Jane Russell Bate is a Connecticut musician who has immersed herself in music from an early age. Along with an introduction to piano lessons through the West Hartford Summer Music and Arts program, her school and private lessons in piano, flute, and bassoon impelled her to follow music as a career. Though Bate earned her B.A. at Smith College, she spent two summers during those college years studying with Ray Wright and Manny Albam at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, an...