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In our state-of-the-art Tech Lab, students will learn to read music and play fun tunes on piano using the proper hand position, fingerings, and scales. Students will receive individualized attention while enjoying the camaraderie and support of fellow musicians. Share the fun of making music with new friends!
Please Note: Class size is limited to six students to maximize individual attention and maintain the small group environment.
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Pianist Alexandra Saraceno has established herself as an avid performer in solo recitals and collaborative concerts as well as a sought-after teacher for private study and group classes. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in piano performance at Western Connecticut State University as a student of Russell Hirshfield, Alexandra completed her master’s degree and advanced certificate in piano performance and piano pedagogy at New York University as a student of Marilyn Nonken.
As a piano instructor, Alexandra advocates for a holistic course of study integrating aural s ...
As a piano instructor, Alexandra advocates for a holistic course of study integrating aural skills, technical facility, theoretical analysis, and historical knowledge while incorporating repertoire spanning the classical canon to contemporary composers, within and beyond the Western European tradition. Alexandra has cultivated this comprehensive approach through her work at the Center for Creative Youth at Wesleyan University, the School of Visual and Performing Arts at WCSU, and the Steinhardt School at NYU. In addition to her private studio, Alexandra also teaches at the Greenwich House Music School.
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Olga Gurevich is enjoying her career as a concert pianist, chamber musician, accompanist, and a piano teacher. Her concert appearances include Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, 92nd Street Y, the Symphony Space in NYC, Smirna Opera Theatre in Delaware, Westport Concert Series in Connecticut, Scuola Civica in Cagliari, Italy, and many others. Her performances were broadcasted by National Television in Azerbaijan, First TV Channel in Russia and RAI Tre in Italy.
Olga has been affiliated with Manhattan Symphonie, Richmond County orchestra, New York Session Symphony orchestra, Rivers ...
Olga has been affiliated with Manhattan Symphonie, Richmond County orchestra, New York Session Symphony orchestra, Riverside Opera Company, New Opera Company, and performed as a member of numerous chamber music ensembles. She has been a pianist in residence for Silver Bay String Quartet since 2015, performing at Silver Bay Festival and at Marcella Sembrich Museum concert series every summer. Olga’s solo piano recordings of Chopin’s music as a part of Musopen project can be found at musopen.org. Ms Gurevich has been the principal accompanist for the Riverside Opera Company since 2010, and collaborated with many singers, including Met Opera bass singer Mikhail Svetlov. In September 2019, Olga started working as an accompanist for Shireinu Choir in Great Neck, Long Island, specializing in Jewish secular vocal compositions.
Olga Gurevich earned her Master's degree in Piano Performance, Piano Accompanying and Piano Pedagogy at Gnesin Academy of Music, and then finished her post graduate studies at Maimonides State Academy in Moscow, Russia with DMA in Piano Performance. Olga is a winner of international piano competitions both in solo and piano four-hands divisions (XIII Piano International competition in Salerno, Italy, and Ragusa Ibla Foundation International Piano competition in Ragusa, Italy).
Besides being an active solo and chamber music performer, Olga has been a devoted educator for over two decades. In addition to teaching at 92Y School of Music, Ms. Gurevich is on the piano faculty of Bloomingdale School of Music in NYC and Suzuki Virtuoso Academy in Mineola, NY, as well as a Steinway Hall teacher.
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Moscow native Anna Khanina started her musical education at the age of five, and in 1996 she graduated with honors from the famous Gnessin School of Music in Moscow. She holds Masters Degrees from both the Gnessin Academy of Music in Moscow and the University of Music, Drama, and Media in Hannover, Germany, as well as a Performance Diploma from Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. In 2014 Ms. Khanina became a Doctor of Musical Arts after completing the Doctoral Program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she was a full-scholarship student of Gilb ...
Moscow native Anna Khanina started her musical education at the age of five, and in 1996 she graduated with honors from the famous Gnessin School of Music in Moscow. She holds Masters Degrees from both the Gnessin Academy of Music in Moscow and the University of Music, Drama, and Media in Hannover, Germany, as well as a Performance Diploma from Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. In 2014 Ms. Khanina became a Doctor of Musical Arts after completing the Doctoral Program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she was a full-scholarship student of Gilbert Kalish.
Ms. Khanina’s performing career spans the continents of Asia, Europe, and North and South America, where she regularly appears as a soloist and with chamber music ensembles. Her concerts were broadcast on WFMT Chicago (2007, 2011, 2014), The Voice of Music radio from Jerusalem Music Centre (2008), McGrow Young Artists Showcase WQXR New York (2011), and wiox.org (2011). Anna Khanina’s long list of awards include the prizes at Val Tidone International Piano Competition, the Second International Piano Competition in Panama, the Seventh International Competition Ciutat de Carlet in Valencia, the Grieg Competition in Oslo, and the Classica Nova Competition in Hannover, just to name a few.
Along with her performing career, Ms. Khanina remains a dedicated teacher. She is currently on the faculty at 92Y and Bloomingdale School of Music. Her students have appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and successfully participated at numerous national competitions.
Known for her exceptional technique, musicality and her programme versatility, Taiwanese-British musician Shu-Wei Tseng has won numerous prizes on both piano and cello. Concert performances have taken her across the UK, Europe, Russia, USA, and the Far East in major concert halls such as London‘s South Bank Purcell Room, Barbican Hall, St. John’s Smith’s Square, St.Martin-In-the-Fields, St James’s Piccadilly, the Wigmore Hall, and the Carnegie Hall in New York City, USA. Recent performances include visits to Australia, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Thai ...
Known for her exceptional technique, musicality and her programme versatility, Taiwanese-British musician Shu-Wei Tseng has won numerous prizes on both piano and cello. Concert performances have taken her across the UK, Europe, Russia, USA, and the Far East in major concert halls such as London‘s South Bank Purcell Room, Barbican Hall, St. John’s Smith’s Square, St.Martin-In-the-Fields, St James’s Piccadilly, the Wigmore Hall, and the Carnegie Hall in New York City, USA. Recent performances include visits to Australia, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Thailand and Russia.
Alongside her performance career, Shu-Wei is also an avid educator, holding over 25 years of teaching experience across three continents, working with students of all ages from beginner to professionals. Previous teaching positions include working at the Royal institutions of the United Kingdom, The Yehudi Menuhin School, City of London School for Girls, Chamber Music course leadership at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Head of Keyboard and Strings, and Director of Music positions.
Shu-Wei holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder (She is also a Global Ambassador for the University sine 2022), previous degrees and LRAM on both piano and cello from London’s Royal Academy of Music, a permanent teacher qualification from the United Kingdom (PGCE + QTS), NPQSL, as well as a MSc. in Psychology. She arrived in the UK as a young student after winning first and second prizes at the National Taiwan competitions on the cello and piano where she received double scholarships to study at the Wells Cathedral School, one of the four specialist music schools in the United Kingdom.
Besides performing as a soloist, Shu-Wei specialises in Strings and Keyboard-related chamber music on both her instruments, as well as conducting string orchestras. With the ability to teach in English, Mandarin and German, Shu-Wei held residencies and fellowships, gave masterclasses and workshops, as well as serving as a juror member for competitions, working with beginners up to taught Masters degree in the UK, Central Europe, Russia, America, and the Far East.
Her playing has been described as radiating a “passionate, energetic, researched, and committed personality with a powerful, fluid and beyond reproach technique” and producing “characters, colours, dynamics …. seldom heard in concerts.”
She held a Research Assistantship and lectureships on the piano and cello at the University of Colorado at Boulder, during which she received various performance and research prizes for her research in the ensemble issues between strings and keyboard instruments in sonata partnerships. Upon her DMA completion in 2010, Shu-Wei started teaching in Germany and has joined the faculty of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland since September 2010.
Since 2016, Shu-Wei has represented the Taipei Consulate and Taiwan Ministry of Culture in the UK on various occasions, such as being the first featured musician at the Taiwan Cultural Salon music series, as well as the first artist to represent Taiwan for the Embassy and Cultural Institute Series at the St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. In 2019, Shu-Wei gave an Australian solo debut on her two instruments and opened the 75th D-Day Commemoration Concert at the Notre Dame de Coutances Cathedral.
Early 2023 highlight included solo piano and chamber music appearance at the award-winning New York City Ballet principal Tiler Peck’s sold-out European debut week, Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends, at London’s Sadlers Wells Theatre in March, followed by performances on her two instruments in the following week in New York. In September 2023, she appeared as a guest artist at the special event, celebrating Vietnam-UK 50th year diplomatic relationship before relocating to New York, where Dr Tseng has since performed as a solo cellist at the Consulate General of Poland as part of the XXV International Chopin and Friends Festival’s Final Promenade, and the National Opera Center on the piano.
Pianist Nora Bartosik has performed internationally as a soloist and in chamber ensembles in the United States, Europe and Asia in venues including the Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Gesellschaft für Musiktheater in Vienna, the Théâtre de la Ville in Valence, France, and the Casa da Música in Porto, Portugal. She is the first prize winner of international competitions in France and Germany and was a Piano Fellow at the prestigious Tanglewood Music Festival. She has also performed in international festivals including the Aspen Music ...
Pianist Nora Bartosik has performed internationally as a soloist and in chamber ensembles in the United States, Europe and Asia in venues including the Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Gesellschaft für Musiktheater in Vienna, the Théâtre de la Ville in Valence, France, and the Casa da Música in Porto, Portugal. She is the first prize winner of international competitions in France and Germany and was a Piano Fellow at the prestigious Tanglewood Music Festival. She has also performed in international festivals including the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Saoû Chante Mozart Festival and the Festival des Nuits d’été in France, the HARMOS Chamber Music Festival in Portugal, and the Max Reger Forum in Bremen, Germany.
Nora is a devoted educator who has taught piano students of all ages for over a decade. She is on the faculty of the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, the Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School in Manhattan for students with vision loss, Opus One Music in Manhattan, and the Point CounterPoint summer chamber music festival for students ages 11-18 in Vermont. She maintains a small private studio and teaches music theory and ear training to students of all levels. She has served on the jury of the Suffolk Piano Teachers Foundation Piano Competition on Long Island and given recitals in Harvard University’s Sanders Theater to benefit afterschool arts programs for children in the Boston area. From 2010-2012, she was on the artist roster of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Germany, an organization with the mission to bring live music to audiences who otherwise would not have the opportunity to experience it.
Nora holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music and German Literature from Harvard University, a Master of Arts in piano performance from the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, and a Konzertexamen (Artist Diploma) degree in solo piano from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig. She also attended the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover upon the invitation of noted piano pedagogue Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. Her primary teachers have included Jacques Rouvier, Gerald Fauth, Patricia Zander, Robert Levin, and Jan Jiracek von Arnim. Nora is currently completing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance at The Graduate Center, City University of New York as a student of Ursula Oppens.
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