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"NOVA gave me the nurturing background combined with top quality instruction so I could reach as high as I could with my music. For this I am forever indebted! My applied guitar teacher was the best I had anywhere, and it was due to his high standards (he was an excellent pianist!) that I was able to get a scholarship to continue at Peabody. If I had to do it all over, I would do it the same way again"
On May 12, 2000, Mr. Hull’s latest premiered commission, Strathmore Sonata, was performed at Strathmore Hall Arts Center, Bethesda, Maryland. Riverside Sonata, a 1998 commission from the 250th Birthday Committee for the City of Alexandria, was performed at the Talloires International Composers Conference in 2000. The Louisville Orchestra selected his Of Prayer and Praise for performance at the 1997 Indiana State University’s Contemporary Music Festival. In 1995 he was one of ten composers selected to participate in the Fifth Talloiries International Composer’s Conference at Tufts University European Center. In 1994 Mr. Hall has been honored by both an award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publisher’s Standard Music Panel, and the Alexandria Choral Society’s bi-annual Distinguished Virginia Composer Commission. In 1993 Mr. Hull received a commission from the Knickerbocker Artists of New York to commemorate the installation of Glenna Goodacre’s Vietnam Woman’s Memorial. He is a recipient of both a commission and residency sponsored by Meet the Composer Education Program for 1992-1993. In 1991, he was honored with a Rosebud Award from the Washington Independent Filmmakers for his score to Eternal Bliss, which was screened at the American Film Institute and the Virginia Festival of American Film. Mr. Hull’s first Opera, The Fashionable Vices: Fables of John Gray was premiered by Opera Americana during its 1990-1991 season. The composer’s music is frequently performed abroad. He has been interviewed on Voice of America and is a regular contributor to the monthly journal of 21st Century Music. After graduating from NOVA, Garrison went to George Mason to study with Stephen Burton, Heritage Professor. Other instructors include Serge de Gastyne at NOVA, and the renowned composer and conductor, Russell Woollen.
Currently, Sanelma serves as Organist/Assistant Choir Director at Church of the Resurrection on Beauregard Street, Alexandria. In 2000 she recorded a CD with the choir of Jazz Mass by Stephen Porter and several jazz pieces of organ and piano. Her day-time gig is as Arts Administrator at Westmoreland Congregational United Church of Christ in Bethesda, MD, where she administers/manages a concert series, poetry readings, art shows, Arts Adventures, a community arts program for for children from the ages of 15 months through kindergarten, and voice classes for adults. Sanelma serves on the Board of Directors for the Alexandria Choral Society, is a member of the American Guild of Organists (Northern Virginia Chapter) recently serving as Logistics Chair for the Region III Conference and is currently serving on the Program Committee. She is a member of the 25th Anniversary Committee at the Shanandoah Conservatory to plan the celebration of the three-manuel tracker organ built by the Moeller Organ Company. She is also a member of the Association of Luthern Church Musicians and is a past member of the Cathedral Choral Society.
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One
of the greatest rewards to a college program is to hire its
alumni. Sanjay Mishra
graduated from NOVA and gained acceptance to Peabody Conservatory
where he received a full scholarship. He went on to become an
internationally acclaimed guitarist and composer. Currently,
he is an adjunct faculty on our campus. We invite you to review
his outstanding contributions to music through his 
Garrison
Hull,
composer, is described in the Washington Post as “expressively
engaging,” and “The evening’s climactic moment,”
and is distinguished by breath of melodic line, lyricism, and
clarity of tonality, all merged into a contemporary idiom.
Sanelma
Sutton is a 1984 graduate of NVCC
with an Associate's Degree in Church Music. She subsequently
graduated Summa Cum Laude from Shannondoah Conservatory of Music,
Winchester, VA in 1991 with a Bachelor's Degree in the same
field. A student of the Alexandria Campus, she states "Attending
NVVC gave me a strong foundation from which to build and additional
degree. The faculty was very supportive and encouraging."
Michael
O'Hanlan graduated
cum laude from the Alexandria Music Program. Trained as an accountant,
his real love for music and the harp led him to persue a music
degree. He has appeared many times with the area symphonies
and as a solo performer, and has composed music as well. He
became the founder of a new music business. Through the gift
of live music, the Compassionate Note provides a healing,
calming atmosphere to the ill, the terminally ill, their families
and their healthcare providers.