Private Music Lessons Program At Loyola Blakefield

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1 Private Music Lessons Program At Loyola Blakefield As part of the Blakefield Experience, we are very excited to provide a private instrumental music lessons program here at Loyola Blakefield beginning September, This program will bring top musicians on the various instruments to our campus to provide regular private music lessons to interested students. These lessons are open to all Loyola Blakefield students and students from other schools who are in grades six to twelve as well. The instruments for which private lessons are offered are: Jazz, Rock & Blues Guitar Jazz, Rock & Popular Piano Classical Piano Flute, Clarinet or Saxophone Trumpet, Trombone, Euphonium or Tuba Concert Percussion Jazz & Rock Drums For your convenience, a list of the private teachers and their backgrounds are attached. The cost of these private lessons, $ 35 per lesson, is similar to the cost that one would pay for private lessons in the community. This program will allow students in grades six to twelve to conveniently take private lessons at all levels from a specialist on that instrument; and it will also allow those who are interested to learn a new or second instrument if they wish. Lessons will be available Monday through Friday between 3:15 and 6:15 p.m. Each lesson will be thirty minutes once each week unless the student would prefer one-hour lessons once each week. Students would sign up for the six or nine week sessions corresponding to the three Loyola Blakefield athletic seasons so that the private music lessons will not conflict with participation in sports and sports try-outs.* Lessons would also not take place during exams or vacation days. A fourth session of six weeks will take place in the summer. Students may takes lessons for as many sessions as they wish. Please look over the attached list of teachers and the schedule for private lessons for the school year. If you wish to sign up for these private music lessons, please go to the Loyola Blakefield web site at If you would have any questions, please feel free to contact Mr. London at dlondon@loyolablakefield.org or at (443) *Each of the three sessions begins after sports try-outs are complete for that sports season. Therefore, if a student is not on a team that season, he knows that he is free to take private music lessons that season; if he is on a team that season, the student will wait until the next season/session to take private music lessons.

2 Private Music Lessons Schedule For The School Year* These sessions take Loyola Blakefield s Christmas Break, Thanksgiving Week, Easter Break and Exam Week into account. They are placed into three sessions of six weeks, nine weeks and nine weeks to accommodate students who are also on sports teams. The dates listed as closed are days when there are no classes due to holidays or school professional days; these sessions will be made up. Session I: 1. Week of September 19 (closed Friday, September 16) 2. Week of September Week of October 3 4. Week of October 10 (closed Monday, October 10 and Wednesday, October 12) 5. Week of October Week of October 24 Session II: 1. Week of November Week of November Week of December 5 4. Week of December Week of January 3 (closed Monday, January 2) 6. Week of January Week of January Week of February 6 9. Week of February 13 Session III: 1. Week of March 5 2. Week of March Week of March 19 (closed Friday, March 23) 4. Week of March Week of April Week of April Week of April Week of May 7 9. Week of May 14 *If school is closed or closes early for inclement weather, the lessons for that day will not be held. Check school web site or WBAL television for announcements about weather related closings. Lessons scheduled for these days can be made up.

3 Musicians Offering Private Lessons At Loyola Blakefield* Carl Filipiak: Jazz, Rock & Blues Guitar Mr. Filipiak s CDs have received reviews in Billboard, 20 th Century Guitar, Guitar Player, Guitar World and Jazz Times. The Jazz Times, for example, calls him a dazzlingly versatile guitarist. His music has been featured in the Olympics and several televised events for NBC Sports and Turner Broadcasting. His publications include an instructional book and CD for Mel Bay Publications and a comprehensive chapter in Guitar A Complete Guide for the Player from Balafon Books in the UK. Alan T. Blackman: Jazz, Rock & Pop Piano Mr. Blackman received his Bachelor of Music degree in Studio Music and Jazz Piano from the University of Miami and his Master of Music degree from Towson University. He was accompanist to singer Jane Olivor for her San Francisco 2006 concert series and 1999 northeast tour, accompanist to Motown group The Platters, accompanist to soul singer Darlene Love, and keyboardist for Latin American Pop singer Milton Cortez s South American tour in His original songs and arrangements have been placed in movies like 1408 and the primetime TV shows Hawaii Five-0 and Parenthood. Belinda DeCastro: Classical Piano Ms.DeCastro received her Bachelor of Music degree in piano, cum laude, from St.Paul Conservatory of Music in Manila, Philippines by age 19. She performed works by Prokofieff and Mozart as soloist accompanied by the Manila Symphony Orchestra, and she was chosen as finalist in an Allo-Beethoven Piano Competition sponsored by the Music Promotion Foundation of the Philippines. In America, she studied with the distinguished Julliard School of Music piano professor, Mieczslaw Munz, and was coached by noted concert pianist Reynaldo Reyes of Towson University. She was formerly a piano faculty member of the St. Paul College of Manila, the Yamaha Music School in the Philippines, Bryn Mawr School and Garrison Forest School in Baltimore, and the Towson University Preparatory (Maryland Performing Arts Institute) where she was a member of the piano faculty for 17 years and Director of the Keyboard College for 5 years. She is currently on the piano faculty at Friends School while maintaining an extensive private piano studio practice. Gregory Tsalikis: Concert Percussion Mr. Tsalikis received his Bachelor of Music degree in Percussion Performance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and his Masters of Music degree in Percussion Performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, TX. He performed as soloist with the Houston Wind Symphony and as percussionist with Mercury Baroque, National Orchestral Institute, the Bluecoasts Drum and Bugle Corps, and the Doctor s Orchestra of Houston. In addition, he performed with Marvin Hamlisch, Renee Flemming, Hilary Hahn, So Percussion, Peter Schickele, Michael Gilbert, Will Kennedy, Phil Kraus and Bebe Neuwirth. He *Taken from their bios

4 Musicians Offering Private Lessons At Loyola Blakefield Page 2 has taught with the Reading Buccaneers Drum Corps as Front Ensemble coordinator, the Troopers Drum Corps as Front Ensemble captionahead, the Mount Hebron High School as arranger and captionhead, the Shepherd School of Music as rudimental percussion educator, and is currently the Front Ensemble coordinator for the Towson University World Famous Marching Band. Guy McIntosh: Trumpet Mr. McIntoch received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London, UK. He served as trumpet with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Cathedral Choral Society of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and principal trumpet with the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, Royal Academy of Music Concert Orchestra, and Kings College Orchestra. During this time, he performed under Sir Colin Davis, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Tadaaki Otaka, Susanna Malkki, Thierry Fischer, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, J. Reilly Lewis and Diego Masson, and took master classes with Eric Aubier, Reinhold Fiedrick, Michael Laird, Rex Richardson, Thierry Caens, Rod Franks, Mark David and James Watson. Russell Kirk: Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone (classical & jazz) Mr. Kirk received his Bachelor of Music degree in jazz performance at Peabody Conservatory and his Master of Music degree in jazz performance and composition at New York University. He served as adjunct faculty at New York University providing private instruction on clarinet and saxophone to both graduate and undergraduate students. He has performed with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Cab Calloway Orchestra, the Eubie Blake Legacy Band, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Four Tops, Temptations, Dennis Chambers and many others. He received the Maryland Arts Council Individual Artist Awards three times in performance and composition, was on the cover and interviewed by Saxophone Journal, and resident Artist Performer at the Kennedy Center. His recordings include To Journal Square (Inner Circle Music) and Now s The Time (Summit records). Mr. Kirk is currently the Director of Instrumental Music at Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School. David Dochterman: Trombone, Euphonium & Tuba Mr. Dochterman received his Bachelor of Music in trombone performance at Temple University. His teachers included Eric Carlson, Nitzan Haroz, Charles Vernon and Fred Lewis. As a Yamaha Performing Artist with the Bay Street Brassworks, he toured the United States and won the New York Brass Quintet Competition. He has also performed with the Maryland Symphony Brass Quintet, the Bayfield Brass Quintet, Brass Mosaic, the Chicago Brass Choir, the Maryland Symphony, the Annapolis Opera Orchestra, the Annapolis Chorale, the Mid- Atlantic Symphony, the Haddonfield Symphony, the Curtis Institute Symphony, the Chicago Philharmonia and the Arundel Brass Quintet. In addition, he has performed with several international ensembles including as Principal Trombone with La Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria in Mexico City, the Sofia Symphony in Bulgaria and the Teatro Lirico D Europa. He is currently

5 Musicians Offering Private Lessons At Loyola Blakefield Page 3 on the faculty of Loyola Blakefield as well as an adjunct faculty member at the Anne Arundel Community College where he teaches trombone. David Tucker: Jazz, Rock & Pop Drums Mr. Tucker attended the Naval School of Music and performed with the Navy Show Band in San Diego. After his navy service, he studied with drummer of the Tonight Show, Ed Shaughnessy, in New York, and then moved to Los Angeles where his career included studio sessions, live performances and major tours with Columbia Artists. He has performed with Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Mel Torme, Peter Nero, Pat Boone, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Drifters, Steve Allen, Carl Fontana, Bill Berry, Terry Gibbs, Florence Henderson, Leslie Ughams Helen O Connel, Kay Star, Jessica Williams, Eddie Henderson, Thurman Green, Buster Cooper and many others. In 1991, Mr. Tucker and his wife moved back to Baltimore where he is in demand for studio recording sessions and club dates as well as performances with his own big band, The John Blount-Dave Tucker Real Big Band.

6 The Days of the Week Private Lessons Will Be Given Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone Mondays Trumpet Wednesdays or Thursdays Classical Piano Fridays Jazz, Rock& Blues Guitar Wednesdays Jazz, Rock & Pop Drums Thursdays Jazz, Rock & Pop Piano Tuesdays Trombone, Euphonium or Tuba Tuesdays Concert Percussion-- Tuesdays