MIDDLE C MUSIC
4530 Wisconsin Ave NW
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 244-7326
Mon-Thu
10:00am- 8:00pm
Fri-Sat
10:00am-6:00pm
Sun
12:00pm-5:00pm
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PRIVATE MUSIC LESSONS - Weekly half-hour lessons with our excellent music faculty! All lessons are $40 per half hour.
Instrument lessons offered include: acoustic & electric guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello, saxophone, trumpet, bass, percussion, voice, clarinet, flute, & recorder, low brass, trombone, baritone and ukelele.
You can click here to download the student registration form once you have signed up for lessons.
ROCK BAND CLASS - Mark Noone will teach ten-week sessions beginning in September. Kids & adults.
Here is some more information about our faculty:
guitar
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David Baise earned a Master of Arts in Jazz History and Research at Rutgers University and his Masters of Music in Jazz Performance at San Diego State University.
He also has many years of teaching experience; Dave has worked as a lecturer at Princeton University, Rutgers University, and was an instructor at San Diego State University. He has been a contributor/essayist for both the Annual Review of Jazz Studies and Jazz: The First Century. Dave has played guitar with organist Big John Patton's band and has performed many venues including the Jazz Standard in New York, NY.
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BROCK HOLMES
guitar
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Brock Holmes has performed and taught in the DC area for more than 30 years. In 2008, he was Music Director of the 2008 production of the British Embassy Players “Music Hall”, and of the Hexagon Club’s all-original musical comedy review, “Stars and Gripes Forever!” As a guitarist, he has performed solo and as an accompanist at a variety of venues, including with the Fairfax Symphony.
Brock has released two CDs – one featuring his a cappella singing group “Brock and the Rockets,” and one of his own compositions based on polyrhythms, titled, “Rhythm Warrior.”
He has taught guitar at all levels, and works with every student to find and keep in focus his or her particular love of music, whether it’s classical, jazz, folk, or none of the above.
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LINDY CAMPBELL
percussion
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Lindy Campbell studied percussion at Mount Royal Conservatory in Calgary Alberta. Her specialty is Latin and African Percussion including djembes, congas and bongos. She also loves to teach rock and jazz drum set and classical percussion. Lindy loves teaching younger kids as well as adults. She has performed extensively in Canada and the Northeastern United States. She has been teaching privately for five years. |
guitar
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Guitarist Magdalena Duhagon has performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, Middle East and South America. She has performed at Halls such as the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Cairo Opera House and the Wallenstein Palace in Prague, where she was soloist with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. She has given Masterclasses at the Guitar Festival of Ireland, at the Conservatoire D’Alexandrie in Egypt and at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC. In the United States Ms. Duhagon earned a Masters Degree in Music in Guitar Performance and Pedagogy and a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. To complete her studies at Peabody Ms. Duhagon received a Fulbright Scholarship, a Peabody Merit Scholarship and a Fellowship from the Organization of the American States.
Her teaching experience includes many years of teaching in Uruguay, Italy and in the United States at Middle C Music, the Washington Conservatory, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and the North Potomac School of Music. She teaches classical, folk, pop, and bossa nova music.
In a review of her CD produced by Middle C Music the Japanese magazine AppleJam Guitar Player said: "there is no doubt that this CD will become part of your treasure the minute you purchase it. Her music is both elegant and powerful and utterly beautiful.” Duhagon was Associate Artistic Director of the Iberoamerican Guitar Festival of DC for its first 3 editions.
www.duhagon.com
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voice, clarinet, recorder, flute, piano
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B. Mus. Ed. , Masters, Vocal Performance. Former Director of Music Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception,
Denver
, founder/director of the Cioffi Singers and Cioffi Players. Private/Public School teaching, private teacher of: voice, piano, clarinet, recorder, and beginning flute. Performed
Europe
and U.S. 45+ years experience performing and teaching all ages.
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saxophone
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Peter Fraize attended the New England Conservatory of Music from 1983 to 1985, studying classical performance with Kenneth Radnofsky and playing in the Big Band under the direction of Miroslav Vitous. In 1985, he traveled to The Netherlands, where he attended the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. After one year of private study with Leo van Oostrom of the Netherlands Saxophone Quartet, he entered the Jazz Performance program, which he completed in 1989. At the Royal Conservatory, Prof. Fraize studied with tenor men Rudy Brink, John Ruocco, and Sal Nistico. Prof. Fraize performed extensively in Holland, Belgium, and Germany. He toured with the Brazilian jazz group Tango, the Rene ten Cate Quartet and Loek Dikker's Waterland Ensemble. He has been featured as a bandleader at the Heineken and Gouda Jazz festivals, and he performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival.
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violin, viola
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Eddie Matus studied viola at the Catholic University in Chile and Conducting and Viola performance at the University in Uruguay where he taught viola as an assistant to the Chair of the Viola Department. While in Uruguay he played professionally as violist with the SODRE National Symphony Orchestra, and he was a member of the MERCOSUR Symphony Orchestra (“Orquesta Sinfónica del MERCOSUR”), created in Lujan, Buenos Aires, with young musicians from Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay. He his cofounder of two youth orchestras, the Youth Orchestra of the Uruguayan’s Ministry of Culture and Education which he had the chance to conduct in some occasions and the “José Artigas” Orchestra, with which he received the title of “Artist for Peace” by the General Director of the UNESCO. He created several classic music duets and at the same time he was a member of the progressive rock band “Masai” and collaborated in several CDs of popular music.
Matus is an acomplished violin and bow maker. He studied in Cremona, Italy, where he graduated from the Intenational School of Violin Making “Antonio Stradivari” . He is also a graduate of the Bow Making School in Cremona and of the Universidad del Trabajo of Uruguay in Guitar Making.
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voice, guitar, banjo
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Esther Haynes holds a Master of Education Degree from Marymount University in Arlington, VA as well as a Diploma in Professional Music and Voice from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA.
She has been nominated for several Washington Area Music Awards including Debut Recording, Jazz Vocalist, Big Band Vocalist, and Jazz Duo/Group. In 2003 she received a WAMMIE for Big Band Vocalist, and was nominated for Jazz and Big Band Vocalist in 2004. |
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guitar, songwriting & theory class
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Alicia Kopfstein-Penk has received a BM and MA in music history from American University. Alicia is a teacher, award-winning musicologist, published author, classical guitarist, folk singer, and classical singer. This broad range of experience provides her with an unusually varied perspective. As a scholar and author, her articles have appeared in Guitar Review, Soundboard, Journal of the American String Teachers Association, and Classical Guitar. She has performed in a variety of productions from liturgical dramas, Renaissance consort concerts, oratorios, operas, chamber music performances, and solo recitals at such halls as the Kennedy Center, the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, the Metropolitan Opera, as well as throughout the Washington, D.C. area. |
OLIVER ALBERTINI
guitar, bass, celloI
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guitar ,bass, ukelele
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Mark Noone is a founding member and lead singer of the legendary band "The Slickee Boys". He has been inducted into to Wammie Hall of Fame and is currently playing with the Rhodes Tavern Troubadours and the Hula Monsters.
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piano
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Gjinovefa Sako is both a distinguished pianist and experienced piano teacher. She has performed in numerous concerts in Albania and Italy, and has taught piano lessons at the Academy of Fine Arts in both Albania and Italy. She was also a piano soloist with the Albanian Radio Television orchestra from 1983-1989. |
MAUREEN ANDARY
ukulele
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trumpet, low brass,
baritone, trombone
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Mark Chuvala attended the University of North Texas, Jazz Studies Department. There he studied under Jay Saunders for Jazz and Lead/Studio Trumpet, and Keith Johnson for Classical Training. Along with performing with many of the schools Jazz Lab Bands, and Small Jazz Ensembles, Mark earned credits in writing and arranging classes. Some of Mark's arrangements are still being used in the UNT Lab Band Library.
After leaving UNT, Mark earned his Bachelor of Music Degree from Indiana University. During his stay in Indiana, Mark began teaching as a High Brass Instructor at several High Schools and and starting a Trumpet Studio, with many private students who have become quite accomplished.
Living in Washington DC, Mark still performs locally and travels when in demand. Mark has preformed The Temptations, and The Four Tops,as well as played with numerous Big Bands, Top 40/Show Bands, Latin Bands, and small Jazz Ensembles. Mark can be heard on several commercials including Nickelodeon and Bravo Networks, and several other television and radio recordings.
Still a student of Trumpet, Mark has had studio trumpet lessons from some of the finest trumpet players of our time, including Bobby Shew, Roger Ingram Vaughn Nark, Wayne Bergeron, and Jon Faddis.
Mark teaches students of all ages from beginner to advanced. Classical, Jazz, Theory, and Jazz Theory are available. All trumpeters from the novice, to the advancing student, to the weekend warrior. He also teaches low brass, baritone and trombone.
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