Leonardo has won top prizes in many guitar competitions which include the 1st Annual Houston Classical Minds Competition, 5th Annual Eastfield Collegiate Guitar Competition, the 4th Annual UTPA Guitar Competition, the 2nd Annual UTB/TSC Concerto Competition, the 10th Annual UTB Ensemble Competition and was a …

Always searching for inspiration, Santos continues to study the great music of the past while finding new music through friends, family, radio and Internet. Santos grew up in small town West Texas surrounded by cotton fields and grazing cattle. With large open spaces, Santos began to grow a large imagination …

Cassi Irene Gardner is a recent graduate from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she pursued a Master’s of Music in Vocal Performance. She is now performing and teaching all over the state of Texas with entities such as Houston Grand Opera’s “Opera to Go!”, The Lubbock Symphony, Amarillo Opera, Am…

Daniela began learning music at the age of 7 when she got her first keyboard and later her first guitar. After a couple years of lessons she joined the band program in middle school, and quickly discovered her passion for drums and percussion. In high school she was the drum captain and section leader of the …

Silvio Giannetti has been a musician for the entirety of his life, and has played and toured with professional classical groups and jazz bands in Brazil, South America and the US. In addition, Silvio has played on more than 30 recorded albums. His primary instrument is trombone, but he has been teaching for o…

Violinist, Tracy Gibler began playing the violin at the age of 7 through the Suzuki program and performed with the Texas All-State orchestras all four years of high school. She went on to study with Dr. Kirsten Yon at the University of Houston and graduated summa cum laude in 2016. During her undergraduate st…

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…

Shelby Gipson is a native of San Augustine Texas and has been studying classical singing since 2014. He began playing piano in 2013. He started life out as a trumpet player and played until he began to study voice. He is a Tenor who loves all music; everything from Puccini to Megan Trainer, and everything in-…

Emily Gladstone is a Houston-based musician who began playing the violin at the age of five through her local arts program, and is currently enrolled in an undergraduate music performance degree under Dr. Kirsten Yon. She has taken masterclasses from Hal Grossman and Katie Lansdale, participated in summer org…

Sogol has always had a deep love for music. She started playing the violin when she was 9 in her home country, Iran. Since then, she has spent many years studying music, including gaining experience with violin, voice, music theory, and solfege. She has performed in the Isfahan Orchestra, the Arpa Orchestra, …