Meet Our Musicians
Megan Wojtyla, oboe
Megan Wojtyla is a New York City based oboist and educator with a passion for contemporary works and inclusive music accessibility. Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, Wojtyla graduated from the University of Michigan with her Bachelor of Music degree in 2021 under the tutelage of Dr. Nancy Ambrose King, and earned her Master of Music degree at Stony Brook University in 2023 under the guidance of James Austin Smith. Wojtyla is on faculty at Molloy University as their Adjunct Oboe Professor and is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Musical Arts at Stony Brook University, at which she also teaches undergraduate music theory, oboe lessons, and consistently performs as a member of the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra.
Nikhil Bartolomeo, clarinet
Nikhil Bartolomeo is a clarinetist, conductor, educator, technician, and woodwind doubler based in NYC. Engaging his diverse areas of interest, Nikhil enjoys exploring the intersection between jazz, classical music, and new music. Nikhil currently holds the position of second clarinet with the Schenectady-Saratoga Symphony Orchestra, and regularly performs with Albany Symphony, Albany Pro Musica, the American Modern Ensemble, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Hudson Festival Orchestra, New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra, Long Island Concert Orchestra, and the Little Opera Theatre of NY. He can be heard on Bradley Ellingboe’s StarSong playing clarinet, on Eric Schorr’s New York Pretending to Be Paris playing multiple clarinets and saxophones, and has also recorded on numerous forthcoming releases by Albany Symphony. A founding member and Co-Director of Voyager Reed Quintet, Nikhil has served as the in-house arranger for the ensemble, bringing several new works to the reed quintet medium. Recently, Nikhil was appointed music director and principal conductor for the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra. Nikhil completed his doctorate in clarinet performance at Stony Brook University in the spring of 2025 and holds additional degrees from Ithaca College and Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
Jarod Apple, saxophone
Jarod Apple is a New England-based saxophonist, doubler and educator with a passion for contemporary playing and expanding the saxophones role in classical music. As a performer, Jarod has been featured with various orchestras, wind ensembles, jazz orchestras and chamber ensembles, as well as a solo performer across the country, having had the opportunity to play with Bergen Philharmonic, North/South Consonance Orchestra, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dizzy’s Jazz Club, the Navy Saxophone Symposium and NASA regional and national conferences. Jarod is a co-founder and saxophonist of Voyager Reeds, a Brooklyn-based Reed Quintet hailed for its eclectic musical styles and virtuosity. Recently, Jarod was named a 2023 Performance Fellow at the Cortona Sessions for New Music in Cortona, Italy. He also was named a Finalist in the London Classical Music Competition. In 2022, Jarod shared the stage with Dr. Paul Cohen the soprano saxophone soloist for the world premier saxophone orchestra arrangement of William Lathams Concerto Grosso for Soprano Sax Alto Sax and Orchestra. Jarod was featured on the 2021 album Wall, the debut album of award-winning, NYC-based pianist, Dabin Ryu. In 2017, Jarod was the grand prize winner of the Arkansas Tech Concerto Competition - winning the opportunity to perform Libby Larson’s Holy Roller with the American Prize-winning ATU Wind Ensemble. Jarod is a Doctoral Candidate in Classical Saxophone at Rutgers University - studying under Dr. Paul Cohen and acting as the Teaching Assistant for the Saxophone Studio and Director of the Rutgers Saxophone Ensemble. Jarod holds a Master of Music Degree in Classical Saxophone from the Manhattan School of Music and a Bachelor of Music Education from Arkansas Tech University, studying both saxophone (under the tutelage of Ken Futterer) and voice (under the tutelage of Jon Clements). Jarod is a Silverstein Works NextGen Artist and exclusively plays Silverstein Works ligatures.
Miguel Posadas, bassoon
Miguel Posadas, a native of Austin, TX, is an active freelance bassoonist and educator based in Long Island, NY, although his travels have taken him all over the southeast United States. Not only is Miguel dedicated to his teaching and playing, but to also promoting diversity in the freelance scene and the music he performs. A versatile musician, Miguel has experience playing orchestral, chamber, and solo music. Recently, Miguel earned a position on Rock Hill Symphony’s sub list. He has also performed with the New Amsterdam Opera company, Baton Rouge Symphony, Athens Master Chorale, amongst others. Miguel was also a founding member of The Highland Trio, made up of himself and Louisiana State University flute and clarinet colleagues. In 2016, they competed at the 2nd annual New Orleans Chamber Music Festival and placed second, winning an opportunity to work with The Imani Winds. Miguel has won many awards including being the recipient of the Osborne Fellowship, an award intended to support students who are deemed to be underrepresented in their respective disciplines. As a person of color, Miguel is an advocate of increasing diversity in the classical music world. Miguel completed his Doctor of Musical Arts at Stony Brook University under the tutelage of Dr. Gina Cuffari. Miguel holds a Master in Music from the University of Georgia and a Bachelor in Music Education from Louisiana State University. His primary teachers include Frank Morelli, Amy Pollard, and Darrel Hale.
Timothy Hanley, bass clarinet
Timothy Hanley is a clarinetist, woodwind doubler, audio engineer, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Houston, TX, he is an active freelance performer and teacher in the New York and New Jersey area. He is the bass clarinetist of Voyager Reed Quintet, and the clarinetist of Duo Texarkana. As an orchestral artist, he has performed with the Hudson Valley Symphony Orchestra, the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra, the Massapequa Philharmonic Orchestra,the Mid-Atlantic Philharmonic, the Somerset Symphony Orchestra, the Little Opera Theater of New York, the OperaMaya festival, Opera in the Ozarks, and the PRISMA Festival Orchestra. Some other highlights of his performing career include performing in theatre productions for StageWorks Theatre Group, the Irvington Theater, and James Caldwell High School, premiering new works with the New York Composer’s Circle, performing at the ICA Clarinetfest in Denver and Dublin, and touring a wind quintet across Sardinia as a part of the Tra Mare, Stelle e Magia Festival. He appeared as a soloist with the Boston Conservatory Conductor’s Orchestra in 2019. Timothy was awarded Young Artist of the Year at the 2017 Zodiac Music Festival in Côte d’Azur, France. Timothy holds a B.M. from the University of Houston, and a M.M. at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. He is currently finishing his dissertation after completing DMA coursework at Rutgers University. His principal teachers are Mark Dover, Jessica Phillips, YaoGuang Zhai, Michael Norsworthy, and Randall Griffin. Timothy volunteers on the administrative team for Through the Staff, an organization dedicated to breaking down the systemic barriers in the music education field that block young musicians from accessing musical resources. He also teaches privately in New York and New Jersey, and records concerts in the American Northeast.
Dan Shengquan, founding oboist
An active performer and freelance oboist in the Greater New York area, Dan Shengquan has played with the Eastern Winds Symphony since 2019. He also performed with the Chelsea Symphony, Orchestras at Brooklyn College and the American Composer’s Orchestra. As an educator, Dan works with eConnect123 and served as an operations assistant at Rutgers Community Arts. He has also served as adjunct oboe instructor at Rutgers University since 2021 and at New York University from 2018 to 2020. Dan Shengquan is currently a DMA candidate at Rutgers Mason Gross School of Arts studying with Andrew Adelson. He has an Advanced Diploma and a Master of Music degree in oboe performance from New York University, where he studied with Humbert Lucarelli, Matthew Sullivan, Gilles Cheng and Liang Wang, and was a recipient of the Steinhardt award and Dr. Ghez fellowship. Dan earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and math from American University in Washington D.C., where he took oboe lessons with Rika Brent, and won the American University concerto competition in 2016.