Gene "Mr." Guth, has been teaching instrumental music professionally for over 20 years. He graduated with honors from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he received a degree in Music Education. Gene has taught in the public schools at the elementary, middle and high school levels since 1989. He is currently the band director at Greenland Central School and the K-6 Music Teacher at Maude H Trefethen Elementary School in Newcastle, NH. In addition to his public school jobs, Gene is also teaching students of all ages and experience levels at his Mr. Guth Music Studio at Centennial Hall in North Hampton, NH. He has also written his own teaching method for each of the instruments he utilizes in his lessons: flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, drums, percussion, piano, guitar and bass. Guth performs professionally with the award winning bands Rhythm Method and Jumbo Circus Peanuts.
Brett Gallo
Brett has been an active freelancing percussionist in New England for
over a decade (and his first drum set teacher was Mr. Guth himself!).
He currently drums for local NOLA-flavored brass band the Soggy Po'
Boys as well as the afrobeat orchestra known as Shango. In addition to
his drum kit duties, Brett also plays on the New England Patriots
Drumline and is part of the Ghanaian music group the Agbekor Society.
Brett has spent months of fieldwork in eastern Ghana studying
Borborbor dance-drumming, most recently with the Norvinyo Borborbor
Band of Kpando, Ghana. He received his B.M. in Music Theory from the
University of New Hampshire in 2012 and just completed his MA in
Ethnomusicology at Tufts University. He hopes to continue his
research on Ghanaian dance-drumming at the PhD level.