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Taichi Akutsu - Violin (Faculty Coordinator Emeritus)
Mr. Akutsu has a Masters Degree in Music from Manhattan School of Music, a Performance Certificate from Mannes College of Music and a Bachelors in Music from Tokyo College of Music. A fellow with the New World Symphony Taichi joined SoBe Arts'faculty in Fall 2007 (more..) |
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Arthur Barron - Saxophone/Jazz Flute
Mr. Barron is an accomplished saxophonist and flutist, composer, bandleader, recording artist and music educator. He has performed and recorded with an array of stellar jazz and Latin jazz artists in a career that has spanned over three decades of music. (more...) |
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Hye Jin Chang - Violin
Hye Jin Chang has a Masters Degree from University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and is a fellow with the New World Symphony. She has performed with the Verbier Festival Orchestra 2009 2010 2011. Hye Jin joined SoBe Arts' faculty in Fall 2011 (more...) |
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Adam Chefitz - Piano
Adam Chefitz was a teenage piano prodigy who at
18, he played the Presto-Finale from Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata"
live on WTMI Classical Radio, with on-the-air praise from James Judd,
then conductor of the Florida Philharmonic.... (more...) |
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Robert Chumbley - Piano/Conducting/Composition/Ensembles
Mr. Chumbley Mr. Chumbley has served as Music Director for Atlanta Ballet for five seasons, and for Cleveland Opera. He has appeared as guest conductor with the Breckenridge Music Festival (Colorado), American Repertory Ballet, Norwegian National Opera, the Royal Ballet Orchestra (London), the Carolina Chamber Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony and the Prague Chamber Orchestra among other groups. (more...) |
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Kameron Cole - Cello
Kameron Cole held the position of Principal Cello with the Dubuque Symphony for over 10 years. HIs studies were at the University of Iowa and the Vienna Hochschule fur Musik (more...) |
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Rebekah Diaz - Voice/Theater
Ms. Diaz received her Masters degree in Opera from Manhattan School of Music. She has performed with the Pittsburg Opera Theater, the Bronx Opera, Carnegie Hall and the Sarasota Opera among many other professional engagements
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Amos Fayette - Violin/Musicianship/Ensembles
A graduate of Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Amos Fayette enjoys a diverse career as an orchestra and chamber musician, instructor, and concert producer. Amos is urrently a Fellow at the New World Symphony (more...) |
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Carl Ferrari - Guitar
A graduate of New World School of the Arts and the University of Florida Carl Ferrari is an accomplished guitarist, music teacher, and sound-engineer who has performed and recorded many different styles of music including Jazz, Experimental Rock, Classical, and Flamenco (more...) |
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Jay Ganser - Percussion
A graduate of The Cleveland Institute of Music and DePaul University, Jay Ganserhas performed with the Chicago and Atlanta Symphonies and the Cleveland Orchestra.” He is currently a fellow with The New World Symphony (more...) |
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Lesley Gent - Voice
Lesley Gent holds a MM in Voice Performance from Youngstown State University. And has participated in vocal studies at the Aspen Music Festival (more...) |
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Katerina Istomin - Viola/Violin
A graduate of The Juilliard School and Universite de Montreal, Katerina Istomin has performed with the American Ballet Theater Orchestra and in the Broadway shows of “Les Miserables” and “Young Frankenstein.” She is currently a fellow with The New World Symphony (more...) |
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Carson Kievman - Composition/Stage Direction
As SoBe Music Institute's executive artisic director, Carson Kievman, PhD (Princeton Univerisity), MFA (California Institute of the Arts) has won several awards and held many prestigious residencies including the Tanglewood Music Festival of Contemporary Music, New York Shakespeare Festival, Eugene O'Neill Opera/Music-Theater Conference, and the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. (more...) |
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Glen Lawrence - Acting Instructor
Glen Lawrence has spent 35 years in acting, teaching, writing and communication. He has studied acting with Sanford Meisner and has performed multiple roles with Actors Theatre of Louisville (more.) |
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Sandra Lopez - voice/Theater
Soprano Sandra Lopez de Haro has captivated audiences around the world with her critically acclaimed performances in a wide variety of roles which include the title roles of Tosca and Suor Angelica, Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Catherine in Bolcom's A View from the Bridge, Liu in Turandot, Micaela in Carmen, Mimi in La Boheme, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, Marguerite in Faust, Violetta in La Traviata, among others, with companies that include the Metropolitan Opera...(more....) |
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Steven Machat -ENtertainment Industry Lecturer
Marty Machat and Steven Machat, father and son, set up their entertainment law firm. Their specialty was the deal and then the management of the deal. On their roster were Genesis, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, The Blizzard of Oz featuring Ozzy Osbourne, Leonard Cohen, Phil Spector, to name a few. ...(more....) |
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Joseph Peters - Oboe/Conducting
John Peters holds a Masters degree from Yale University School of Music and a Bachelors from University of Minnesota. He is currently a fellow at New World Symphony and has performed with The Metropolitan Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra (more...) |
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Lee Philip - Double Bass
Lee Philip is currently a 3rd year double bass fellow at the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL. Formerly a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, he has performed with the Grand Rapids, Singapore, and Chicago Symphony Orchestras (more...) |
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Cassandra Rondinelli - Flute/Music for Tots
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Matthew Sabatella- Banjo/Folk Guitar
Matthew Sabatella is a singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, performer, educator, and interpreter of traditional American folk songs. He frequently performs live with his guitar, banjo, mountain dulcimer, and harmonicasand if often joined by the Rambling String Band(more...) |
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Jason Shafer - Clarinet
Jason Shafer is a garduate of Eastman School of Music and a Fellow at New World Symphony where he won the concerto competition in 2010 playing a Mozart concerto (more...) |
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Kiki Sanchez - Jazz Piano
Nominated for 2 Grammys in 2005, this gifted musician speak to everyone. He can capture hearts through his mastery of various styles, such as jazz, classical, Andean, gospel, Brazilian, R&B, blues, pop, Afro-Peruvian and Afro-Cuban. He encourages all to explore... (more...) |
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Marion Scott - Piano
Marion scott received a BM degree from Eastman School of Music, an MM from The Juilliard School and a DMA in piano performance from the University of Miami. Among other venues Mr. Scott has performed in Carnegie Hall (more...) |
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Meredith Smart – Theater
She recently moved to Miami after receiving her MA in Text and Performance from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where her thesis focused on the amazing benefits that Shakespeare performance can bring to young people.... (more...) |
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Lluis Soldevila - French Horn
Lluis Soldevila holds a Master's Degree in Performance from Conservatorio Superior de Música de Castelló (Valencia, Spain). He performs with several orchestra in South Florida and previously performed with orchestra throughout Spain. (more...) |
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Milana Strezeva - Piano
Milana Strezeva is a is a graduate of The Juilliard School and a founding member of the Manhattan Piano Trio, one of the most prominent and active chamber music groups in the country. Since its inception in 2004, the Trio has performed over 500 concerts spanning 35 US States, South Africa, Europe, and Australia.(more...) |
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Carl St. Jacques - Viola/Violin
Carl St. Jaques performs regularily with Florida Grand Opera and The Miami Symphony Orchestra. He is a graduate of Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington and has performed with the Verbier Festival Orchestra, Switzerland(more...) |
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Jamila Tekalli - Piano
Jamila Tekalli received a BM degree from Indiana University, an MM from University of Central FLorida and is about to complete her DMA in piano performance from the University of Miami. She has performed at the Bowdoin International Music Festival and other events around the USA (more...) |
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