LARISA MILLER

President

JUDY TESNOW

Vice President

JULIA HARPER

Treasurer

PEG MCGIRR

Clerk

JACK CONNORS

Librarian

Larisa has been a PSA member since 2009. She plays violin, enjoys designing publicity materials with the other graphics designers and was elected to serve as the President of the PSA in June 2019. Larisa is a native of Croatia, and has been residing in the Boston area since 2000. She is a pharmaceutical industry professional with many hobbies, including serious dwellings into Yoga and Ayurveda.

Judy has sung alto with the Chorale since 1974. During these many years, she served as Chorale Chair, Pops Chair, Pops Raffle Coordinator, Chorale Publicity Coordinator and Board member. She rejoined the PSA Board in 2018 and currently serves as the Board Vice-President. In retirement, Judy continues to expand her creativity making natural stone jewelry through her small business, JT Jewelry.

Julia has been an alto in the Chorale and Chamber Chorus for 30 years, and has also performed solo piano pieces at Chamber concerts. Julia has served as Chorale chair, PSA President and Treasurer, and is currently serving as Treasurer again. Julia was a Senior Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems/Oracle but is now retired. She lives in Arlington.

Peg McGirr has been a cellist with the APSO since 2016 and is a member of the Orchestra Library Committee. In her early career she taught music and played in professional groups in the Chicago area, such as the IL Chamber Symphony and Rockford Symphony Orchestra, and was an IL Arts Council Artist in Residence. Peg has Master’s degrees in music and business, and has worked in global business for AT&T since 2001. She enjoys gardening, travel, and taking advantage of the wide variety of musical events in the Boston area.

A long time Arlington resident, Jack has sung bass as a member and soloist in both the Chorale and Chamber Chorus since 1982. He has served as Chorale Librarian since 1983 and has produced Chorale and Chamber Chorus concert programs for the past 15 years. Jack has twice served as PSA President for a total of 12 years and is currently the PSA Librarian and the PSA’s web master. He is now retired after working for the US Air Force for more than 40 years.

MEGAN ALLEN, ABC

JULIE BELOCK, ABC

ADAM DIXON, APO

JULIE GOLDBERG, APO

KATHRYN HATHAWAY, APO

Megan has been an alto in the Chorale since 2017, after singing with the Eastern Nazarene College Choral Union for a number of years. She has also sung with Berkshire Choral International several times.  Megan is a recently retired public library administrator and lives in Medford. 

Julie Belock has been a member of the alto section of the Chorale since 2002. During that time she has also occasionally sung in the Chamber Chorus. She has chaired the annual PSA Sponsorship drive for 5 years. In the fall of 2019, she joined the PSA Board. Julie is a mathematics professor at Salem State University and lives in Somerville with her husband and son.

An Indiana native, Adam resides in Arlington, MA and is part of the Orchestra’s Bassoon section. He has been the Chairperson of the Orchestra and a PSA Board Member since 2012. Adam has led various programs for the PSA including the Young Artist Competition (YAC) and the annual Strawberry and Ice Cream Festival. Professionally, Adam is employed by CenturyLink, a Global Communications provider, as an account relationship manager where he has been working since 2002. During the summer months (and even winter), Adam enjoys the New England coastlines, especially Bar Harbor, ME.

Julie is an Arlington resident and has played in the flute section of the Orchestra for 35 years. She is a member of the Orchestra Committee, the Music Library Committee, and the Publicity Committee. She is also a volunteer grant writer for the PSA, and has served as orchestra liaison for community activities such as Arlington Porchfest and Robbins Farm Park summer performances. Julie is a retired rehabilitative audiologist. One of her favorite hobbies is studying bird calls. 

A Lexington native and currently a Bedford resident, Kathryn Hathaway has been a violinist in the PSA since 2016. Musically educated at the Newton School of Music, Longy School of Music, NEC Preparatory Department and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, her involvement in music has followed her outside of her work in the field of early education, now retired from the Burlington Public Schools. During her teaching years, she played in the Newton Symphony Orchestra and the Summer Longy Chamber Orchestra. She also plays with the MIT Philharmonic Orchestra as an original member since its launch in 1995. During the summer months, she visits relatives in Upstate New York on the dairy farm to visit with family. Kathryn has been a member of the PSA Board since 2023.

HAIG ISKENDERIAN, ABC

LARRY KYRALA, APO

FRED MOSES, ABC

JEAN NAGLE, PUBLIC

MAYUMI NAKAMURA, ABC

Haig began singing as a tenor with the Chorale in 2002 and he has also sung with the Chamber Chorus. He currently plays the oboe and English horn in the Orchestra, and continues to sing occasionally with the Chorale. He has also accompanied the choruses in smaller instrumental arrangements. Haig works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory where he leads research and development teams to create weather forecast systems for aviation applications. He is a resident of Arlington, and has been a member of the Board since 2024.

Larry has been a violinist with the Orchestra since 2012. In addition to being a Board member, he continues to serve as chair of the Orchestra Library Committee. Larry is a senior software engineer at MathWorks and has worked in software development for 30+ years. Previously he attended Arizona State University where he majored in Music Theory/ Composition and Violin Performance under Dr. Frank Spinosa.

Fred has sung bass as a member of the Chorale for over 10 years and has been a member of the PSA Board for many of those. He served as the PSA’s web master for several years. Fred plays oboe with the SVNHM band of Wayland. He volunteers as a software engineer, manager, and photographer for several nonprofit organizations.

Jean has been a part of the Philharmonic since she was in utero as her mother was Phyllis Spence, our Concert Mistress for 40 plus years! She played the flute in the Orchestra. Jean has served on the Board as a community “at large” member for many years. She has staffed the ticket table for the PSA’s orchestral and choral concerts, served on the Pops Concert Ticket Table selling Pops tickets, and been a valuable staff on the YAC committee helping to organize this event.

Mayumi has been with the Chorale since moving here from California in 2009. This is her first year as Chorale chair and first year on the board. She is a kindergarten teacher and in her spare time, she likes to read, run and bake.

ERNEST SABINE, PUBLIC

ORLANDO CELA,

APO MUS. DIR.

STEPHANIE BEATRICE,

ABC MUS. DIR.

Ernie lives in Arlington and is a retired high technology executive and former professor of Computer Science. He has played oboe and English horn most of his life, sings tenor, and is studying cello. He serves on several corporate and non-profit boards, including the PSA Board as community “at-large” member, and is currently President of the Board of the Powers Music School.

OUR MUSIC DIRECTORS ARE ALSO BOARD MEMBERS