Program & Operations Leadership
Mr. Linden Klein, Dean of Students, ESC Coordinator
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Mrs. Rosalee Bolleia, Middle School Division Head
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Mrs. Bridget Tierney, Lower School Division Head
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Dr. Carl Patrick Bolleia, Director of Music
With performances and recordings reviewed, featured, and/or previewed by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Gramophone, New York Classical Review, American Record Guide, Fanfare and more, Carl Patrick Bolleia has performed as pianist, organist, harpsichordist, and conductor throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America and the Caribbean at major venues including Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium and Weill Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Merkin Hall, NJPAC, Bargemusic, le poisson rouge, Spectrum, and more.
A frequent chamber music collaborator with musicians of the The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Juilliard415, and the New Jersey Symphony, he has recordings on Naxos and MSR Classics and has premiered/performed over 100 compositions written by the world’s leading composers, including Frederic Rzewski, Reena Esmail, Tyshawn Sorey, and Stephen Hough.
Dr. Bolleia has presented his research on American Modernism, Performance Analysis and Topic Theory throughout the world at international and national symposiums and conferences. He is Assistant Professor of Music at William Paterson University where he is Director of New Music and Coordinator of Piano/Keyboard Studies. Active in digital media and industry, he has composed and recorded multiple scores for Audible by Amazon and for the 125th Anniversary Campaign of Dr. Pepper. He began his work in sacred music at the age of 13 and is the Director of Music at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Boonton and Lumen Gentium Academy. Additional pursuits include the study of sacred music at The Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University and Gregorian Chant at the Wethersfield Institute.
He cites his tutelage under a variety of mentors to be most profoundly influential, especially with Ursula Oppens, Alan Feinberg, Peter Sykes, Gary Kirkpatrick, Min Kwon, Richard Egarr, Béatrice Martin, Avi Stein, Skip Sempé, Jerome Lowenthal, Fred Hersch, Nicolas Hodges, Warren Jones, William Christie, Robert Mealy, Renée Anne Louprette, Dr. Billy Taylor and Vincent Condro.
He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts with several honors from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, with his dissertation, “A Taxonomy of Musical Gesture and a Hermeneutic of Narrative and Diatonic Continuity in the Piano Music of Charles Wuorinen.” Dr. Bolleia received the Graduate Diploma in Historical Performance from The Juilliard School.
Mrs. Alexis Minson, Admissions, Field Studies
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Mrs. Theresa MacDonald, Deputy Communications Director
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