Roster of Teaching Artists
Roster of Teaching Artists
The list of Musicopia’s Teaching Artists is found below. Biographies of select musicians are available by clicking on each artist’s name. This also provides links to the full ensemble description, to the programs each musician participates in, and in some cases, to individual personal websites.
Pope, Odean
One of the premiere tenor saxophonists in jazz for over a quarter century, Renaissance man Odean Pope is also an accomplished composer, arranger, and ...
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Posmontier, David
Dave Posmontier has been playing keyboard since the age of seven and has played professionally for the past 35 years. He majored in mathematics at ...
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Rafela, Adib
Adib Samaan Rafela attended Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt from 1977-1980, where he studied with Oud masters: Farid el-Atrache, Mohammed Abdel ...
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Robinson, Joshua
Josh grew up around the music business. He began playing pots, pans, and eventually drums in his basement at an early age in his hometown of ...
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Kip Rosser’s performance background began early, after learning the art of pantomime. By the time he was in high school, he was touring schools ...
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Rubio, Anna
Anna began her training in dance and music at age four. After training in ballet at the Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet, she started studying modern ...
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Rubio, Carlos
Carlos Rubio began his musical career as a member of Venezuela's Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. He has been a guest faculty member ...
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Tito Rubio was born in 1954 in Monsagro, Spain, a small village in western Salamanca, about thirty miles from the border with Portugal. He remembers ...
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Ruttenberg, Sam
Sam Ruttenberg freelances with the Pennsylvania Ballet, Opera Company of Philadelphia, and West Jersey Chamber Orchestra. Sam also plays with the ...
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Sames, Barry
Barry Sames is a musician who continues to explore new musical territory. A graduate of Temple University’s jazz program at the Boyer College ...
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