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Faculty: NYSMF Instructors


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 300+ 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 | STRING | WOODWIND | BRASS | PERCUSSION | COMPOSITION |
| JAZZ | VOICE | MUSICAL THEATRE | INTERNATIONAL FLUTE INSTITUTE |

PIANO FACULTY
 

BRENDA EARLE
Jazz
Session I,II,III

Manhattan School of Music, Freelance Recording Artist

Brenda Earle.com

 
 

EMI KAGAWA
Session I,II,III

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

   
   
 

PETER MIYAMOTO
Session I & II

University of Missouri-Columbia; Curtis

 
 

AYAKO TSURUTA
Session I & II

Artistic Director - Odyssey Chamber Music Series & Plowman Chamber Music Competition; Yale University

   
   
 

ANNE LOUISE-TURGEON
Session III

"The Duo Turgeon"; Florida Atlantic University; Yale University

 
 

EDWARD TURGEON
Session III

"The Duo Turgeon"; Florida Atlantic University; Yale University

 
STRING FACULTY
VIOLIN

 

YAVET BOYADJIEV
Session I

Juilliard; Brooklyn College

 
 

JOHN LARDINOIS
Session I,II,III

Cincinnati Fine Arts Center; Seven Hills School; Cincinnati Conservatory

   
   
 

SEAN NEUKOM
Session I,II,III

The Milhaud Trio; Cleveland Institute of Music
       

VIOLA

 

EMILY YAFFE
Session I,II,III

Juilliard School, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis

       

CELLO

 

ELLA TOOVY
Session I,II,III

Manhattan School of Music, Lucy Moses Music School

 
 

LAUREN RILEY RIGBY
Session I & II

NYU; Larchmont Music Academy


BASS

 

ROBERT SABIN
Jazz
Session I,II,III

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

Ranula Music.com

 
 

BRET SIMNER
Session I,II,III

Capriccio Basel & Cantus Firmus Barockorchester, the Juilliard School Pre-College


GUITAR
 

JESSE LEWIS
Session I,II,III

University of New Orleans; Manhattan School of Music

Jesse Lewis Music.com

     

 


HARP
 

KARLINDA CALDICOTT
Session II & III

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

WOODWIND FACULTY
FLUTE
 

BONNIE BOKYUNG KIM
Session I & III

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

 
 

SOO-KYUNG PARK
Session II,III

Manhattan School of Music Prep; The Palisades School of Music


CLARINET
 
 

MELANY FELSEN
Session III

Peabody Institute; Mt Olive Schools; Who's Who of American Women

 
 

JOSHUA KOVACH
Session I& II

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


OBOE / ENGLISH HORN
 
 

MARK SNYDER
Session I & II

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

 
 

JESSICA WARNER
Session III

University of Michigan


BASSOON
 
 

KRASSIMIR IVANOV
Session I & II

Catskill, Utica, Syracuse, and Albany Symphonies

 
 

SHOTARO MORI
Session II & III

Springfield Symphony; Summertrios Chamber Music Festival


SAXOPHONE
 
 

ALEJANDRO AVILES
Session I

Freelance Artist of Latin, Jazz and Afro-Cuban Music

 
 

PAUL COHEN
Classical Saxophone Institute (I)

Manhattan School of Music, Rutgers, MSU, NYU

 
 
 

VITO CHIAVUZZO
Session II & III

Manhattan School of Music; JP Stevens HS

 
 

JASON RIGBY
Session I,II,III

Aretha Franklin, Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Fresh Sound Records Artist, Cameron Brown

Jason Rigby.net

BRASS FACULTY
TRUMPET
 

AMY CHERRY
Session II

Western Carolina Univ; Cincinnati Conservatory; Asheville Symphony

 
 

PATRICK HOFFMAN
Session I & III

Delaware State University

   
   
 

NATHAN WARNER
Jazz
Session I,II,III

Manhattan School of Music Prep

     

 


TROMBONE
 
 

SAMUEL CHEN
Trombone/
Euphonium

Session I,II,III

Knoxville Symph. Orch.

 
 

TIM VAUGHN
Jazz

Session I,II,III

 


FRENCH HORN
 
 

ILZE BRINK-BUTTON
Session I

Syracuse Symphony, Utica Symphony, Le Moyne College, Onondaga Comm. College

 
 

SARA HOFFMAN
Session I, III

Minot State University

   
   
 

VICTOR SUNGARIAN
Session II, III

College of St. Rose; Albany Symph; Catskill Symph; Schenectady Symph; Juilliard