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Piano, Recorder & Voice
-  Svitlana Cuthbertson

Svitlana has over 15 Years experience in teaching carrier of all ages.  She was awarded First Level  Qualification (Lysenko Music College, Ukraine) and granted for Post-Graduate Course.  She is a self-motivated and creative professional.

Her past history includes, concert and show organization, extracurricular activities for students, and a production of Children's Opera.  She is the Author of the Course “Expression of the Arts in History”.

Experience:
2008-09 Music & Choir Teacher, International School, Farmington Hills
2006 Junior Choir Teacher at St.John Lutheran School, Rochester Hills


Education: 
2001-2003  Academy of  Eurythmy, Baselland, Switzerland
1997-2000  Post-Graduate Course, Institute of Pedagogic & Psychology, (Kiev, Ukraine)
1986-1991  Master Degree of Music (Moldova State Conservatory, Kishinev, Moldova)
1980-1984  Bachelor Degree of Music (Lysenko Music College, Poltava, Ukraine)

Piano
-  Robert Speedie

A native Detroiter, Bob has been a music educator for almost four decades. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree, majoring in Music Theory / Composition from Wayne State University.


While still at Wayne, he joined a music advertising company as coo-composer and arranger for “jingles”, where he co-wrote, arranged and performed keyboards on a number of productions for companies like AAA Insurance, Hudson’s department stores, International Dating Service, 5-7-9 Women’s Clothes and Detroit Metro Chevy Dealers, to name a few.


During a ten-year position at Leo Burnett Advertising, he was chosen to produce three versions of theme music for Saginaw Tilt-Wheel Steering and the national music for Saginaw Tilt-Wheel Steering and he national music for Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera, all recorded at studios in Nashville, Tennessee.


His enthusiasm to teach helps to make his students enjoy piano – and music at the same time. He does this by regularly incorporating music theory and popular music, while maintaining structure with the traditional lesson books. He also stresses ear training, and with his older students, encourages improvisation. He has instructed more than 150 students.

Piano, Violin, Viola & Cello
-  Myra Drean
Myra Drean is a current member of the Warren Symphony, the Pontiac / Oakland Symphony, the Plymouth Symphony, the Canton Orchestra, the Livonia Symphony and is concertmaster of the Lake St. Clair Symphony.  Educated at Interlochen Arts Academy, she received a full music scholarship to the University of Michigan and later also studied at Wayne State University.

Myra Drean spent summers playing the Lake George Opera Festival in upstate New York and also attended summer sessions at the world renown Meadowmount string school also in upstate New York. She is insightful and teaches "the individual", structuring her style toward each student as to their need.





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