Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson, originally from Torrington, Connecticut, started his musical journey at the age of 10. Inspired by his uncle who played saxophone with the legendary soul artist James Brown and his grandfather, he began playing the saxophone. Along with the saxophone, he also studied drums as a child, and lat…

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Claire Jones

Claire Jones

Claire started her musical endeavors at the age of five on the piano. She performed in recitals annually and instantly fell in love with music, music theory, and performing. As she progressed through her earlier school years she picked up the clarinet at the age of 10 and cello at age 12 and performed through…

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Sophie Jupillat

Sophie Jupillat

Sophie Jupillat lives in Maitland, FL and has been teaching music since 2015. She is a Rollins College alumna with a Major in English/Creative Writing and Minor in Music. Classically trained in piano, she went on to study other musical genres, including jazz, world, folk and rock music. She is a versatile com…

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Maryna Kasparova

Maryna Kasparova

Marina Kasparova was brought up in Ukraine, where she started studying piano and choral singing in her early childhood.

At age 17, inspired by the recordings of the great Maria Callas, Miss Kasparova decided to pursue a career as an opera singer. She entered the Glière Institute of Music in Kiev to study…

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Nicole Kimmel

Nicole Kimmel

Nicole Kimmel graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2021 with her Bachelor’s in Music Therapy with a concentration in voice. Nicole has studied classical voice and opera for over four years as well as basic piano and guitar at the college level. As part of her experience at FGCU, Nicole has had th…

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Nino Lakvekheliani

Nino  Lakvekheliani

Nino Lakvekheliani was born in the Republic of Georgia in East Europe. When she was three, she sang for the first time on stage and in the 2nd grade she started taking piano classes. At the age of 16, she began studying voice and after high school she was accepted into Tbilisi V. Sarajishvili State Conservato…

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Janet Le

Janet Le

Janet Le has played piano since she was four years old. Her high school piano teacher Mrs. Toney showed her what it means to share her love of music with young people. She went on to study music education and she has taught music in elementary, middle, and high schools. She works with students on voice, piano…

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Victoria Lebanoff

Victoria Lebanoff

Victoria Lebanoff’s love of music began in middle school, when she learned to play the flute,
which she continued all through her middle school, high school, and college years, many of those years as section leader. She performed with her high school wind ensemble in a multitude of festivals and competiti…

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Brandt Leich

City: Orlando

Brandt Leich

Brandt began taking lessons at the age of 5 and quickly excelled and fell in love with music. He is a graduate of Baptist Bible College in Springfield MO with a BA in Church Music. He began teaching piano as a senior in high school for the school district he attended (Allen Park, MI) and has been teaching stu…

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Elise Levesque

City: Orlando

Elise Levesque

Elise Levesque is a Florida Native and got started in piano lessons when she was in second grade in the Metropolitan Orlando area. She took piano lessons through grade school and college and had two wonderful piano instructors that nurtured her love of music and creativity which caused her to want a career in…

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