Dr. Andrea Merrill, is the founder and Board Member of Opus Ithaca, a non-profit music school located in Ithaca, New York. A trained pianist, Merrill was a member of the piano faculty of Ithaca College and worked at St. Paul’s Methodist Church as pianist and organist until 2013. She holds a Doctoral degree (DMA) in piano accompanying and chamber music from the Eastman School of Music, a Master of Music degree in piano accompanying from Arizona State University, and a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from Ithaca College. Merrill also studied piano at the Mozarteum Sommerakademie in Salzburg, Austria. She has recorded two albums of the music of Kenneth Kreuzer on Sphere Sound Records with trombonist Hal Reynolds, and flutists Christine Gustafson and Jeanne Sperber; the Ithaca Flute Duo album, “Debut” with Elizabeth Shuhan and Juliana May Pepinsky; and music by Dexter Morrill with baritone saxophonist, Nancy Boone Bahr. Merrill continues to be an active adjudicator and performer in addition to her administrative and teaching schedule.