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String Instrument Teachers
Dayla Stoerzbach (Violin & Viola)
Dayla Stoerzbach earned her Masters in Viola Performance from Boston University where she studied with Michelle LaCourse. A native Texan, she completed her Bachelors in Music Education at Baylor University. Since moving to the Boston area, Dayla has performed with a number of classical groups, including The Boston String Quartet and the Cape Ann Symphony and has recently helped launch The Nocturne String Quartet. Branching out into folk, jazz, and rock, she has recorded and played with several local artists, enjoying studio time with the legendary John Mayer. Dayla is also currently teaching with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Intensive Community Program, which gives less privileged kids an opportunity to learn music.
Melissa M. Bull (Violin & Piano)
Melissa M. Bull Di Gaetano began her musical studies with the piano at age three and the violin at age five. Her studies have taken her all the way to New England Conservatory and Gordon College where she studied under acclaimed violinist James Buswell. Melissa has performed in such prestigious venues as New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, and Boston’s Symphony Hall. In 2007, she spent seven months in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she studied violin with Fernando Hasaj. Melissa enjoys a busy free-lancing career as a violinist, violist, pianist, organist, and vocalist, playing for private functions, performing as a studio musician, and presenting solo recitals and concerts with various chamber ensembles and orchestras. She is a member of the Orchestra of Indian Hill, Lexington Symphony, the Cape Ann Symphony Orchestra, and formerly of the New Bedford Symphony, and is principal violist of Symphony by the Sea. She has appeared as concertmaster of the Quincy Bay Chamber Orchestra and as guest principal violist for the Melrose Symphony and Lexington Symphony. Melissa can be heard as a featured soloist on recordings by Grammy-winner Gordon Chambers and by Tim Janis, with whom she collaborated on a special recording with Ray Charles. She has worked with such distinguished conductors as Keith Lockhart, Lorin Maazel, Kirk Muspratt, Eiji Oue, and Susan Wyner and with such brilliant composers as Luis Bacalov and Yehudi Wyner.
Amanda Wang (Violin & Viola)
Amanda Wang, a violinist and violist, began her musical studies with Christina Scroggins and Shirley Givens at the Peabody Preparatory School in Baltimore. She is a graduate of the prestigious Arts for Talented Youth Program at Peabody, a pre-professional training program for promising young musicians and dancers. Ms. Wang is equally interested in music, science, and technology, having studied Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ('03) while continuing violin studies under Lynn Chang as an Emerson Music Fellow. She received her Master's Degree in violin performance at the Boston Conservatory in 2007 and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at Boston University with a full CFA scholarship. Ms. Wang received first prize in the 2008 New England International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition and has performed as guest artist at the Killington Music Festival and the Rockport Music Festival. Amanda is an active musician in the Boston, New York, and DC areas, performing at Carnegie's Weill Hall, NEC Jordan Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, and Kennedy Center. In addition to music, Ms. Wang enjoys cooking and working on her 2002 RV Sprinter conversion van. She welcomes new students of all sizes and shapes as well any tips on van conversion.
Michael Mersha (Double Bass)
Mik is a native of Ethiopia who grew up on the North Shore and graduated from the University of Massachussetts. For over 15 years, Mik has performed and toured in and out of the country with a number of different groups whose stlyles range from R&B/Soul to Afro-Cuban Son/Salsa, African, Jazz, Funk, Hip-Hop, Rock & Blues. Currently, Mik is buiding a new home-studio, teaching and performing regularly with his band Los Sugar Kings (Roots Afro-Cuban Rock) and as a Bassist/Musical Director for Splash!
Tim Rowell (Banjo, Ukelele, Harmonica, Dulcimer)
Tim Rowell has been playing banjo for more than 30 years. Having been heavily influenced as a young lad by Pete Seeger and a whole bunch of wonderful musicians from the Hudson River Valley, Tim eventually discovered a deep affection for southern Appalachian string band music. During college Tim was taken under the wing of a fine banjo player from the Ozarks by the name of Steve Mote. In addition to playing, Tim developed a love of teaching. Winner of several awards from the Lowell Banjo and Fiddle Contest, Tim also has a bachelor's degree in music composition as well as having survived a bunch of theory classes from the Dick Grove School of Music in Los Angeles. You can catch Tim playing around town with his old-time string bands, Jubilee Mule and The Hi-Tone Ramblers. In addition to banjo, Tim teaches beginning music lessons for harmonica, ukulele, and dulcimer.
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