Last update:
02/25/2008

Heather Vaughn, Director

Heather Vaughn received a BS in Education in 1992 at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Heather was a secondary teacher in Moorestown, NJ, San Antonio, TX, Fairfax, VA, and Plymouth, IN--teaching Music, English, and Drama among many directing responsibilities.  Mrs. Vaughn and her husband, Matt Vaughn, co-founded Bar Harbor Brass Week in 2001 and she has been the principal administrative director since.  She and Matt live in Haddonfield, NJ with their two young boys.

Bill Whitener, Local Coordinator

Bill Whitener lives in Lamoine, Maine and is the private brass instructor at the Mt. Desert Island High School. He is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, MD. Bill has performed trumpet throughout New England as a soloist and is a twenty-three year member of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, the Acadia Brass Ensemble; and has performed with many organizations including the Portland Symphony Orchestra, Maine Chamber Orchestra, Maine Music Society Orchestra, Portland Opera Repertory Orchestra, Blue Hill Brass Quintet, Peabody Conservatory Brass Quintet, Portugese Embassy Symphony, the Maine Grand Opera, and continue to free-lance throughout the area.

Wanda Whitener, Local Coordinator

Wanda Whitener lives in Lamoine, Maine and has been teaching music at the Tremont Consolidated School (K-8) in Bass Harbor for the past 19 years. She is presently the Horn Instructor at the University of Maine in Orono. She has attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music; has a BS in Music Education and Master’s in Instrumental Conducting from UM. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Mu Phi Epsilon, MENC and the Maine Music Educators Association. She has studied horn with Robert Pierce of the Baltimore Symphony; Robert Abernathy of the National Symphony, Philip Nesbitt of UM, and Suzanne George, free-lance horn in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Maine and Massachusetts. Wanda is presently a member of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, the Acadia Brass Ensemble, the Maine Music Society Chamber Orchestra, the Hancock County Gilbert & Sullivan Society Orchestra, and free-lances in Maine. She has performed with the Portland Opera Repertory Orchestra, Maine Chamber Orchestra, the Maine Grand Opera Orchestra, Portuguese Embassy Symphony, Morgan State Symphony, and the Mu Phi Epsilon Women’s Brass Quintet.