Invited Faculty for 2024 (subject to change)

The faculty formation is an ongoing process. This page lists only a selection of invited (NOT engaged)  faculty!!

Please check back periodically for updates

Former distinguished faculty:

Eleonore Schoenfeld (violin), Zvi Zeitlin (violin), James Buswell (violin), Zakhar Bron (violin), John Perry (piano), Gabriel Chodos (piano), Boaz Sharon (piano), Bradley Garner (flute), Humbert Lucarelli (oboe), Caroline Hartig (clarinet), Guy Yehuda (clarinet), David Jolley (horn)

Chamber music: Sungmin Kim

Sungmin Kim is from New York City, where he attended the Special Music School and Lucy Moses School at Kaufman Center and Stuyvesant High School. Read more>>

Violin/Viola: Thomas Christian 

Thomas Christian was born in Linz. He currently lives in Vienna. He received his first violin lessons from Franz Toifl (a student of Jan Mařáks), at the age of seven. At the age of eleven he was the winner of an Austrian violin contest in Vienna. Read more>>

Violin: Hasse Borup

Hasse Borup is Associate Professor of violin and Head of String and Chamber Music Studies the University of Utah School of Music. He has earned degrees in violin performance from the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music, the Hartt School of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the University of Maryland. Read more>>

Cello: Eleanor Christman

Cellist Eleanor Christman is an active soloist, chamber musician, and instructor.  She is also a certified Laban Movement Analyst (LMA), and has presented her research on LMA for musicians in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies Contemporary Applications by Colleen Wahl and at various national and international conferences.  Read more>>

Cello: Wesley Skinner

Cellist Wesley Skinner holds a DMA from Arizona State University where he served as the Teaching Assistant of Tom Landschoot. Additionally, Wesley holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music where he studied with Melissa Kraut. With an emphasis in Cello Pedagogy during his Cello Performance Master’s degree, Wesley recently held faculty positions in the Western Reserve Suzuki School, the Hudson School of Music, and the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) Preparatory Program. Read more>>

Flute: Brian Dunbar

Dr. Brian Dunbar is the Assistant Professor of Flute at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. He obtained a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Louisiana State University, Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan, and Bachelor of Music degree from Stetson University.  Read more>>

Flute: Ráyo Furuta

Renowned as “The Rockstar of the Flute” by the Informador de Guadalajara in Mexico and widely regarded as “The Prodigy of the Great Flutist, Carol Wincenc” by the San Jose Mercury News, Mexican-Japanese American flutist Ráyo Furuta stands as a captivating artist and performer of global acclaim with command over the classical, contemporary, world, jazz, and pop realms. Read more>>

Clarinet: Asher Carlson

An active orchestral and chamber musician, Asher Carlson’s musical pursuits have taken him on tours across the continental United States, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Italy, Ireland, and Kenya. He currently holds positions as Principal Clarinetist of the Venice Symphony (FL), Principal Bass Clarinetist of the Tallahassee Symphony (FL), and performs with the Candlelight Processional Orchestra at EPCOT in Walt Disney World. Read more>>

 

 

Saxophone: Clifford Leaman

Critics have hailed Clifford Leaman as “an artist of the first order…intuitive, exciting, and enthralling.” (Paul Wagner, The Saxophone Journal) Leaman reveals himself to be {an} artist of technical brilliance and emotional commitment.” “The range of colors is impressive…” (Jack Sullivan, American Record Guide). Read more>>

Saxophone: Kendra Wheeler

Innovative and passionate, Dr. Kendra Wheeler has established herself as a well-known performer, teacher, and scholar. She actively promotes, advocates, and performs a new repertoire, as seen in her modern and diverse programming and commissioning. Composer Ziv Slama states: “Kendra’s performance combines technical ability from the highest levels of saxophone playing and unique levels of expression and interpretation.” Read more>>

 

Trumpet: Brianne Borden

Dr. Brianne Borden joined the faculty at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam in the Fall of 2020 and serves as Assistant Professor of Trumpet. She is a member of the Potsdam Brass Quintet and Principal Trumpet of the Orchestra of Northern New York. Read more>>

 

Piano: Anthony Padilla

ANTHONY PADILLA is a professor of piano, chamber music, and collaborative piano at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin. An American pianist of Filipino-Chinese ancestry, Padilla receives public and critical acclaim for performances of “enormous freshness, vitality, and poetry” (Chicago Tribune). Read more>>

Piano: Jared Pierce

Dr. Jared A. Pierce has been featured on concerts throughout the world, including with orchestras and choirs in Spain, France, Portugal, Austria, Vietnam, and throughout the United States. Recent collaborations include internationally renowned artists Nathan Pacheco, Øystein Baadsvik, Jutta Puchhammer-Sédillot, The Nashville Tribute Band, Lexi Walker, and many more. Read more>>

Piano: Jose Ramos Santana

One of the most acclaimed pianist of his generation, Jose Ramos Santana   has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras such as New York Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Moscow State Orchestra,  and the orchestras of Chicago, Baltimore Casals, Saint Louis Detroit and festivals such as Spoleto, Caramoor, Casals Aspen, Amalfi, IKIF. Read more>>

Vocal Coach/Conductor: Semyon Rozin

Semyon Rozin´s international conducting engagements have included appearances with Minsk Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Chorus of Minsk State Conservatory (Belorussia), the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra and St. Paul Civic Orchestra (Minnesota), Rheinisches Kammerorchester, West Germany Radio Orchestra and Chorus of Cologne, the Dutch Radio Chorus (Hilversum), the Israeli Chamber Choir, Flamish Radio Chorus, Belgian Radio Chorus (BRTN) among the others. Read more>>

Guest Organ: Paul Kayser

Born in Luxembourg in 1979, Paul Kayser began studying violon and solfège in 1986 and organ in 1989 (class of Pierre Nimax jr.) at the National Conservatory of Music at Luxembourg-City. Read more>>

 

Guest Harp: Adi Alice Petre

Born in 1982 in Romania, Adi-Alice Petre began studying the harp at the age of 8 at the G. Enescu High school G. Enescu in Bucharest in the class of Ion-Ivan Roncea.

In 2001 she won the first prize of the Luxembourg Conservatory to study in the harp studio of Liane Coljon Hames. Read more>>