Our faculty have produced students who have gone on to study at every top music conservatory in the United States, including Juilliard, Curtis, Colburn, New England, Peabody, Cleveland, Bard, Indiana, and San Francisco. Other academically oriented students have been accepted on scholarship to every local university and top academic programs like Stanford, Harvard, Rice, Columbia, and Yale. Students of our faculty have placed at local and national competitions, have been heard on NPR's From the Top, and are frequently awarded national and regional level honors.
Eugene Watanabe, Artistic Director & Co-Founder
Dr. Vera Oussetskaia Watanabe, Co-Founder
Dr. LeeAnn Morgan, Director of Chamber Music Studies
Katherine Baird, Preparatory Chamber Music Coordinator
Conner Gray Covington, Conductor-in-Residence
Eugene Watanabe, Conductor
Shenae Anderson, Conductor
Dr. Tia Harvey, Bucket Drumming
Dr. Vera Oussetskaia Watanabe, Piano Area Co-Chair
Dr. Whitney Pizza, Piano Area Co-Chair
Joanna Oshida, Supplemental Piano Coordinator
Dr. Koji Attwood
Yelena Bates
Matthew Struthers
Dr. Alie Yorgason
Mountain View Elementary
Rachel H. Taft, GRIT Program Director
Jeanne Lancaster
City Academy
Dr. Sarah Houghton
ab Menon
Sophie Stanley
Dr. Alie Yorgason
The Guadalupe School
Kimberly Marsden
Monica Thiriot
Eugene Watanabe, String Area Chair
Katherine Baird, Suzuki Program Coordinator
Kristina Turner, Suzuki Program Coordinator
Dr. Kate Jones, Suzuki Teacher Trainer-in-Residence
Dr. Michael Chikinda, Theory Area Chair
Dr. Matthew Durrant
Micah Fleming
Kimberly Marsden
Sebastian Neugebauer
Dr. April Clayton, Woodwind Area Chair
* denotes adjunct faculty
‡ denotes emeritus faculty current and founding board member
