Dr. Andrea Merrill is the founder and a Board Member of Opus Ithaca, a nonprofit music school in Ithaca, New York. A pianist and former faculty member at Ithaca College, she also served as pianist and organist at St. Paul’s Methodist Church until 2013. She holds a DMA in piano accompanying and chamber music from the Eastman School of Music, a Master’s from Arizona State University, and a Bachelor’s from Ithaca College. Merrill studied piano at the Mozarteum Sommerakademie in Salzburg, Austria. She has recorded works by Kenneth Kreuzer with trombonist Hal Reynolds and flutists Christine Gustafson and Jeanne Sperber, as well as Debut with the Ithaca Flute Duo, and music by Dexter Morrill with baritone saxophonist Nancy Boone Bahr. Merrill remains active as a performer, adjudicator, and educator alongside her administrative work.