Teachers

 Former Professor at the conservatories of GPSEA/France, Ayse Celasun, native of Istanbul, began her studies at the age of 5 at Istanbul Belediye Konservatuari (currently Istanbul University State Conservatory). She moved to Paris with a scholarship to the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, in the class of Germaine Mounier...

 Andrew Schultze, baritone, is well known as an interpreter of the standard opera/oratorio repertoire and as a specialist in the performance of early music.  His cast of characters includes villains, heroes and buffoons in operas by Pergolesi, Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Gounod, Humperdinck and Puccini and concert works...

Megan Bauer is a Dalcroze Eurtyhmics  teacher in Evanston, IL. She graduated from Oberlin

Conservatory and College in 2004 with degrees in Violin Performance and English

Literature. Megan began training in the Dalcroze Method with Jeremy Dittus in 2015. She earned her Dalcroze Certificate from the Dalcroze School of the Rockies in July of 2020

Ernest Strauhal is a Californian MAO (Musique Assistée par Ordinateur - Computer Assisted) composer and visual artist based in Chicago. His compositions and visual works have been shown and performed across Illinois, New York, California, and New Mexico. In 2021, Strauhal released his first music project “Beuys 1974” on .phonographiq, a music label dedicated to the intersection of the aesthetics of sound and image. 

 Theresa Zick is an active freelance  clarinetist in Chicago. She held the position of Acting Assistant  Principal, Second, and E-flat Clarinet of the Nashville Symphony during  the 2021 - 2023 seasons. Outside of orchestral work, Theresa has  recorded for companies such as Disney and EA Games.

Theresa  holds a master’s degree from DePaul University and bachelor’s degrees  in both clarinet performance and music education from the University of  Michigan. 

Benoît Dantin was born in 1977 near Grenoble (France) right next to the French Alps in a family of musicians. As a child, he learnt to play the clarinet with his father. When he was a teenager, as he already knew he would be teaching music somehow, he learnt to play the piano and during high school, he started on the bassoon.

He later went to Marseille in the South of France where he graduated as a music teacher and he flew to Tahiti to start teaching at the Conservatory of French Polynesia.