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REGISTER TODAY FOR SUMMER Classes listed below are for our 6 week summer session from Jul 12 to Aug 21. Please put your class request in today! This includes classes, intensives, camp, and private lessons. Register on-line at www.schoolofdanceandmusic.com/register or call us today!

REQUEST YOUR OWN CLASS TIME Note that 80% of our classes for summer are created by groups that are currently training. Let us know your time and teacher preference! Stop by our front desk or call us today to create your class! Created class dates are available not only in our 6 week session but may start earlier beginning Jun 22nd.

PRE-REGISTER NOW FOR FALL We have also opened our fall pre-registration so you may choose your fall classes as well as summer. Go online to register www.schoolofdanceandmusic.com/register and look at the classes your teachers have reserved for you. “Pending Classes” tab to see what you are reserved for (10yrs) LIVE SEMI PRIVATES DANCE CLASSES 1yr 6mo -10.5yrs locations AVI = Aviation PCH =PCH PRETEEN – TEEN

Ballet/Tap/Jazz 1yr 6mo – 2yr 9mo w/ parent Jazz Lyrical with Ballet for those going to ballet IIB or III - jazz IIB or III unless noted

Sat 9:00 Paige AVI Sat 9:50 Becca AVI Lyrical is a mix of ballet jazz & modern interpreting the music lyrics

Sat 9:35 Aimee AVI Mon 6:40 Haley AVI Wed 5:20 Valerie AVI

Tue 6:45 Sammi AVI Thu 5:35 Becca AVI Ballet/Tap/Jazz 2yr 6mo – 3yr 6mo w/o parent Mon 6:20 Paige AVI beginners class Mon 3:15 Paige AVI Sat 9:35 Paige AVI Tue 5:25 Becca AVI Sat 10:25 Becca AVI Ballet Barre & Balance Int for Int, IV, & pre-pointe Sat 9:00 Aimee AVI Mon 3:50 Haley AVI Wed 3:50 Haley AVI

Ballet/Tap/Jazz 3yr – 4yr 6mo Pointe Three times a week recommended, twice a week required for summer Mon 5:30 Paige AVI Thu 5:15 Jessica PCH BEG Mon 5:15 Haley AVI Tue 5:30 Josh PCH Wed 5:15 Haley AVI 5 AVI AVI Tue 4:40 Sammi Sat 9:00 Becca INT Mon 5:30 Josh PCH Tue 6:55 Josh PCH Wed 5:30 Josh PCH Wed 4:30 Valerie AVI Sat 11:00 Paige AVI ADV Mon 6:55 Josh PCH Tue 4:05 Josh PCH Wed 6:55 Josh PCH Thu 4:45 Becca AVI

Jazz & Contemporary for those going to Jazz IV or Int & up Ballet/Tap/Jazz 4yr – 5yr 6mo Check out Check out Tue 4:05 Jessica PCH Int open Thu 4:00 Brittany AVI Int - Acc Mon 4:40 Paige AVI Sat 11:00 Becca AVI Tue 5:30 Jessica PCH Acc – Int/Adv Thu 5:25 Brittany AVI Acc – Int/Adv our camps Wed 3:40 Valerie AVI Sat 11:00 Sammi AVI our camps Tue 6:00 Becca AVI Acc – Int/Adv Thu 6:50 Brittany AVI Int/Adv-Adv below! Thu 4:25 Jessica PCH Sat 10:10 Paige AVI below! Tue 6:55 Jessica PCH Int - Acc Thu 7:00 Becca AVI Int open Thu 5:05 Kristy AVI Request or Request or Acro for dancers training in multiple ballet & jazz weekly Ballet/Tap/Jazz 5yr – 7yr create your create your Mon 3:40 Brittany PCH Int - Acc Mon 3:50 Paige AVI Thu 4:15 Kristy AVI own class! Tue 3:20 Becca AVI Sat 10:10 Aimee AVI own class! Mon 4:45 Brittany PCH Adv

Wed 5:15 Jessica AVI Sat 11:55 Paige AVI Mon 5:55 Brittany PCH Jazz Acc & up Classes will Mon 6:55 Brittany PCH Acc – Int/Adv Classes will Hip Hop Jr 4yr – 6yr 6mo be added Mon 5:35 Kristy AVI Sat 11:50 Becca AVI be added Hip Hop Preteen/ Teen with Thu 5:20 Paige AVI with Mon 6:25 Kristy AVI Thu 7:00 Paige AVI popular popular Wed 6:45 Valerie AVI Ballet Barre & Jazz Jumps Turns demand! open Level I & II demand! More Create Classes – Camps -Intensives-Privates- Rentals – Wedding Prep 6yr – 10yr 6mo Tue 4:10 Becca AVI Thu 5:55 Kristy AVI

Tue 5:30 Sammi AVI Sat 11:50 Aimee AVI

Wed 4:00 Jessica AVI C A M P S & I N T E N S I V E S

Hip Hop Floor & Beats Level I & II Prince & Princess Academy Dance Camp 3.5yr – 6yr Dancers will learn to dream big with Tiana, look for the good with Mon 4:45 Kristy AVI Thu 6:10 Paige AVI Belle, dress the part with Cinderella, ride the ocean waves with Moana and join the action with Elsa & Mulan! Mon-Fri AVI 1.5 hrs. M U S I C L E S S O N S Ballet, Tap, Jazz. 9am or 11am Week Jul 19th -23rd

MUSIC LESSONS more days will be added upon demand Pop Star Dance Camp 5yr – 10yr

PIANO Min.4 ½ Yrs and up VOICE Min.7 Yrs & up Dreaming of bright lights and the big stage? Come dance along

Mon Robert, Athena Mon Robert, Athena to Jojo Siwa, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez & More! Includes

Tue Mahsa, Neal, Kelly Tue Neal, Kelly Ballet Jazz Hip hop. Mon- Fri AVI 2 hours. 9am or 11:15am Week Jul 19th -23rd Wed Zach, Joe Wed Zach, Faith, Joe Thu Esteban, Faith Thu Esteban, Faith All In One Camp 5yr – 10yr Thu Joe, Mahsa Thu Joe A little bit of everything from cartwheels to downward-dogs! Come join us for our 21st annual All In One Camp! Hip Hop, Jazz, Musical Theater, Yoga, GUITAR & BASS VIOLIN Tumbling Mon-Fri AVI 9:15am – 1pm. Week Jul 26th -30th Min.7 Yrs & up Min.4 ½ Yrs and up (4 ½ Yrs Jr Guitar) Tue Neal, Morgan* Intensives - preteen thru teen Mon Greg Our Intensive including our company intensives will be offered Thu Darius DRUMS Min.7Yrs and up M-F AVI Aug 9th- 20th Beg thru Elite Levels will be separated Wed Sayak Ballet: 9:15 – 1pm 1:30-4pm Jazz: 1:30-4pm Thu Gerry

More days will be added upon demand – all teachers are in person except Morgan Private Lessons & Class Requests - all ages – all students also have the option to zoom in if they would like. Call us with your private groups, class or camp requests!

Dates Mar 15 Summer Reg Opens for all- Fall Pre-Registration begins for current students Jun 22 3 wk Summer - Create Your Own Class Camps & Privates May 3- 9 In Studio Observation Week – Zoom link will be sent to all families Jul 12 6 wk Summer Session - Create Your Own Class Camps & Privates May 23 Mulan & Show Stars all company dancers Aug 23rd First Day Of Our 2021-2022 School Year Jun 1st Registration opens for fall opens for all new students Sep 3rd Dance Company Registration Closes Jun 4-6 Dance Recitals 2021- Guaranteed option to students reg before Nov. 14 Oct 1st Hard Deadline for privates to register to participate in solo show Jun 13 Music Recital RSVP by May 13 Nov 13 Guaranteed Date for dancers participation in Jun recital Jun 21 Last Day Of Our 2020-2021 School Year Holiday Brks Nov 23- 28 Thanksgiving Break Dec 20- Jan 2 Winter Break

Dance Tuition Camps per week Music Tuition single Notes Tot & Parent & Me 30 min $19 All In One Camp $390 30 min $46 There is min of 5 students to Create A Class 45 min class a week 45min- $32 Pop Star Camp $290 45 min $69 Created classes will be added to our schedule for open registration -- Princess Academy $190 60 min $92 Ask about “closed or private classes for pods” Private 30 min $55 Intensives $590 No Reg Fee for summer classes or fall for those that pre-register Multi class discounts applied during the school year only

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HALEY HOEKSTRA EMILY MCQUIRE Haley is from Maple Grove, Minnesota. Her passion for dance started early, Emily McGuire began her dance training at Contemporary Dance leading her to train at Minnesota Dance Theatre Ballet School, Larkin Dance Theatre in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. She continued her dance Studio and University of Minnesota. In 2019, Haley graduated from Loyola education by receiving her B.F.A. in Contemporary Dance Performance Marymount University with degrees in dance and psychology. She trained at with a Ballet Emphasis from The Boston Conservatory. While studying Alonzo King Lines Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Dana Foglia Dance, at the conservatory, Emily found her passion for teaching dancers in all and TU Dance. Haley is a professional dancer with the Movement Talent genres of dance and enjoys working with students of all levels and Agency. She has worked for Tyra Banks and has performed in music videos and ages! Emily moved to in 2018 to pursue her dreams of live performances. Ballet has been her main focus and her training in ballet has teaching and performing. She performs professionally throughout the helped her be successful in all areas of dance and she looks forward to sharing LA area with various styles of dance and travels to the east coast to that with her students. teach award winning competition dances.

BRITTANY TURNER REBECCA JACKSON Brittany spent her childhood years training at local dance studio in Nevada and Rebecca graduated from LMU in 2007 with a BA in dance, and in 2017, after graduation, started to choreograph for their dance company. She spent she graduated from CSULB with her MA in dance. Not only has been two years training and performing with professional hip hop crew “Meccamee” dancing since the age of four and has a strong background in ballet, tap, in Las Vegas. Upon moving to California in 2012, she started working at SDM. In and jazz and Pilates she is a certified yoga instructor. She has performed 2015, she assisted “MJ One” dancer and choreographer Jawkeen Howard in the in many dance concerts, parades and special events with Disney. choreography and performance of “9 to 5,” one piece of many in Cirque du Rebecca was a scholarship intern at the Broadway Dance Center in New Soleil benefit event “One Night One Drop” at the LOVE Theatre in Las Vegas. York City and has been teaching and choreographing for competitive Brittany teaches and choreographs many styles of dance including jazz, dance teams since 2008. contemporary, hip hop, ballet and tap.

KASEY COSENTINO JOSHUA BROWN Kasey was born and raised in New York. She is trained in tap, jazz, ballet, Born in New Zealand, where he started his dance training, Joshua lyrical, contemporary and hip hop. She is well versed in teaching all age moved to Australia at age 10, where he continued his dance levels from 2yrs- adult, and has taught in New York, Canada, San Francisco training. He later moved to the United States to train at the School and Los Angeles. Kasey has been a competition coach and competitive of American Ballet and Miami City Ballet School. Josh went on to choreographer for 15yrs. She has trained with top choreographers like dance professionally as an apprentice for two seasons with the Brian Friedman, Mandy Moore and Savion Glover, to name a few. She Miami City Ballet before joining the Los Angeles Ballet as a company won the choreography award at KAR Nationals two years in a row and member where he has danced for 7 seasons. As well as teaching was featured in Dance Teacher Magazine. Kasey joined SDM in 2017 and ballet, he is also a NASM certified personal trainer, specializing in loves bringing joy and empowerment to dancers of all ages! strength and conditioning for dancers.

JESSI TORRES JESSICA WIERZBA Jessi is a choreographer, part-time lecturer, dancer, director, film maker, Jessica found passion in the arts at an early age in both dance and actor, and humorist. Jessi received her MFA in Dance from UCI, her MaED at theatre. She began her dance training at age four and fell in love with UOP, her BA at LMU, and her yoga certification under Srivatsa Ramaswami. musical theatre soon after when she began her training as one of Lee Currently, Jess is a Senior Lecturer at LMU, a Lecturer at Chapman Strasberg Theatre Institute's youngest students. Jessica's dedication University and LBCC, Ballet CO Director at the School of Dance and Music, and zest for theatre, dance and choreography lead her to Boston and Director for her company JESS HARPER & DANCERS. She’s danced for where she earned her B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Emerson College and choreographed with METHOD, KAIROS, MULTIPLEX, TONGUE, and Earth and worked with Adam Guettel to choreograph some of Emerson's Wind & Fire to name a few. She’s won Lester Horton Awards with METHOD Main Stage productions. Currently, Jessica is working on her debut and TONGUE and was nominated for Best Female Artist with METHOD. Jessi solo album, is an active member of the Road Theatre Company in is grateful to live life creatively and give back to the community. North Hollywood and a member of the Screen Actor's Guild.

available for camps, classes & privates all summer KRISTY FLORES PAIGE POLITO available for camps, classes & privates all summer Kristy was born in the Bronx, N.Y. from immigrant parents. Kristy started After graduating from her dance studio, Paige Polito moved from dancing at the age of two and singing at the age of four. In high school she the soulful state of Louisiana to Los Angeles to pursue a commercial choreographed for her high school dance team and performed in school dance career and education. She graduated from Studio School Los plays. Since graduating high school with honors, her dancing career has led Angeles with a BFA in commercial dance learning how to be her to travel all across the globe. She has performed in competitions, collaborative and versatile in the performing arts industry. Paige festivals and has been seen in films such as MGM’s remake of Fame, You Got trains in jazz, contemporary, ballet, hip hop and aerial silks. Her Served and Beat the World. The arts have always been a big outlet for her experience includes many stage performances and films including life and she is so excited to be a part of our SDM family as the Director of the official music video for “Fun in Life” by TFIL, Scotty Sire, and our Hip Hop division of company and a very beloved instructor. Kristy has of . She has also discovered a hidden been with SDM since 2013! talent in teaching.

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AIMEE BEEMER available for camps, classes & privates all summer ALANNA REDDY Aimee started teaching at the age of sixteen at her local studio. Although Alanna has been dancing ever since she can remember and it the majority of her training seventeen hours a week was based in ballet, has always been her dream to become a dance teacher. She specifically the Vaganova style, she also competed with styles of tap, hip began dancing at the School of Dance & Music with an hop and jazz before moving to California in 2018 where she began emphasis in tap in 2007 and has loved every minute of it. teaching for the School of Dance and Music. She was excited to have Alanna is beyond excited to begin teaching and sharing her worked with SDM’s ballet company’s production of “Alice In passion for dance with SDM! Wonderland,” and loves working with students of all ages and styles.

SAMANTHA DOBSON BECCA JOHNSON Sammie is originally from southern Indiana and currently resides in Long Becca (Burlington) is a North Carolina native and alumnus of the Beach where she is finishing up her degrees in Dance and Kinesiology at University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she received a BFA in Long Beach City College. She has trained with Mikey Perkins from Perkins dance. Her love for dance started early and growing up, she was actively School of the Arts in Norwich, NY and Vincent Thomas, founder of VT involved in studio classes and taught ballet and jazz. At UNC Greensboro Dance. Her performance experience consists of dancing with Onyx Winter she learned techniques such as safety release, Graham, Cunningham, guard in Dayton, OH from 2010-2014. Sammie was the Dance and contact improvisation, which influence her style greatly today. Becca Team Director at Redondo Union High School from 2015-2020 and has has performed everywhere from the Kennedy Center in Washington, taught Jazz, Modern, Tap, Hip-Hop, and Ballet. She actively choreographs D.C. through the American Collegiate Dance Association to Martha and designs shows for marching bands and color guards across the country. Graham's "Prelude to Action" at the Joyce Theater in New York.

REBECCA MARTIN VALERIE BRUSENHABER Rebecca graduated from Las Vegas of Performing Arts with The Val began dancing at the age of 8 in her hometown of Buffalo, NY. She has Most Talented Dancer Award. She moved to Long Beach California trained extensively in all styles including Ballet, Tap, Hip Hop, Jazz, Acro, to attend California State University of Long Beach for her Bachelor Contemporary, Modern, Pointe and Ballroom. She started teaching master of Fine Arts Degree in Dance. Rebecca has danced for Disneyland in classes at age 15. Her favorite memories include performing a tap number in their Soundsational parade and special events and Nannette the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and competing nationally at the American Brodie’s Dance Theater, a modern dance company that has been Dance Awards. Val trained with the River North Dance Company and in 2015 around for over twenty five years. Rebecca has been excited to decided to follow her dreams and move to Los Angeles to pursue a career in share her passion for teaching at the School of Dance & Music since acting and dance. She has a passion for working with her students to further 2013! their love for dance and cannot wait to continue to watch them grow!

ALYSSA VIEYRA CECE MCLENNAN Alyssa trained in Ballet with the Royal Academy of Dance under the Cece Mclennan is a Australian-American dancer and actress. While direction of Mary Moe Adams where she completed her vocational she retained her citizenship, unfortunately, she did not retain the training and recently did Teacher Training at their headquarters in accent. She spent 10 years doing musical theaters, plays and a lot of London. As a teenager, she was invited to train and perform with the ballets until she went to study at the Boston Conservatory. After Milwaukee Ballet and the State Street Ballet. She also trained in Jazz, receiving her BFA at Boston Conservatory in Musical Theater Modern, and Musical Theatre at the New School for the Arts. Her emphasizing in Dance, she discovered a love for the camera and performance and choreographic repertoire include A Midsummers decided to move back to LA and purse a career in film and tv. Her Nights Dream, The Nutcracker, Coppelia, The Firebird, Serenade, skills range from basic contortion and unarmed stage combat to Paquita, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, Raymonda, La Bayadere, Disney character impressions. Cece is excited to join SDM this spring. Giselle, and other contemporary productions.

AUTUMN MCCALL SUSIE LOZANO Autumn began dancing at the age of 3 and has been dancing ever since. She Susie was born and raised in North Hollywood, CA and began dancing started cheerleading in Jr. High and continued it through college until when she was 5 years old. She did a performance in elementary school graduating, and gained experience in pageants, being crowned “Miss Downey as a tribute to Debbie Reynolds and Debbie came to the show and Princess 1999”. Autumn attended Pepperdine University founding the offered her a scholarship at Debbie Reynolds professional rehearsal Pepperdine Dance Team and serving as their choreographer for 4 years. She studios. She is trained in tap, jazz, hip-hip, ballet, tumbling, and has also been in various movies and TV shows such as “Lizzie McGuire” and contemporary/lyrical. She began volunteering with her dance “Even Stevens”. Autumn has been teaching with SDM from the beginning instructor, Patsy Metzger, at 12 years old to assist with teaching the 8 over 20 years ago! She will be moving out of town this summer after being a and under classes. When she turned 18 she started working with middle keystone to our school and a big part of our family! She has gained a schoolers teaching hip-hop and jazz. That same year she got signed with tremendous amount of respect, love and admiration from every life she has a dance agency and has been in music videos, concept videos, and many touched. We hope she will come back to offer a master class in the future, more. She loves dancing, and teaching including being able to inspire until then WE LOVE YOU AUTUMN AND WILL MISS YOU MORE THAN YOU and share her passion with children. We look forward to Susie joining us WILL EVER KNOW!!! back this winter.

GERRY DOOT GREG WISHON Gerry started his musical journey at the age of 10, and later taught 1:1 Gregory plays over 30 instruments professionally including Sitar. drum lessons at a music school in Fremont, CA. He graduated in 2008 from Greg is passionate about guitar and bass and has been playing over San Jose State University with a Theater Arts emphasis. After receiving an 24 years. He studied with brilliant musicians such as Scott endorsement from a local drum shop called Lemmon Percussion and Henderson, Mike Stern and Victor Wooten before graduating from playing in numerous bands in the San Francisco Bay area, Gerry took a Musicians Institute: Guitar Institute of Technology. Greg has chance toexplore his musical options in Los Angeles. There he was recorded or performed with Wu Tang, Ice Tea, the Black Eyed Peas, swooped up by the pop/rock band “Letters Burning” with whom he Kid & Play, Slick Rick, Coolio, Pharcyde and Patrick Moraz (Moody recorded an album and played the Vans and also started a Blues). Greg lives in the South Bay with his family, and continues to funk/soul/rock/hip hop band “Ginger,” in which he still plays and records perform locally on a regular basis. albums.

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ESTEBAN PEREZ FAITH BENFORD Esteban Perez is a Basso Cantante (a Lyrical Bass) and has taught and Faith Benford is a multi-instrumentalist from Baker, Louisiana who performed in Mexico, Los Angeles and Italy. He graduated from the specializes in flute, guitar and voice but piano is her first love. Though Autonomous University of Nayarit in Mexico majoring in vocal she began her career as a church musician, she has moved on to performance/classical vocal singing. He was part of the opera study music therapy and perform music for meditation. Faith studied workshop of the Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit, the Coro Del music therapy at Loyola University in New Orleans with a Estado de Nayarit, and the Coro Universitario Giuseppe Verdi, and was concentration on piano. She enjoys playing classical, jazz, and also a special member of the chorus Guillermo Zarabia in the city of popular music and cannot wait to share her lifelong passion for Mazatlan. Since returning to SoCal, he has sung several operatic roles music. and was a featured soloist with the Coachella Valley Symphony under the direction of conductor John Mario Di Constanzo.

ROBERT SPRAYBERRY DARIUS SCHEIDER Robert received an Advanced Composition and Conducting degree Darius is a professional musician and instructor. Born and raised in from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, England and France, he has successfully taught hundreds of hours at the LFNY (Lycée studied privately with the renowned and acclaimed teacher Nadia Francais De New York - NYC) and numerous private and group classes Boulanger in , France. Robert has toured as a keyboardist with since 2010. He enjoys teaching and playing bass and both the acoustic Chaka Kahn and composed numerous scores for theatre, modern and electric guitar in all genres of music including Jazz, Pop, R&B, Funk, dance and has contributed 700+ songs for the CBS children’s series Blues, Country, World Music, and Fusion, as well as songwriting and of educational music. Robert has won awards on film and TV and recording music professionally. In addition to his two music degrees, toured as a musical director for Musical Theater casts ranging from Darius also has a degree in philosophy from the University of Lyon, Broadway productions such as RENT to the Disney production of High France. He teaches kids, teenagers and adults adapting lessons to fit the School Musical. As a pianist, Robert has studied with a variety of personality of each student. pianists and teachers and worked in a range of styles and idioms from southern R&B and blues/jazz to classical piano and technique.

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ATHENA MURPHY Kelly began singing at a young age and participating in community musical Athena learned to read music before she could read English. Over the theater. She studied Vocal Performance at California Polytechnic State past twenty-three years of teaching piano, voice and guitar, she has University, San Luis Obispo and received her B.A. in Music in 2017. Her worked individually with over 3500 kids and adults who have learned performances at Cal Poly include an understudy for the lead role in The musical skills, performance technique, and most importantly, how to Merry Widow, winner of the Soloist Showcase Competition, and several love playing an instrument for life! She’s great at using neuroscience solo recitals. Kelly received a full-ride scholarship to receive her Master’s to help students tap into the innate musical skills they already have Degree in Vocal Performance from Cal State University, Northridge where and how to apply that to an instrument. She has a Bachelor of Arts in she continues to study voice and piano. She recently performed as the Jazz/Commercial Piano performance (and a Minor in Opera!) and has principal role of Anne Page in their Fall 2017 opera The Merry Wives of performed professionally since 1988. Athena enjoys teaching and is Windsor written by Shakespeare. She is also part of CSUN’s Vocal excited to be a part of our School of Dance & Music family! Pedagogy Presidential Scholarship Project that focuses on the art of teaching voice.

JOE SANDERS NEAL RESENFELD Joe is an award-winning composer, performer, and vocal educator. In 2015, Neal is a multi-instrumentalist with a background in music composition he graduated with a BM in Music Composition from the for film and television, a guitarist for an international touring band, and Conservatory at California State University, Long Beach and shortly after an instructor of 15 years for young beginners to college aged students. completing his studies was na Neal has been teaching piano, guitar, violin, bass and recording med a Grand Prize Winner and Lennon Award Winner in the World Music technology and has worked with a number of artists including Ike Willis category of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Since then, Joe has worked (of Frank Zappa Band), Bernard Fowler (Black Uhuru), John Mayer and on a multitude of exciting projects including music for awarded feature films, The Doobie Brothers. Neal has a Music Composition B.A. and a music for shows on Fox Network, video games that have trended on the App Performance A.A. degree from University of South Florida. Store, and musical arrangements/production for various pop artists. Videos featuring his music have over 90 million combined views on YouTube.

ZACH PAGTER MORGAN O’SHAUGHNESSEY As a classically-trained violist and music arranger, Morgan has Zach has been teaching guitar, voice and piano since 2013 and specializes in Rock, performed live on RAI Radio 3 at Palazzo Quirinale for the President of Pop and Jazz vocal styles. He studied classical and jazz voice at Bob Cole the Italian Republic. He has also presented several recitals of modern Conservatory of Music in Long Beach. He’s been in the music industry since 2008 Italian works as well as recorded an album of the complete chamber in a variety of fields from scoring commercials, touring and session work to music of Gino Gornini. His extensive discography with legendary ghostwriting for other artists. Zach is focused on songwriting and production in producer Sylvia Massy includes string arrangements for Johnny Depp, contemporary pop styles and has received millions of streams on written and Rihanna, and Soilwork. He holds a Bachelor of Music from San recorded songs used in major network commercials, placed on national top 100 Francisco Conservatory, where he studied with Jodi Levitz and radio charts and won songwriting competitions. He’s headlined shows across the members of the Kronos Quartet, and a Master of Music from UCLA. country and worked with artists like MAX, Gnash, Jim Keltner (The Traveling Wilburys, Bob Dylan) and Fred Tacket (Little Feat).

SAYAK DAS Sayak teaches piano, voice, guitar, and drums. He began classical piano lessons when he was just 3 years which he believes gave him his initial footing in the world of music theory. As soon as he entered his teenage years he picked up electric guitar and drums. Growing up he was involved with orchestra (Violin), wind ensemble (French horn), marching band (drumline - quads), indoor drumline (drum kit), and choir. While attending Berklee College of Music he ended up taking songwriting and singing very seriously at Berklee. Sayak has performed festivals like Osheaga in , the Vans Warped Tour, the Boston Music Awards, and currently writes and produces for various artists in addition to singing for a band called ROY JUNO. Note - Not all of our teachers may be listed as we have many other part - part timers as well!

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