Dr. David Erb joined the New Saint Andrews College faculty as a Fellow of Music in 2008, leaving his posts at Trinity Church and Providence Classical Christian School in the Seattle area. Dr. Erb is also the Conducting Levels 1, 2, & 3 Instructor for the Chenaniah Summer Music Institute. He holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts and Choral Conducting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to moving to the Northwest, Dr. Erb taught and conducted choirs at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at Bucknell University. Dr. Erb earned a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1997. Dr. Erb is active in the Moscow choral community and work with local churches. He and his wife Gail and their children reside in Moscow.

Contributing Author

• Raise the Song: A Classical Christian Guide to Music Education (2019)
• Teaching Beauty: A Vision for Music & Art in Christian Education (2016)

Dr. Cole Tutino is Lecturer in Music and New Saint Andrews College, where he teaches cello, music theory, and orchestra. He was previously Visiting Assistant Professor of Cello at Miami University in Oxford, OH, and Visiting Instructor of Cello at Luther College in Decorah, IA.

Dr. Tutino has performed extensively as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and recording artist. He has been principal of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra (IN) and a member of the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic and the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber musician, he has been a member of the Oxford String Quartet, and the Luther College Piano Quartet. His solo appearances include performances with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, the Cedarville University Orchestra, the Miami University Symphony Orchestra, and the Luther College Philharmonia. He has spent summers playing at the New Hampshire Music Festival, the Utah Festival Opera, the National Orchestral Institute, the Brevard Music Festival, the Mendocino Music Festival, and the Las Vegas Music Festival.

A proponent of a diverse array of musical genres, Dr. Tutino’s activities have included Baroque performance practice, new music, and folk and pop music. He has performed on Baroque cello with the Indiana University Baroque Orchestra, the Georgina Joshi Handel Project, and as part of the Bloomington Bach Cantata Project. At the conference of the Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers, he premiered David Canfield’s Sonata for Cello and Piano, a composition that musically depicts the Christian tenets of salvation. He has also recorded with My Soul Among Lions and the Good Shepherd Band.

Caleb Esmond is Lecturer of Music at New Saint Andrews College, where he teaches and conducts the NSA Chorale. He is an active performer, experienced collaborator, skilled improviser, jazz pianist, and prize-winning composer. He is a current Doctoral Candidate (DMA) in Piano Performance at the University of North Texas has a field related to choral conducting.

Mr. Esmond received his MM in Piano Performance and Pedagogy at Utah State University in 2023 and his BM in Piano Performance from Mercer University in 2021. He is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM).

He lives in Moscow with his wife, Madeleine, and their daughter.

Mr. Richey resides in Monroe, Louisiana, where he continues to teach music and choir at Geneva Academy in West Monroe, LA. Mr. Richey is also the Musicianship Levels 1, 2, & 3 Instructor for the Chenaniah Summer Music Institute. He is the founder and director of the Delta Youth Chorale, a children’s community choir that promotes music literacy through singing, folk dance, and other activities. Previously, Mr. Richey directed the choir and taught voice and music appreciation classes at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He received his bachelor’s degree from Louisiana Tech University before completing his Master of Music at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He also completed his national Kodály music teacher certification from Wichita State University. Mr. Richey is currently a doctoral student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary working toward a Ph.D. in Church Music and Worship.

Additionally, each summer, he teaches solfege musicianship, folk-dancing, and folk song research and analysis courses for their Kodály music teacher training program, the Chenaniah Summer Music Institute, which he oversees. He is also an active elementary and middle school choir clinician and serves on the executive board of the Louisiana chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. He is the founder of the Jubilate Deo Summer Music Camp, a week-long choir and music camp open to kindergarten through college freshmen each June. He is the author of BACH to the Future: Fostering Music Literacy Today (2016) and general editor and contributing author to Raise the Song: A Classical Christian Guide to Music Education (2019). He is also the general editor for a recent school and family hymna, Let Joy Resound: A Singing School Hymnal. Jarrod and his lovely wife, Sarah, have seven choristers in training ranging from ages three to seventeen.

Publications

• BACH to the Future: Fostering Music Literacy Today (2016)
• Raise the Song: A Classical Christian Guide to Music Education (2019)
• Let Joy Resound: A Singing School Hymnal (2024)

Amy Snell originally hails from Arkansas, followed by 33 years in California, before migrating to Moscow. She and her husband Aaron (est. 1997), have raised five children, Elijah, Jonah, Lydia, Jacob, and Leah, and have added a daughter-in-law.

Amy earned her B.S. in Child and Adolescent Studies from California State University, Fullerton, and her Multiple Subject Teaching Credential from Chapman University. Amy homeschooled their children for ten years, and taught both preschool and kindergarten at Logos School over the course of four years. She has been involved in music her whole life, having played flute, but primarily singing in a variety of settings, including in choir throughout college and beyond, church music, and rock. Amy directs our Conservatory programs, including Schola Cantorum, our community private music lessons, and serves as a guide to Certificate students, as well as administrating the everyday workings of the Conservatory.

Aaron Snell is the choir director and music teacher at Logos School in Moscow, Idaho, where he has taught music at all grade levels, PK-12. His choirs at Logos have received superior ratings, 1st place in competitions, and All-State honors. Prior to coming to Logos in 2018, he taught for fifteen years in California, where his choirs were recognized as being among the top high school performing groups in the state. He is passionate about training students to be musically literate and skillful singers, in order to raise a new generation of capable worshippers in the church. 

At New Saint Andrews College, Mr. Snell serves as the administrator for both the ACCS National Honor Choir and the NSA Summer Music Camp, and teaches Level 3 Pedagogy and Research for the Chenaniah Summer Music Institute. Aaron earned his B.A. in Music Education from California State University, Fullerton, and his Kodaly Level III certification at the Chenaniah Summer Music Institute, New Saint Andrews College. He has been married to his best friend, Amy, since 1997 and has five children.