Profile Type: Community Music School Faculty
Kirk Driscoll
From: Baltimore, Maryland I started teaching music in…1992 I started teaching at the Conservatory in… 2002 My inspiration: Any and all that intrigue my interest in wanting to understand what I don’t already know. Few people know that I… was also trained for classical percussion as well. Education: Peabody ConservatoryBerklee College of Music I play…
Joy Askew
Name: Joy Askew From: North of England (originally) Brooklyn lately I started teaching music in… 1993 I started teaching at the Conservatory in… 2017 My inspiration: Brad Mehldau, Bonnie Raitt, Miles Davis, Russell Brand. Few people know that I… co-wrote 2 songs with Quincy Jones Education: Newcastle College of Jazz & commercial Music (Diploma) I…
Mike Clifford
From: New York I started teaching music in… 2010 I started teaching at the Conservatory in… 1 My inspiration: Katie Traxler (Music Educator at PS 51) Few people know that I…really don’t like to eat olives. Education: NYU English Major/Philosophy Major/Music MinorPace University (Masters in Elementary Education)Hunter College (Masters in Music Composition) I play and…
Noel Brennan
Name: Noel Brennan From: Calais, Maine I started teaching music in…2005 I started teaching at the Conservatory in… 2017 My inspiration: Anindo Chatterjee, Flying Lotus, DJ Qbert, DJ D-Styles, Roy Haynes, Eric Harland Few people know that I… am an Eagle Scout Education: University Of Southern Maine – Jazz Performance with concentration in Percussion New…
Theo Walentiny
Name: Theo Walentiny From: Maplewood, New Jersey Education: The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music I play and teach: Piano Biography: Pianist, composer and improviser Theo Walentiny was born in 1996 and raised in New Jersey, growing up in an artistic home, his father an abstract painter and his mother an art therapist. He…
Lyubov Mirzoyev
I’m from… Moscow, Russia I started teaching music in… 1997. I started teaching at the Conservatory in… 2001. My inspiration: My mother. Few people know that I… am also a singer. Education: Moscow Music College – BMBrooklyn College Conservatory of Music – BA I play and teach: piano. My other artistic/musical endeavors: I’m an accompanist.
Michael Rose
From: New York City, NY I started teaching music in…1992 I started teaching at the Conservatory in… 1995 My inspiration: At the moment, Dai Fujikura and Per Nørgård… always Bach and Beethoven, loads of Indian, Korean, and Japanese music, Cecil Taylor, Ockeghem and Monteverdi. Education: Oberlin College and Conservatory – BA and BM (piano) New…
Haeun Joo
From: Busan, South Korea Education: Berklee College of Music; SUNY Purchase – M.M. I play and teach: Piano Biography: Haeun Joo is a jazz pianist from South Korea. She started playing the piano when she was five years old. While she was studying classical piano, she also played classical and gospel as an accompanist in…
Maya Keren
From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania My inspiration: Some inspirations include Thelonious Monk, Olivier Messiaen, Erykah Badu, Adrienne Lenker, Geri Allen, Nicole Mitchell, Mary Lou Williams, Kris Davis, Angelica Sanchez, Pinegrove, Raavi, Scriabin, Bach, John Coltrane. Gwendolyn Brooks, adrienne maree brown, Octavia Butler, Grace Lee Boggs have to make the list as well. Few people know that I……