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Professor, Berklee College of Music
Associate Dean (retired), Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Tuba, Euphonium, Instrumental Music Education, Conductor
Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory
Voting Member at The Recording Academy for Grammy Awards
Classical and Jazz Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Percussionist and Director
Professor at Berklee College of Music
Voice, Broadway, Soul, Blues, Jazz
"The most vulnerable and sustaining part of expression is when we put the depth of understanding into our voice, seeking communion with the music and the moment we’re living."
Labek has been performing since the age of nine. After winning a full
Professor at Berklee College of Music
Voice, Broadway, Soul, Blues, Jazz
"The most vulnerable and sustaining part of expression is when we put the depth of understanding into our voice, seeking communion with the music and the moment we’re living."
Labek has been performing since the age of nine. After winning a full scholarship to Cornell University, where she received an MFA, she moved to NYC. There, she pursued a performance career, starring in a number of repertory plays, working on parts in TV and on Broadway. Labek (AKA Rebecca Malka Perricone) moved to Boston where she has been a professor at Berklee College of Music for the past 14 years. "In my classes I emphasize that performing is an offering of the heart. Most importantly, how do we remind the community of our humanity through the expression and interpretation of the interplay of music, lyrics, and ideas? And, since it is such a physical effort, how do we keep our health and well-being as part of our practice? She is presently working on her fifth CD release. © labekmusic.com.
One review from her last CD: Some artists are great in one single genre, others can master every kind of music thanks to their flexibility and artistry, but very few can turn into gold everything they sing. La Bek is one of the few, and today we had the big pleasure to listen to her latest release, “With You/For You”, an authentic piece of art, full of surprises, passion, and class.
Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music
Professor at Longy School of Music of Bard College
Opera/Voice, Musical Theater, Broadway
Dr. Ana Guigui has a 35-year career as an interdisciplinary, professional artist, including Broadway national tours and Off-Broadway credits as a performer, a world touring keyboardist and vocalist for Ch
Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music
Professor at Longy School of Music of Bard College
Opera/Voice, Musical Theater, Broadway
Dr. Ana Guigui has a 35-year career as an interdisciplinary, professional artist, including Broadway national tours and Off-Broadway credits as a performer, a world touring keyboardist and vocalist for Christopher Cross and various other Grammy award winning artists. Her videos can be viewed online for singing performances and professional acting credits in film, television, and theater.
Academic accomplishments include a DMA in Opera/Vocal Arts from USC’s Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles. She is in the process of completing her MFA degree in Creative Writing from Lesley University with a focus on television, screenwriting, and playwriting. Ana’s professional performance work has deeply informed her teaching and directing abilities. As an ongoing Professor of Voice at the Berklee College of Music in Boston since 2011, Dr. Guigui teaches voice lessons in various styles/genres, acting classes, directs musical theater productions and directs and produces student senior recitals. She has devised courses including “Writing, Developing, and Performing a One-Person Show." She began an additional voice professor appointment at Longy School of Music of Bard College in August of 2019 where she also teaches similar curriculum.
Opera Soprano, Director and Music Teacher
Native of Kyiv, Ukraine, Olga Lisovska holds degrees from Middlebury College, École Normale de Musique d'A. Cortot in Paris, France and L'Institut des Sciences Politiques in Paris, France. A critically acclaimed classical soprano, Olga's career involves both singing on pre
Opera Soprano, Director and Music Teacher
Native of Kyiv, Ukraine, Olga Lisovska holds degrees from Middlebury College, École Normale de Musique d'A. Cortot in Paris, France and L'Institut des Sciences Politiques in Paris, France. A critically acclaimed classical soprano, Olga's career involves both singing on prestigious concert stages, including Carnegie Hall, and producing events and performances. Olga produced award-winning opera productions at Commonwealth Lyric Theater, a Boston-based opera company, and Talents of the World's Annual Music Festival at Carnegie Hall. As a performer, Ms. Lisovskaya’s concerts have been featured on Ukrainian, Italian and American TV, including on the Today Show.
Ms. Lisovska is a sought-after voice teacher and diction coach. As diction coach she works with Tanglewood Festival Chorus at Boston Symphony, Odyssey Opera, and New England Conservatory. Ms. Lisovska has been giving performance lectures about Ukrainian music and song literature to audiences ranging from children to students in universities, to adults and seniors.
Olga is a founder of a nonprofit organization, Music, Arts and Fashion Productions. Being a passionate connector, Olga serves as Managing Partner at Sky International Center, the largest international social, cultural, and business network of 25,000 members in New England. Olga’s life purpose is to inspire positive change through connections for life, coaching and art performances.
Professor of Piano, Boston Conservatory at Berklee & New England Conservatory
Piano, Chamber Music, Piano Literature, and Piano Performance
Max Levinson has been on the faculty of Both Boston Conservatory at Berklee and New England Conservatory. As a pianist, Levinson is known as an intelligent and sensitive artist with a fearless techniq
Professor of Piano, Boston Conservatory at Berklee & New England Conservatory
Piano, Chamber Music, Piano Literature, and Piano Performance
Max Levinson has been on the faculty of Both Boston Conservatory at Berklee and New England Conservatory. As a pianist, Levinson is known as an intelligent and sensitive artist with a fearless technique. His international career was launched when he won first prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition (1997), becoming the first American to achieve this distinction. Levinson is also a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant (1999) and the Andrew Wolf Award (2005). He has performed as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Colorado Symphony, New World Symphony, Utah Symphony, Boston Pops, San Antonio Symphony, Louisville Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, as well as in recital at New York’s Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., London’s Wigmore Hall, Zürich’s Tonhalle, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, Jordan Hall in Boston, and throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.
An active chamber musician, Levinson has performed with the Tokyo, Vermeer, Mendelssohn, Borromeo, Parker, and Muir quartets, and he appears at major music festivals, including Santa Fe, Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, Bravo/Vail, La Jolla, Seattle, and Cartagena. His recordings have earned wide acclaim, including his most recent recording with violinist Stefan Jackiw of the Brahms's Three Sonatas (Sony). Levinson is frequently invited to serve on competition juries, including the Dublin International Piano Competition jury (2015), and he has given master classes throughout the United States and in Europe and Japan.
Levinson is a graduate of Harvard and New England Conservatory, where he received the Artist Diploma and the Gunther Schuller Medal. His teachers include Patricia Zander, Aube Tzerko, and Bruce Sutherland.
Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory
Voting Member at The Recording Academy for Grammy Awards
Classical and Jazz Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Percussionist and Director
Utar Artun was born in Ankara, Turkey. He is currently a professor of piano at the Berklee College of Music in
Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory
Voting Member at The Recording Academy for Grammy Awards
Classical and Jazz Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Percussionist and Director
Utar Artun was born in Ankara, Turkey. He is currently a professor of piano at the Berklee College of Music in the United States. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music with a Master of Music degree with Academic Honors. In 2016, won the 3rd place award of 9th Eczacibasi National Composition Contest with his symphonic lied "Hiclik". Professor Artan has performed, toured and taught masterclasses in Switzerland, France, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and China. He also has had numerous interviews in the US, Europe and Turkey. In 2017, he composed the first Piano & Cajon Concertante in the world and he premiered it at Zorlu PSM in Istanbul with Istanbul Symphony Orchestra.
Currently, he's writing new ballet music for the Ankara State Opera & Ballet's Modern Dance projects. He is the Honorary Chairman/Judge of Global Outstanding Chinese Artists Association’s 6th International Piano Competition. Professor Artun is working as an Arranger for Ankara Kent Bigband and Musical Director for Classical Oasis Ensemble. Furthermore, He's a voting member at The Recording Academy for Grammy Awards.
Faculty, Assistant Chair of Chamber Music at New England Conservatory
Pianist, String & Piano Chamber Music,
Pianist Aimee Tsuchiya teaches piano and "Piano for Singers" in NEC's Preparatory School, and is a piano faculty member in NEC's School of Continuing Education.
Tsuchiya has appeared as soloist and chamber musician throughout the Uni
Faculty, Assistant Chair of Chamber Music at New England Conservatory
Pianist, String & Piano Chamber Music,
Pianist Aimee Tsuchiya teaches piano and "Piano for Singers" in NEC's Preparatory School, and is a piano faculty member in NEC's School of Continuing Education.
Tsuchiya has appeared as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia, including several concerto engagements at Mechanics Hall, and live broadcasts on WGBH, Chicago Public Radio, and CBC radio. Her broad repertoire has showcased works as various as John Cage's The Perilous Night for prepared piano; the world premiere of Abby Richardson's Downstream for piano and orchestra with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra; and a recital of early 20th-century violin repertoire with Karl Stobbe, concertmaster of the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. Tsuchiya has worked with members of the Boston Symphony, the Guarneri Quartet, the Peabody Trio, and the Cleveland Quartet, as well as pianists Emanuel Ax, Awadagin Pratt, Lydia Artymiw, Irma Vallecilla, Margot Garret, and Andre Watts. Awards include competition wins in the Chopin Society Young Artists Competition, the Schubert Club Competition, Thursday Musical Competition, the top piano prize in the Minnesota Orchestra's Young People's Symphony Concert Association, finalist in the New World Symphony auditions, and fellowships to Interlochen, Tanglewood, Yellow Barn, and Banff Chamber Music Festivals.
B.M., summa cum laude (University of Minnesota Twin Cities), MM and DMA (New England Conservatory). Faculty, Assistant Chair of Chamber Music, Accompanist Coordinator, NEC Preparatory School.
Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music
Classical and Jazz Pianist, Composer
“Here you have a marvelously endowed talent. This is the musicianship and artistic sensitivity at its highest level. Of such ingredients are great musical memories made and lives enriched thereby”
– Joyce Miller (The Item, Sumter, SC)
Virtuoso at the pian
Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music
Classical and Jazz Pianist, Composer
“Here you have a marvelously endowed talent. This is the musicianship and artistic sensitivity at its highest level. Of such ingredients are great musical memories made and lives enriched thereby”
– Joyce Miller (The Item, Sumter, SC)
Virtuoso at the piano, Maxim Lubarsky is a remarkable pianist, whose stylistic versatility and musicality makes him one of the most sought-after musicians. Native of Odessa Ukraine, Maxim was originally trained as a classical pianist at famous Stolyarsky school of Music and Odessa State Conservatory. Already in school he has developed a passion for jazz and received a scholarship to come to Berklee College of Music to further his studies.
Maxim has performed and recorded with such musicians as Dee Dee Bridgewater, Terri Lynn Carrington, Gabrielle Goodman, Rhiannon, Patrice Rushen, Greg Osby, Dave Samuels, and participated in St. Petersburg Music Fest (Russia), Spoleto Festival (SC), Beantown Festival (MA), Diacetum Festival (Italy), “Black Sea Weekend” (Ukraine), “Usadba Jazz” Festival (Russia), ArtNaples Festival (FL), Cambridge Jazz Festival (MA), Salem Jazz and Soul Festival (MA).
Maxim is an assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music. He has also been invited numerous times with masterclasses in China, South Africa, Ukraine and Russia. Maxim continues a vivid performing and recording career, leading Maxim Lubarsky Group and working on several other projects with musicians from around the world.
Professor, Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Violin
Sharan Leventhal, violin, has toured four continents as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. She has received grants from the NEA, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording, Chamber Music America, New Music USA, the International Contemporary Music Festival in Darmstadt, Germany and the
Professor, Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Violin
Sharan Leventhal, violin, has toured four continents as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. She has received grants from the NEA, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording, Chamber Music America, New Music USA, the International Contemporary Music Festival in Darmstadt, Germany and the Fromm and Koussevitzky Foundations, and has premiered well over 160 works. Leventhal has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras, is a founding member of Marimolin, the Kepler Quartet and Gramercy Trio, and can be heard on the New World, Northeastern, Newport Classic, Naxos, Parma, Navona, GM and Catalyst labels.
She is a professor at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Berklee College of Music, and is founder and director of Play On, Inc., a non-profit supporting chamber music programs for children.
Professor at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Dance de Paris
Former Professor at Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing
Cello, Founder of SuperCello Festival
In 1986 Yi-Bing Chu was prize winner at the 42nd Concours International d’Exécution Musicale in Geneva, after graduating with a Premier Prix from Conservatoire Nation
Professor at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Dance de Paris
Former Professor at Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing
Cello, Founder of SuperCello Festival
In 1986 Yi-Bing Chu was prize winner at the 42nd Concours International d’Exécution Musicale in Geneva, after graduating with a Premier Prix from Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Dance de Paris in France where he studied under the tutelage of Maurice Gendron. He was the first Chinese cellist ever to win a prize in a major international Cello competition. He served as principal cellist in Basel Symphony Orchestra, Switzerland between 1989-2004, Chu Yi-Bing was also guest principal cellist of Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich, Germany.
Yi-Bing Chu was appointed as cello professor and head of the cello department at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where he taught between 2004 and 2018. He founded the Yi-Bing Chu Cello Ensemble with his students, the first Cello Ensemble in China, playing countless concerts in a number of diverse cities and provinces, schools, colleges and universities. Yi-Bing Chu founded the SuperCello festival in Beijing, 2016. SuperCello is the premier cello festival in China and biggest of this kind in Asia. Every year it is attended by hundreds of cellists including a number of world leading performers.
Yi-Bing Chu was professor at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Dance de Paris. The first professor of chinese nationality since 227 years in this world famous institution.
Yi-Bing Chu was born in Beijing, China in 1966. His father Yong-Ning Chu, Cellist, and mother Yao-Ling Wang, pianist, were both professors at the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) in Beijing, China.
Performing Artist, Grammy®️ nominee
Assist. Professor at Berklee College of Music
Violin, Singer
Turkish born and raised, Bengisu Gokce is a multi-genre Violinist and Singer, known for combining in her music the Turkish roots with Eastern-European and Middle-Eastern traditions.
As a professionally renowned performer, Gokce's versatile playi
Performing Artist, Grammy®️ nominee
Assist. Professor at Berklee College of Music
Violin, Singer
Turkish born and raised, Bengisu Gokce is a multi-genre Violinist and Singer, known for combining in her music the Turkish roots with Eastern-European and Middle-Eastern traditions.
As a professionally renowned performer, Gokce's versatile playing has led her to share the stage with several music icons including Mark O’Connor, Tigran Hamasyan, Aynur Dogan, Shreya Ghoshal, Toninho Horta, Shankar Mahadevan, Simon Shaheen, Amal Murkus, and Pablo Ziegler to name a few.Throughout her career she has performed in various distinguished venues such as Carnegie Hall (NY), Lincoln Center (NY), Boston Symphony Hall, American Repertory Theater, MFA Boston, Roulette Intermedium (NY), Shapeshifter Lab (NY), Ithra Theatre (Saudi Arabia) and Monte Carlo Salle Garnier(Monaco). She has also been featured in albums and recording projects with Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, sitar virtuoso Purbayan Chatterjee, drummer Antonio Sanchez (Pat Metheny Group) and many more.
A multi-award winning and Grammy®️ nominee, Gokce is a classically trained violinist and a performance alumna of Mersin University State Conservatory in Turkey, ‘Hanns Eisler’ School of Music in Berlin, Germany and Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. She is currently Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music.
Associate Professor, Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Flute, Classical Contemporary Music
Contemporary flutist Sarah Brady hailed as “intensely expressive” (New Music Box) and “colorfully agile” (The Arts Fuse), is principal flute with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) and a member of the Radius Ensemble. Equally comfortable in the
Associate Professor, Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Flute, Classical Contemporary Music
Contemporary flutist Sarah Brady hailed as “intensely expressive” (New Music Box) and “colorfully agile” (The Arts Fuse), is principal flute with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) and a member of the Radius Ensemble. Equally comfortable in the world of traditional orchestral playing, Sarah often performs with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops and is Principal Flute of Odyssey Opera. A prizewinner in the Pappoutsakis Flute Competition and the National Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition, Sarah now serves as the Commissions Coordinator for the National Flute Association which commissions two solo flute works each year for the annual convention as well as many special project commissions for larger chamber works.
An extensive recording soloist, Sarah has recorded over 70 albums of contemporary solo, chamber, and orchestral music. As principal flute with BMOP, Sarah has performed on eight Grammy nominated albums, including the 2020 Grammy award in the category of Best Opera Recording.
Sarah attended the University of Connecticut on a full tuition music scholarship and went on to receive a Masters of Music as well as an Artist Diploma from the Longy school of Music, where she studied under Robert Willoughby. A devoted teacher, Sarah is Associate Professor of Flute and Head of the Classical Contemporary Music Program at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
Professor, Berklee College of Music
Associate Dean (retired), Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Tuba, Euphonium, Instrumental Music Education, Conductor
James O’Dell has been professionally active in instrumental music and music education since 1979. Mr. O'Dell holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Southern
Professor, Berklee College of Music
Associate Dean (retired), Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Tuba, Euphonium, Instrumental Music Education, Conductor
James O’Dell has been professionally active in instrumental music and music education since 1979. Mr. O'Dell holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Southern Oregon University (1978), a Master of Music in Tuba, Euphonium, and Bass Trombone Performance from the University of Oregon (1983), and doctoral studies at Arizona State University (1983-84). Mr. O'Dell recently retired as Associate Dean from Boston Conservatory at Berklee after serving 26 years, including twice as Dean and Chief Academic Officer at interim, and Director of the Conservatory's Music Division.
Mr. O'Dell's previous full-time faculty appointments include Director of Bands at Boston University (MA), Mansfield University (PA), and Phoenix College (AZ). His adjunct appointments include Lecturing Professor and Director of the Festival Jazz Ensemble at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA), jazz and applied faculty at the Rivers Music School (MA), graduate teaching fellow at the University of Oregon.
A distinguished and versatile educator, conductor, and musician, Mr. O'Dell is the Music Director and Conductor of the Concord Band. His collegiate conducting tenures have included all athletic bands, concert and jazz bands, wind and brass ensembles. He is founder of the New England Collegiate Jazz Festival, Boston Tuba Christmas, and cofounder of the Boston Tuba Quartet and The Brass Consortium.
As a tubist he has toured, recorded, and performed with the Ken Shaphorst Big Band, True Colors Big Band, Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra, Darrel Katz Jazz Orchestra, Greg Hopkins Nonet, the Boston Globe Repertory Jazz Orchestra (Gunther Schuller, conductor), Orange Then Blue, and as soloist with the Harvard Summer Band.
Professor at Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Percussion / Marimba
For over 40 years, Nancy Zeltsman’s contributions as a marimba performer and teacher have been a force in introducing more people to the marimba and elevating its stature in concert music. She has premiered over 130 solo and chamber music works. More than 80 of those were comp
Professor at Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Percussion / Marimba
For over 40 years, Nancy Zeltsman’s contributions as a marimba performer and teacher have been a force in introducing more people to the marimba and elevating its stature in concert music. She has premiered over 130 solo and chamber music works. More than 80 of those were composed for the celebrated duo Marimolin founded in 1985 with violinist Sharan Leventhal. Zeltsman has performed and taught across the United States and Europe and in China, Japan, Mexico and Brazil. Composers with whom Zeltsman has collaborated include Gunther Schuller, Michael Tilson Thomas, Louis Andriessen, Steven Mackey, Robert Aldridge Paul Simon, Lyle Mays and Carla Bley. Zeltsman was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 2022.
Since 1993, Zeltsman has taught at joint institutions Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Berklee College of Music. Since 2013, she has been regular guest professor of marimba at Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and a Guest Artist at University of Michigan since 2021. She founded and served as Artistic Director of Zeltsman Marimba Festival which was attended by over 600 participants between 2001 and 2018. Many of her former students are noted professionals.
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Instructor at Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Clarinet, Chamber Music
Praised for her “soulful intensity,” and renowned for her versatility, Jan Halloran is Principal Clarinetist of both Boston Lyric Opera and Odyssey Opera and a member of the Grammy award winning ensemble Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), with whom she has premiered a
Instructor at Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Clarinet, Chamber Music
Praised for her “soulful intensity,” and renowned for her versatility, Jan Halloran is Principal Clarinetist of both Boston Lyric Opera and Odyssey Opera and a member of the Grammy award winning ensemble Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), with whom she has premiered and recorded numerous new works. Other notable orchestral appearances include the Boston Symphony and Pops, Baltimore Symphony, Boston Ballet and Boston Landmarks Orchestra.
An avid chamber musician, Ms. Halloran performs with the Boston Conservatory faculty woodwind quintet and has appeared with such diverse groups as Walden Chamber Players, Collage New Music, the Radius Ensemble, Improbable Beasts and the New England Reed Trio. Ms. Halloran pursues her passion for music education on the faculties of the Boston Conservatory and Dartmouth College.
Famous Erhu Artist, Composer in China
Mr. Jun Chen is currently the Vice President of the National Bow and String Music Society of the Chinese Musicians Association, and the Vice President of the Erhu Professional Committee of the China Nationalities Orchestra Society.
As an erhu artist, Jun Chen participates in more than 60 performances
Famous Erhu Artist, Composer in China
Mr. Jun Chen is currently the Vice President of the National Bow and String Music Society of the Chinese Musicians Association, and the Vice President of the Erhu Professional Committee of the China Nationalities Orchestra Society.
As an erhu artist, Jun Chen participates in more than 60 performances around the world every year. He has held concerts in the Wiener Musikverein in Vienna, the Sydney Opera House, the Albert Hall in the United Kingdom, and the Lincoln Center in the United States. He once performed erhu for French President Sarkozy, American President George Bush, Obama, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and Dubai Prime Minister Mohammed. The performance video has been circulated more than 100 million times on the Internet.
In 1989, Jun Chen won the first prize in erhu in China's First TV Competition and became the pioneer of the new generation for Erhu performance. In 2008, he participated in the opening ceremony of the Hong Kong branch of the Summer Olympic Games, and he was the first erhu solo performer at the National Grand Theatre in China. In 2010, his single album "Taichi Warrior" was spread more than 100 million times on social media. In 2014, his erhu tutorial book "How Erhu Is Practiced" was published.
In 2017, he served in China as a judge for the Golden Bell Award competition, and in 2018 as a judge for the China TV competition. From 2018 to 2022, he served as the instructor of the Chinese Music Ceremony.
Professor at Berklee College of Music
Guitar, Bass, Voice, Music Performance
Tom Stein is an international musician, leading music educator, global music industry and educational consultant, and a cultural diplomat. Tom has been professionally active in the music industry for over 40 years, and has performed in over 30 countries on guitar,
Professor at Berklee College of Music
Guitar, Bass, Voice, Music Performance
Tom Stein is an international musician, leading music educator, global music industry and educational consultant, and a cultural diplomat. Tom has been professionally active in the music industry for over 40 years, and has performed in over 30 countries on guitar, electric bass, and voice.
As a Senior Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Tom has taught thousands of students, many who have gone on to illustrious music careers, winning GRAMMY awards, recording hit records, and touring the globe to give concerts.
At Berklee, Tom also served as Alumni Admissions Coordinator, Interim Department Chair, member of the Board of Admissions, and as Concert Producer or Music Director for hundreds of mainstage concerts featuring well-known alumni and honorary doctorate recipients.
Tom produces concerts and performs live and in the studio on bass, guitar, and voice. He also plays Appalachian mountain dulcimer, and is a proficient Arranger and Producer of high profile events.
Tom Stein specializes in music industry and music education research. He has written white papers, presented at conferences, and given workshops and masterclasses nationally and internationally at leading colleges and universities. Topics include music industry, legal aspects of the music business, music theory, jazz improvisation, blues and rock performance, composition, arranging, music production, and music marketing.
Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, Percussion Artist, Drum Master
Sergio Bellotti is an international artist and Renaissance man. As a powerful and tremendously gifted drummer, he’s played with some of the world’s finest musicians. As an educator, he’s an in-demand clinician as well as a professor at
Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, Percussion Artist, Drum Master
Sergio Bellotti is an international artist and Renaissance man. As a powerful and tremendously gifted drummer, he’s played with some of the world’s finest musicians. As an educator, he’s an in-demand clinician as well as a professor at the esteemed Berklee College of Music.
Hailing from Bari, Italy, Sergio’s passion for music and accomplished drumming spurred him to move to Boston in 1995 to attend the Berklee College of Music. Shortly after arriving in the U.S., Sergio met his longtime musical partner, fellow Italian expatriate and bassist extraordinaire, Tino D’Agostino. Together they founded and continue to lead Spajazzy, a jazz fusion group, which has featured guitarist Mike Stern on both of their CD releases.
In addition to his professorship at Berklee, where students from all over the world come to study, Sergio serves as a visiting artist at the GM Drum School in Torino, Italy and as a faculty member at the Conservatorio Della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, Switzerland. Sergio is the founder of the “Do You Speak Drumming?” program and often travels to Europe to conduct clinics, concerts, and master classes. He is a drum artist for both Yamaha Acoustic and Electronic drums.
Sergio has recorded or shared the stage with world class musicians such as Blues Hall of Fame and Grammy nominated Joe Louis Walker, Mike Stern, The Platters, The Drifters, Tom Scott, Nathan East, Robben Ford, Alessandra Belloni, Bernard Purdie and Rocco Ventrella to name a few. He has performed at international festivals such as the Montreal Drum Fest, The Golden Jazz 2015 in China, Bari In Jazz 2010, Cape Breton International Drum Fest, Berklee World Percussion Festival and the PASIC and 5 consecutive KOSA festivals.
Associate Professor at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Instructor at NEC
GuZheng, Composition, Ensembles
Hui Weng, a virtuosic performer steeped in age old Chinese traditions, is crossing musical boundaries that few others have dared to cross, receiving international acclaim for her performances of traditional, contemporary, and improvised
Associate Professor at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Instructor at NEC
GuZheng, Composition, Ensembles
Hui Weng, a virtuosic performer steeped in age old Chinese traditions, is crossing musical boundaries that few others have dared to cross, receiving international acclaim for her performances of traditional, contemporary, and improvised music on her Guzheng. Ms. Weng enjoys a multifaceted musical career as Guzheng performer, lecture, and music director.
Ms.Weng has been awarded gold medals, “National Rising Star” and “Oriental Artist” among others for her performances in major national and international competitions. As the recipient of the 2014 Emerging Artists Award fellow from the St. Botolph Foundation, Ms. Weng received recognition for expansion of Guzheng performance to include singing, dancing and for her composing and curating new works.
As an active soloist, Ms. Weng works with such prominent orchestra as Youth Chinese orchestra, Boston Pops, ect. Her performance broadcast on WGBH national radio and CCTV music channel. In January 2011, she successfully presented a solo concert in Beijing and released her first album “Men of Letters”. She participated in many premiers of works by a new generation of composer including Tan Dun, Yi Chen, Xiaogang Ye, Anthony Paul De Ritis, and many others. After her arrival in the US, she made her American debut, “Twin Flowers,” in Pickman Concert Hall and “The Rumble of spring” benefit concert in Jordan Hall.
As lecture and performer, Ms.Weng was invited to take part in the Educational Residency Program in Brandeis university, which brings artists of high accomplishment from around the world to teach and perform. Additionally, since 2014, Ms. Weng has been collaborating with Yo Yo Ma’s silk road Ensemble. She has performed, lectured and given masterclasses in various music conferences. Mr. Weng’s principal teachers and mentors include Yo Yo Ma, Dr. Hankus Netsky, Dr. Peter Row, Professor Wang Zhou.
Ms. Weng received her bachelor’s degree at Central Conservatory Of Music (CCOM), where she worked in the studio of Wang Zhou and was teaching at continued educational program at CCOM. She received her Master of Musical Arts degree at New England Conservatory as the first Guzheng player, under the supervision of Dr. Hankus Netsky and Dr. Eden MacAdam-Somer.
In 2015, She has held a teaching post in the Preparatory and Continuing Education Division at NEC. Ms. Weng is the instructor of the Chinese music ensemble at NEC Prep, while maintaining a private Guzheng (Chinese music) studio in NEC college. She has served as academic director of US-China Music Festival and Workshop summer program at NEC since 2015. Ms. Weng is currently a faculty as an Associate Professor at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
Piano and Harp Faculty
University of Massachusetts Boston
Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in London
Harp, Piano, Violin
A multi-instrumentalist and one of the few people to perform as a soloist with two instruments on the same stage as an orchestra, internationally-acclaimed harpist, pianist, composer, and professor Dr. Chaerin Kim is
Piano and Harp Faculty
University of Massachusetts Boston
Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in London
Harp, Piano, Violin
A multi-instrumentalist and one of the few people to perform as a soloist with two instruments on the same stage as an orchestra, internationally-acclaimed harpist, pianist, composer, and professor Dr. Chaerin Kim is the winner of 13 national and international competitions in America, England, Russia, and Korea, including Best Performance of Russian Music at the International Harp Competition in Russia and the Future Classic Women Award from London Radio Station. Most recently, she was elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2024. Associateship is awarded to alumni of the Academy who have distinguished themselves in the music profession and made a significant contribution in their field.
As a judge and jurist, Dr. Kim was the artistic director of the USA International Music Competition in 2010, and between 2021 and 2028, she is scheduled to judge 100 times at 39 international competitions for a multitude of categories, including harp, piano, all instruments, composition, and singers.
Her harp performance was used for the movie Kaleidoscope, winner of Best Performance at the 2017 Edinburgh International Film Festival. Her composition, Rendezvous, has 100 versions, including versions for orchestra, harp, piano, and voice (in 80 different languages!) The orchestral version of Rendezvous had its World Premiere in Boston, and its South American Premiere by National Philharmonic Orchestra of Venezuela. To date, she has released 7 Albums and 91 Singles, and her music has aired on many radio stations in the US and UK.
She plays 10 instruments: piano, harp, violin, viola, cello, harpsichord, accordion, guitar, ukulele, and drums. Dr. Kim’s musical studies began when she was six. She majored in piano at Yewon Music Middle School, and again at Kaywon High School of Arts. In her last year, at the age of eighteen, she started harp lessons, and six months later won the Soloist Audition for Harp. She received her BA with Highest Honors from Ewha University and her Professional Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music, where she graduated with distinction. She received her MM from Yale University, and her doctorate at Boston University, where she was the “quickest recipient of a Doctorate” in BU Music School’s history, completing it in three and a half years and receiving summa cum laude.
Dr. Kim was a full-time music faculty member at Eastern Nazarene College, where she taught piano, harp, music theory, and music history classes. She was also the former Head of the Harp Department at Adagio Music Academy, Harp Department Chair at South Shore Conservatory, an artistic director of the USA International Music Competition, and piano faculty at Shepherd’s Heart School of Music. In 2009, she was an Artist Collaborator with project STEP – a program created by the Boston Symphony Orchestra to provide opportunities to underrepresented students in the classical music profession.
Currently, she is an artist and masterclass leader with the TTF Entertainment Company in China, and music faculty for piano and harp at University of Massachusetts Boston and Schloss akademie in Germany. She is also an instructor for both instruments through the Office of Arts at Harvard University. For summer 2024, she is invited to conduct the festival orchestra at the International Music Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, in addition to holding a piano and harp faculty position.
World Digital Accordion Champion
World Acoustic Accordion Champion
World Jazz Accordion Champion
Guinness World Record Holder
“Anytime I've heard you perform, I've been inspired by your ability, talent, and heart.”
- PRESIDENT Bill Clinton
“No one is doing more for the image of the Accordion than Cory Pesaturo is.”
-NBC/FOX's Maria Bartiromo
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World Digital Accordion Champion
World Acoustic Accordion Champion
World Jazz Accordion Champion
Guinness World Record Holder
“Anytime I've heard you perform, I've been inspired by your ability, talent, and heart.”
- PRESIDENT Bill Clinton
“No one is doing more for the image of the Accordion than Cory Pesaturo is.”
-NBC/FOX's Maria Bartiromo
Cory Pesaturo (“C Pez”) is revolutionizing the much maligned Accordion. The only person to ever win the trio of World Championships on Acoustic, Digital & Jazz Accordion, a Guinness World Record Holder, and the only Accordion graduate of the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. His performances at all 3 of his World Championships were played on accordions that were not his, and were almost completely improvised; both aspects being unheard of in the accordion world. Cory has performed on 6 continents, and given 5 TED Talk’s, an EG Talk, and 2 Google Talk’s about the accordion, its history, and place in music.
Pesaturo's extensive resumé includes appearances at the White House for President and Mrs. Clinton on 4 different occasions, starting at age 12, and 8 other appearances for the Clintons. On one of those occasions, he became the youngest person to ever perform at a State Dinner, that for the President of Hungary. Pesaturo became a Guinness World Record Holder for the Marathon Accordion Record, as RedBull® flew him to Austria, in which Cory played for over 32 hours. Some National TV appearances include the Late Show with David Letterman, performing with Johnny Depp, CBS’s Let’s Make a Deal, Fox News’s Fox and Friends (where he also did the weather), and NBC’ That’s My Jam with Jimmy Fallon.
Pesaturo has also appeared on nationally televised programs in New Zealand, England, Canada, Italy, Tunisia, France, Saudi Arabia and Finland. He has judged accordion competitions across 5 continents, in addition to other music competitions, and currently gives masterclasses at various universities throughout the US & Europe on Accordion & Improvisation. His iconic flamed & lighted accordion was even used as the logo for the 2018 Cotati Festival, the biggest in the continent. In 2022, Cory was chosen as the featured accordionist in the Weird Al BIOPIC Movie “Weird”, and in 2023 he was chosen to create a band and perform on the NAMM Show’s prestigious Main Grand Plaza Stage. He is a friend of multiple Presidents around the world, and with Racing Legend Mario Andretti, whom he completed another World Record at Indianapolis Speedway in 2022, playing while Mario drove 180mph in a 2-seater IndyCar.
Along with improvisation, Pesaturo is known for his extensive versatility, playing 15 different genres from Klezmer to French, Balkan to Funk, Tango to Rock, Italian to Bazilian, Classical Music to Electronic. More known as a Jazz Artist, he has earned the respect of those such as Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock and Wynton Marsalis, and recorded & performed with jazz figures such as John Patitucci and George Garzone. For his Classical side which is lesser known, a win in a concerto competition at 16 years old gave Pesaturo the rare opportunity to perform with the Brockton Symphony Orchestra as a featured soloist, where he became the youngest accordionist to ever solo with a symphony orchestra in the USA. He has since performed with the Boston Symphony multiple times including at Symphony Hall, and the Boston Pops under John Williams. The instruments most famous legend in the US, Dick Contino, said of Cory when he was only 15, “Of all the accordionists I’ve seen over the years, Cory is the one to pass the torch to, the only one who has all the tools to bring the accordion back to its former glory.” Guido Deiro’s son, the “Father of Piano Accordion”, has stated “I’ve worried greatly about the future of the accordion since my father died, but not anymore since seeing & hearing Cory.”
Pesaturo is also heavily involved and respected with the weather and motor sports worlds as well. He composed the Official list of records set by the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, and has done reports on Winter Seasons for the US which have been featured on Accuweather.com and others. In sports, he has written columns for car magazines such as MESH, sports blogs for sites like Bleacher Report, and has collaborated with members of the Red Sox. His music has been played on Formula 1 broadcasts on NBC, FOX, Velocity, and additionally has an ongoing musical relationship with 98.5 The Sports Hub in Boston.
Professor, Berklee College of Music
Associate Dean (retired), Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Tuba, Euphonium, Instrumental Music Education, Conductor
James O’Dell has been professionally active in instrumental music and music education since 1979. Mr. O'Dell holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Southern Oregon University (1978
Professor, Berklee College of Music
Associate Dean (retired), Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Tuba, Euphonium, Instrumental Music Education, Conductor
James O’Dell has been professionally active in instrumental music and music education since 1979. Mr. O'Dell holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Southern Oregon University (1978), a Master of Music in Tuba, Euphonium, and Bass Trombone Performance from the University of Oregon (1983), and doctoral studies at Arizona State University (1983-84). Mr. O'Dell recently retired as Associate Dean from Boston Conservatory at Berklee after serving 26 years, including twice as Dean and Chief Academic Officer at interim, and Director of the Conservatory's Music Division.
Mr. O'Dell's previous full-time faculty appointments include Director of Bands at Boston University (MA), Mansfield University (PA), and Phoenix College (AZ). His adjunct appointments include Lecturing Professor and Director of the Festival Jazz Ensemble at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA), jazz and applied faculty at the Rivers Music School (MA), graduate teaching fellow at the University of Oregon.
A distinguished and versatile educator, conductor, and musician, Mr. O'Dell is the Music Director and Conductor of the Concord Band. His collegiate conducting tenures have included all athletic bands, concert and jazz bands, wind and brass ensembles. He is founder of the New England Collegiate Jazz Festival, Boston Tuba Christmas, and cofounder of the Boston Tuba Quartet and The Brass Consortium.
As a tubist he has toured, recorded, and performed with the Ken Shaphorst Big Band, True Colors Big Band, Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra, Darrel Katz Jazz Orchestra, Greg Hopkins Nonet, the Boston Globe Repertory Jazz Orchestra (Gunther Schuller, conductor), Orange Then Blue, and as soloist with the Harvard Summer Band.
Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory
Voting Member at The Recording Academy for Grammy Awards
Classical and Jazz Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Percussionist and Director
Utar Artun was born in Ankara, Turkey. He is currently a professor of piano at the Berklee College of Music in the United States. He g
Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory
Voting Member at The Recording Academy for Grammy Awards
Classical and Jazz Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Percussionist and Director
Utar Artun was born in Ankara, Turkey. He is currently a professor of piano at the Berklee College of Music in the United States. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music with a Master of Music degree with Academic Honors. In 2016, won the 3rd place award of 9th Eczacibasi National Composition Contest with his symphonic lied "Hiclik". Professor Artan has performed, toured and taught masterclasses in Switzerland, France, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and China. He also has had numerous interviews in the US, Europe and Turkey. In 2017, he composed the first Piano & Cajon Concertante in the world and he premiered it at Zorlu PSM in Istanbul with Istanbul Symphony Orchestra.
Currently, he's writing new ballet music for the Ankara State Opera & Ballet's Modern Dance projects. He is the Honorary Chairman/Judge of Global Outstanding Chinese Artists Association’s 6th International Piano Competition. Professor Artun is working as an Arranger for Ankara Kent Bigband and Musical Director for Classical Oasis Ensemble. Furthermore, He's a voting member at The Recording Academy for Grammy Awards.
Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music
Classical and Jazz Pianist, Composer
“Here you have a marvelously endowed talent. This is the musicianship and artistic sensitivity at its highest level. Of such ingredients are great musical memories made and lives enriched thereby”
– Joyce Miller (The Item, Sumter, SC)
Virtuoso at the piano
Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music
Classical and Jazz Pianist, Composer
“Here you have a marvelously endowed talent. This is the musicianship and artistic sensitivity at its highest level. Of such ingredients are great musical memories made and lives enriched thereby”
– Joyce Miller (The Item, Sumter, SC)
Virtuoso at the piano, Maxim Lubarsky is a remarkable pianist, whose stylistic versatility and musicality makes him one of the most sought-after musicians. Native of Odessa Ukraine, Maxim was originally trained as a classical pianist at famous Stolyarsky school of Music and Odessa State Conservatory. Already in school he has developed a passion for jazz and received a scholarship to come to Berklee College of Music to further his studies.
Maxim has performed and recorded with such musicians as Dee Dee Bridgewater, Terri Lynn Carrington, Gabrielle Goodman, Rhiannon, Patrice Rushen, Greg Osby, Dave Samuels, and participated in St. Petersburg Music Fest (Russia), Spoleto Festival (SC), Beantown Festival (MA), Diacetum Festival (Italy), “Black Sea Weekend” (Ukraine), “Usadba Jazz” Festival (Russia), ArtNaples Festival (FL), Cambridge Jazz Festival (MA), Salem Jazz and Soul Festival (MA).
Maxim is an assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music. He has also been invited numerous times with masterclasses in China, South Africa, Ukraine and Russia. Maxim continues a vivid performing and recording career, leading Maxim Lubarsky Group and working on several other projects with musicians from around the world.
Massachusetts, United States
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