Faculty and Staff

Full-Time Music Faculty

Kira Seaton | Western Campus

Kira Seaton is a professor at Tri-C's Western Campus, teaching voice, choral music, music theory and musicology since 1987. Aside from her academic duties, Seaton has performed and directed in a majority of Northeast Ohio's theaters and has sung with the Cleveland Opera and the Cleveland Orchestra. Seaton has conducted or participated in touring choirs performing at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Severance Hall and St. Joseph's Oratory in Montreal and has performed on tours in England and Italy. A popular speaker with Tri-C's Speakers Bureau, Seaton has spoken to many area groups on "The Healing Power of Music," "The Legacy of Music," and "I Hate Opera," a humorous talk about the history and fun of opera.

Alfredo Guerrieri | Metro Campus

Alfredo Guerrieri is a lecturer at Tri-C's Metro Campus. Guerrieri is one of the most versatile and sought-after electric and double bassists in Northeast Ohio. He has played with a wide array of artists throughout his career, including the Eagles, Tony Award nominee Mary Bridget Davies, Grammy Award winner Heather Headley, Cleveland Winds, Joe McBride, Dan Wilson and Keith McKelley. He has toured nationally and performed internationally at the Bermuda Music Festival and One World Festival in Perth, Australia. Guerrieri has also appeared in a number of theater productions at Playhouse Square, Great Lakes Theater and Baldwin Wallace University. As an educator, he has taught a number of musical subjects in various settings, including classical, jazz and popular music at Cleveland State University, Lakeland Community College, Montessori High School and The Music Settlement. He is currently endorsed by S.I.T. Strings. 

Joe Bonsignore | Western Campus

Daniel Bruce | Eastern Campus

Bruce is active throughout the United States as a performer, recording artist, composer, and educator. He has performed on more than fifty albums as a sideman and has released five albums as a leader. He is a member of The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Alla Boara, The Oblivion Project, Stephen Philip Harvey Octet and Big Band, and Reclamation Band. As a freelancer he performs in a wide variety of settings from classical repertoire, contemporary classical, jazz, and rock. He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of The Hingetown Jazz Festival, an annual festival that takes place in the Ohio City neighborhood of Cleveland. In 2020 and 2024 Dan received an Individual Excellence Award in Music Composition from the Ohio Arts Council. In 2024 he was named a “Jazz Hero” by the Jazz Journalists Association.