Music Spectrum School for the Arts 465 Herndon Pkwy., Herndon, VA 20170
(703) 582-7430 email: MusicSpectrumSchool@gmail.com
Regular Office Hours: 3:30-8:30pm Monday-Friday; 10am-2pm Sat. (Note: lesson hours are longer)
Note: The Music Spectrum School office is closed due to COVID-19. Please email rather than calling or stopping by. All lessons and classes are temporarily moving online. Most teachers have some openings for online lessons.
Located 1 mile west of Reston Towncenter, 2nd Floor of the H.K. Lee TaeKwonDo building
GINA CHOE * (violincello) has been a member of the Washington Chamber Orchestra since 2014 and has also performed locally with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra and the Apollo Orchestra. She is currently a cello instructor at the British International School of Washington, DC. Most recently, she served as a professor of the 2019 Panama CelloFest, in collaboration with the National University of Panama (Panama City, Panama). Ms. Choe obtained her Master of Music degree in cello performance from Indiana University (Bloomington, IN) after receiving her bachelor's degree on full scholarship from James Madison University. She also finished a non-degree performance program at Southern Methodist University and pursued the Doctor of Musical Arts in cello performance as a full tuition-waiver scholarship recipient at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Dmitry Kouzov. Her other mentors include Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (Indiana University-Bloomington), Andres Diaz (Southern Methodist University), Carl Donakowski (James Madison University), Sharon Robinson, Emilio Colon, Eric Kim, and Glen Garlick. She has also participated in master classes of Janos Starker, Mischa Maisky, Tim Eddie, Gary Hoffman, Zuill Bailey, Aldo Parisot and Helga Winolds. Ms. Choe grew up in both South Korea and the US in Northern Virginia. As a young musician, she performed in the All Virginia State Orchestra and was a youth fellow associate of the National Symphony Orchestra, among many other special recognitions. She is particularly known in this area for her love of serving the community and has performed in many voluntary settings such as retirement communities and local churches.
MOSES KAMAI (ukulele), a native Hawaiian, runs the Northern Virginia Ukulele Society (NVUS) and is the Music Director of the Northern Virginia Ukulele Ensemble. Mr. Kamai is certified to teach the Ukulele in the Classroom (UITC) methods Levels 1, 2, & 3 as part of the James Hill Ukulele Initiative (JHUI) programs (https://www.ukuleleintheclassroom.com/). UITC certification is recognized internationally, since James Hill has established one of the most sound and respected certification processes. Students learn to play the ukulele in bite-sized chunks targeted to their ability level, gaining an understanding of melody, chords, and eventually harmony, enabling them to play a wide wide variety of music genres. Mr. Kamai is influenced by Master Ukulele players like Herb Ohta Jr., James Hill, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Daniel Ho, Ohta-San, and Peter Luongo. Continuously improving his own musicianship, Mr. Kamai is a member of the Luongo Ukulele Experience (LUE) Ensemble (https://luongoukulele.com/ensemble-project/). The LUE Ensemble is led by the renowned Peter Luongo. With the LUE Ensemble, Mr. Kamai has performed across the US, including California, Nevada and Hawaii. In addition to his teaching at Music Spectrum and the NVUS, he has also taught at NOVA Music Center, the Seattle Ukulele Players Association (SUPA), Tacoma Washington Ukulele Festival, and the Milwaukee Ukulele Festival, among other venues.
ANNA KONG (violin) obtained
her Master of Music degree in violin at the Peabody conservatory of The Johns
Hopkins University, under the tutelage of Herbert Greenberg. As a native of
Northern Virginia, she received a Bachelor of Music degree with honors in
violin performance at George Mason University where she served as
concertmaster of the Mason Symphony Orchestra. Previously she had earned the
position of associate concertmaster in both the regional and all state
orchestras. She was also a two-time recipient of the NSOA award and, in
her four years of high school, served as concertmaster of the chamber and
symphony orchestras. She has played with the American Festival Pops Orchestra,
McLean Orchestra, Arlington Philharmonic, and is a seasoned pit musician. As a
teacher, she has taught at Potomac Arts Academy and Vienna Summer Strings.
Previous principle teachers include Julia Sun and NSO violinists Peter
Haase and Jennifer Kim. She has participated in master classes for Charles
Castleman, Ricardo Cyncynates, Elizabeth Pitcairn; she has also
taken lessons with Zino Bogachek, Oleg Rylatko, Jessica Fan, William
Preucil, and Paul Arnold. She has also attended the Castleman Quartet
Program 2013, Summit Music Festival 2015, and the National Orchestral Institute
in Summer 2016, where she had the privilege of playing under the baton of
Minnesota Orchestra director OsmoVänskä. In 2017 she had the opportunity to
play with the Prague Summer Nights Festival Orchestra in the Czech Republic and
Austria.
ANICA HEEYUN LEE (voice, piano) graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a double major, achieving Bachelors of Music in both Voice Performance and Music Education. While attending Eastman, she attained broad experience teaching in many Rochester area schools from Preschool through Elementary School, Middle School and High School. She was also a Secondary Vocal Teacher at Eastman, providing weekly voice lessons to vocal performance undergraduate students. At Eastman, Ms. Lee performed featured roles in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Montiverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea. She also sang in the Eastman Chorale, Repertoire Singers and Women’s Chorus. She has performed onstage at the Eastman Theatre and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. Ms. Lee is a native of Northern Virginia. Before attending Eastman, she attended Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, where she served as the Student Music Director of the Concert Choir and Women’s Choir. She also attended and was a soloist at the Virginia Governor’s School at Radford University. Ms. Lee has been teaching private lessons in Ashburn and Rochester since 2011.
ALICIA MALONEY (oboe) is an accomplished oboist and oboe teacher who recently relocated from Massachusetts. She was a recipient of the Theodore Presser Scholarship at Boston University, where she earned a Masters degree in Music Education and Bachelors degree in Oboe Performance. Ms. Maloney has been teaching oboe since 2007, serving several years on faculty with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras and community music schools in the Boston metro area. With the Music Education Development Agency, she taught and performed at the Escuela Municipal de Bellas Artes in Veracruz, Mexico, and the Bi-National Youth Orchestra of Haiti and the Dominican Republic from 2012-2013. She formerly held positions with the Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra and the Boston-based chamber ensemble, Symphony Nova. Her other recent engagements include performances with the San Antonio Symphony, Fayetteville Symphony, Bangor Symphony Orchestra, New Bedford Symphony, and the Vermont Mozart Festival, among others. As a chamber musician, she has performed in recital series through New England and at the Fischoff, Plowman, and Astral Artists Competitions. Her playing is featured on the 2018 Navona Records album, Gentle Winds.
INESSA MIR-ALIYEVA * (piano) is a successful award-winning music professional with over 30 years of experience in performing live, accompanying various musical groups and teaching students of all ages. She obtained her Master Of Music Degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the State Conservatory, Baku, Soviet Union/Azerbaijan, and her Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the Baku Music College in the former Soviet Union, where she also took classes in Organ. For more than a decade, she was a leading piano teacher at a school in the former Soviet Union under the patronage of former director and conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich. After her arrival in the United States she taught at the Performing Arts Instutute of Virginia in Blacksburg for seven years before relocating to Northern Virginia in 2015.
DEBORAH MORRIS * (piano, flute) has a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance from Catholic University and a Bachelor of Music Degree from Bowling Green State University as a Piano Major/Flute Minor. She studied with William Masselos (Juilliard), Nelita True (Maryland/Eastman), Bela Nagy (Catholic University/Boston Conservatory), Dr. Thomas Mastrioanni (Catholic University), and Virginia Marks (Bowling Green State). Faculty positions include Piano Instructor and Accompanist at The Madeira School in McLean, VA for 21 years (flute instructor for five of those years) and Piano Instructor at the Wolf Trap Foundation. Additionally, Mrs. Morris served as flute choir conductor at Bishop O'Connell High School, Piano Instructor at Bowling Green State University Creative Arts Program and the Arlington Class Piano Association. She has performed extensively throughout the Washington metropolitan area as soloist and accompanist in concert including Wolf Trap for the Performing Arts, the Corcoran Arts Gallery, The Lyceum, Kennedy Center Foyer Concerts, George Washington University and George Mason University. She was also accompanist for the Navy and Air Force Chamber Players for several years. Membership in professional music organizations include The Friday Morning Music Club of Washington, Music Teachers National Association, and Associated Board of the Royal School of Music. A native of Alexandria, VA, she currently resides in Reston, Virginia with her husband and daughter.