Ashley Oros
flute, piano
Ashley Oros is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Flute Performance at Temple University- Boyer College of Music. She earned her Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance also from Temple University under Mr. David Cramer, former Associate Principal Flute of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Mrs. Prema Kesselman, former Principal Flute of the Santiago Philharmonic.
At Temple, Ashley has performed as Principal Flute with the Temple Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the Opera Orchestra, Composers Orchestra, Contemporary Ensemble, Concert Orchestra and Wind Symphony. She has also performed in master classes with Marina Puccinini, Leone Buyse, Brad Garner, Göran Marcusson, Bonita Boyd, Alexa Still (ZAWA): Jill Felber & Claudia Andersen, Stephen Preston, and Lea Pearson among others.
Before moving to the United States to attend college, Ashley performed with several Santiago, Chile area youth orchestra’s, including the Orquesta de Camara Estudiantil de Santiago and Orquesta Juvenil de Lo Barnechea. She has performed solos and participated in festivals in the United States, France, Italy, Chile, Argentina and Brazil.
An enthusiastic and dedicated teacher, Ashley teaches privately in the Philadelphia and surrounding areas. Previously she taught flute privately at the International School Nido de Aguilas in Santiago, Chile, and ran a flute studio in the Santiago area.
She is an advocate of the Alexander Technique and incorporates it into her lessons; she is working on becoming certified in the near future. She loves learning from her students and watching them grow as they make music an important part of life.
Clifford Morin
Clarinet, Flute, Guitar, Piano, Saxophone
Clifford Morin has hit the ground running this fall, teaching students throughout the area on multiple instruments.
Clifford graduated with a Masters in Music from Temple University, where he studied Jazz Performance on the saxophone and spent a semester at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music, Netherlands. He earned his Bachelors in Music from West Chester University, where he also studied Jazz Performance on the saxophone and minored in Jazz Piano.
Clifford is a leading voice in today’s generation of saxophonists. His extensive resume includes performances with Graham Lesh, the Philadelphia String Quintet, Arturo Stable, John Swana, Ustad Shafaat Khan, Chien Chien Lu, Joe Lovano, John Faddis, Ann Hampton- Callaway Jimmy Heath, Sean Jones, Terell Stafford, and Dick Oatts.
Clifford has performed in festivals, clubs, theaters, concert halls, and radio stations around the world in the Pop, Rock, Jazz, Latin Jazz, Indian and World Music genres. He has also composed for groups such as the Philadelphia String Quintet.
During the summers of 2014, 2015, and 2019, Clifford was selected to be an artist in residence at the Boysie Lowery Jazz/Composition Residency in Wilmington, DE, where he recorded in Philadelphia’s WRTI studio, composed, performed, and studied under leading jazz artists.
As a teacher, Clifford has taught Saxophone, Improvisation, and Composition at the university level as well as with private students. Being a multi-instrumentalist, he also teaches guitar, piano, flute, and clarinet as well as Indian Karnetic rhythms, music theory, jazz improvisation, and arranging/composting.
Clifford brings together the knowledge, tradition, modern technique, and evolving possibilities of music in his instruction. Clifford enjoys showing students the most efficient tools to achieve fluidity on their instruments.
Jeffrey Barlow
Saxophone, Piano, Voice
Jeffrey Barlow joins Greensleeves as an experienced saxophone, piano, and voice teacher. Jeffrey is from Scranton and now lives in West Chester where he attends West Chester University.
At WCU, Jeffrey majors in Music Education where he serves in leadership roles including Ensemble Coordinator for the Incomparable Golden Rams Marching Band and formerly as President of the WCU Mens Chorus. Jeffrey currently interns with the Music Service Learning program at the Wells School of Music and previously interned with Vivace Productions. He is also a member of the National Association for Music Educators Collegiate (NAfME-C).
An active musician, Jeffrey says the he loves how music gives you a way to express yourself deeper than any words could do. Beyond the marching band, Jeffrey has performed with the West Chester University Wind Symphony and the Master Singers.
Jeffrey believes music is an activity that is open for anyone and everyone and should be a fun, safe place for people to truly be themselves. He finds that, through learning the discipline of music, students can learn valuable life skills like preparedness, determination, and problem-solving.
Dominick DeStefano
Guitar, Piano, Woodwinds
Dominick joins Greensleeves as a woodwinds, piano, and guitar teacher. His primary instruments are bassoon and saxophone and he is skilled with clarinet, flute, piano, and guitar.
Originally from Harrisburg, Dominick lives in West Chester where he attends West Chester University. Dominick is majoring in Studio Composition with a minor in Computer Science.
At WCU, Dominick studies bassoon and saxophone under Jon Gaardner and Jonathan Ragonese. He’s also learning about music production and enjoys composing and creating electronic music. He is interested in film and video game scoring and sound design. Outside of music, Dominick enjoys outdoor activities like hiking and cycling.
Dominick loves making music because it gives him a way to express himself. In high school, he performed with the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (PMEA) Region Band as well as the Harrisburg Symphony Youth Orchestra. At WCU, he has been a member of the West Chester University Wind Ensemble, Symphony Orchester, Chamber Winds, Opera Orchestra, and various chamber groups. He also performed in the WCU Incomparable Golden Rams Marching Band.
Dominick teaches winds and brass at Chichester High School’s marching band and teaches front ensemble at Ridley High School.
Dominick loves working with students and watching them grow and develop over time. He believes that learning an instrument should be a fun, low-stress experience. His goal is for his students to develop a love of music and to enjoy playing their instruments.
Lenny Appleton
Piano, Woodwinds
Born and raised in Wilmington, DE, Lenny currently lives in Newark, DE where he studies Music Education at the University of Delaware. He’s taken various courses in brass methods, string methods, aural skills, and music theory to develop a foundation for teaching a broad spectrum of music to students. He also studies Saxophone, one of his specialties (in addition to flute), under Professor Todd Groves.
At UD, Lenny leads Alto Saxophone in the Jazz Band and is first chair saxophone in the UD Symphonic Band. He participates in many rehearsals at UD - so many that sometimes it comes as a surprise when they finally display their performance to a wide audience. Lenny says, “When it is time to perform, and the audience responds enthusiastically to what we have done, or people walk up to us and say how much they loved our performance, or another musician says that hearing our group made them fall back in love with music, I then realize that the whole point of being a musician is to elicit those positive feelings!”
Lenny believes that teachers are mere guides in the learning process and that the true teachers are within the students, themselves. He believes that a good teacher evokes a teacher with the student that helps them to understand what works best for them. As a Substitute Teacher for a high school concert band, Lenny has noticed that his role as a teacher is overseeing and refining the learning the students are already doing, themselves. Lenny says the best part of teaching is when he gets to see a student experience a light-bulb moment in their musical learning.
Emily Lucas
Flute, piano, voice
Emily Lucas joins Greensleeves Music as a flute, beginner piano, and voice teacher. Emily is from Jackson, New Jersey and currently lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania. She is currently pursuing a degree in Music Education on Flute, with a minor in Music History. She studies under the renowned flutist Dr. Kimberly Reighley.
Emily currently holds the position of Principal Flutist in the Wells School of Music Wind Symphony, as well as one of the Flute Music Section Leaders in the Incomparable Golden Rams Marching Band. Emily has performed with the Trilovati Flute Ensemble, playing alto flute and bass flute, and has sung with the Wells School of Music Women’s Chorus. Additionally, she is a brother of the organization Kappa Kappa Psi, a co-educational fraternity that specializes in serving college and university bands for the benefits of its members and society.
Emily loves how music can connect people from different backgrounds and experiences. She is motivated to teach and perform by seeing how music can transform a person’s life in a positive way. Emily believes that learning how to make music can be fun and shows young students how to express themselves. She is confident that through making music, her students can gain real-world skills like discipline, confidence, and the willingness to succeed.
Roger Cabrera
Brass, Piano, Strings, Woodwinds
Multi-instrumentalist Roger Cabrera joins Greensleeves with well-rounded experience in symphony orchestras, jazz, concert, and marching bands, piano, and more! He is skilled with violin, viola, piano, French horn, flute, piccolo, and trumpet.
Roger attends West Chester University studying Nutrition & Fueling where he is a part of the Symphony Orchestra on French horn and the Statesmen Jazz Ensemble on piano.
Roger is from Easton, PA, where he successfully auditioned for the Pennsylvania Music Education Association (PMEA) District Band and Orchestra, Region Band and Orchestra, and the All-State Concert Band and Symphony Orchestra, ranking principal horn in all of these ensembles. He advanced to NAfME All-Eastern Symphony Orchestra, ranking #1, and NAfME All-National Symphony Orchestra, ranking #3 in the country.
Roger performed in his high school’s pit orchestra, jazz band, chamber strings, country band, marching band, wind ensemble, and piano for the choir department.
Roger says, “Music inspires me to work hard while simultaneously having fun playing music and meeting other people with the same passion… I love being able to express my feelings and give my gifts to other people in the audience.”
Roger previously taught private lessons in his hometown and he’is excited to help others reach their musical goals through work and discipline, which translates to so many aspects of life. He enjoys seeing bright faces when a student has successfully played a passage or acquired a new skill.
Roger is a hand-on person while learning who loves to laugh and have fun. He speaks Spanish and is able to reach many communities of musicians.
Sophia Isom
Flute, Piano, Voice, Other Woodwinds
Sophia Isom is a flute and piano specialist who also teaches voice and woodwinds. She is currently majoring in Music Education and Flute Performance and minoring in Special Education at West Chester University.
Sophia plays flute in the WCU Symphony Orchestra, was WCU RAM Band 2023 Outstanding First Year Member and Outstanding Rookie, serves as a Ram Initiative Mentor, and is part of Oriana Chorale and Trilovali Flute Ensemble.
In her hometown of Allentown, Sophia played in many pit orchestras and PMEA honor ensembles (band and choir), reaching All State Wind Ensemble twice and ranking 1st in the state on piccolo twice. She was Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra’s piccolo player and performed in NAfME All Eastern Concert Band on flute. She was a concerto and double piano concerto soloist with the Central PA Suzuki Association Orchestra and participated in the National Piano Guild, earning Sonatina and Paderewski medals. Sophia will be a camp counselor and flute performer at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp.
Sophia says, “I adore the sound of the flute. It is so freeing to play.” Both flute and piano have provided her numerous opportunities to express herself and work towards a goal. She loves how music brings people together in a way nothing else can, and find that being a musician brings values to many areas of life.
“As a musician, the ability to grow and share my music motivates me. I love sharing what I have worked on in hopes of making someone’s day better.”
Sophia has taught piano and flute in private lesson for over three years as well as holding many musical leadership positions that provided educational opportunities. Sophia says, “I believe every person’s life can be brightened by enjoying music, whether that be listening or playing.” She loves helping students to achieve new goals and musical accomplishments.
In addition to music lessons, Sophia taught swim lessons for three years and is being certified to teach students with special needs.
Harry Forlenza-Bailey
Brass, Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Strings, Woodwinds
Virtual Lessons Only
Harry Forlenza-Bailey is a music educator with a deep, heartfelt dedication. Since teaching lessons in high school 15 years ago, F-B has taught trombone, trumpet, saxophone, flute, clarinet, drums, violin, viola, cello, bass, piano, guitar, and more. His approach is regarded as flexible to each individual student to understand what they are working on and how to develop further as musicians and performers. In addition to teaching private lessons, he has been a Band and Orchestra Director for the past three years.
When he is not teaching, F-B is practicing what he preaches on his many instruments and performs on many local and national stages. He’s also a composer and arranger of music from his home for groups of his own and others for hire. He is happy to teach varied skill levels through any preferred method of learning, whether is is remotely online or in-person in the home. F-B has a Bachelor’s of Music from Temple University (2014) and a Master’s of Music from the University of Delaware (2018). F-B is glad to be a part of the Greensleeves studio.
