Cadenza Musicians Directory
Teachers

Name: Jon Rees
Skills: conductor, teacher (Earls Barton Music, Northants)
Phone: +44 (0)1604 812839
Address: 35, The Square, Northants NN6 0NA, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail

 

Name: Michael David Reisman
Skills: arranger, composer, player, teacher
Phone: +1 850 265 3911
Address: 1815 West 15th Street, Suite 17, Panama City Florida 32401, United States
Links: E-mail
 
Student Composer, Violist. Grew up in Portland, Maine and West Palm Beach, Florida. Cofounder of Orchestra of St. Andrew Bay (1996).

 

Name: Garry Roberts
Skills: composer, player, soloist, teacher, writer
Phone: +44 (0)1744 730375
Address: 190 Fleet Lane, St Helens Merseyside wa9 2rj, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
Guitar Tuition tired of playing the same old licks, don`t seem to be getting anyware! Give me a call! Jazz, Country, Rock, Blues, all styles. Individual tuition reasonable rates Merseyside area call 01744 730375

 

Name: Mike Roberts
Skills: Teacher (Drum tutor)
Phone: +44 (0)7957 327212
Address: 13 High Street, Barkingside, Essex IG6 2AA, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
Mike is a highly trained professional musician with an HND in Popular Music and a depth of experience as a player in both contemporary and classical music.

Originally from Devon, Mike is experienced in both classical percussion and modern drum kit. His experience and classical training has given Mike the opportunity to develop both show playing and modern kit work, and he has performed in diverse works from classical percussion ensembles to shows such as Godspel, Annie, Cabaret onto the work he currently is involved with in backing up and coming Pop/Rock bands as a session drummer.

Accordingly, Mike's versatile backgrounds enables him to back up his teaching with his broad musical experience making him an ideal tutor for students wishing to study rock, pop, jazz, funk, latin, reading, show style and classical snare drum.

 

Name: Lizary Rodriguez-Rios
Skills: Player, Soloist, Teacher (Harpist, Flute and Harp Duo)
Phone: +1 (303) 915 1590 (USA)/787-755-7551 (Puerto Rico)
Fax: +1 (978) 215 4565
Address: Colorado 80302, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Chamber performer and soloist, Lizary Rodriguez Rios, has the distinction of being the first Puerto Rican harpist to earn a doctoral degree in music, subsequent to which she earned two postgraduate degrees from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid, Spain. She has performed at numerous venues and festivals in Puerto Rico including the prestigious Casals Festival. An active performer, she toured with Grammy nominated international harp ensemble, HarpFusion, performing in the Czech Republic, Spain, Switzerland, Indonesia and Russia.

Rodriguez Rios has been a prizewinner in several international music competitions such as the “Cita di Padova” in Italy and the International Music Tournament in Marseille, France.

 

Name: Erik Ronmark
Skills: Soloist, Teacher (Concert Saxophonist)
Address: Sweden
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Swedish saxophonist Erik Rönmark came to the United States in 1996 to continue his musical education. To date, Rönmark has commissioned over 20 works by emerging composers but has also worked closely with established names such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Betsy Jolas, Terry Riley, and Karen Tanaka.

An accomplished chamber musician, Rönmark is the First-Prize winner of both the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the Coleman Chamber Music Competition. As a soloist or an orchestral saxophonist he has performed with the Windsor, Ann Arbor, Aberdeen (SD), and Sundsvall (Sweden) Symphonies. In 2000, Dr. Rönmark received the prestigious American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Award for establishing valuable relationships between Sweden and America.

As an educator and performer, Rönmark has given recitals and masterclasses in the United States, Canada and Europe and can be heard as quartet saxophonist on the Equilibrium label. He is currently in the process of recording an album for saxophone and strings to be released in 2006.

Dr. Rönmark received his D.M.A. from The University of Michigan where he studied with the renowned saxophonist Donald Sinta. He received his B.A. (Summa cum laude) from Northern State University (SD) and his M.M. from Bowling Green State University (OH). Dr. Rönmark was most recently the saxophone instructor at the University of Windsor, Canada.

 

Name: Bobby Rootveld
Skills: Accompanist, Arranger, Composer, Manager, Player, Publisher, Soloist, Teacher, Writer, actor, comedian
Phone: +31-743841718
Address: Tusveld 71, Bornerbroek 7627 NW, Netherlands
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Bobby Rootveld(1981) is a guitarist, composer, actor/comedian & producer from the Netherlands. He studied classical guitar with his father Fred Rootveld and with Louis Ignatius Gall (at the conservatory of Enschede), former student of Andres Segovia. Bobby is a member of Duo NIHZ (guitar and recorder combined with theatre) and The Guitar Company (guitar-trio). He plays multiple string & percussion-instruments. Bobby Rootveld has his own record-label which specializes in cabaret, comedy, classical music & 'popmusic with an edge'. He's also on stage as a comedian in cabaret-shows. As an actor he has played some small rolls in movies. Bobby Rootveld followed masterclasses with Jim ten Boske, Yves Storms, Reinbert Evers, Richard Pilkington, Massimo Laura, Edith Leerkens, Ullrich Steier, Theo Willemze, Henk Olden, Karel de Rooij (Mini & Maxi), Lyz Day and Jim Johnson. There are cd's and dvd's available with Bobby Rootveld as a musician/comedian.

 

Name: Benita Rose
Skills: Accompanist, Soloist, Teacher (Piano)
Address: 377 Stearns Road, Mansfield CT 06250, United States
Links: E-mail
 
Benita Rose, pianist, has performed throughout the United States, Brazil, and Latvia as soloist, accompanist or chamber musician. She has been soloist with the Willimantic Orchestra and the Connecticut String Orchestra. As soloist with the U.S.Coast Guard Band, her performance was heard on over 200 NPR radio stations on Martin Goldsmith's program "Performance Today". Ms.Rose has served as a judge for various piano competitions throughout the state of Connecticut. She has been a scholarship student at the University of Connecticut and the Hartt School where she received the prestigious Parker award and received her Master of Music degree. Her teachers include Luiz de Moura Castro, Joseph Villa and Louis Crowder. She has also received coaching from Ilana Vered and Menahem Pressler. Many of her piano students are prize winners. Ms.Rose is founding member of the Hop River Chamber Players in Andover, Connecticut.

 

Name: Duncan Rose
Skills: Teacher (Drum tutor)
Phone: +44 (0)1773 710927
Address: 3 Hoggs Field, Eastwood, Nottingham NG16 3HN, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
Duncan has been playing drums since his school days and has gigged in numerous bands over the past years including both rock, dance and classical. Experienced at playing live and in the studio to dance tracks with a click track, he has a solid groove and excellent timing.

Having just obtained distinctions in his sound engineering exams, he has a wide musical knowledge currently being put to use in his home recording and tuition studio. He has a very wide musical taste as evidenced by his huge CD collection and is comfortable playing in any style from rock to dance to classical.

 

Name: Eros Roselli
Skills: Soloist, Teacher
Address: Italy
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Eros Roselli studied classical guitar with Ruggero Chiesa and won prizes and awards he won at “F. Sor” International Competition in Rome, International Festival of 20th Century Music of Lagonegro, International Award "Sua Altezza Real la Infanta Doña Cristina" in Madrid... He performs in concert in Italy and abroad both as a soloist and in chamber groups. His performances have been broadcast for the Italian State Broadcasting Authority RAI, BBC, Radio Nacional Española, Classic New York (WNYC) and Australia’s National Classical Music Network. Eros Roselli has recorded Mauro Giuliani's quintets for guitar and strings, the Serenades by Diabelli, works for guitar and strings by Vivaldi, solo guitar pieces by Paganini, by Bach and Studies for guitar by Fernando Sor.

Reagrding the Sor CD American Record Guide has written: “superb Italian guitarist Eros Roselli is a first-rate musician and he offers probing interpretations of even the most unassuming miniatures, employing his supple sense of phrasing, pristine articulation, and full tone to remarkably satisfying effect”.

He currently teaches classical guitar in the State Conservatoire in Adria. In 1984 he took a degree in sociology at the University of Trento when he wrote a thesis on contemporary music.

 

Name: Nichole An-janette Rowbottom
Skills: Administrator, Arranger, Player, Singer, Teacher (Can teach flute, bassoon, theory and help with GCSE and AS/A-Level work)
Phone: +44 (0)1924 360302
Address: 70 Wrenthorpe Road, Wakefield WF2 0JS, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail

 

Name: Helen Jane Rowley
Skills: Composer, Player, Teacher (Violinist)
Phone: +44 (0)7734 693045
Address: United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
I am currently studying for a PhD in music composition with Colin Riley. My first project for submittion is a ballet for large orchestra based on the poem by Alexander Pope, 'The Rape of the Lock'.

At the moment I am working on my second project, orchestral music for film, television and contextual music. I have written four pieces, Metropolis - the sights and sounds of a metropolitan city, Pluto - the icy planet, Iridescence - changing colours and a substantial work called Overtones which uses the harmonic series.

I also have considerable experience as an orchestral violinist and teach both privately and for the London Borough of Harrow Music Service.

 

Name: Sergey Rybin
Skills: Accompanist, Teacher
Address: London NW3 5LH, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
Sergey was born in the city of Tomsk in Siberia (Russia) and began playing the piano aged seven, studying at the specialised music school for gifted children, attached to the Conservatory of Novosibirsk. After this he studied at the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts, where having gained the qualifications Professor of Piano and Ph.D., he was offered a position of Professor of Piano and taught for 4 years.

He graduated from The Royal Academy of Music (London)in June 2004 where his professors were Malcolm Martineau and Colin Stone. While at the Academy Sergey has won a number of prizes and awards: The Serena Nevill Award of The Concordia Foundation, The Leverhulme Prize of The Royal Academy of Music; the Sir Arthur Bliss Prize, the Ludmila Andrew Russian Song Prize, the Frank & Hilda Stokes and Marjorie Meyer Memorial Prize and the Cork Award of The Royal Academy of Music.

Sergey performs regularly and recent venues include St John's Smith Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields and St James's Piccadilly. In September-October 2004 Sergey will join the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme.

 

Name: Andrea Ryder
Skills: Singer, Soloist, Teacher
Address: West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Andrea is a highly experienced soprano soloist who has performed with a number of the UK's leading Opera Companies. She is also available as an Oratorio soloist

Andrea is half of the Operatic duo Double Divas and also works with Opera Bites who stage fully costumed chamber operas in the UK and abroad.

Andrea is also a highly experienced vocal teacher.

 

Name: Jonathan Sage
Skills: Soloist, Teacher
Address: York, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Jonathan Sage is a freelance clarinettist based in York. England. At the age of 24, he already has an impressive track record, having performed widely as a soloist and ensemble-member also premiering many solo clarinet pieces especially composed for him. Educated at the University of York, England, Jonathan graduated with a BA (honours) in music in 2006. He then undertook a postgraduate degree in Music Performance under Bill Brooks and graduated in July 2008 (with distinction). His teachers include Alan Hacker, Lesley Schatzberger and Margaret Archibald and he has participated in master-classes with Alan Hacker, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Lesley Schatzberger, Matthew Hunt and Guy Eshed.

Jonathan made his concerto debut in 2002, playing the Weber Concertino with the Cambridge Youth Orchestra and since then has gone on to play as soloist with the London Mozart Players and the York Sinfonietta. A highlight of his concerto career came at the Dartington International Festival when, at less than 24 hours notice, he stepped in for Alan Hacker to play the Mozart Clarinet Concerto (on Hacker’s basset clarinet) with the Dartington Festival Orchestra under conductor Diego Masson. As a recitalist and ensemble musician, Jonathan has performed at the Dartington International Festival, the York Spring Festival, the Ergodos Festival the Late Music Festival (in which he was the soloist/director in a rare ‘all live’ performance of Steve Reich’s New York Counterpoint), the 2007 International Conference on Music Since 1900, the York Microtonal Fayre and the University of York Concert Series. He has played with groups including the Chimera Ensemble and Matrix, working with musicians such as Jane Manning, Stephen De Pledge and Matthew Hunt, and is a member of the Jorvik contemporary music group. As an orchestral musician, Jonathan has played with many orchestras including the New Mozart Orchestra, the York Guildhall Orchestra and the Scarborough Symphony Orchestra.

Jonathan also has a passion for contemporary music and in November 2008 embarked on his first solo tour to Ireland performing works by Stockhausen, Carter, Sweeney and Garrett Sholdice, as well as two new works from composers Alex Harker and Jonathan Nangle, commissioned with funding from the Irish Arts Council.

Jonathan is also committed to music education, giving lectures on contemporary clarinet techniques at Trinity College Dublin and Dundalk Institute of Technology. He has given demonstrations and workshops at a many of schools and also participated in the London Mozart Players’ ‘Orchestra in a Village’ project aimed at expanding music in the community.

 

Name: Jason Sagebiel
Skills: Administrator, Composer, Conductor, Player, Teacher
Phone: +1 718 361 2922
Address: 44-02 23rd St #414, Long Island City 11101, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Jason Sagebiel is founder of Sage Music School, director of the NYC Guitar Orchestra, and lecturer at CUNY, where he teaches guitar, musicianship, history, and theory.

He has been the subject of two books, Jonathan Pieslak's Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War and Martin Daughtry's Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq, which he also edited.

Sagebiel has performed on WQXR's 'New Sounds', Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, and Elebash Hall, and at prestigious music festivals such as the Princeton Festival, the Van Der Stucken Festival, and the Warebrook New Music Festival. He has been featured on the WNYC radio program 'SoundCheck' and KUHA radio's 'The Front Row.' His compositions have been performed across the US and in Europe.

 

Name: Jenny Samuel
Skills: Singer, Soloist, Teacher (Mezzo soprano)
Phone: +44 (0)7773 126887
Address: Hampshire, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
Jenny Samuel (mezzo soprano) studied at Birmingham Conservatoire with Margaret Field and on ‘The Knack’ - a performance course for singers run by the Baylis programme at English National Opera, and is currently studying with Mary King.

Jenny has sung with ENO in The John’s Passion, at the Spoleto Festival, Italy in Der Rosenkavalier conducted by Richard Hickox, with Pavilion Opera as Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Adalgisa in Norma and with European Chamber Opera as Third Lady/Third Boy in The Magic Flute and as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. She has also sung with Carl Rosa Opera in their productions of The Mikado, Die Fledermaus, Iolanthe and The Pirates of Penzance. Other operatic roles include Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, the title role in Handel's Radamisto, Mrs Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, White Cat in L'Enfant et les Sortileges, Miss Baggott in Britten's The Little Sweep and Pitti-sing in The Mikado.

Oratorio solos include Messiah, Christmas Oratorio, Mozart's Requiem, Vivaldi's Gloria, Haydn's Harmony Mass and Purcell's Hail! Bright Cecilia.

Jenny performs regularly for the Council for Music in Hospitals.

 

Name: Gevorg Sargsyan
Skills: Conductor, Teacher
Phone: +374 91 331438
Fax: +374 10 520241
Address: 54.Tumanyan Str., Yerevan 0002, Armenia
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Maestro Gevorg Sargsyan was born in Yerevan, former USSR in 05 October 1981. Coming from musicians’ family, he had serious musician talent from the childhood. This helped him to be progressive student in music school and after in Special Music School where he studied in class of violoncello. (prof. K. A. Tagvoryan). In 1999, Gevorg Sargsyan has entered in Orchestral Conducting Department of Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (class of prof. Yuri Davtyan). During his study, from 1997, he also worked in various orchestras in Yerevan as a cellist. (Yerevan Symphonic, Opera, Radio Orchestra...).

Being 18 years old on 1st year of studing at the conservatory, Gevorg shows himself as a progressive student and has been selected by the rectorat of Yerevan State Conservatory to direct Conservatory's Symphonic Orchestra. He worked there until 2003 and has gone to Vienna Conservatory for 6 months course with prof. M.Cencic. Since 2002, Maestro Sargsyan is an honorable conductor of Yerevan Youth Chamber Orchestra ( www.yyco.narod.ru ). Has a close collaboration with ensemble "AUS-5" performing mainly cotemporary music of composers of 21st century.

Since March 2004, Maestro Gevorg Sargsyan is an assistant director and conductor of the Armenian National Academic Opera & Ballet Theatre ( www.opera.am )

In May 2006, he has awarded a prestigious grant from Sir Georg Solti Foundation. In August 2006 participated on Master course helded by prof. Domenique Rouits (Paris Conservatory) in Atri, Italy and has a concert with “Leopolis” symphonic orchestra (Ukraine) in Italy.

 

Name: Alphonse Georges Sauer
Skills: Accompanist, Administrator, Player, Soloist, Teacher (Pianist, Chamber Music, Piano Teacher, Accompanist)
Phone: +49 224616794
Address: troisdorf 53842, Germany
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Originally from Luxembourg, studied in Vienna/Austria with Dieter Weber, Bruno Seidlhofer, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Friedrich Gulda. Diploma with destinction in 1981

Alphose Sauer was teaching at the conservatory of Santander/Spain, at the Kunitachi University Tokyo/Japan and at the University of Music in Vienna/Austria

Recitals in Europe, Asia, South-Africa

Benefits Concerts for UNO, UNESCO, UNICEF in Parma/Italy, Geneva/Switzerland, Santiago/Chile

 

Name: Karen Marie Schacht
Skills: Conductor, Singer, Soloist, Teacher
Phone: 650-315-1885
Address: PO Box 1835, Burlingame, San Mateo, CA 94011, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
KAREN MARIE SCHACHT is in the process of being certified as a teacher in Music and Multiple Subjects and is currently earning a Master of Education in both Elementary Education and Secondary Education. She has already obtained No Child Left Behind Compliance in Music and Preliminary Educational Technology. She is a certified project manager with the prestigious PMP designation and accredited process auditor in ISO9000 and ITIL. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from San Francisco State University and a certificate in Liturgical Art and Worship Planning from the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Karen has been a musician in the San Francisco Archdiocese and has been working as a soloist, chorister, private teacher and opera singer for over two decades.

For a complete biography, see www.teacherkaren.com

 

 


Next Page of Musicians       Musicians Index       Add a Biography       Cadenza Index