BIOS: Ernesto Ferreri Teaching in the Community college system since 1991, Prof. Ferreri now teaches electronic music and fundamentals to a growing body of talented young musicians at CFCC.
Mrs. Lupton has been involved in church music, retail sales of instruments and sheet music, and various forms of music education. She teaches a small studio at home, is an active member of Cape Fear Music Teachers Association, and is often asked to judge piano competitions. As a music instructor at Cape Fear Community College, Mrs. Lupton teaches Music Appreciation, American Music, and both Applied and Class Piano. She and her husband have two sons and reside in Wilmington.  Born in 1968 Marc grew up in a house full of music. Through his mother's love for music and her colorful musical friends (who took Marc under their collective musical wing) he was lucky to be surrounded by a wonderful variety of live and recorded music – American folk, blues, classical, pop, soul, reggae, opera, funk, southern rock, jazz... Marc started bass at 10, then fell in love with guitar at 12. He studied classical guitar later and earned a Master's in guitar performance studying with the acclaimed guitarist Elliot Frank. After college, Marc taught himself to play jazz and in his thirties studied and performed with many great jazz players including his mentor the jazz guitar icon Gene Bertoncini. Marc is a rare find on today's music scene – a unique voice that strengthens and explores the idiom with sensitivity, clarity, and uncompromising integrity. Marc's warm, expressive tones and tasteful phrasing have been delighting audiences for over 20 years. His first CD of classical guitar music "416 S Front" was released and well received in 2000. "Superb guitar mastery..." “A sound space that surrounds and envelopes you...” The Beat Magazine Marc now oversees the guitar studies at CFCC in Wilmington NC, he has been published in Just Jazz Guitar Magazine and he can be heard live around the southeast and internationally online. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Upon relocating to Wilmington in 2000, he began teaching orchestra classes for the New Hanover County Schools. During that time he also founded the Tallis Chamber Orchestra (2005), a Wilmington-based chamber orchestra, that performs predominately without a conductor. In the fall of 2008 he joined the faculty of Cape Fear Community College and is currently teaching Music Appreciation, Music Fundamentals and is directing the CFCC Orchestra Ensemble.
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Born in NYC, coming to music playing rock guitar as a youth, Ernesto Ferreri studied composition with Robert Ward at NC School of the Arts and has been composing all varieties of music since-- from commercial spots to symphony. Married to a NC native and composer Barbara Gallagher, they are parents to two girls who (for now) state that they have no interest in music.
Peggy W. Lupton is a native of New Bern, North Carolina. She received the Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Master of Music in Music Education with a concentration in Music History from East Carolina University. Her teachers include Arvid Snornieks, Marvin Blickenstaff, and Jeannine Romer Morrison.
Philip Singleton, born in Bowling Green, Ohio, received his Bachelor of Music degree from Bowling Green State University in 1982. He continued on to receive his Master of Music degree in Violin Performance from the University of Georgia in 1986. Since that time he has been involved in several aspects of violin instruction and performance, including teaching positions at Arkansas State University, the University of Georgia and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. 
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