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Hi, I’m Xin! I’m a professional horn player who plays with the New World Symphony and graduated from the Yale School of Music, and I love helping students with auditions, fundamentals, confidence, and orchestral playing! Here is my professional biography, if you choose to peruse, or you may continue browsing through my profile to see if I am the right fit for you!

I am an Illinois Certified Music Educator of 18 years in public school. I currently teach at Carbondale Middle School in Illinois. My expertise is with beginning instrumental music through high school. While my specialty is woodwinds, particularly saxophone, I am competent in playing and teaching all band instruments. I also teach bass guitar and beginning piano

As an award-winning music educator and performer, I bring unparalleled expertise to private music lessons. I hold degrees from Eastman and Berklee and have received prestigious honors, such as the Outstanding Trumpet Soloist award (elected by Wynton Marsalis) and the Raymond and Maxine Schirmer Prize in Jazz Performance.

I am the Principal Trumpet with Rogue Valley Symphony in Southern Oregon. I also work as a freelance trumpet player, private teacher, and arts administrator in Southern California. For more than 8 years, I have worked with beginning to advanced trumpet students of all ages. I specialize in orchestral, wind band, chamber music, and solo trumpet.

My name is Kalena Pawlitschek, I was born and raised in Fargo ND and have always had a passion for music. It all started when I was prekindergarten in the choir at my church. Ever since then, I have always been involved in music in some form. Once I got into middle school, I started learning clarinet and fell in love with it.

Hey there!! I'm a professional trumpeter in Los Angeles, CA with a Master's Degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Southern California. I also spent the last year building tonebase trumpet, a world-class premium course library with some of the best trumpeters in the world, from whom I learned for the past year.

As a passionate educator and an advocate of community engagement, Connor Thummel has taught privately and co-founded ensembles across the country. Before arriving in Boston, Mr. Thummel co-directed and performed with Benefit Brass, a Chicago-based non-profit brass ensemble that organized benefit concerts for charities.

Hi all! I'm a music producer, with a project management and international relations background as well. I've worked with children, TA'd Engineering at Brown U., and teach students of all ages in music production, theory, and performance. I have a Master's in Production from Berklee College of Music, and 20+ years industry experience, based in NYC and New England.

My experience as a musician, performer and brass tutor has developed a passion and personal commitment to three things: fostering a positive learning environment for students with various backgrounds, maximising individual student performance and developing student interest in different brass performance techniques as well as music theory knowledge growth.

Hey There! Taylor Donskey is a music educator and multi-instrumentalist. He's been playing tunes and teaching kids, from 1 to 92, starting in 2013 and hasn't stopped since! Taylor graduated in 2013 with a Bachelors of Music from the University of Minnesota School of Music and a minor in Business Management from the Carlson School of Business.