Aminda Asher is an active performer of orchestral and chamber music in New York City. She has appeared in concerts at many of New York’s greatest performance venues including Carnegie Hall, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Rose Studio, Merkin Hall, Symphony Space, Bargemusic and (Le) Poisson Rouge. She performs with several regional orchestras in the New York metropolitan area including the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Arcos Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts International New York Orchestra. She has also performed and recorded with the Albany Symphony. Outside of New York, Ms. Asher has performed with the New World Symphony in Miami, Fl, the Santo Domingo Music Festival Orchestra in the Dominican Republic, the Arcos Orchestra on two European tours and has participated in the intensive summer study programs at the Music Academy of the West and the Banff Centre of the Arts Chamber Music Residency Program. As an avid performer of contemporary chamber music, Ms. Asher is a member of Cadillac Moon Ensemble and Periapsis Music and Dance and has performed with Talea Ensemble. Also a dedicated traditional and Suzuki teacher, Ms. Asher is currently on the faculties of 92nd Street Y, Turtle Bay Music School and Lucy Moses School. Ms. Asher holds a B.M in cello performance from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, and a M.M. in Orchestral Performance from the Manhattan School of Music.

Aminda Asher is currently teaching the following classes:

Cello (Beginner)

Cello (Continuing Beginner)

Cello (Intermediate)

Adult Cello Ensemble

Tony DiTaranto is a music educator, choral conductor, tenor, and IT support professional based in Queens, NY. He has performed in numerous operas, musicals, choirs, and barbershop quartets. He taught music at public schools in NYC and Westchester and led a community choir at Theater for the New City. He now co-owns a small business named “Pixel Noise” that provides enterprise IT support services locally and produces livestreams and podcasts. He serves on the faculty of the 92NY School of Music where he leads a contemporary classical choir. He also sings with the eVoco Voice Collective (evoco.vc)

Tony earned an M.A. in Music & Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University (TC) and a B.S.Ed. in Music Education from Hofstra University. At Hofstra, he accepted the Dorothy Hoag Memorial Award for excellence in musical performance and became a licensed music teacher in New York and Connecticut. At TC, he led a graduate student vocal ensemble and taught applied voice lessons. He has sung with the Trinity Wall St. Downtown Voices (trinitywallstreet.org/downtownvoices). He has also studied and performed at the Manhattan School of Music, and Westminster Choir College.

Tony has studied vocal and applied music pedagogy with Dr. Jeanne Goffi-Fynn, conducting with Dr. David Fryling, and vocal technique with Gregory Mercer and Peter Van Derrick.

Mary Feinsinger, director, is an award-winning composer, arranger, lyricist, music director and vocal coach. As a performer, she had a principal role in the 2023 off-Broadway production of the new musical The Imported Bridegroom. A graduate of The Juilliard School in voice, she was a Teaching Artist at OperaAmerica. As vocalist and keyboardist of the West End Klezmorim, she performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the White House. She was on the piano-accompanying staff at Juilliard. She is a composer/lyricist alumna in the BMI Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, and has created music for a number of musicals and videos including Understood Betsy, The Tooth Fairy Vs. El Ratón Pérez, The Sisters Plotz, Oh My Dog! and the animated song My Head.

Mary Feinsinger is currently teaching the following classes:

Holiday Sing-In with Mary Feinsinger

Broadway at 92NY Chorus Sings the Women of Broadway

Broadway and American Standards Sing-In

Exploring Cabaret

Allie Glassman is a Singer/Songwriter, Jazz Vocalist and Music Educator. Allie received her MA in Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2018. Allie has assisted several of her students with auditioning and being accepted into many of New York’s premiere performing arts schools.

Allie is a graduate of The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, where she received her BFA in Vocal Jazz Performance.

Allie has appeared at many music festivals in New York City, including New York Coffee Festival (2023). Allie has performed as a Sofar Sounds Artist in New York and Baltimore. Allie performs regularly at venues around New York City, and in the greater New York area.

Allie Glassman is currently teaching the following classes:

Musical Theater Summer Vocal Workshop

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, 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.

Olga Gurevich is currently teaching the following classes:

Piano (Continuing Beginner)

Guitarist Andrew Hartman is active as a performer, composer and educator in the New York City area. Performing as a bandleader and sideman, Hartman regularly works in a variety of genres, including jazz, rock and pop, and music theatre. His albums Compass and Andrew Hartman and Still Motion feature his original music arranged and performed in trio, quartet and quintet settings.

Andrew Hartman is currently teaching the following classes:

Partner Lessons for Kids: Group Guitar for Beginners / Ages 6-8

Partner Lessons for Kids: Group Guitar for Beginners / Ages 9-11

Chair of Vocal Department. Originally from Menomonie, Wisconsin, Ann Hoyt has been living in NYC since 1994. She received her Masters in Music from Manhattan School of Music and her Bachelors in Music from Illinois Wesleyan University. Her voice teachers have included Adele Addison, Barrington Coleman and Helen Hodam. Equally at home on the operatic or musical theater stage, Ann is also an accomplished recital artist and has collaborated with Rebel Baroque Orchestra, Union Avenue Opera in St. Louis and Trinity Church Wall Street. Ms. Hoyt can be heard as a soloist on Hänssler and Naxos recording labels. Ann teaches students from 5 year old children, to teenagers and up. It is never too late to start singing!

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.

Dr. Kyle Landry is a dynamic and engaging contemporary saxophonist, composer, artist and music educator originally from Detroit Michigan.

As a performer and composer, Kyle has dedicated his career to presenting unique and engaging works of art that immerse the audience and evoke questions. This philosophy has fueled an exploration of new sounds and the invention of new and unusual musical instruments. One of Kyle’s recent works, NODE premiered at the Broad Modern Art Museum, featured an interactive mechanical-feedback instrument, which reverberates sounds through a 10-foot spring controlled by a computer, creating feedback loops and resonance.

In his work as a chamber musician, Kyle is a member of the Viridian Saxophone Quartet which has performed throughout the United States and has won numerous awards including prizes at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, North American Saxophone Alliance Chamber Music Competition, Coleman Chamber Music Competition, Plowman Chamber Music Competition and the MTNA Chamber Music Competition. Kyle’s mission as both a soloist and chamber musician is to promote the creation and dissemination of new works through performance, composition and commissioning. As part of a recent commissioning project, the Viridian Quartet premiered Four Brothers, a four movement jazz suite by Grammy Award winning jazz pianist Bill Cunliffe.

Kyle’s philosophy as an educator encourages the growth of student’s creativity, curiosity, critical thinking, collaboration and problem-solving skills while working towards the highest level of creative artistic expression. Whatever the student’s goals, Kyle works to instill in them all a love and passion for music.

Kyle holds a Doctoral degree in Music Performance and a Master of Music from Michigan State University, a Bachelor of Music Performance and a Bachelor of Music Education from Central Michigan University. If you would like to learn more about Kyle Landry’s work you can visit his website: Kyle-Landry.com

Kyle Landry is currently teaching the following classes:

Sound Collage: An Introduction to Electronic Sound Design and Composition / Ages 10-11

Sound Collage: An Introduction to Electronic Sound Design and Composition / Ages 12-15

Introduction to Music Apps and Software

Composers’ Forum

How to Crush Your Zoom Audition

Music Technology

Michael Kirk Lane is an award-winning cabaret artist, most recently winning Manhattan Association of Cabaret Awards in both 2022 and 2020. He also was the recipient of the 2018 BroadwayWorld Cabaret Award for Best Cabaret Show. Stephen Mosher of BroadwayWorld Cabaret has called Lane “one of the most popular performers and people working in cabaret today.” Cabaret Scenes Magazine has deemed Lane’s work “musical comedy heaven.”

Beyond his own experience performing in cabaret, Lane’s experience managing two of the city’s most renowned cabaret venues (The Laurie Beechman Theatre, Don’t Tell Mama) offers him a unique vantage point and perspective on the art form.

As a teaching artist for over 20 years, Lane has taught all ages from pre-school to retirement homes. In each class he brings the same philosophy to his teaching, no matter the age of the students. “Art, Theatre, and Music are ways for us to connect with our most authentic self, and to explore the world around us.”

Michael Kirk Lane is currently teaching the following classes:

Cabaret Conversations

Cabaret Conversations

Cabaret Conversations

Cabaret Conversations

Cabaret Conversations

Cabaret Performance: Connecting to Your Lyric

Exploring Cabaret

92NY Summer Cabaret Conference with Faith Prince

Ed MacEachen is a jazz guitarist who got his professional start in 1977 in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio where he studied with Bill D'Arrango (sideman with Ben Webster and Dizzy Gillespie). Ed moved to New York in 1984 where he has worked in the bands of Jack McDuff, Chico Hamilton and Erestine Anderson among many others. He currently lives and performs in the New York City area and can be heard on Eliot Zigmund's Starlight on Jazz Today Records and Bill Mobley's Singularity on Space Time Records along with others. Ed teaches at both 92nd Street Y (since 1996) and in the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music program (since 1989).

Ed MacEachen is currently teaching the following classes:

Partner Lessons for Adults: Guitar for Beginners

Introduction to Jazz Improvisation

Jazz Combos

Guitar (Beginner)

Guitar (Intermediate)

Luke Marantz is a New York City based pianist and composer from Texas. Born to a musical family, his studies began at an early age with piano, voice, saxophone and visual art. A graduate of the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Marantz was awarded multiple national jazz awards during his time there including seventeen Downbeat SMA awards which led to him being featured in the publication three times.

His studies were continued at the New England Conservatory of Music from which he graduated in 2013. During his time there Marantz had the opportunity to work with, among others, Fred Hersch, Jason Moran and Veronica Jochum.

During his young career, Luke has performed with the likes of Jeff “Tain” Watts, Dave Liebman, George Garzone, Tierney Sutton, Ingrid Jensen, Antonio Hart and many others. He has been featured as a sideman on the recordings of trumpeters Jason Palmer and Billy Buss as well as saxophonists Matt Marantz and Gianni Gagliardi alongside musicians such as Dayna Stephens, Gilad Hekselman and Walter Smith III. He has also co-led multiple recordings including joint projects with his brother, Matt Marantz, and their band “The Primary Colors”. His debut solo piano record is scheduled for release in the summer of 2017.

Marantz has performed across the country and internationally at such venues as the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, New England’s Jordan hall, the Panama Jazz Festival, the Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival, the Vail Jazz Festival, the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference and the Boston Jazz Week Festival.

For more info visit www.lukemarantz.com.

Gina Morgano is a teacher and performer who aspires to create a world of beauty and instill hope for a better tomorrow. With warmth and enthusiasm, she inspires students to dream big, work hard and believe in their own goodness. Singing is a way for us all to share our inner light, and Gina helps students to tell meaningful stories with confidence through text and music.

She champions the in-between area that bridges classical and popular styles. With repertoire ranging from baroque to Broadway, favorite roles include Amalia in She Loves Me, Jo March in the musical Little Women, Jessie in Mahagonny Songspiel, Papagena in The Magic Flute and the title role in Alcina.

A concert and cabaret performer, Gina recently made her Lincoln Center solo debut at David Geffen Hall with the National Chorale.

A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Gina holds a B.M. in Vocal Performance, an M.S.J. in Journalism, and a Certificate for Departmental Excellence in Music Theatre from Northwestern University. She received her M.M. in Vocal Performance from San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

For more information, please visit www.GinaMorgano.com.

Gina Morgano is currently teaching the following classes:

Opera History II

How to Read Music

Christopher North (b 1969) is a composer (Film, Theater and Dance), singer/songwriter (eclectic albums, songs for children’s TV and Indy Films), multi-instrumentalist (Carnegie Hall, Newport Folk Festival, CBGBs, Grammy award-winning recordings) and conductor (Hollywood Chamber Orchestra debut, NYLSO). A Texan in NYC since 1997, he’s thriving in Brooklyn with 20 genre crossing albums, scores to over 60 films (inc. distributed, award-winning and Grammy Nominated) and a growing opus of arts songs, chamber music and symphonic works. An enthusiastic educator and Assistant Professor in the Berklee College of Music Songwriting Department since January 2019, he has taught at the 92nd St Y since Fall 1997. As a freelance sideman, he has played bass for Quincy Jones, with The Dixie Chicks and Rosanne Cash, in orchestras and on Broadway. He’s been heard as a singer (in choirs with NY Phil), whistler (for Disney) and multi-instrumentalist on countless scores, albums, video games and commercials. A 2015 Sundance Institute Lab Fellow, collaborating brings out his best, for which VARIETY says he’s a "notable asset” to work “well served by a fine soundtrack.” His favorite creation is his son Xavier and his hobbies include painting, photography and hiking.

www.christophernorth.com
www.imdb.me/christophernorth
Albums on iTunes
Soundhive Session Christopher North
Vimeo.com/crnorth

Christopher North is currently teaching the following classes:

The Mystery of Songwriting

Born in Istanbul, residing in Brooklyn, Derin Öge brings a worldly and eclectic view to the music that she plays. With a classical and contemporary training, she is at home on the concert stage and in the club. Ms. Öge was trained at Mimar Sinan University, and holds a masters degree from Purchase Conservatory under the tutelage of Paul Ostrovsky, where she later served on piano faculty. She has played extensively with Piano Music Trio, a chamber ensemble that performs arrangements of Impressionist and Romantic songs for trumpet, piano and cello. Derin Öge is also a founding member of Occasional Noise Trio with William Lang, trombone and Cesare Papetti, percussion.

Ms. Öge has played internationally and locally at such venues as Cornelia Street Café, Mozarteum University, Peter de Grote Festival, The Stone, Flushing Town Hall, Barbes, the Roerich Museum and Symphony Space, among others. In addition, her performance of Mozart’s Sonata in B flat Major has been recorded for the European Broadcast Union.

Derin Öge’s recent recordings are distributed by System Dialing Records.

Derin’s performance career is coupled with her active and passionate work in teaching. She currently leads our terrifically popular Music FUNdamentals class for 4-year-olds, and two classes for kids ages 5-7: our group keyboard class, and a brand new rhythm-themed Saturday class, Rhythm is Gonna Get'cha! Derin is an expert in the areas of piano, movement and theory, and she is personally dedicated to the development of every young music maker.

Dina Pruzhansky is an NYC based, award-winning composer, pianist, and educator. Born in the former USSR and Israeli-raised, Ms. Pruzhansky enjoys a diverse international career in various genres, ranging from classical to musical theater and from liturgy to cabaret. As a composer-performer, she has been featured in many of New York's renowned music venues, such as Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Bargemusic, Le Poisson Rouge, Symphony Space, The Kosciuszko Foundation, YIVO, Opera America Center, and others. Her music has been broadcast on WQXR in an exclusive 'Young Artist' program with the renowned host Robert Sherman. Ms. Pruzhansky holds a postgraduate degree from The New School for Music at Mannes College in collaborative piano, where she was awarded a continuous scholarship of merit. Her MA in solo piano performance, summa cum laude, is from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel-Aviv University, where she studied with the pupil of H. Neuhaus, Prof. Victor Derevianko. She also holds a Bachelor's degree in Art History. Following the successful premiere of her Hebrew opera SHULAMIT in 2014, additional production was enabled by popular demand in 2016. The opera was also presented in part at the Aspen Music Festival 2019. An alumna of the BMI Advanced Musical Theater Workshop, Ms.Pruzhansky was nominated for the Fred Ebb Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre writing and was selected as a finalist for the 2019 NY Musical Theater festival with her musical for children CENTRAL PARK. She has served as a liturgy composer-inresidence at Temple Israel of Northern Westchester and Temple Shalom, Dallas. A passionate educator, Ms. Pruzhansky is the author of the I Can Play Chopin series — a collection of easy piano arrangements for beginners.

Jamie Reynolds is a freelance jazz pianist in New York City. He has taught group and private jazz piano and composition lessons at the 92nd Street Y since 2005.

Jamie is very active on the jazz scene and performs regularly with some of New York's finest musicians. He has toured across Canada and the United States and Europe and can be heard regularly in clubs around the city.

Jamie received a Bachelor of Music with honors in jazz performance from the University of Toronto.

Jamie Reynolds is currently teaching the following classes:

Playing by Ear: Functional Piano and Music Theory

Louis Rosen, composer, lyricist, performer, author and educator, is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship recipient whose musical style is a fusion of folk, jazz, classical, rock and blues idioms. He has designed and taught the Music Appreciation/History and Music Theory curriculum for the 92Y’s School of Music for over 35 years.

The ten albums of Louis’ songs and compositions include three solo albums: I Don’t Know Anything (Music and Lyrics, 2020); Dust to Dust Blues (Music and Lyrics, 2017); Time Was (Music and Lyric Adaptations, 2013); five albums with vocalist Capathia Jenkins: Phenomenal Woman: The Maya Angelou Songs and Songs Without Words (Music, 2018); One Ounce of Truth: The Nikki Giovanni Songs (Music, 2008); The Ache of Possibility (Music and Lyrics, 2009); South Side Stories (Music and Lyrics, 2006); and Dream Suite: Songs in Jazz and Blues on poems by Langston Hughes (Music, 2016), which also features vocalist Alton Fitzgerald White; as well as two albums of instrumental music: Act One: Piano Music for the Theater (2017); and the forthcoming Two Suites. Taken together, the three albums—Dream Suite, One Ounce of Truth and Phenomenal Woman—comprise The Black Loom Trilogy, three song cycles on poems of three major 20th Century African-American writers. Other song cycles include, It Is Still Dark: Songs of Love and Exile (Premiere—Great Hall at Cooper Union with vocalist Darius de Haas, 2006); Five Riversongs on poems by Edgar Lee Masters and Four Songs (Dual Premiere—The Museum of the City of New York and Lincoln Center Library, vocalists Peter Stewart and Barbara Peters, 1985); and A Child’s Garden Song Suite on poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1994).

Louis’ theater compositions include three musicals: Book of the Night (Music and Co-Lyrics, Goodman Theater, 1991), winner of Chicago's John W. Schmid Award for Best New Work; A Child’s Garden (Music, Lyric Adaptations and Co-Libretto, Off-Broadway, 2000), named one of the top-ten Off-Broadway productions of that year by the New York Post; and The Ugly Duckling (Ann Arbor Arts Festival, 1989). He has also composed thirty scores for plays including the Tony-nominated Act One at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, written and directed by James Lapine (2014); Roundabout’s Broadway revivals of The Rainmaker (2000) and Picnic (1994); off-Broadway productions at theaters such as Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse, the New York Shakespeare Festival’s Delacorte in Central Park and The Acting Company at the Lucille Lortel; and for major regional theaters including the Goodman Theater in Chicago, Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater, Seattle Repertory Theater, Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D.C.; New Haven’s Long Wharf Theater; Princeton’s McCarter Theater, the Williamstown Theater Festival and the Westport Country Playhouse, among others. His scores for plays have also yielded twelve concert suites, three of which—Act One Suite for Solo Piano, Into Night and On the Verge and Orchards (both for two pianos)—were included on the 2017 album Act One: Piano Music for the Theater.

Louis is the author of two books: the memoir/oral narrative, The South Side: The Racial Transformation of an American Neighborhood (Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, Cloth 1998, Paperback, 1999); and Beyond Category: Music Theory from Bach through The Beatles for the Popular or Classical Musician (2015), which serves as the text for the 92Y School of Music’s Theory curriculum. He also wrote the theatrical adaptation of The South Side, which has played at Washington, D. C.’s Theater J and New Jersey’s George Street Playhouse.

Awards include the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Music Composition; the NEA New American Works Grant; the 2nd Gilman & Gonzalez Falla Musical Theater Award; ASCAP Awards, 1993-2020; a Puffin Foundation Grant; an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Galileo Prize & Commission; Chicago’s John W. Schmid Award, Best New Work for Book of the Night, among others.

Recent compositions reflect a new emphasis on instrumental music and include The Pearl Suite for Small Orchestra; The Pearl Octet; Suite for Clarinet and Piano; Twelve Guitar Preludes; The Black Loom Trilogy Epilogue for Jazz Sextet; the six-movement Sextet; Riversongs Octet; and Act One Suite for Solo Piano.

Teachers included Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, Alfred Uhry and John Weidman (composing and writing for theater); William Russo (Music Theory and Jazz Composition); William Ferris (Choral Composition, Orchestration and Formal Analysis); and Joseph Reiser (Music Theory and Composition).

Louis Rosen is currently teaching the following classes:

Follies: A Stephen Sondheim Birthday 90th Celebration Lecture

Road Show and Bounce—Sondheim, Weidman, and the Principle of Persistence

Assassins: A Conversation with John Weidman, with a Special, Surprise Appearance by Stephen Sondheim

Passion: Sondheim, Lapine, and the Opera Impulse Revived

Anyone Can Whistle: Sondheim Finding his Voice

Aaron Copland: The Third Symphony and the Populist Style

Stevie Wonder is 70!: Innervisions

Stephen Sondheim: Musical Theater Meets Classical Form

Sondheim, Part III: Company—The Complete Score

Court and Spark: Joni Mitchell and Art in the Marketplace

Sondheim, Part III: A Little Night Music—Music, Lyrics and the Art of Adaptation

Mozart—Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”: Transcendent Perfection

The Beatles, Part V: Revolver and Musical Innovation

Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto in G Major, Op. 58

Sondheim, Part III: John Weidman on Pacific Overtures—A Conversation with the Author

John Lennon: 80th Birthday Celebration

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme

The Beatles: Roots and Beginnings

Bob Dylan: Freewheelin’ and Early Songs

The Beatles: Beatlemania, Part I—A Hard Day’s Night

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”—A Musical Revolution

Bob Dylan: The Times They Are A-Changin' and the Politics of Song

Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home — Another Side

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

The Beatles: Beatlemania, Part II—Help!

Bernstein on Broadway at the Bicentennial

Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited, Blues, Poetry and Electricity

Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5 — Emperor

The Beatles: Album as Art, Part I—Rubber Soul

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum—Sondheim in the Realm of Farce

Advanced Theory, Part I Completed

Erik Satie and the Rise of the Parisian Avant-Garde

World of Music I

World of Music II

Musical Analysis: Songs of Stephen Sondheim, Part II

Joseph Haydn and his "Entirely New and Special Style"

Singer-Songwriters, First Generation — Renewed and Thriving: 1980-1999

Musical Analysis II: Mozart Chamber Music, Part I

Beginning Theory Express: The Essentials

Bob Dylan 80th Birthday Celebration, Part V: Blonde on Blonde

Miles Davis and Gil Evans: Sketches of Spain

The Beatles, Part V: Revolver and Musical Innovation

The Beatles, Part VI: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band

Bob Dylan 80th Birthday Celebration, Part VI: The Basement Tapes

Part I — Schubert: Symphony No. 9, The "Great" C major

The Beatles, Part VII: Magical Mystery Tour — The Album, the Film and a Psychedelic Odyssey

Bob Dylan 80th Birthday Celebration, Part VII: John Wesley Harding to New Morning

Part II — Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique — Episode in the Life of an Artist in Five Sections

The Beatles, Part VIII and IX: The White Album, Complete

Bernstein, Sondheim, Robbins & Laurents: The Making of West Side Story, Revisited

Bob Dylan 80th Birthday Celebration, Part VIII: Blood on the Tracks

The Beatles, Part X: The Making of Let it Be

The Beatles: Abbey Road — A Farewell for the Ages

Petruska: Stravinsky and the Ballet Russe — A Modernist Explosion

After the Beatles — George, 1970: All Things Must Pass

The Rite of Spring: Stravinsky and the Ballet Russe — A Modernist Explosion

Paul McCartney: 80th Birthday Celebration

Carole King: An 80th Birthday Tribute

Bob Dylan: Oh, Mercy — Rebirth and Renewal

Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5 — Emperor

Bethany Salutz (She/Her) started her career as a music teacher over a decade ago in Wisconsin by teaching musical theater, then taught in Ohio for a few years, and has been teaching in NYC charter and public schools since 2014. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point and a Master of Arts in Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She recently started teaching Music Together classes for very young children and their family members. Researching child development is one of Bethany’s passions and she considers herself lucky to be able to witness children build a love for music and cultivate their musical abilities in her classes!

Tokyo-native Arei Sekiguchi took up the drums after early studies in classical piano and marimba. His first exposure to international performance came through tours of the U.S. and Europe with Up With People at the age of 18. Later he moved to NYC to further study music. He received a BFA from the New School University under the guidance of jazz Legends such as Bobby Sanabria, Chico Hamilton, and Reggie Workman. He has also studied privately with some of the most sought after drummers in the world: Michael Carvin, Takeshi Inomata, and Antonio Sanchez. He has performed at various festivals and venues all over the United States including Tiny Desk Concert, Jazz Mobile, MASS MoCA, River to River Festival, Carnegie Hall, and Kennedy Center. Arei has recorded for labels such as Sony Japan, and Clean Feed (Portugal). His musical theater credits include Curvy Widow (Off Broadway), Man of La Mancha, and In the Heights (regional). He has also been a regular accompanist for the Afro-Brazilian Dance Class at Alvin Ailey Extension for the last ten years.

Paul Williams first started teaching music to children while working for the Shaftsbury Society in England. Since then he has taught guitar and piano to many private students of all ages and has taught music in pre-schools and kindergarten as well as for the National Guitar Workshop.

He has a parallel career as a musician and singer/songwriter which began in the Folk clubs of England when he was 13 years old. He has written for Musical Theatre, Off Broadway and Nickelodeon. He recently wrote "Reaching Out To say Hello" for the 92nd Street Y's Educational Outreach Program and continues to write, record and perform in the New York area under the name Paul Clements. He has one of the longest running music engagements in New York City having played regularly on Wednesday nights at the legendary The Bitter End since 1985.

He is married to actress Carey Cromelin and has two children, Virginia and George Williams.

Paul Williams is currently teaching the following classes:

The Music Room

The Music Room