Faculty: NYSMF Instructors

(as of June 6, 2007)

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.


BASS

ROBERT SABIN
Jazz Bass (I, II, III)

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

BRET SIMNER
Double Bass
(I, II, III)

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


BASSOON

KRASSIMIR IVANOV (I, II, III)

Catskill, Utica, Syracuse, and Albany Symphonies

   


CELLO

ELLA TOOVY (I, II, III)

Manhattan School of Music, Lucy Moses Music School

 

LAUREN RILEY (I, II, III)

NYU; Larchmont Music Academy


CLARINET

PASCAL ARCHER
(I, III)

Manhattan School of Music Precollege; Village Community School; Orch. of St. Luke's (teaching artist); Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic; Long Island Philharmonic

 

JOSHUA KOVACH ( II )


COMPOSITION

STRATIS MINAKAKIS
( I )

Princeton University; Atheanaeum University; New England Conservatory

 

DAVID LUDWIG
( II )

Curtis Institute of Music-Composition Department; Resident Composer, New York Summer Music Festival


VIVIAN FUNG (III)

Juilliard School; Canadian Music Centre

       

FLUTE

BONNIE BOKYUNG KIM (I & III)

Creo; Old Dominion University; Tidewater Community College

 

SOO-KYUNG PARK (II)

Manhattan School of Music Prep; The Palisades School of Music


NYSMF INTERNATIONAL FLUTE INSTITUTE

BONNIE BOKYUNG KIM

DIRECTOR, NYSMF IFI

Creo; Old Dominion University; Tidewater Community College

 

LINDA CHESIS (III)

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


ESTHER YOON YOUNG LEE (III)

Shu-Kyung University; Baekseok University; Seoul Arts High School; Piri; Isan Yun

 

YUI KYUNG PARK (III)

Korean Symphony Orchestra; Baekseok University; Yonsei University; Korean Nat'l Univ of the Arts; Seoul Art High School; Sun Wha Art High School


MICHEL ROUSSEAU (III)

Conservatoire du 10em Paris; Asnieres Music School

 

GARY SCHOKER (III)

NYSMF IFI Visiting Artist

International Performing Artist & Composer


FRENCH HORN

ILZE BRINK-BUTTON
(I)

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

 

SARA HOFFMAN
(I, II, III)

Minot State University


PAUL S. LAFOLLETTE III
(II)

Richmond Symphony; Astral Winds; Mico Nonet

 

GRETCHEN SNEDEKER (III)

Colgate University; Utica Symphony; Catskill Symphony; Eastman School of Music


GUITAR

JESSE LEWIS (I)

Univeristy of New Orleans; Manhattan School of Music

 

SIMON KAFKA ( II, III )


MUSICAL THEATRE / ACTING / FILMMAKING

KEISUKE HOASHI
Musical Theatre; Acting; Filmmaking

(I, II, III)

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


OBOE

MARK SNYDER (II, III)

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

 

JESSICA WARNER (I)

University of Michigan


ORGAN

MATTHEW GLANDORF (II)

Curtis Inst; Westminster Choir College; Clara Voce Chamber Choir; Choral Arts Society, Philadelphia

   


PERCUSSION

GERNOT BERNROIDER
Drum Set (I, II, III)

Freelance Artist

 

CHRISTOPHER NAPPI (I, II, III)

Adelphi Univ, Manhattan School of Music Prep


PIANO

BRENDA EARLE
Jazz Piano (I, II, III)

Manhattan School of Music, Freelance Recording Artist

 
 

PETER MIYAMOTO
(I, II, III)

University of Missouri-Columbia


AYAKO TSURUTA (I, II, III)

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

   

 


SAXOPHONE

ALEJANDRO AVILES
Saxophone (I)

Freelance Artist of Latin, Jazz and Afro-Cuban Music

 

PAUL COHEN
Festival Saxophone Institute (III)

Manhattan School of Music, Oberlin, Rutgers, MSU, NYU


VITO CHIAVUZZO
Saxophone (II, III)

Manhattan School of Music; JP Stevens HS

 

JASON RIGBY
Tenor Saxophone (I, II, III)

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


TROMBONE

SAMUEL CHEN
Trombone/
Euphonium
(I, II, III)

Knoxville Symph. Orch.

 

JEAN-OLIVIER BEGIN
Jazz Trombone
(I, II, III)


TRUMPET

PATRICK HOFFMAN (I, II, III)

Delaware State University

 

NATHAN WARNER
Jazz Trumpet
(I, II, III)

Manhattan School of Music Prep


TUBA

FRANK P. ORTEGA
(I, II)

Garden State Phil, Fort Lee Public Schools

 

DAN HUNTER ( III )


VIOLA

EMILY YAFFE
(I, II, III)

Juilliard School, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis

   


VIOLIN

YAVET BOYADJIEV
(I)

Juilliard; Brooklyn College

 

SANGEUN HAN
( III )

Florida West Coast Symphony; Sarasota Opera Company


JOHN LARDINOIS
( II )

Cincinnati Fine Arts Center; Seven Hills School

 

SEAN NEUKOM
(I, II, III)


VOICE

BRENDA EARLE
Jazz Voice (I, II, III)

Manhattan School of Music, Freelance Recording Artist
 

DR. LORI MCCANN
Voice (I)

NYU; Columbia


DORA OHRENSTEIN
Voice (II, III)

NYU, The Actors Studio, Wagner College, Drew University

   

 


NYSMF faculty instructor listings are subject to change at any time.