Music Faculty

Guitar

Eleazer Rodriguez, Guitar
Classical guitar performances in Toronto, New York, New Jersey, Madrid, Puerto Rico. M.M., Brooklyn College; B.M., Nyack College. Studies at the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico; Manhattan School of Music; Toronto Guitar Institute. Guitar studies with Nicholas Goluses, Richard Summers, Lars Frandsen. Master classes with Ivan Rijos, Juan Mercadal, Roland Dyens. Faculty, Nyack College; Passaic Community College. Prep Center faculty since 2008.

Sean Satin, Guitar
Performances, Alice Tully Hall (Lincoln Center); Manhattan School of Music; Columbia University; New York University; Kingsborough Community College; Harrison Public Library; Knitting Factory. E.D.M., Teachers College, Columbia University (in progress); M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University; B.M., Manhattan School of Music. Guitar studies with Jorge Morel, Oren Fader, Mark Delpriora. Master classes with Eliot Fisk, Eduardo Fernandez, David Starobin, Patrick O’Brien. Faculty, Creative Arts Lab, Teachers College, Columbia University. Guitar faculty, Turtle Bay Music School. Head of Music Program, Maine Teen Camp. Teaching Artist for Midori and Friends. Prep Center faculty since 2007.

Piano

Emily White, Piano Faculty Chair
Recital and concerto appearances, U.S.; Canada; United Kingdom; Italy; Switzerland; Belgium; Poland; Czech Republic; Romania. Master classes, SMU; UTSA; New World School of the Arts; Colchester Institute, U.K.; Gheorghe Dima Academy, Romania. Winner, London Symphony Orchestra Foundation Grant; Queen’s Commendation for Excellence; Broadwood Trust Scholarship. Top prizes, International Young Concert Artists Competition of Royal Tunbridge Wells, U.K.; International Mozart Competition, Salzburg; New York Chopin Foundation Competition; Bergen Philharmonic Competition; Manhattan School of Music Concerto Competition; National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artists Awards. Broadcasts, WQXR; NPR; WBAI; WFLN-Philadelphia; RAI-Italy. Adjudicator, Hong Kong HKSMSA Festival; Special Music School Juries; LaGuardia High School Concerto Competition; Juilliard Pre-College Concerto Competiton; New York Music Competition; Associated Music Teachers League Auditions. Hodgson and Meaker Fellowships, RAM, London; Teaching and Opera Coaching Fellowships, The Juilliard School. D.M.A., Manhattan School of Music; Dip.R.A.M., Royal Academy of Music, London; M.M., The Juilliard School; B.M., summa cum laude, University of Maryland. Piano studies with Sascha Gorodnitzki, Christopher Elton, Solomon Mikowsky, Donn-Alexandre Feder, Nelita True. Faculty, The Juilliard School Evening Division. Former faculty, Manhattan School of Music; Interlochen Arts Camp. Prep Center faculty since 1985.

Victoria Freyberg, Piano
Chamber music performances in Russia and New York. Chamber music recitals at Brooklyn College Preparatory Center. M.A., Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music; Graduate, Music College, Kishinev, Moldavia. Piano studies with Augustin Anievas. Former Conservatory faculty, Kishinev, Moldavia. Member, Brooklyn Music Teachers Guild; New York State Music Teachers Association. Faculty, Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music. Prep Center faculty since 1978.

Arianna Goldina, Piano
Recital performances of the Goldina-Loumbrozo Piano Duothroughout North America, France, Germany, Italy, U.K., Scandinavia, Russia,the Baltic States; concerto appearances with the Detroit Symphony, the Pacific Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Symphony of the Americas, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Florida,and the Latvian National Symphonic Orchestra.  Lecture-Recitals throughout the United States. Winner of five international duo-piano competitions, including First Prize, Second Murray Dranoff International Two-Piano Competition and First Prize, Seventh V. Bucchi International Duo-Piano Competition.  Broadcasts: Radio-France, BBC, Television Polynesie, WVIA – Scranton/Wilkesbarre, KUSC-Los Angeles, KSJN-Minnesota Public Radio. Recordings: Aaron Copland’s Complete works for one piano, four hands and two pianos; American Music for Two Pianos:  John Corigliano and Ned Rorem; French Music for Two Pianos; Arianna Goldina and Remy Loumbrozo Play Liszt. Adjudicator: American Liszt Society, International Concert Alliance, The Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, and the Seventh Murray Dranoff International Two-Piano Competition.  Ph.D. in Piano Performance, New York University; M.M., The Juilliard School of Music;  Diploma summa cum laude in Performance, Latvian State Conservatory.  Piano studies with Herbert Stessin and Martin Canin.  Former faculty: The French-American Conservatory of Music, The Roosa School of Music, New York University, The Juilliard School of Music. Artist-Lecturer, Moravian College since 1999, Prep Center faculty since 2008.

Diane Kirkpatrick, Piano
Recitals throughout the United States and Europe including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, St. Peter's Church, Riverside Church, The Museum of the City of New York, The Brooklyn Museum, The Brooklyn Library and La Rocca di Stellata, Villa Spisani, Teatro Verdi and Pallazzo Benincasa in Italy. Televised performance, WKRC Cincinnati. Soloist with The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, Dayton Symphony and The Springfield Symphony Orchestra. Top prizes, National Foundation of Music Clubs Young Artists Awards, American Music Scholarships Association Competition, University of Cincinnati. Awarded full scholarship, Royal Academy of Music (London). Master classes and studies with Samuel Sanders, The Juilliard School. M.M., B.M. and assistantship, BGSU College of Musical Arts. Teaching assistant to Jerome Rose. Piano studies with Mary Lou Krosnick, Audley Wasson, Robert Wynne, Robert Howatt, Elizabeth Cobb and Jerome Rose. Master classes with Lorin Hollander, Leon Fleisher, Menahem Pressler. Former faculty, The College of New Rochelle, Bergen Community College, College of Musical Arts at BGSU, Brooklyn Music School, Roosa School of Music. Faculty, The International Keyboard Institute and Festival, Mannes College of Music. Prep Center faculty since 1997.

Vilija Naujokaitis, Piano
Chamber music performances in Lithuania, Russia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, New York, Washington DC; Piano studies at Vilnius Conservatoire and Lithuanian Music Academy, Vilnius, Lithuania; Accompanist at M.K.Ciurlionis Art Gymnasium, Lithuanian Music Academy and Vilnius Philharmonic Society, Lithuania, Special Music School and Lucy Moses School, NY; Organist, choir director and piano coach for piano studio at St. Augustine Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, NY.  Former faculty at Vilnius Conservatoire, Lithuania.  Prep Center faculty since 2009.

Strings

Matthew Reichert, Violin, Director of String and Suzuki Programs
Performances and master classes in the U.S., former Soviet Union, Central America, China. Prize, Best Student Paper 2007 (“Carl Bergmann the Pioneer”), Greater New York Chapter, American Musicological Society. M.A., Brooklyn College; B.M., The Juilliard School. Violin studies with Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki, Itzhak Perlman, Felix Galimir, and members of the Tokyo String Quartet. Pedagogical studies with Louise Behrend. Faculty, Special Music School; Lucy Moses School; Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College. Former faculty, School of Music, University of Iowa; Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University; Starling Fellow Violin Instructor and Director of Technique Classes for Studio of Dorothy DeLay at The Juilliard School and the Aspen Music School; Bloomingdale House of Music. Prep Center faculty since 1996 and Director of String Programs since 2006.

Julianne Carney, Violin, Suzuki Violin
Performances, One World Symphony. Concertmaster, Lawrence Symphony Orchestra. Performances with Jay Z at Royal Albert Hall and Radio City Music Hall. Improvisational performances in New York. Recording with Sufjan Stevens and My Brightest Diamond. Winner, Lawrence Conservatory Performance Award; University Trustee Scholarship. Thomas J. Watson Fellowship: Independent study of contemporary music practices in Europe. B.M., Lawrence University. Suzuki Certification, School for Strings; Suzuki Institute of Chicago. Violin studies with Georgios Demertzis, Paul Kantor, Alan Bodman, Sally Thomas, Ann Setzer, Don Haines. Participant, Meadowmount School of Music Summer Festival; Interlochen Arts Camp. Faculty, Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy I; CAMBA After-School Program, IS 62; Holy Trinity School (Haiti); Lawrence Arts Academy. Prep Center faculty since 2007.

Julia Evans, Violin, Suzuki Violin
Orchestral experience, Assisi Music Festival; Orchestra of St. Luke’s, American Classical Orchestra; “Hairspray” on Broadway. Winner, New York Youth Symphony Best Achievement Award. M.A., New York University; B.M., Mannes College of Music. Violin studies with Anca Nicolau, Erico Sato, Saoko Tanaka, Hiroko Yajima, Ann Setzer. Suzuki Certification, School for Strings; Suzuki studies with Louise Behrend. Former faculty, Manhattan School of Music Pre-College; Lycee Francais, New York; Hoff Barthelson Music School; Orchestra of St. Luke’s outreach program; School for Strings outreach program. Prep Center faculty since 2007.

Nora Friedman, Violin, Suzuki Violin
B. A., Wesleyan University; M.M., Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music; Suzuki pedagogical training, American Suzuki Institute, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.  Violin studies with Masao Kawasaki, Weigang Li, Perry Elliot.  Awards:  Shinichi Suzuki/American Suzuki Foundation Teacher Training Scholarship, Opus 118 Harlem School of Music String Training Workshop, Fund for Teachers Grant.  Director of Violin Program- Excellence Boys Charter School of Bedford Stuyvesant; Faculty – The Thurnauer School of Music; Elisabeth Morrow School and Summer String Festival.  Prep Center faculty since 2011.

June Hyun, Violin, Suzuki Violin
Violinist with the Aspen Music Festival, 92nd Street Y Orchestra, New England Symphonic Ensemble. M.M., Manhattan School of Music; M.A., University of Chicago; B.A., New York University. Suzuki Certification, School for Strings. Violin studies with Isaac Malkin, Ariana Bronne, Dorothy Delay. Master classes with Henryk Szeryng, Sandor Vegh, American String Quartet. Faculty, Music Conservatory of Westchester; Packer Collegiate Institute. Prep Center faculty since 2006.

James Ilgenfritz, Double Bass, Electric Bass, Jazz Improvisation
Performances with George Lewis, Pauline Oliveros, John Zorn; appearances at Symphony Space, Issue Project Room, Irondale Theater, World Financial Center Winter Garden, Vancouver Jazz Festival, 2009 International Society of Bassists Conference, JVC Jazz Festival. Presentation, International Society for Improvised Music. Music Omi International Musicians Residency. M.A., University of California San Diego; B.M., University of Michigan. Former faculty, After School Enrichment Program, The Children’s School PS 372. Teaching Assistant, UCSD. Prep Center faculty since 2010.

Yuki Ishibashi, Conductor (Junior Orchestra)
Performances as conductor with the Hampton Roads Chamber Players Summer Festival and the Mannes Repertory Orchestra.  Violinist (Assistant Concertmaster) with the New Amsterdam Orchestra; solo violinist with the Off-Broadway production of “The Last Five Years.”  M.M. in Orchestra Conducting from The Mannes College of Music; B.A., from the College of William and Mary in Music/Violin and Physics. Conducting studies with David Hayes, Michael Jinbo, George Rothman, and Wes Kenney. Violin studies with Nina Beilina and Susan Via.  Prep Center faculty since 2008.

Kalin Ivanov, Cello
Soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and recording artist in Bulgaria, Russia, Greece, Austria, Switzerland, France, England, U.S. Solo performances with Sofia Philharmonic; Varna Philharmonic; Plovdiv Philharmonic; Moscow Chamber Orchestra; Cantus Firmus; Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra; Manhattan Virtuosi Orchestra. Winner, C. W. Post Chamber Music Festival Concerto Competition. Member, The Forte String Quartet; New York Empire Trio. Recipient, Chancellor’s Award, Cultural Achievement Award, grant, Artist Fund of the New York Foundation for the Arts. Master classes, U.S. and Europe; Radio and television broadcasts. Recordings on Gega New and MSR Classics. Website: http://www.kalinivanov.com/.  M.M., Brooklyn College; M.M., State Music Academy, Bulgaria; B.M., Academy of Music and Dance Arts, Bulgaria. Faculty, Adelphi University; SUNY, Long Island Conservatory; Brooklyn College Conservatory. Prep Center faculty since 1997.

Krasi Ivanov, Violin, Viola
Performances in Spain, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Bulgaria, U.S. Violinist, Plovdiv State Philharmonic and Opera Theater; Stara Zagora State Opera; AMDA Chamber Orchestra; Brooklyn College Orchestra; Manhattan Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra; Ensemble du Monde; Forte String Quartet; Bulgarian Piano Quartet; Trio “BG.”  Broadcasts, Bulgarian National Television and Radio; “Voice of America;” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; WNYC-New York. M.M., Brooklyn College; M.M., B.M., Academy of Music and Dance Art, Bulgaria. Violin studies with Masao Kawasaki. Faculty, Rondo Music Festival, VT. Former Faculty, Brooklyn College String Project; P.S. 58 String Program. Prep Center faculty since 2006.

Mikyung Kim, Violin, Suzuki Violin
Performances, New World Symphony; Juilliard China Tour Orchestra; Hudson Valley Philharmonic. Concertmaster, Juilliard Chamber Orchestra; Oberlin Baroque Orchestra. Principal 2 violin, Oberlin Orchestra. Solo and chamber performances, The Juilliard School; Joyce Dutka Competition winners’ gala, New York; Oberlin faculty recital, Aspen Music Fesitval; Mozarteum International Festival. First Prize, Dae-gu  International Contemporary Music Competition; Second Prize, Joyce Dutka Competition. M.M., The Juilliard School; B.M., Oberlin Conservatory. Violin studies with Robert Mann, Kyung Sun Lee, and Joseph Kim. Suzuki certification, School for Strings. Prep Center faculty since 2008.

Samuel Marchan, Viola, Violin, Suzuki Violin
Violist and founder member of the Carpentier String Quartet, AXIS Guitar Quintet and Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas in NY. Soloist with the Merida Philarmonic,Venezuela. 2005 King Park Chavez Visiting Professorship Award from the University of Michigan. Artistic residencies at La Guardia Community College, Harlem School of the Arts and El Museo del Barrio. B.M., The Juilliard School; M.M., New York University. Current faculty, CUNY Harmony Program, Third Street, Brooklyn Friends; guest teacher at the Latin American Violin Academy Summer Camp in Venezuela. Former faculty, the School for Strings at PS 116, CPSM at Queens College, and Montclair State University Music Prep Program.  Prep Center faculty since 2009.

Edmundo Ramirez, Viola, Violin, Suzuki Violin
Performances, Fine Arts Quartet, String Quintets, Ensemble Intercontemporaine, Meininger Hopkapelle (Germany), New York Symphonic Ensemble.  B. M., The Juilliard School of Music; M. M., The Mannes college of Music; Masters Program in Applied Music and Music Teaching (anticipated), Lehman College. Suzuki pedagogical training, School for Strings.  Violin Method Certificate, Mark O’Connor.  Violin studies with Rafael Druian and Ida Haendel.  Viola studies with Yuri Bashmet and Heidi Castleman.  Chamber music studies with Felix Galimir and the Juilliard Quartet. Violin Teacher, Third Street Music Settlement Miles Program; Harmony Program CUNY; Long Island University; Manheim Hochshule (Germany).  Prep Center faculty since 2011.

Serafim Smigelskiy, Cello, Suzuki Cello
Recent solo recitals: The Players (NYC), The Roerich Museum (NYC), SHSU University (TX), Illinois Wesleyan University (IL). Chamber music performances, Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall), Alice Tully Hall, Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Lincoln Center, Harvard University Radcliff Hall, Moscow Philharmonic Hall, Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, Tokyo Opera Grand City Hall.  Concerto performances with the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ars Viva Orchestra (Kansas City).  Orchestral performances, Juilliard School Orchestra (principal cellist), Ensemble du Monde Orchestra (principal cellist).  B.M. , Saint-Petersburg State Conservatory for Music. M.M., The Juilliard School (anticipated).  Suzuki pedagogical training, Ithaca College Suzuki Institute and The School for Strings (NYC).  Cello studies with Richard Aaron, Martin Storey, Alexey Massarsky, Konstantin Kucherov, Galina Koroleva. Master classes with Mstislav Rostropovich, Laurence Lesser, Julius Berger. Fellowship recipient – Aspen Music Festival and School, Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg. Morse and Goldman Fellowships at Juilliard School. Winner, Russian State Music Competition.  Faculty, Illinois Wesleyan University Cello Festival and Camp, George Jackson Academy (NYC).  Prep Center faculty since 2011.

Voice

Thomas Andolora, Theater, Voice
Composer, writer, teacher, musical director. Director and originator of The Dickens Victorian Carollers (http://www.carollers.com/) – performances at the White House for the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton Administrations. Musical Director for the original production of “Hiroshima” (music by Yoko Ono), winner of the Kennedy Center Award for Best American Play, 1997. Founding Member and Member of Board of Directors, Oxford-Shakespeare Theatre (http://www.osctheatre.org/). B.F.A., Musical Theater, SUNY Fredonia. Prep Center faculty since 2006.

Christine Free, Voice, Music and Movement, Theory
Performances as Dido in Henry Purcell's “Dido and Aeneas;” Daniele in “La Susanna” with Brandywine Baroque; Romeo in “I Capuletti ed i Montecchi;” Cherubino in “Le Nozze di Figaro;” Grisostomo in “Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho;” Miriam in Lee Hoiby's “The Scarf;” “Lamento D'Arianna” at the Boston Early Music Festival. D.M.A., Voice, SUNY Stony Brook (in progress); M.M., SUNY Stony Brook; B.F.A., Voice, Carnegie Mellon University. Voice studies with Elaine Bonazzi, Susanne Marsee, Andrea Hanson. Studies in Alexander Technique with Maria Caruso. Studies in Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Dalcroze Training Institute, CMU; International Dalcroze Summer Institute. Theory Instructor, SUNY Stony Brook. Voice faculty, SUNY Stonybrook. Prep Center faculty since 2007.

Winds

Valerie Holmes, Flute, Suzuki Flute, Recorder
Solo recitals and concerto appearances in France, Taiwan, Republic of China, New York, West Coast U.S. Winner, Artists International Competition; New York debut, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. D.M.A., Manhattan School of Music; M.M., B.A., San Jose State University. Teaching Certification, Columbia University Teachers College. Flute studies with Louis Moyse, Carol Wincenc, Harold Bennett. Suzuki Certification, University of Eastern Tennessee. Faculty, Special Music School; Lucy Moses School; French Conservatory of Music; Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music; Nyack College. Prep Center faculty since 1989.

Daniel Kelley, Clarinet, Saxophone
Chamber music performances, Stern Auditorium and Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts; Smithsonian Institution; Atlanta Arts Festival; Oklahoma Mozart Festival; Chautauqua Institution. Concerts in 46 states of the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, Virgin Islands. Concerto soloist with El Paso Symphony Orchestra. Former member, U.S. Air Force Band, Washington, D.C. Broadcasts, “Today Show;” “A Prairie Home Companion;” “Voice of America;” WQXR; WNYC; WETA. Three recordings on BMG with Richard Stolzman. B.M., Sam Houston State University. Clarinet studies with Kalmen Opperman, Leon Russianoff, Richard Picker. Prep Center faculty since 2000.

Michael Laderman, Flute
Flutist in solo recitals; Freelance orchestral and chamber player; Jazz musician; Recording artist. Performances in New York metropolitan area, France, Italy, Malaysia. Winner, Javits and CUNY Presidential Fellowships; Artists International Competition; New York Flute Club Competition. New recording on MMC of music by Matthew Fields (Kabala album, CD-2087). Website: fluteperformer.com. D.M.A., M.M., SUNY Stony Brook; B.F.A., summa cum laude, SUNY Purchase. Flute studies with Samuel Baron, Keith Underwood, Sandra Miller, Julius Baker, Thomas Nyfenger, Trude Kane. Faculty, Polytechnic University. Prep Center faculty since 1999.

Karisa Werdon, Oboe, English Horn, Music Theory, Music and Movement
Performances as soloist: in collaboration with trumpeter Jens Lindeman, Banff Festival Orchestra; Bach Festival Orchestra. Principal oboist, Quintet Tabor; Intrada Winds; Schneider Chamber Music Series; Washington College Concert Series; St. Paul's Chamber Music Series; Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra; Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra; Norfolk Chamber Orchestra; Yale Philharmonia; New Music New Haven; Bang on a Can Tactus Ensemble, Upper Valley Music Center.   As oboist for Intrada Winds, Grand Prize Winner, Chamber Music Yellow Springs; Finalist, Chamber Music Society II, Lincoln Center; Winner, Yale Chamber Msuic Competition; Silver Medal, Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition; Winner, Coleman Chamber Music Competition. D.M.A., SUNY Stony Brook (in progress); M.M., Yale University; B.M., Grand Valley State University. Oboe studies with Stephen Taylor, Richard Killmer. Chamber music studies with William Purvis, Frank Morelli, Claude Frank. Artist-in-Residence, Upper Valley Music Center, New Hampshire. Theory and history instructor, SUNY Stony Brook. Prep Center faculty since 2007. 

Music and Movement

Christine Free - See Biograhy under Voice

Karisa Werdon - See Biography under Winds

Musicianship

Marie Incontrera - See Biograhy under Administration

Christine Free - See Biograhy under Voice

Michael Laderman - See Biography under Winds

Karisa Werdon - See Biography under Winds

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