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NYSMF Faculty

NYSMF's individual instructors are all supremely talented musicians who take the time out of their busy professional performance and teaching schedules to gather at NYSMF each summer. Our faculty genuinely love the challenge and rewards of working with NYSMF's 500+ students, and every single one displays impressive resumes as both educators and players.

These people are NYSMF's private instrumental teachers, ensemble coaches, and course instructors. They also perform side-by-side with NYSMF students every day of the summer, helping to inspire and "push" every student to ever-higher levels.

To read each person's biography, please click on their name or photo.

PIANO FACULTY

PETER MIYAMOTO Session I, II, III

University of Missouri, Curtis, Yale University
website

AYAKO TSURUTA
Session I, II, III

Artistic Director, Odyssey Chamber Music Series and Plowman Chamber Music Competition; Yale University, Juilliard
website

EMI KAGAWA
Session I, II, III

The Juilliard School; New York University; SUNY Stony Brook; Great Neck Conservatory; the Piano School of NYC
website

TIMOTHY BRENT
Jazz
Session I

University of North Texas; DownBeat Award Winner
website

ROBERT ROMAN
Jazz
Session II

SUNY Oneonta

RANDY INGRAM
Jazz
Session III

The UN Int'l School; MM NEC Cons
website

PRISCILLA YUEN
Staff Pianist
Session I, II, III

The Eastman School of Music; University of Missouri - Columbia

STRING FACULTY

VIOLIN

AMY IWAZUMI
Session I, II, III

Int'l Performing Artist; I-S Duo; Ray & Amy Duo; BM, MM Juilliard

RAY IWAZUMI
Session I, II, III

Juilliard; Int'l Performing Artist; Musicological Writer/Researcher; BA, MM, DM Juilliard

JOHN VAIDA
Session III

Wyoming Seminary; Miscorderia Univ; Hamilton Madison House; MM Eastman

VIOLA

JOHN VAIDA
Session I

Wyoming Seminary; Miscorderia Univ; Hamilton Madison House; MM Eastman

MIRANDA SIELAFF
Session II

Diller Quaile School; School for Strings; Allsar Quintet; The Knights

SURAI BALBEISI
Session III

Hoff-Barthelson Music School; Larchmont Music Academy

CELLO

KATE DILLINGHAM
Session I

Lehigh Univ; Artistic Dir, CT Alliance for Music; Broadway "The Lion King"

YURHEE CHAE
Session II

Hopins School; Neighborhood Music School; Juilliard, Yale, Seoul National University, SUNY Stony Brook

OLE AKAHOSHI
Session III

Yale School of Music; Manhattan School of Music; Sejong Soloists; Saito Kinen Soloists

BASS

STEVEN MORAN
Session I, II, III

Juilliard; Jupiter Chamber Players; Peabody

ROBERT SABIN
Jazz
Session I, II, III

Teachers College/ Columbia University; Hunter College High School – Director of Jazz Studies
website

GUITAR

MATT DAVIS
Session I, III

University of the Arts, Philadelphia; Manhattan School of Music

JESSE LEWIS
Session II

University of New Orleans; Manhattan School of Music
website

STEPHEN MATTINGLY
Session II
Classical Guitar Institute

Univ of Louisville; Bellarmine Univ; Tantalus Quartet; DMA, Florida State Univ; BM, MM, Eastman
website

HARP

KARLINDA CALDICOTT
Session I, II, III

Catskill Symph; Schenectady Symph; College of St Rose; Hartwick College; SUNY Oneonta

WOODWIND FACULTY

FLUTE

ELIZABETH JANZEN
Session I

Manhattan School of Music; The Dillard-Quaile School; Teaching Artist, The New York Philharmonic & Carnegie Hall

WENDY STERN
Session II

Flute Force; ETSU Suzuki Institutes

BONNIE BOKYUNG KIM
Session III

Christopher Newport Univ; Creo; Old Dominion University; Tidewater Community College

CLARINET

PASCAL ARCHER
Session I

Manhattan School of Music Precollege, Hunter College, Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Long Island Philharmonic

JOSHUA KOVACH
Session II, III

Harrisburg Symph; Reading Symph Orch; Pennsylvania Ballet Orch; Comm. Coll. of Philadelphia

DOUBLE REEDS

MARK SNYDER
Oboe & English Horn
Session I, II, III

Western Connecticut State University; Youth Symphony of the United Nations; Ridgewood Conservatory

KRASSIMIR IVANOV
Bassoon
Session I, II, III

Catskill, Utica, Syracuse, and Albany Symphonies

SAXOPHONE

ALEJANDRO AVILES
Session I

Freelance Artist of Latin, Jazz and Afro-Cuban Music

AARON IRWIN
Session II, III

International Recording & Performing Artist
website

JASON RIGBY
Session I, II, III

Aretha Franklin, Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Fresh Sound Records Artist, Cameron Brown
Jason Rigby.net

PAUL COHEN
Classical Saxophone Institute
Session I

Manhattan School of Music, Rutgers, MSU, NYU

BRASS FACULTY

TRUMPET

PATRICK HOFFMAN
Session I

Delaware State University

MICHAEL GORHAM
Session II, III

Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Rockland Conservatory of Music; Concordia Conservatory

DANIEL URNESS
Jazz
Session III

Broadway Musician (Porgy and Bess); United National Intl School; MSM

NATHAN WARNER
Jazz
Session I, II

Sugartone Brass Band; St. Mark the evangelist School; Manhattan School of Music Prep

TROMBONE

JOHN S. YAO
Jazz
Session I

Third Steet Music School Settlement; Yaozeki Big Band; Copland School of Music

SAMUEL CHEN
Trombone & Euphonium
Session I, II, III

Knoxville Symph. Orch.; Knox Brass WorX Company

TIM VAUGHN
Jazz
Session II, III

Slavic Soul Party; Manhattan School of Music

FRENCH HORN

ILZE BRINK-BUTTON
Session I, II

Cornell University; Syracuse Symphony, Utica Symphony, Onondaga Comm. College

LAUREN BECKER
Session III

University of Rochester; Eastman

TUBA

JASON ARNOLD
Session I, II, III

Fairfield Univ; Imperial Brass; Brass Brass Quintet

PERCUSSION FACULTY

CHRISTOPHER NAPPI
Session I, II, III

Adelphi Univ, Manhattan School of Music Prep

GERNOT BERNROIDER
Drum Set
Session I, II

Freelance Artist

JEFF DAVIS
Drum Set
Session III

Jeff Davis Band
website

COMPOSITION FACULTY

DANIEL OTT
Session I, III

NYSMF Composition Program Director; The Juilliard School; Fordham University; BM Curtis; MM, DMA, Juilliard
website

MANUEL SOSA
Session II

Chair, Ear-Training Dept, The Juilliard School; BM, MM, DMA, Juilliard

VOICE FACULTY

TIMOTHY BRENT
Jazz
Session I

University of North Texas; DownBeat Award Winner
website

KAT CALVOSA
Jazz
Session II, III

Lawrence University, Manhattan School of Music, University of Miami, FL

COLBY THOMAS
Session III

SUNY Oneonta

BLYTHE WALKER
Session I, II

Metropolitan Opera, NY City Opera, College - Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati(or CCM - UC), DePauw University, BWAVA

WRITING & ACTING /
MUSICAL THEATRE FACULTY

KEISUKE HOASHI
Session I, II, III

Actor, Hollywood, CA; Crane School of Music; MS Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
IMDB.com

ROCK/POP/FUNK FACULTY

RICHARD MOLLIN
Session I

SUNY Oneonta

INTERNATIONAL FLUTE
INSTITUTE FACULTY

BONNIE BOKYUNG KIM
DIRECTOR, NYSMF IFI

Christopher Newport Univ; Creo; Old Dominion University; Tidewater Community College

DANIEL HAI SUNG BAC
CONDUCTOR, NYSMF IFI

Editor-in-Chief, FLUTE Magazine; Gangneung-Wonju National University; Sunhwa Art School; Chongshin Conservatory

LINDA CHESIS

Manhattan School of Music; Aaron Copland School of Music; New York University; Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival (Founder & Artistic Director)

GUO-LIANG HAN

Principal Flute, China National Symph Orch;
Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing China

HONG KYU LEE

Burkart Flute Artist; Conductor, Chung Cheong Philharmonic; Chair, Korean Flute Education Association; Chung Cheong University; Ye-won Arts High School