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Fernando Grimaldo is a native Houstonian, growing up in 2nd Ward. He began his artistic education at the High School School for the Performing and Visual Arts where he studied musical theater. Once at Pepperdine University, he changed his major to Music where his career in Classical Voice started. While at Pe…

Emiliano J. Saumell is a South Florida based trombonist and educator. He received his Associates in Art at Miami Dade College under the tutelage of Dr. David Brubeck. During his time there he performed regularly on tenor trombone, bass trombone, and tuba. He is versatile in a many musical genres and has perfo…

Preston Griffith is a Music Educator located in Decatur, GA with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Florida State University, and certified in both Suzuki and Mark O’ Connor Violin methods. Seeking means of discovery and expression, he has dedicated his life to music, including solo violin, cham…

Kathy Garner Simpson holds a Bachelor of Music degree from The Boston Conservatory and a Master of Music degree from Boston University School of Music. In 2019, Mrs. Simpson moved to Florida from Michigan where she was on the faculty of the Community Music School of Battle Creek and performed with the West Mi…

Andrew Faulkenberry is a composer and music educator born in New Jersey and currently based in the Baltimore–Washington, D.C. area. He received a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Rutgers University (’21), where he studied with Brian Landrus and Robert Aldridge, and a Master of Music in Composition from…

Mr. Cody Puckett resides in the Four Corners area nested in Davenport, Clermont, Orlando, and Kississimme. He is currently a music educator in Polk County Public Schools, instructing students who are neurodiverse. He will be teaching piano, and saxophone lessons to all students and grade levels. He is fluent …

Peruvian musician, born in the summer of 1980’s, Alejandra Pizarro began to learn to play the trumpet at her school in Lima. By the age of 14, she became the lead trumpet at the “Orquesta Interescolar Jazz en Lima”, and in 2004 she became part of the trumpet section of the “Orquesta Juvenil de Música…

Integrity, passion and professionalism are what Tannon Gilmore has built his musical life from. Tannon started his career at the tender age of 6 years old after receiving a guitar for Christmas. At an early age, he began to teach himself how to play guitar until his parents noticed, and thought, “we must f…

Majid is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, curator, and fixture of the Atlanta improvisation and new music communities. He holds a Bachelors of Music from Georgia Southern University where he studied Composition and Jazz Studies. Majid’s prolific work as a composer focuses on resonance, dynamics, and experi…