Daniel Severance is a singer, violinist, and songwriter that thoroughly enjoys helping students get closer to music and find their sound. He started playing violin at age 5 and was classically trained through primary school. He started writing soul songs, singing, and creating and exploring new styles on the …

James Shaw is currently a violist in Boulder Chamber Orchestra and Greely Philharmonic. He is a violist and chamber musician with the Mercury Ensemble.

Mr. Shaw formerly held viola positions with Florida Grand Opera and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.

James has previously taught violin, viola and c…

Olivia began playing violin at the age of three and has built a life around the creation and celebration of music. Trained classically in the studios of Laura Barnette, Dr. Marianne Perkins, and Allegra Wermuth, she was fortunate to play both on her own and with other local violinists in a chamber ensemble se…

Rawan has been playing the violin since the age of 10. Throughout her years of playing, she has performed in various orchestras and chamber groups as well as churches, weddings, and other hired events. Currently, she is a violinist with the Georgia State University Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dr…

Javier is a passionate performer and instructor of cello, violin, and French horn. Since the age of 10, Javier Silva has studied music beginning with the cello. He later then picked up the French horn as his secondary instrument.
Javier has achieved principle horn and cello for TMEA All-Region all four years…

Martin started playing violin at age 9 and quickly found that he loved to play any stringed instrument he could get his hands on–including a sanxian (3-stringed Chinese lute) he picked up and performed on during a recent trip to China. He says, “Ever since I played my orchestra challenge piece for my grandma…

Hannah Sitoy is from the city of Pearland, Texas and began studying classical piano at the age of five. She competed in various TMTA competitions under Cindy Mills and studied twelve years of music theory and music history. In middle school, she learned how to play the violin and the clarinet and began playin…

Olivia Skaja (b. 1998) has been playing the violin since age nine, first starting in her local strings program in northern Minnesota. She has studied with notable teachers including Francesca Anderegg, Nathan Cole, Natsuki Kumagui, and Alex DePue. She attended St. Olaf College, where she received her Bachelor…

Aundjala Suhatskaya, also known as Anjie Skaya, was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1971. She was accepted to The Republic Music School for Gifted Children of R. Glier in 1978 for the class of Violin. During her 12 years of music schooling, she had multiple Violin Solo performances, Radio and TV recordings, a…