Profile Type: Music Partners Admin
Angela Morris
Name: Angela Morris From: Toronto, Canada Few people know that I… love to sew, and even designed and made my own wedding dress. Education: MA in Jazz Composition, Aaron Copland School of Music at CUNY Queens College; BMus Jazz Studies (woodwinds), Humber College, Toronto; Royal Conservatory of Music violin teaching certificate I play and teach:…
Zach Hicks
Name: Zach Hicks From: Brooklyn, New York Few people know that I… love folding origami frogs out of MetroCards Education: MM (Music Composition), New England Conservatory of Music; BM (Music Performance), NYU Steinhardt; Manhattan School of Music Precollege; LaGuardia High School for the Arts I play and teach: Flute, clarinet, saxophone My other artistic/musical endeavors:…
Deric Dickens
Name: Deric Dickens From: Moultrie, Georgia Few people know that I… secretly have always wanted to be a graphic designer and visual artist. My overseas music tours are mostly fueled by my need to visit museums! Oh, and to play killer music all over the world. Education: BA-Music Ed, Valdosta State University; MA-Percussion Performance, University…
Dorothy Savitch
Dorothy Savitch has led the Music Partners program since 1996, developing fully enriched, sequential programs that build upon students’ skills from year to year. Under Dorothy’s guidance, Music Partners has grown from six sites with 700 students to 34 sites with 4,500 participants. Dorothy has expanded the course offerings to meet the needs and interests…
Sheri Gottlieb
Sheri Gottlieb is Associate Director of the Music Partners Program at BKCM Music. She joined the team in 2000 and personally developed sequentially sequenced programming for PreK through 3rd grade students. Among her tasks, she is most proud of her work as mentor and curriculum developer. She created “Play Practice~Practice Play”, a series of Seminar/Workshops…
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…