Music Faculty
Our Prelude faculty is comprised of nurturing young music professionals who perform regularly and have a passion for teaching young chamber musicians.
2012 Prelude Faculty
Randy Hiller, Prelude Director, violinist BA Harvard University, MBA and PhD MIT. Recently retired from a career in Business, Mr. Hiller now pursues music full time. Randy is the Founder and Director of the Lexington Chamber Music Center, coaching small ensembles made up of local middle school and high school students and organizing performances at outreach facilities such as retirement communities, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, and hospitals. As a freelance violinist, he has performed with many Boston ensembles, including Emmanuel Music, Cantata Singers, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Boston, and the Lexington Symphony.
He was concertmaster of the Concord Orchestra between 1999 and 2004. An avid chamber musician, he has performed in small ensembles in and around Boston including the Winsor Outreach Quartet, The Auros ensemble, and The Alcyon Ensemble, and has studied chamber music with Raphael Hillyer, Robert Merfeld, and Leon Kirschner. Mr. Hiller serves on the board as immediate Past-President of Project STEP, a Boston-based program designed to provide string instrument training to talented minority children
Julia Cash, violinist B.M. New England Conservatory. Diplomas from NEC, Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik (Trossingen, Germany) and Dutch Royal Conservatory (The Hague). Performances with Opera Boston, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Pro Arte, Chamber Orchestra of Amsterdam, South West German Philharmonic. Julia is Prelude Music Director.
Heather Adelsberger, pianist BA Catholic University of America, MM University of Maryland. Ms. Adelsberger maintains an active career as a pianist, organist, vocal accompanist and piano instructor in the Washington D.C. area. She joined the faculty at Duke Ellington School of the Arts in 2009 where she coaches and accompanies conservatory-bound vocal students. In spring 2012, she worked with DESA’s Opera Workshop. A sought-after music educator and member of MTNA, Mrs. Adelsberger currently maintains private piano studios in Maryland and Virginia. Her upcoming engagements include a series of recitals with former Point CounterPoint cello faculty member, Sara Bennett Wolfe.
Tina Lee Hadari, violinist B.M. New England Conservatory, M.M. Yale School of Music, D.M.A. University of Colorado. She has been on the faculties of Opus118 in New York, Apple Hill Chamber Music Center, Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, Boulder Suzuki Strings, BRAVO Summer String Institute in Minneapolis, EMS String Festival in New Jersey. Tina is nationally registered Suzuki violin/viola instructor.
Sam Ou, cellist B.A. Columbia University, M.M. Juilliard, D.M.A. New England Conservatory (NEC). Cello studies with Laurence Lesser, Aldo Parisot, Eleanore Schoenfeld. Chamber music collaborations with Borromeo String Quartet, Lucy Chapman, Yehudi Wyner, James Dunham, Marcus Thompson, James Buswell, Lois Shapiro. Performed at Tanglewood, Sarasota, Musicorda, Santa Fe, La Jolla Music Festivals. Visiting lecturer and cello teacher at Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan. Faculty at NEC Preparatory School, Music on the Hill Belmont,MA.