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Advanced Violin Teaching for Professional-Oriented Students by DMA Candidate and Award-Winning Virtuoso. Over 10 Years of Proven Success. Most Students Win Awards and Scholarships.

Zack Rapp grew up north of Chicago in the small town of Libertyville, IL. From a young age it was clear that he was drawn to music when he began taking violin lessons at age 9, and was inspired by his brother to pick up the guitar a year later at age ten.

Diego Ernesto Mieres is a senior student of Bachelor of Music in Viola Performance in the Yizhak Schotten Studio at the School of Music, dance, and Theater of the University of Michigan after obtaining a Merit-based Scholarship and a Sphinx Organization Full Scholarship. Diego was the 2nd place winner of the 2022 MASTA string solo competition.

Valerie is a sought-after professional musician and teacher, currently working as Principal Viola in Lohja City Orchestra. She has played in prestigious orchestras in Finland and abroad as well as being a dedicated chamber musician and improviser, with a particular interest in projects combining multiple creative fields.

I am an experienced educator and music director with over a decade of teaching and leadership experience in both academic and performance settings. I have taught Music, English, and Values Education at the middle and high school levels and have extensive experience training children, teens, and college students in choir and instrumental performance.

I am a concert violinist and dedicated violin teacher, and a featured artist for iClassical Academy. My unique journey began with my father, a Master violin maker, who immersed me deeply into the world of the violin from a very young age.

Hi! My name is Kailbeth Chacin and I have been playing the violin since I was five years old. I started in Venezuela at the Emil Friedman School and was also part of the social movement El Sistema, where I got to play with conductor Gustavo Dudamel, among other great music figures of our time.

Professional violinist and music teacher with international teaching and performing experience. I hold a degree in Music and received part of my musical training through El Sistema in Venezuela. Throughout my career, I have worked as a performer and teacher with students from different countries and backgrounds.

I am a professional violinist with over 15 years of experience performing, touring, and teaching. Currently teaching at FACE School in Montreal, working privately with students and coaching the string section. Graduating in 2012, I hold a Master’s degree and an Artist Diploma from the University of Montreal.

Bartholomew Fortino Shields is an Italian-American violinist, who is currently based in Rome, Italy. Throughout high school he studied with Sally Thomas, of the Juilliard School in New York City. He completed a Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as a scholarship recipient, where he studied under Soh-Hyun Park Altino, former…