The Ensemble
Matt Sharrock | Conductor, percussion
Matt Sharrock is a versatile marimbist/percussionist in Boston, MA. Originally hailing from central Ohio, Matt enjoys a multifaceted career as a percussionist, teacher, and conductor. As a performer, Matt specializes as a marimbist, performing as a soloist or in chamber settings. Currently, Matt performs regularly in duos with marimbist Laurel Black and percussionist Karlyn Mason, and he is a founding member of Boston Percussion Group (BPeG) and Front Street Percussion Quartet. As an orchestral musician, Matt has performed around the greater Boston area with groups such as the Boston Opera Collaborative, the Brockton Symphony Orchestra, Lowell House Opera, and The Video Game Orchestra (to a sold-out Symphony Hall). 
An advocate for new music, Matt was a founding member and acted for two years as music director and principal conductor of l(a contemporary music ensemble, a new music group in residence at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, OH. Currently, Matt is an organizer and performer for Equilibrium Concert Series and serves as principal conductor for The Fifth Floor Collective, a consortium of Boston-area composers. In addition, Matt has had the honor of premiering new works by Christopher Coughlin, Masaki Hasebe, Daniel T. Lewis, Aaron Jay Myers and Mischa Salkind-Pearl, among others.
A passionate educator, Matt is currently a teaching artist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He also presents master classes and educational concerts with BPeG in addition to completing three yearly tours of Kentucky public schools with Front Street. Also interested in adult music education, Matt spent five years as percussion instructor for the Baldwin-Wallace College New Horizons Band Program, teaching group lessons, coaching band rehearsals, and organizing, programming and conducting a percussion ensemble of students over the age of 50.
Matt holds an M.M. in Marimba Performance from The Boston Conservatory and a B.M. in Music Performance (Percussion) from Baldwin-Wallace College. His primary teachers include Nancy Zeltsman and Jack Van Geem (marimba); Keith Aleo, Josh Ryan, and Sam Solomon (percussion); John Grimes (timpani), Sharan Leventhal (chamber music), and Dwight Oltman (conducting).
Deborah Apple is an active and diverse performer and teacher in the Boston area. She was previously a Resident Artist at the Conservatory Lab Charter School in Brighton, MA where she taught viola. She recently completed her Master of Music degree in viola performance at the Boston Conservatory where she studied with Patricia McCarty. She held her degree recital on April 9, 2010 and graduated in May of 2010. While in school Ms. Apple has performed with several chamber groups coached by Judith Eissenberg, Max Levinson, Lila Brown, and Rictor Noren. In the Boston area Ms Apple has played with the Boston Civic Symphony, the Newton Symphony, and the Dorchester Symphony. 
Prior to moving to Boston, Ms. Apple attended the University of South Carolina where she studied with Ryan Kho and Dr. Constance Gee. She also spent two years teaching violin and viola at the USC String Project and in the USC Community Music Program. While living in South Carolina, Ms. Apple played with the Florence Symphony and the Spartanburg Symphony. Ms. Apple graduated summa cum laude in 2008 with a Bachelor of Music Degree.
Growing up in Virginia and Georgia, Deborah Apple started studying the violin at the age of eight and viola at the age of fifteen. She was always involved in her school orchestra programs as well as youth orchestras including the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. She spent her summers at music camps including Interlochen Arts Camp and the National High School Music Institute. During this time she studied violin with Sheela Su and viola with Elizabeth Derderian-Wood.
As a passionate chamber performer, Deborah Apple has performed with various chamber groups at several summer programs including Meadowmount School of Music, Icicle Creek Music Festival, the Quartet Program, and Las Vegas Music Festival where she has been coached by Renato Bonacini, Basil Vendryes, Mark Rudolph, Diane Monroe, James Lyon, and members of the Ying Quartet. In 2005 Ms. Apple performed as a part of a cello quintet at the Rochberg Memorial Tribute Concert in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
Marina Krickler is an active freelance horn player in the Boston area. She performs regularly with a variety of groups including: Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of Indian Hill, Haffner Sinfonietta, Brockton Symphony, and Symphony by the Sea. While she is passionate about the orchestral medium, she also enjoys playing chamber and new music. 
Marina recently earned an M. M. in Performance from The Boston Conservatory, where she studied with Eli Epstein. She also holds a B. M. in Performance from the University of Toronto, where she studied with Gabriel Radford; and a Music Performance Diploma from Mount Royal University, where she studied with Laurie Matiation.
In addition to her formal education, Marina recently participated in the National Arts Centre Yo
ung Artists Programme in Ottawa, Canada. She has also been a part of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada in 2009 and 2010, and has attended summer programs at Le Domaine Forget, and the Banff Centre for the Arts, where she has worked with renowned performers and pedagogues such as Frøydis Ree Wekre, James Sommerville and Jens Lindemann.
Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Marina spent her formative years playing piano and flute, and was drawn to the horn at the age of sixteen. Having been actively involved in her high school band program, she feels strongly that music programs are an essential part of the educational system. She is currently the horn instructor at Medfield High School.
Angela Lickiss | Oboe & English horn
Erin Merceruio recently received her M.M. from The Boston Conservatory. She has performed locally with the Boston Conservatory, Longwood Opera, the Diva Day Foundation, Boston Opera Collaborative and Opera del West. 
Her most recent performances include Beth in Little Women, Barbarina in LeNozze di Figaro, Serpina in La Serva Padrona, Just Jeannette in Too Many Sopranos, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Geraldine in A Hand of Bridge, Noémie in Cendrillon and Prince Felix Yusopov in the premiere of Grigori Efimovich: The Memory of Liars. An avid performer of new music, she has performed works by Andrew Paul Jackson, Craig Pellet, John Murphree, Patrick Greene, Brian Bartoldus and Jun Toguchi.
