Dr. Dmytro Gnativ is a highly accomplished musician and educator with a deep passion for music. His musical journey began at a young age when he enrolled in the local conservatory in Sambir, Ukraine, to study flute and piano. He later pursued a bachelor’s degree at the Lviv National Music Academy, specializin…

“To give my students the tools they need to freely express themselves for the first time, through music. That’s why I teach.” Kristin Gonzalez has been teaching music for over 3 years and has studied it for nearly 20 years. As a multi-instrumentalist she has taught her students to play flute, clarinet, alt…

Finding a way to convey what one’s heart is trying to say through music has been at the core of Lucia’s musical journey. She received her Bachelor of Music from Florida State University under the tutelage of Eva Amsler. During her time at Florida State she played flute for the Amethyst Quintet, was Principal …

Adam Green received his M.M. in Saxophone Performance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2011, where he studied with Dr. Paul Haar. During his time at UNL, Adam held teaching assistantships in both the saxophone studio and the music theory department. In 2009 he received a B.M. in Saxophone Performanc…

Katie Gu began her first musical steps with the general music program at West Valley Elementary in California. With 6 active years of piano experience, growing up, she joined the Crystal Children’s Youth Choir and toured in several states for 6 years. In 4th grade, her sister’s old clarinet was handed down to…

Tess Halonen began her music career at age 11 in Las Cruces NM,
studying under Jenny Paulson and Katie Sak. She has been playing flute
since 1994, and she has been playing guitar and piano since 2001. After
winning state and regional competitions and participating in master
classes with Tadeo Coelho, …

Rachel Hardman’s musical career started like most by playing the recorder! She then moved on to learning the clarinet, flute and saxophone at school in the UK, taking part in every school group and being heavily involved in county music ensembles. She had the opportunity to play at the Music for Youth Nationa…

What started as a curious rummage through his father’s records of Earth Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, Anita Baker, Boney James, Kirk Whalum and Grover Washington, birthed the void of a sound that only Marquis Hare could fill. Introduced to music at the young age of five, Marquis digested the sounds of Jazz,…

Elisabeth Harvey is a dedicated music teacher, instrumentalist, and all-around lover of music born and raised in Central Florida. From the time she was born, her family’s house was always filled with her older siblings singing Disney songs, show tunes, and hymns. Elisabeth still enjoys singing with her fami…

Christine originally hails from the state of South Dakota.  Growing up in Rapid City, there wasn’t much to do but learn to play instruments, so at the insistence of her grandmother at age 7, she began the piano.  At 9, she took up the cello, and at 10 she began playing the violin and the flute, as the lis…