With summer recess here, Allison Stella will be able to devote more time to her love of playing live piano music. Since 2015, she has taught poetry and broadcast journalism as part of the English department at Barnegat High School. But now until September, her regular audience will not be students, but music lovers.
A graduate of Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pa., Stelladeveloped an interest in playing the piano at a young age andset out to be a classical musician.
“But when I was in college, I became more interested in jazz and popular music, so I moved inthat direction,” Stella recalled.
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