Carole Scott, Flute

Founder of the Grosse Ile Quintet (GIQ), Carole has a love for chamber music and collaborates with other musicians in small ensembles whenever possible. Along with other GIQ members Carole makes frequent appearances in school assemblies, band clinics, church services, park concerts, seniors’ communities, musicale concerts, hospitals, and libraries.  
 
Carole also enjoys performing with large ensembles and has free-lanced in numerous groups in the S.E. Michigan area. Carole served as principal flutist in the Southern Great Lakes Symphony from 1980 (at that time the Allen Park Symphony) until its discontinuation in 2014. She has performed with the Livonia and Warren Symphony Orchestras, Seaway Chorale and Orchestra, Vanguard Voices, and the Grosse Ile Chorale.   In northern Michigan she currently plays principal flute with the Benzie Area Symphony Orchestra and saxophone with the Benzie Community Band, serving the wider area of N.W. Michigan communities. 
 
Carole earned her bachelor's degree in music education from Michigan State University and master's degree from the University of Michigan. She taught general music and instrumental music in the Taylor School District for 33 years and notably won grants to institute a string orchestra program there.  She teaches private music lessons for flute and beginners of all instruments at a local music studio. 
 
Carole performs as an orchestral soloist and as a soloist for musicales, weddings, church services and community service groups, often with her keyboardist/accompanist/husband Doug.  She also plays regularly with other chamber ensembles, in pit orchestras for local theater groups, and at Greenfield Village with the Wassail Winds.
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Lisa Dills, Clarinet

A native of Michigan, Lisa Dills attended Eastern Michigan University as a scholarship student in the Honors Program where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in music education. Her post-graduate work was in Clarinet, Music Theory and Literature.  During her studies at the Music School, she was a winner of the annual EMU Orchestra Concerto Competition and was also a Soloist with the EMU Wind Ensemble. Her teachers of Clarinet include Armand Abramson, Dr. Kimberly Cole Luevano and Ted Oien.
 
Lisa has spent a major part of her career as a teacher and instructor.  Most recently, she was a Band Director with the Michigan Home Education Music Association. Prior, she taught Instrumental Music and was the 5th/6th grade Band Director in the Novi Community School District.  While at Eastern Michigan University she taught the Clarinet Class for Music Educators and the Music Theory Lab Classes for Undergraduates. She also maintains a private lesson studio teaching clarinet and saxophone.
 
Lisa has been with the Livonia Symphony Orchestra for 32 years and principal clarinetist since 1998. She is a member of the orchestra’s woodwind quintet which performs for various public school and community engagements and was also featured as a soloist during their 2011/2012 season. Lisa also holds the position of principal clarinet in the Benzie Area Community Orchestra, an ensemble which serves the communities in northwestern Michigan.
 
As an active freelance musician, Lisa has performed in numerous pit orchestra and ensembles including being a member of the Clarion Wind Symphony which recorded 20th Century Wind Ensemble music of renowned composer Anthony Iannaccone. She is also currently a member of the Grosse Ile Woodwind Quintet, which actively performs throughout Southeast and Northwest Michigan.
 
Lisa is married and mother of two beautiful girls.
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Nancy Gruits, Oboe

Nancy Gruits’ love of music began at an early age. She taught herself to play the alto saxophone on the family heirloom before she started kindergarten. After attending many symphony concerts, she had a deep connection with the oboe. 
Nancy studied the oboe from the age of 11, participating in youth orchestras, school ensembles and spent summers at the National Music Camp at Interlochen. Her advanced education continued with the study of Oboe Performance at the University of Michigan, in the studio of Harry Sargous, and the Ohio State University under the guidance of Robert Sorton.
While in school, Nancy performed in numerous master classes with legends such as Heinz Holliger, John de Lancie, Robert Bloom and John Mack. Her graduate education also enabled her to learn the intricacies of the oboe through repair classes and hands-on experience of the engineering of the oboe.
Nancy performs with the G.I.Q., and in her free time, has dedicated herself to teaching young students the art of the oboe in her private studio. Nancy performs on a Loree AK model oboe.

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Heather Hartwick Gladden, Bassoon

Heather is a free-lance musician in the Metro-Detroit area.  She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Bassoon Performance from Eastern Michigan University.  Heather held the principal bassoon positions with the Livonia Symphony Orchestra, the Lake St. Clair Symphony Orchestra, and with the EMU Orchestra during her time there.  She enjoys being called to fill in on various parts, even on contrabassoon, with groups such as the Dearborn Symphony, Warren Symphony, Marquette Symphony, Southfield Symphony, Seaway Chorale and Orchestra, Brazeal Dennard Choral Orchestra, and Grosse Pointe Symphony, as well as play in pit orchestras on multiple instruments.  She has played with The Broadway Theater Guild at DeVos Hall in Grand Rapids, Tecumseh Civic Auditorium and The Croswell Theater in Adrian.  Heather also teaches privately out of her studio in Pittsfield Township, Michigan.

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Dianne Newberry, French Horn

Dianne Newberry lives in Saline Michigan with her husband, Troy, and their furry Golden doodle friend, Remy. They have two adult children, Eric (and his wife Lauren) and Meagan.
 
Dianne currently is a board certified music therapist. She also received a degree in music education from Eastern Michigan University where she studied horn with Dr. Willard Zirk. Over her career, Dianne has taught music in public and private schools, led youth church choirs, and served as vocal coach for the Saline Fiddlers. She has taught private horn lessons to young students for over forty years. She plays horn professionally in pit orchestras, and currently plays in the Grosse Ile Woodwind Quintet and the Chicago Road Brass Quintet.