FACULTY

All members of our Faculty are highly qualified professionals and experienced teachers. They hold degrees from conservatories such as Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music, the Aaron Copland School of Music, and Russian Conservatories. Our instructors are experienced soloists with ensembles and orchestras.

STRINGS

Carol Kushner [violin]

Geri Kushner [violin and viola]

DOROTHY SHORTER [violin]: Bachelor of Arts in Music, SUNY at Geneseo; Suzuki Certificate, School for Strings

EMILY ORENSTEIN [violin]: Royal Academy of Music, London, England; Bachelor of Arts, Lehigh University; Suzuki Certification, Lehigh University

ALEX CROXTON [cello]: Bachelor of Music, Peabody Conservatory; Master of Music, SUNY Purchase; Suzuki Certificate, School for Strings

IVY CHATANOW [cello]: Bachelor of Music, Manhattan School of Music; Suzuki Certificate and Certificate in Advanced Cello Studies, Suzuki Association of the Americas

ANDREY TCHEKMAZOV [cello]: Bachelor of Music, Moscow State Conservatory, Russia; Master of Music, Juilliard School, New York

ARKADY ORLOVSKY [cello]: Bachelor, Masters & Doctorate degrees of Music; St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music, Russia, Former Principal Cellist Kirov Theater; Russia, Former Principal Cellist Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Indiana

CHRISTOPHER FINET [Double Bass]: Bachelor of Music, North Arizona University; Masters of Music, Manhattan School of Music

PIANO

ALLA BELL: Bachelor of Music, Gnesin Academy of Music (Russia); Master of Music, Gnesin Academy of Music (Russia); Suzuki Certificate, Hartford University

YULIANA BERLINSKAYA: Bachelor of Music, Music College of Rostov (Russia); Master of Music, Leningrad Conservatory (Russia); Suzuki certified from Hartford University and School for Strings

SERGEY MALININ: Bachelor of Music, Kazan State Conservatory (Russia); Master of Music, Manhattan School of Music. Master of Music, Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, (France); Doctor of Music, Kazan State Conservatory, (Russia)

ALEXANDER MOUTOUZKINE (guest faculty): Bachelor of Music, Music College of Nizhniy Novgorod City (Russia); Artistic Diploma in piano performance, Academy for Music and Theater in Hanover (Germany); Master of Music, Manhattan School of Music

AGLINDA KUMBARO: Rachmaninoff Russian Conservatory;Paris, France, Academy of Arts; Bachelor & Masters in Piano Performance; Albania, Ecole Normale de Musique " Alfred Cortot"; Paris France, La Sorbonne; Paris, France, Diller-Quaille School of Music, NYC, Suzuki Certification; School for Strings, NYC

ELENA BASOK: Music Education; Uzhgorod Music College, Ukraine, Bachelor of Music & Arts Education & Acommpianist Degree; National Dragomanov Pedagogical University; Kiev, Ukraine, Master in Piano Performance & Music Education; National Dragomanov Pedagogical University; Kiev, Ukraine

GUITAR AND ELECTRIC GUITAR

ROYCE LOPEZ: Bachelor of Science in Performance, Hofstra University; Master of Music in Performance, Manhattan School of Music, DMA, SUNY at Stony Brook University

ELECTRIC BASS GUITAR

CHRISTOPHER FINET: Bachelor of Music, North Arizona University; Masters of Music, Manhattan School of Music

WOODWINDS & BRASS

LISA DISPIGNO [flute]: Bachelor of Music; Royal Academy of Music, London,UK; Bachelor of Music, Manhattan School of Music, New York; Master of Music, New England Conservatory, Boston, Ma

DAVID GLUKH [trumpet]: Bachelor of Music, Juilliard

IGOR ELENTUKH [clarinet, recorder and saxophone]: Bachelor of Music, Rimsky-Korsakov Music College, Mogilev (Belarus); Master of Music, Byelorussia State Academy of Music (Belarus)

VOICE

MARTA KUKULAROVA [voice]: Bachelor of Music; Plovdiv Music Academy, Bulgaria, Master of Music; Juilliard

KINDERMUSIK

JANET PINTO: Bachelor of Science in piano performance, Ball State University; Master of Music Education, George Peabody College; Doctor of Arts, University of Northern Colorado; licensed Kindermusik International Educator