Profile Type: Community Music School Faculty
Jennifer Axelson
From: Kenosha, Wisconsin I started teaching music in… 1994 I started teaching at the Conservatory in… 2007 (Queens), 2014 (Brooklyn) My inspiration: Stephane Grappelli, Miles Davis, Trent Reznor Few people know that I… worked at an amusement park Education: University of Wisconsin Madison, BMNew York University, MA I play and teach: Violin, Viola My other…
Alexis Hightower
From: Los Angeles, California My Inspiration: I always return to Duke Ellington, Nina, Simone, and Stevie Wonder when Iooking for creators to inspire me. Ella Fitzgerald, Bjork, Suzanne Vega, Bob Marley, Sade, J Dilla, there are so many wonderful artists who inspire me in a myriad of ways! I adore the marriage of great songwriting,…
Shara Lunon
From: Brooklyn, New York Few people know that I… am a sci-fi enthusiast! Education: BA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Florida; MM in Performance and Composition from The New School I play and teach: Voice Personal Teaching Statement: I believe all students are unique in their journey in sound. Diving into that uniqueness, I…
Gabrielle Herbst
My inspiration: I’m inspired by classical music and opera, folk music, jazz, pop, and indie-rock. Some of my favorite artists are Nina Simone, Björk, Renée Fleming, Alice Coltrane, Debussy, Ravel, and Stravinsky. Education: B.A. Bard College Composition and Voice; M.M. Yale School of Music in Composition I play and teach: Piano, Voice, Songwriting/Composition Personal Teaching…
Annie Chen
Annie Chen is a vocalist, composer, and bandleader from Beijing, based in New York since 2013. Her distinctive style draws on a rich continuum of musical traditions fromAsia, Europe, and the Americas. This creative vision – showcased on her releases Pisces the Dreamer (2014), Secret Treetop (2018) and Guardians (2024) – is supported by years…
Lisa Vidas Consolacion
Lisa Vidas Consolacion was born in Vancouver, BC Canada and raised on the other end of North America in Houston, Texas. She grew up in her parents’ music school, first playing the violin and then singing. Lisa is a proud alumnus of Houston’s GRAMMY Award winning High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. As…
Brian Drye
Trombonist and pianist Brian Drye is an integral part of NYC’s creative music scene. Brian has spent the last two decades exploring and performing the vast array of music that is available in the NYC area which Includes Jazz, Rock, Funk, Salsa, Gospel, Reggae, Balkan, Pakistani, Mexican, Haitian, Brazilian Forro, And Klezmer. Brian is currently…
Jennifer Taylor
Jennifer Taylor is a Brooklyn-based event manager, educational administrator, music educator and student. Jennifer attended Elon University before earning a master’s degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in Music Education. While Jennifer isn’t a fan of performing music, she is passionate about sharing her love for music and teaching with her students and colleagues. Jennifer…
Juvenal Santiago
Juvenal Santiago is the Operations and I.T. Manager at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.
Sara Schoenbeck
The Wire magazine places Sara Schoenbeck in the “tiny club of bassoon pioneers” at work in contemporary music today and the New York Times has called her “riveting, mixing textural experiments with a big, confident sound.” Sara promotes the bassoon as a colorful and flexible voice in both her own work and in collaboration as…