Faculty

Darell "Red" Campbell Jr. is a musician, songwriter, producer, teacher, and preacher who enters his seventh season of working with CYE.

Red has collaborated with The Dramatics, War, India Arie, Stevie Wonder, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Anita Baker, Kris Johnson, Mary Wilson, Mike Powell, Dorinda Clark-Cole, HotSauce Yolanda Adams, LaToya Turrentine, Obie Trice, Freyda Payne, Eminem, and many more.

Anthony Stanco, a trumpet virtuoso from Southeast Michigan, draws deeply from Detroit's rich musical heritage. Under the mentorship of influential figures like Marcus Belgrave and Rodney Whitaker, Stanco developed his craft and unique voice as a musician.

As the leader of his own quintet, Stanco has performed at notable venues such as the Java Jazz Festival and Cairo Jazz Club. He served as a cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department, performing in countries including South Africa and Indonesia.

Stanco’s musical achievements extend to his acclaimed albums, including Stanco’s Time, released on Origin Records in 2024. Featuring musicians like Joe Farnsworth, Walter Blanding, and Rodney Whitaker, the album has received praise for its innovative approach and depth. His live performances, such as those at the Detroit Jazz Festival, showcase his skill as a bandleader and trumpeter.

In addition to his performance career, Stanco is committed to education. As an assistant professor at Michigan State University, he teaches and mentors the next generation of jazz musicians. His experience as a guest artist at institutions around the world further solidifies his role in shaping the future of jazz education.

Stanco’s impact on the jazz community has been recognized with a Jazz Road Tours grant, which supported his national tour in 2024. He is also actively involved in outreach through Building Bridges with Music, a residency focused on promoting cultural understanding through music. As a Bach Trumpet endorsing artist, Stanco continues to make significant contributions to the jazz world.

Damien Crutcher is a native Detroiter now entering his third season of working with CYE. A graduate of Cass Technical High School, he studied at Michigan State University and earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan. He is also the Co-Founder and CEO of Crescendo Detroit, Artistic Director and Conductor of the Farmington Community Band, and Managing Director of Detroit Harmony.

After graduating from the University of Michigan, Crutcher served as Director of Bands and Orchestras at Southfield-Lathrup High School. Many of his former students are currently professional musicians, music teachers, and artists.

Violist Danny DeRose has been a member of the CYE conducting staff for seven years. He believes that musical progress and fun can work hand in hand to create an enriching beginning orchestral environment for all.

DeRose received his formal education at Wayne State University and the University of Michigan, receiving Bachelors and Masters of Music degrees in Performance. Both during and his education and for the last ten years, DeRose has been an active teacher in the Metro Detroit community, with teaching roles at the String Project @ Wayne, the Flint Institute of Music, and Michigan State University Community Music School - Detroit.

In addition to his work in the Wu Family Academy, DeRose is Director of Development & Marketing for the Chamber Music Society of Detroit and has many private violin and viola students.

Tanya Bennett, a native of Detroit and a former Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra Cellist, is proud to return to Orchestra Hall and conduct the CYE Sinfonia! She achieved her undergraduate degree in Music Education at Wayne State University (1993) and her Master’s Degree in Music Education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (2001).

Tanya has taught music throughout the metro Detroit area at Faith Christian Academy (1993-96), Walled Lake Schools (96-99), and Marvin L. Winans Academy (1999-2019). Currently, she proudly teaches the brightest scholars of Detroit at Renaissance High School. During her 31 years of Orchestral teaching, she has achieved awards such as the Northwestern University Bienen School of Music Teacher Fellowship in 2010 (Evanston, Illinois), and the National Artist Teacher Fellowship award in 2013 (Boston, Massachusetts). Most recently, she was awarded the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association Orchestra Teacher of the Year in 2021.

Throughout her years of teaching, she is proud to have educated several professional musicians who now teach and conduct music worldwide. She has assisted her students in traveling and performing throughout the United States, Europe, and The Bahamas in an effort to encourage them to share their musical talents and gain expansive musical knowledge.

As a former Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and International Cellist, she has conducted at Blue Lake for 10 summers. She continues to endorse the camp and has advocated for students to travel and participate in their international orchestra. In addition to teaching, Tanya has performed with award-winning artists on a global scale, including Barry White, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson, and Harry Connick Jr. In 1998, she established a professional string ensemble, entitled the Heavenly String Orchestra, which records and performs accompaniments for Gospel artists. Some of her most proud projects include Richard Smallwood Live in Detroit, Donnie McClurkin Live in London, and Fred Hammond Speak Those Things. This ensemble continues to perform throughout the metropolitan Detroit community for special events.

Kristin Blanchard grew up in Grand Blanc, MI and received her undergraduate degree in Music Education from Western Michigan University in 1996. She holds a Master’s Degree (2004) in Conducting & Education from The American Band College in Ashland, Oregon. She is in her 27th year of teaching band. She began her teaching career in Edwardsburg, MI , where she taught 5th Grade General Music, as well as Middle School & High School Band.

After 2 years, Ms. Blanchard moved to the Detroit area to teach in Milford. She has been at Muir Middle School in Huron Valley Schools for the past 25 years. Her duties include 6-8th grade bands, and an 8th Grade Jazz Band. Ms. Blanchard's primary instruments are the flute and piccolo and she performs regularly with the Farmington Community Band. She has been a member of the FCB for 17 years. She also performs with the Southeast Michigan Wind Ensemble out of Clarkston, MI.

Ms. Blanchard has a small private lesson studio and enjoys teaching privately. She is an adjudicator for MSBOA Solo & Ensemble Festivals, as well as similar festivals throughout the state of Michigan. Ms. Blanchard is active in Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association. She is the founder and chairperson for the District IV MSBOA Middle School Honors Band, which is in its 17th year. She is also a sought after guest conductor and clinician for Honors Bands and school bands, and was inducted into the American School Band Director Association in 2007.

Ms. Blanchard was honored to receive the Middle School Teacher of the Year award by her school district in 2014-15, and was then nominated for Oakland County Teacher of the Year that same year. Ms. Blanchard is a Grammy-nominated music educator and is in Who’s Who Among American Teachers. When she is not teaching, Ms. Blanchard loves to spend time with her husband and their three Labrador retrievers. She enjoys traveling, camping and gardening.

Ann Arbor based percussionist, Annie Hayes, has been honing her craft since she was nine years old. Originally hailing from Fenton, Michigan, she fell in love with the southeast Michigan music scene; and after graduating from Interlochen Arts Academy, she began to pursue a bachelors degree in Jazz and Contemplative Studies. During her time spent studying jazz, she has had the privilege to learn from Ellen Rowe, Robert Hurst, David Alvarez III, Andy Milne, and countless other virtuosos. Annie’s passion for jazz exists in conjunction with her love for Musical Theatre, and she has had the opportunity to work on a plethora of shows, her favorite being Rent, put on by Michigan Musical Theatre.

Maritza Garibay is a music educator, orchestral conductor, multi-disciplinary sound artist from Detroit, Michigan, and a recipient of the 2022 New Music USA Creator Development Fund for her first opera, Cleansed. She is the Director of Orchestras at Detroit School of Arts and is the 2022 Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association Music Teacher of the Year. Garibay is working toward her Master of Arts in Music at Wayne State University and is an awardee of the 2022 Graduate Professional Scholarship. Her current work reflects on the diaspora of Pauline Oliveros’s deep listening practices in the BIPOC sonic arts community.

Mark Mutter is a violinist and educator who has collaborated with CYE for eleven seasons. He is a registered Teacher Trainer with the Suzuki Association of the Americas and is executive director of Suzuki Royal Oak Institute of Music, where he oversees 11 teachers that teach over 150 students.

Mutter began his orchestral career as assistant principal second violin of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. During his time in Hong Kong he also taught at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts.

Mutter studied Suzuki pedagogy with John Kendall, Ronda Cole, Jacquie Maurer, and Geri Arnold, and he is now a Suzuki lecturer at the University of Michigan. In addition to his work in Michigan, he has proudly served as a clinician at workshops throughout the United States and Asia.

Mark Mutter is a violinist and educator who has collaborated with CYE for eleven seasons. He is a registered Teacher Trainer with the Suzuki Association of the Americas and is executive director of Suzuki Royal Oak Institute of Music, where he oversees 11 teachers that teach over 150 students.

Mutter began his orchestral career as assistant principal second violin of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. During his time in Hong Kong he also taught at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts.

Mutter studied Suzuki pedagogy with John Kendall, Ronda Cole, Jacquie Maurer, and Geri Arnold, and he is now a Suzuki lecturer at the University of Michigan. In addition to his work in Michigan, he has proudly served as a clinician at workshops throughout the United States and Asia.

Born in Caracas, Venezuela and based in Detroit, Pia Bucco's first exposure to music started as a member of "El Sistema,'' where she discovered the power of orchestra playing. A passionate teacher, her life mission has always been to encourage young musicians to pursue their dreams and empower their communities with a vision for a better future through music and arts education.  

After completing her music education, Ms. Bucco joined El Sistema faculty. Four years later, she co-founded the Escuela Integral para las Artes, an elementary school with a strong emphasis in arts and music education. In 2018, Ms. Bucco joined the Sphinx Organization faculty and became a lead teacher for the Sphinx Overture Program in Detroit. Ms. Bucco is a Suzuki-certified violin teacher. Before joining the Sphinx Organization, she was a full-time faculty member at the Suzuki Royal Oak Institute of Music. 

Ms. Bucco has performed both as a soloist and as an orchestra member in South America, the USA and Europe. She was a member of the Simon Bolivar Symphony, Camerata San Cristobal, Pittsburgh Opera, (PA) Pittsburgh Ballet (PA) and since 2010 member of the Flint Symphony (MI). 

Ms. Bucco is a graduate of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow where she obtained Bachelor and a Masters degrees in Violin Performance and Chamber Music. She also earned an Artist Diploma from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

Ingrid Martin puts people at the heart of every musical experience. Her work as a conductor and teacher is shaped by a career spanning music, medicine, and education.

In 2025, Martin joins the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as Assistant Conductor and Phillip and Lauren Fisher Community Ambassador. She also debuts with the Adelaide Symphony

Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria, and leads the Louise Crossley Conductor Training Program for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. She returns to conduct the Auckland Philharmonia, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, following her 2024 tenure as New Zealand Assistant Conductor in Residence.

Martin loves championing new repertoire, and bringing audiences closer to music through thoughtfully curated experiences. She has commissioned 15 works for youth orchestras, conducted 20 world premieres, and recorded over 50 student compositions. Through her original orchestral shows, Martin invites audiences of all ages to explore unexpected connections between music and other disciplines, from physics to painting.

Martin was the first Australian admitted to the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship Mentoring Program (2024–2025). She was also a fellow of the Australian Conducting Academy (2023–2024) and the Carlos Miguel Prieto Conducting Fellowship with the Orchestra of the Americas (2022).

Before pursuing conducting professionally, Martin worked for a decade in emergency medicine then retrained as a teacher. Her approach to music and leadership is deeply informed by the skills she developed in these careers: listening closely, thinking clearly under pressure, and communicating complex ideas.

Martin has built a global following for Conducting Artistry, her platform for practical resources, podcasts, books, and online tools that empower teachers and students to deepen their artistry. She is a sought-after speaker and clinician at international music education conferences including the Midwest Clinic and Texas Music Educators’ Association and her book Planning Effective Rehearsals is required reading for university music education programs worldwide.

At home, she’s rarely far from a craft project and a strong black coffee.

Ken Thompson directs the DSYWE and Civic Philharmonic Orchestra and has worked with CYE for more than ten years. He serves as professor in the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH.

In demand as a guest conductor and lecturer, Thompson maintains an active schedule with engagements throughout the United States, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, and China. He has appeared as a lecturer or clinician with the International Society for Music Education, the National Conference of the College Band Directors National Association, the North Carolina, South Carolina, Iowa, West Virginia, Ohio, and Missouri Music Educators Association conferences, and many others.

Thompson studied at Limestone College and earned his Master and Doctorate degrees from the University of Iowa. He previously served as artistic director of the Toledo Symphony Youth Orchestras and associate conductor of the St. Louis Wind Symphony and Chamber Winds.