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Performing Arts Centre, SUNY Potsdam
SUNY POTSDAM
44 PIERREPONT AVE
POTSDAM, New York, 13676
United States

Anthony Betrus

Dr. Anthony Betrus is a professor of Educational Technology and Business at the State University of New York at Potsdam. He serves as the NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative, is the Advisor for the Video Gaming Club, and he is the Esports Director for the college. He also serves as the STEM director for the National Education Foundation. His primary research area in using the motivational qualities of simulations and games to promote learning.

Bobby Rice

Bobby Rice is a student in the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam,

Clemens Prokop

Clemens (Head of Creative) and Nick Prokop (Head of Sound) head TYE: Shows, a Dusseldorf, Germany, based company that devises and implements arts events, corporate shows, interactive presentations, and the multimedia aspect of concerts. Their work has been featured in Bavarian State Opera and on major trade shows alike. Recently their team of designers and engineers worked, among other projects, with the London Symphony Orchestra on Sacre du Printemps; master-minded the Cathedrals of Sound in Los Angeles, with Carl St. Clair and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra; and put on stage a 360-degrees production for Kent Nagano and the Hamburg State Opera.

Cynthia Dufault

Cynthia Dufault is an Assistant Professor of Dance in the Department of Theater and Dance at SUNY Potsdam.

Evan Mason

Evan Mason is a graduate Music Education student at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam.

Harold Simmons

Harold Simmons II aka Fyütch is a music artist, content creator, and teaching artist based in New York City. Born in Gary, IN, Simmons won the city-wide speech contest at age 7. His family relocated to Nashville, TN where he started a Jazz Hip-Hop band called Biscuits and Gravy and attended Belmont University's Music Business Program. His debut album Mr. Flattop was sponsored by Vibe Magazine. After moving to New York City, he began competing as a battle rapper, winning several competitions like Supreme Bars and End of The Weak. He started a weekly web show called Fyütchology that went viral and was featured on MTV. He recently created Level Up Showcase, a monthly music event where youth artists perform alongside veteran artists.

Harold Walker

Dr. Martin Walker is a professor and Department Chair of Chemistry at SUNY Potsdam

Jarod Sommerfeldt

Dr. Jerod Sommerfeldt teaches music theory, composition, and electronic music at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam.

Jeremy Waltz

Jeremy Waltz is a fourth-year Political Science and Philosophy major at SUNY Potsdam

Kelly Friedmann

Kelly Friedmann is a freshman at the Crane School of Music studying Music Composition and Music Education for her undergraduate degree.

Martin Walker

Dr. Martin Walker is a professor and chair of the Department of Chemisty at SUNY Potsdam.

Melissa Dolese

Melissa J. Dolese is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at SUNY Potsdam. She received her PhD in the Psychology subprogram of Cognition, Brain and Behavior. Her research is in the area of empirical aesthetics. She teaches a course on that topic, as well as Sensory Psychology, Biopsychology, and Statistics. She also runs the Empirical Art and Aesthetics lab on campus.

NIck Prokop

Clemens (Head of Creative) and Nick Prokop (Head of Sound) head TYE: Shows, a Dusseldorf, Germany, based company that devises and implements arts events, corporate shows, interactive presentations, and the multimedia aspect of concerts. Their work has been featured in Bavarian State Opera and on major trade shows alike. Recently their team of designers and engineers worked, among other projects, with the London Symphony Orchestra on Sacre du Printemps; master-minded the Cathedrals of Sound in Los Angeles, with Carl St. Clair and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra; and put on stage a 360-degrees production for Kent Nagano and the Hamburg State Opera.

Page Quinton

Page Quinton is an Assistant Professor of Geology. She teaches Principles of Paleontology, Geochemistry, Climate Change: Past and Present, Historical Geology, and Geology Seminar.

Rivka Rocchio

Rivka Rocchio is an Assistant Professor in the Theatre and Dance Department at SUNY Potsdam.

Sara Cantwell

Sara Cantwell is an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of English and Communication at SUNY Potsdam.