Middle C Music

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Guitar, Ukulele

Days Available: Mondays and Tuesdays

Maureen Andary is an award winning singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist originally from Chevy Chase, DC. Passionate about music education, she teaches private guitar and ukulele lesson at Middle C and group ukulele classes at the House of Musical Traditions in Takoma Park, MD. Maureen believes in integrating music into her students lives and works to incorporate jamming and performance opportunities at local open mics and jam sessions. She has a bachelors degree from New York University and has been awarded several grants for teaching and composition from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She was selected as a 2010-2011 Artist in Residence at the Strathmore Center for the Performing Arts with her pop/folk duo The Sweater Set and has performed her original songs at prestigious venues including The Kennedy Center, the Birchmere, and Lincoln Center.  You can download Maureen's original songs from iTunes and can find out about her performances at www.thesweaterset.com.

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Guitar

Days Available: Tuesdays and Thursdays

David Baise earned a Master of Arts in Jazz History and Research at Rutgers University and his Masters of Music in Jazz Performance at San Diego State University. He also has many years of teaching experience; Dave has worked as a lecturer at Princeton University, Rutgers University, and was an instructor at San Diego State University. He has been a contributor/essayist for both the Annual Review of Jazz Studies and Jazz: The First Century. Dave has played guitar with organist Big John Patton's band and has performed many venues including the Jazz Standard in New York, NY.

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Guitar, bass, ukulele

Days Available: Sundays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays

Nelson graduated from Brevard College with a major in Jazz.

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Guitar

Days Available: Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays

Born in Uruguay, guitarist Magdalena Duhagon has performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, Middle East and South America, giving concerts in cities like Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Alexandria, Cairo, Beyrouth, Amman, Prague and Amsterdam. She has performed at Halls such as the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Cairo Opera House and the Wallenstein Palace in Prague, where she was soloist with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. She has also been soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Montevideo, Uruguay. Her performances have been broadcast by the National Polish Radio and worldwide by the Voice of America, and she has been interviewed for Radio France and for International News Agencies as EFE and AFP. Articles about her work have appeared in international classical guitar magazines such as Classical Guitar from United Kingdom and Gendai Guitar from Japan.  Duhagon is classical guitar Professor at George Washington University in Washington DC and has given Master classes at the Guitar Festival of Ireland, at the Conservatoire D’Alexandrie in Egypt and at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC. In 2005 she was a member of the National Orchestral Institute at Maryland University under famous conductor Gerard Schwartz.

Ms. Duhagon won First Prize at the first-ever competition organized by the Uruguayan "Luis Tróccolli" Cultural Foundation in 1996. She also won first prizes as well as scholarships from the Uruguayan Society of Performers (SUDEI), the Uruguayan Guitar Society, The Association of Music Students (AEMUS) and Jeunesses Musicales of Uruguay.

In the United States Ms. Duhagon earned a Masters Degree in Music in Guitar Performance and Pedagogy and a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University under Ray Chester. To complete her studies at Peabody Ms. Duhagon received a Fulbright Scholarship, a Peabody Merit Scholarship and a Fellowship from the Organization of the American States.

A critic from the newspaper El Día in Uruguay wrote about her playing: "Her performance at the Vaz Ferreira Auditorium has been for me, as a critic, one of the 1999-2000 season’s main satisfactions… because of her refined expressiveness as well as for the enchantment of her phrasing and her transparent sound...(She) gave proofs of expressive and technical rigor". About her CD album the Japanese magazine AppleJam Guitar Player said: “there is no doubt that this CD will become part of your treasure the minute you purchase it. Her music is both elegant and powerful and utterly beautiful.”

Magdalena Duhagon holds a Bachelors degree in Music in Guitar Performance from the University Music School of Uruguay where she studied under Mario Paysee. She had also studied under Berta Rojas, Abel Carlevaro, Eduardo Fernández, Eduardo Isaac, Manuel Barrueco and Esteban Klísich. Her beginner guitar studies where under Julio Vallejo and Edison Barrios, and she pursued also violin studies under Ludmila Cavallaro, playing in several youth orchestras in her home country.
As a chamber musician she was part of the Rojas- Duhagon Guitar Duo with guitarist Berta Rojas and was also a member of the Del Sur Guitar Quartet with Berta Rojas, Nestor Ausqui and Marcelo Cornut. She has also been part of duets with flutist Pablo Somma and soprano Amalia Laborde.

In the US she was part of the faculties at the Washington Conservatory of Music, the North Potomac School of Music, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and Middle C Music. Currently she teaches at Middle C Music in Washington DC and at her private studio in Maryland.

Magdalena Duhagon was associate artistic director of the Ibero-American Guitar Festival of Washington DC for its first three editions and is artistic director and producer of the Strings Concert Series in Maryland. Learn more at www.duhagon.com

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Guitar, banjo, voice

Days Available: Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays

Esther Haynes holds a Master of Education Degree from Marymount University in Arlington, VA as well as a Diploma in Professional Music and Voice from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. She has been nominated for several Washington Area Music Awards including Debut Recording, Jazz Vocalist, Big Band Vocalist, and Jazz Duo/Group. In 2003 she received a WAMMIE for Big Band Vocalist, and was nominated for Jazz and Big Band Vocalist in 2004.

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Guitar, bass, piano

Days Available: Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays

Brock Holmes has performed and taught in the DC area for more than 30 years. In 2008, he was Music Director of the 2008 production of the British Embassy Players “Music Hall”, and of the Hexagon Club’s all-original musical comedy review, “Stars and Gripes Forever!” As a guitarist, he has performed solo and as an accompanist at a variety of venues, including with the Fairfax Symphony. Brock has released two CDs – one featuring his a cappella singing group “Brock and the Rockets,” and one of his own compositions based on polyrhythms, titled, “Rhythm Warrior.” He has taught guitar at all levels, and works with every student to find and keep in focus his or her particular love of music, whether it’s classical, jazz, folk, or none of the above.

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Guitar

Days Available: Mondays and Thursdays

Tom Kitchen earned a Master of Arts in Teaching from the School of International Training as well as a BA with a concentration in Jazz Studies from Virginia Tech. Currently, Tom explores various classical guitar genres with world-renowned guitarist Berta Rojas. In 2007, Tom was honored to play one of his original compositions on WETA’s “The Intersection.” Around town, Tom plays regularly with The Redwood Classical Guitar Duo (redwoodguitarduo.weebly.com), and the Latin Jazz Duo (latinjazzduo.weebly.com). Tom’s approach to teaching is student-centered and engages students’ higher-order thinking skills as they develop their musical literacy. Tom is a patient teacher who strives to understand his students’ learning styles so that he can communicate to his students in ways that they understand and learn.

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Guitar, theory, sight reading, ukulele

Days Available: Sundays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays

Alicia Kopfstein-Penk, Ph.D. is a master teacher (her students call her the “technique queen!”), classical guitarist, folk singer, ukulele player, and classical singer as well as award-winning musicologist, and published author. This broad range of experience provides her with an unusually varied perspective which enriches every lesson. A gifted communicator, she was the head of the classical guitar department at Northern Virginia Community College for 20 years, and now teaches all styles of guitar, music theory, music history, music appreciation, and ear training/sight singing at American University.  As a scholar and author, her articles have appeared in Guitar Review, Soundboard, Classical Guitar, and American String Teachers Association Journal. She has performed on both guitar and voice in a variety of classical music productions from liturgical dramas, Renaissance consort concerts, oratorios, operas, chamber music performances, and solo recitals at such halls as the Kennedy Center, the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, the Metropolitan Opera, as well as throughout the Washington, D.C. area.  She has also performed rock, pop, and folk in clubs from Bonaire to Ft. Lauderdale to DC.  Alicia is a compassionate problem-solver who loves helping people enjoy and fulfill themselves through music.  Choose your path, then Alicia helps you achieve your goals with the music you love while learning the best technique possible.

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Guitar, bass, rock voice, ukulele

Days Available: Wednesdays

Mark Noone is a founding member and lead singer of the legendary band "The Slickee Boys". He has been inducted into to Wammie Hall of Fame and is currently playing with the Rhodes Tavern Troubadours and the Hula Monsters.

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Percussion, piano, guitar, bass

Days Available: Sundays

Stephen Baker studied music at Western Michigan University before moving to the DC area to pursue a career as a professional gigging musician. He plays piano, bass, guitar and drums with a number of local bands and has recently performed at venues such as Fort Reno Park, Iota, Velvet Lounge and the Black Cat, among others. He appreciates a variety of musical styles, including jazz, funk, rock, classical and pop. He has an infinite enthusiasm for music -- a quality that he looks forward to sharing with his students.