and is currently the Executive Director of the Boston Crusaders Drum & Bugle Corps. Tom is also one of Bay Colony's in-house arrangers, and doubles on Euphonium when needed. Tom lives in West Roxbury with his wife, Jackie and their dog Diego.
Bill Griffin
Bill Griffin has been a trombonist of various styles in the Boston area for over 15 years. Classically, Bill has studied with the Empire Brass Quintet and with Boston Symphony Orchestra trombonist Lawrence Isaacson. Bill received an undergraduate minor in music performance at the University of New Hampshire, where he studied with Nicholas Orovich, principal trombonist for the Portland Symphony. Bill studied jazz techniques in high school and college and has studied and played with such jazz performers as Clarke Terry, Milt Hinton, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Lew Tabackin. Bill also plays in rock horn bands, in which he doubles on baritone sax. Outside of Bay Colony Brass Bill also freelances in local jazz, classical and rock groups. Bill works in the financial services industry and holds an MBA from the University of Massachusetts.
Ed Ackerman
Ed Ackerman, who plays bass trombone and occasional euphonium, is a photonics engineer, but finds it impossible to work under the circumstances.
I mean, a particle and a wave?!
Tuba
Steve Skov
George Father
Tim Deik
A member of BayColonyBrass since 2002, Tim Deik holds degrees in Music and Youth Ministries from Gordon College. He currently teaches 25-30 trumpet students in the Ipswich and Masconomet school districts. He is a founding and current member of the Pneuma Brass Quintet, does some freelance trumpet work in the Boston area, and sings in the choir at Christ Church in Hamilton. Tim and his wife, Amy, live in Beverly where they enjoy cooking, reading, and spending time with their greyhound, Kingsley.
Jim Becker
Jim is a founding member of the BayColonyBrass. He hails from St.Cloud, Minnesota where he studied trumpet with Dr. Albert Moore, at SCSU. In recent years he has performed in many ensembles in the greater Boston area including the Lakeside Bass Quintet, New England Brass Band, New England Philharmonic, and as a member of the trumpet section, has been a featured cornet soloist with the Metropolitan Wind Symphony. In addition, his other musical experiences include singing bass with the University of Wisconsin Choral Union, and Boston's Spectrum Singers. In his youth, Jim played bugle for eight seasons, ending his marching career on flugelhorn with the 1980 Madison Scouts hornline. Jim 's passion for brass instruments does not end there... For the past 27 years, Jim has been repairing brass instruments for professional musicians, and students alike. And, as senior technician for Osmun Music in Arlington, MA he has become the "go to guy" when players require expert repairs on their brass instruments, always making himself available when the need arises.
Ken Laing
Bio coming soon...
Scott Beckman
Bio coming soon...
Chris McGann
Chris has been a member of Bay Colony Brass since 2006. A Boston native, he studied with Seth Hamlin (Brass Planet, Harvard University) and Jeff Luke (Atlantic Brass Quintet, Utah Symphony). He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison where he studied with John Aley and Alan Campbell. While in Madison, he was a member of the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps. Back in the Boston, he has played with Bay Colony Brass, Fanfare Brass, Metropolitan Wind Symphony and the Newton Symphony Orchestra. He is also a cast member of the Tony and Emmy award winning production of Blast!, with which he has toured the United States and Japan.
Laura Kluga
Bio coming soon
Horn
Hadley Reynolds
Hadley Reynolds started playing horn in the Chicago area in the late 1950's. Fortunately, he had many opportunities to attend Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts under Fritz Reiner, and to develop a lifelong appreciation for the exceptional sound being created by the CSO brass of the time, particularly Philip Farkas (horn), Adolph Herseth (trumpet), and Arnold Jacobs (tuba). In these years he played in the Evanston Symphony Orchestra under the CSO's Frank Miller, the North Side Symphony under the CSO's Milton Preves, the Youth Orchestra of Greater Chicago under Dr. Frank Powers, the North Shore Band of Wilmette under nationally renowned Northwestern University Band Director John Paynter, as well as winning state-wide awards for horn solo work with stage band, orchestra, as well as ensemble conducting. Hadley studied with Christopher Leuba, Principal Horn of the CSO, and K. Ethel Merker, the first nationally recognized woman symphony player and recording artist on the horn, and now designer of the Merker Model French Horns for Holton/LeBlanc. In the Philadelphia area, He studied with Ward Fern of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and performed solo concertos and conducted the joint orchestras of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges. In the Boston area, Hadley has kept up his playing over the years with a number of groups, including the Newton Symphony, The Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston, the Boston Summer Opera Theatre, Dover Foundation Community Theater, and a variety of classical and popular performing ensembles in the area. He currently plays in the horn cadre of Bay Colony Brass, Boston's leading independent large brass performing ensemble. Hadley also serves as a Trustee of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston.
Alec Zimmer
Alec Zimmer, horn, joined the Bay Colony Brass in 2005. Originally from Danville, PA, he began his private horn studies with C. Scott Smith at Susquehanna University and later studied with the late Rick Martin. While earning is BS in Engineering at Swarthmore College, he studied with Michael Johns, member of the Pennsylvania Ballet and Opera Company of Philadelphia horn sections. After a brief stint at Stanford University for graduate school, Alec moved to the Boston area. In addition to the Bay Colony Brass, Alec is assistant principal horn with the Newton Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with the Civic Symphony of Boston, the Longwood Symphony, the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, the UMass Boston Chamber Orchestra, and the Charles River Wind Ensemble. Last year, he attended the Kendall Betts Horn Camp in Lyman, NH where his performance of Eugene Bozza’s “En Foret” earned him praise from the camp’s distinguished faculty. Alec is a registered professional engineer and works as a structural engineer for Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Consulting Engineers in Waltham. He lives in Somerville with his extraordinarily patient wife, Elisabeth.
Drew Schroeder
Drew Schroeder is midway through a Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard. He spends at least as much time, though, on musical pursuits. For the past two years, he’s been the musical director of the Dudley Orchestra, Harvard’s graduate student orchestra. Under his leadership, that group has more than doubled in size and has presented such works as Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 12 and the Boston premiere of the Elgar-Payne Symphony No. 3. Drew also served as the assistant conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra during its ’05 -’06 season. As a horn player, Drew has played with the Spoleto Festival (USA) Orchestra, the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra, and the Kalistos Chamber Orchestra, among others. He has spent the past four summers working as the administrative head of the voice department at the Music Academy of the West, Marilyn Horne's training program for young singers.
Neil Godwin
Bio coming soon...
Julie Heinrichs
Bio coming soon...
Trombone
Roger Hecht
Roger Hecht was a trombone student of Emory Remington, Edward Kleinhammer, Byron McCulloh, and Douglas Yeo. Before coming to Boston, he was a member of the Syracuse Symphony and the Lake George Opera orchestra. In New England, he has been a member of the New Bedford Symphony, the Cape Ann Symphony, and the New England Philharmonic. He now performs as a freelance trombonist, and teaches trombone privately. In addition to his playing, Roger is a regular classical CD critic for American Record Guide, the oldest English language record reviewing magazine in the United States. He is also a contributor to Listener's Guide to Classical Recordings, a comprehensive guide to classical recordings (Backbeat Books, 2002). His reviewing specialties include English music, the early 20th Century post-Mahlerians, and neoClassical and neoRomantic Americans. (He wrote the major Overview articles on the English Symphony and Stravinsky for ARG.) Roger has penned articles on music for Positive Feedback magazine and The Elgar Society Journal of the British Elgar Society, of which he is a member. Roger's fiction includes two novels and several stories, including The Audition, a tale about a musician's experience auditioning for a major orchestra (in Positive Feedback).
Tom Spataro
Tom Spataro, Assistant Conductor of BCB, is a graduate of Boston College. He has been a Band Director at Boston College, built trombones for Steve Shires, and is currently the Executive Director of the Boston Crusaders Drum & Bugle Corps. Tom is also one of Bay Colony's in-house arrangers, and doubles on Euphonium when needed. Tom lives in West Roxbury with his wife, Jackie and their dog Diego.
Bill Griffin
Bill Griffin has been a trombonist of various styles in the Boston area for over 15 years. Classically, Bill has studied with the Empire Brass Quintet and with Boston Symphony Orchestra trombonist Lawrence Isaacson. Bill received an undergraduate minor in music performance at the University of New Hampshire, where he studied with Nicholas Orovich, principal trombonist for the Portland Symphony. Bill studied jazz techniques in high school and college and has studied and played with such jazz performers as Clarke Terry, Milt Hinton, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Lew Tabackin. Bill also plays in rock horn bands, in which he doubles on baritone sax. Outside of Bay Colony Brass Bill also freelances in local jazz, classical and rock groups. Bill works in the financial services industry and holds an MBA from the University of Massachusetts.
Ed Ackerman
Ed Ackerman, who plays bass trombone and occasional euphonium, is a photonics engineer, but finds it impossible to work under the circumstances.
I mean, a particle and a wave?!
Tuba
Steve Skov
George Father
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