Our Team

Biography

Teaches in Wilmington | B.M., music performance and sound recording arts, University of Southern Mississippi. Principal teachers: Carla Rincón, Dr. Stephen Redfield, Dr. Borislava Iltcheva. Performance experience: chamber music; orchestral: Baton Rouge, Meridian, Mississippi Symphony Orchestras. Orchestra tours: the Americas, Berlin, Hannover, Bonn. Composer. First EP: Fall 2026. Teaching experience: Play on Philly, Private Study.

Private Lessons

• Viola
• Violin

Biography

Teaches in Wilmington | FACULTY WITH SPECIAL DISTINCTION. B.S., Temple University; M.Ed., music supervision, West Chester University; Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy, music, World University. Studied with: Blanche Taylor Burton, Agi Yambor, Helene Diedrich, Elaine Browrii, Elizabeth Westmoreland Briggs, Madame Landver. Conducting experience: International Choir of the Congress on Arts and Communications, Skyline Middle School.  Awards: 2002 Patricia Grasty Gaines Leadership Award given by the Frederick Douglass Institute of West Chester University of Pennsylvania, 1999 National Teacher Hall of Fame, 1998-1999 MBNA Excellence in Education Grant, 1999 McDonald’s Classroom Grant, International Biographical Centre (Cambridge, England), Gold Medal of Congress, 1996 Ernest Kay International Foundation Award. Solo performances: Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, Oceana and throughout the USA. Member: Board of Trustees of the Grand Opera House, Wilmington, DE; The Philadelphia Musical Fund Society. President of the Delaware State Music Teachers Association (MTNA affiliate) 2003-2005.

Private Lessons

• Piano
• Voice

Biography

Teaches in Wilmington | B.M., in education, University of Delaware. Principal teacher: Dr. David P. Blackinton. Performance experience: The Serenader’s big band, the Delaware and Kennett Symphony Orchestras, The Brandywiners orchestra, The Academy of the Dance Nutcracker Orchestra, Chesapeake Silver Cornet Brass Band; and national tours at the duPont Theatre. Private teaching experience: all ages and levels.

Private Lessons

• Trumpet

Wilmington | Performing experience: Opera Omaha, Kentucky Opera, Berlin Opera Academy, 105 Voices of History, Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts (CAAPA), Delaware Choral Arts, Colour of Music Festival. Recitals and curation: Hold On! Hold On!, an immersive exploration of African American resilience; Smooth OPERAtor, a one-woman show that introduces opera, German lieder, spirituals to K–5 audiences. Provided additional music education: community organizations in Delaware, Kentucky, Nebraska, including The Yudah School of Music, Bestfriends Adult Day Center, Girls Inc., the Sarpy Juvenile Justice Center, Micah House. Scholar in and advocate of spirituals. Registered teaching artist: Nebraska Arts Council. Delaware Artist Opportunity Grant. Teaching experience: K-12 and higher education. K-8 educator: general music, chorus, orchestra, musical theater productions. Additional experience: guest lecturer, masterclass clinician, Lead Faculty with Elevate Vocal Arts: mentors young singers, designs inclusive curricula, leads projects that integrate vocal arts, educational, personal professional development. Private study.

Private Lessons

• Voice

Biography

Teaches in Wilmington | Musicianship department head. B.M., M.M., The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Primary teachers: Piano – Brian Ganz and David Brown; Composition – Judah Adashi. Collaborating and accompanying coaches: Denyce Graves and John Shirley-Quirk. Performances: Lincoln Center, the Academy of Music and the Musikhauset Aarhus in Denmark. Awards: First Prize – Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition, the 1000 Islands International Chopin Competition and the Baltimore Music Club Competition; Presser Scholar, Peabody Alumni Award and Peabody Career Development Grant to fund CD album Perceptions of Shadows, released in June. Concerto soloist: Lansdowne Symphony, the Delaware County Symphony and the Newark Symphony Orchestra. Chamber Musician and Collaborating Awards: Sara Stulman Zierler Prize and the Clara Ascherfeld Award in Accompanying. Composition: Premieres throughout the United States, including halls at the University of Miami, University of Buffalo, Canisius College and the Peabody Institute; performance of her Piano Trio No. 1 by members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Private Lessons

• Piano

Biography

Teaches in Wilmington and Milford | CORE MASTER FACULTY WITH DISTINCTION. Strings department head, Chamber Music Coodinator, B.M.A., magna cum laude, University of Michigan; M.M., Rice University. Extensive registered Suzuki training. Former President: Greater Philadelphia Suzuki Association. Cello studies with Jeffrey Solow, Shirley Trepel, Norman Fischer. Performance experience: Principal cellist, Dover Symphony, Illinois Symphony and Chamber Orchestra (principal cello), Quincy Symphony (principal cello), North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra (principal cello), Albany Symphony, Delaware Symphony, Houston Ballet Orchestra, Tulsa Philharmonic. Silver Bay String Quartet.Teaching experience: Oral Roberts University, ORU Suzuki Program, Texas Music Festival, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, New Jersey Suzuki Workshop. Group Class Techniques Fellow at Chicago Suzuki Institute.

Private Lessons

• Cello
• Suzuki Cello

Group Classes

Biography

Teaches in Wilmington | B.M., Oberlin College/Conservatory, violin performance; B.A., French. Additional studies: Conservatoire Régional de Rayonnement (Cergy-Pontoise, France), performance studies; Conservatoire du Centre (Paris, France), contemporary chamber music studies. Additional interests and studies: co-launched the non-profit arts organization Sinfonietta Paris, attended professional translation school, Baroque dance, Dalcroze Eurhythmics. Author: The Art of Wellbeing: A Resource for Health and Healing, 2017. Soloist: The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonietta Chiapas (also concertmaster). Ensembles: The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, The Minnesota Sinfonia, La Grande Bande, Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra. Freelancer: performed for Stevie Wonder and Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith. Baroque violinist: Lyra Baroque Ensemble, 2016-2021. Teaching experience: over 180 outreach and educational programs; Universidad de Ciencias y Artes in Chiapas, Mexico, violin, viola, chamber music, orchestra. Additional private teaching: MacPhail Center for Music, International School of Paris, St. Paul Conservatory of Music, Ovation Academy of Music, Kramer School of Music, St. Barnabas Center for the Arts. Interim orchestra director: FAIR School in Minneapolis.

Private Lessons

• Musicianship
• Suzuki Viola
• Suzuki Violin
• Viola
• Violin

Group Classes

Biography

Teaches in Wilmington | B.M., M.M., clarinet and wind conducting performance, University of Delaware; D.M.A., clarinet performance, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (ABD). Principal teachers: Dr. Christopher Nichols, Dr. Lauren Reynolds, Dr. Michael Knight, Dr. Chad Nicholson, Dr. Anthony Taylor, Dr. Andy Hudson. Membership: Delaware State Chair of the International Clarinet Association. Performance experience: Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, Greensboro Opera, Winston-Salem Symphony, Appalachia Wind Symphony, Piedmont Wind Symphony. Performances at conferences: International Clarinet Association’s “ClarinetFest,” College Music Society’s International and National Conferences, Sigma Alpha Iota’s National Convention. Commissions and premieres: works by Megan DiGeorgio, Brian Nabors, Jessica Mays, Pax Ressler. Consortiums for pieces by: Jenni Brandon, Mikhail Johnson, Theresa Martin, Robin McLaughlin, Jonathan Russell, D.H. Regnier. Teaching experience: UNC School of the Arts Community Music School, Upbeat Music Company (NC), private.

Private Lessons

• Clarinet
• Clarinet (Bass)