I have been studying and performing music since the age of 8. My experience includes bass guitar, piano (both being my primary instruments), trombone, and guitar; genres include jazz, praise and worship, country, rock, classical, ragtime, and funk. I am currently a student at Berklee College of Music pursuing a degree in Music Education. Locally I play in two original bands, Congress and Old English. Through my academic knowledge and my real world performance on stage I am able to provide a well rounded learning environment.

Boston native, Michael P., is currently studying trombone at New England Conservatory, expecting to receive his BFA in Jazz Performance with NEC's unique Music-In-Education Concentration in Spring 2014.

While at NEC, Michael usually plays tenor trombone, but also regularly plays bass trombone in the big band (and even played tuba on a concert!). At school he also plays in small jazz combos, coached and trained by their top notch faculty. Michael's wide range of musical tastes have been expanded through his time at school through classes and opportunities to play in such diverse styles from jazz (latin, bebop, free, etc.), to Western classical music, Brazilian music, European Renaissance music, Jewish Music, New Orleans style brass bands and Afro-Pop.

Michael is currently the trombonist in the Boston based Afro-Pop group Kina Zore--winners of the grand prize in the 2012 John Lennon Song Writing Competition. They are a regionally touring act playing in Boston, Vermont,...

Josiah R. is a tubist and composer born and raised in Lexington, MA. After attending Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio, where he studied with trombonist Robin Eubanks and tubist Ron Bishop. After graduating, Josiah moved to Cambridge and quickly began gaining a reputation as a young presence on the music scene. He frequently plays with the Hot Tamales Brass Band at Fenway Park, opening for the Red Sox games, and has performed with Nicholas Payton, the Either/Orchestra, Josh Lederman and the Cambridge All-Stars, Los Three, Superska, and many others. He also leads his own bands: the original second-line ensemble Brass Knuckles, and a mandolin-and-tuba duo George Washington Carver. He has never felt limited by the peculiar or stigmatized view of his instrument and is a skilled improviser in all styles and a prolific composer. He is available to teach all styles on any brass instruments as well as music theory, ear training, and composition.

Danilo is a multi-instrumentalist originally from Long Island, New York and currently based out of Boston. He has been involved in many successful projects along the east coast. Danilo is a current member of Full Tang and Debo Band. He has also been a member of internationally acclaimed Afrobeat group The Superpowers and had toured extensively playing percussion with indie-rock band Rubblebucket.

Danilo has studied classical trumpet performance at the New England Conservatory of Music with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra as well as percussion and drums with other esteemed faculty members (Rakalam Bob Moses, Jamey Haddad). In addition to his conservatory training, Danilo has studied traditional West African drumming at the Dagbe Cultural Center in Kopeyia, Ghana.

Danilo's performance opportunities have taken him from Boston's Jordan Hall to numerous locations in New York (Alice Tully Hall, Cornelia St. Cafe FONT music series), and more extensive tours to Toronto...

I am a very unique and inspiring individual. I have found that I live and breath music all day through my day to day life. I am an entertaining person who loves to use my own inspirations to teach others and help them find passion though music. My students learn just as much from me as I learn from them. Learning is a two way street. Music can bring our ideas to life and we can learn about the world and ourselves through this wonderful art form.

Though I am a trombone player, I do have many experiences singing and learning how to teach vocal lessons through my training at UMass Lowell. I am passionate and will research with students to figure out their interests and strengths then work on them together. Here is my musical resume.

Michael
Trombone

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

North End Marching Band (2010-present)
Slidewinders Trombone Quartet (2009-present)
Concert for Hope...

Hello students and parents:

I have been performing for for over 30 years. I am currently the principal percussionist for the Falmouth Chamber Players Orchestra on Cape Cod. I also free lance around South-Eastern Massachusetts in various groups and establishments. I am a Berklee College of Music graduate and I earned a music teaching license through the music education department at Westfield State University.

I am funny, friendly, outgoing and I love to make music with others. I love kids and I love teaching.

I have studied percussion with many teachers including jazz drummer Ed Soph and Eugene Bozzi of the Hartford Symphony. I have spent many years living in Boston and has performed and recorded with many jazz, blues and R & B artists. Some of the groups I have recorded with are Grits, Alistair Moock, Josh Lederman, Lonely Gus, the Ground Swells and the Dave Richardson Band.

I have been teaching lessons since 1985 and I have had many great experiences with my...