String Faculty 

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CAROL KUSHNER
Director, Violin 

Carol received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music and her Master of Music degree in Performance from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College of the City University of New York, where she completed its Teacher Certification program and served as an adjunct lecturer. To learn more about our directors, click here.                                                                 ​

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​GERI KUSHNER
Director, Violin, Viola

Geri received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College of the City University of New York and a Master of Music degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she was a teaching assistant. To learn more about our directors, click here.

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MAGDALENA GARBALINSKA
Violin 

Manhattan School of Music; Master of Music,  Aaron Copland School of Music; Queens College; Master of Arts, Western Michigan University; Bachelor of Music, F. Chopin Academy of Music; Master of Arts, Warsaw, Poland.                                                               ​

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DOROTHY SHORTER
Violin, Viola

Dorothy received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from SUNY at Geneseo and received a Suzuki Certification from the School for Strings.                                                                                                            ​

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SARA CORTINAS
Cello

Stony Brook University; working towards Doctorate of Music; Juilliard, Master of Music & Bachelor of Music; Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music; Performance Diploma.

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Jessica Wang
Cello

Masters of Music in Cello Performance; The Juilliard School, Bachelors of Science in Psychology; Harvard University

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