Guitar Teachers

Maureen Andary

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Guitar, ukulele, voice

Maureen Andary is an award winning singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist originally from Chevy Chase, DC. Passionate about music education, she teaches guitar and ukulele at Middle C, teaches group ukulele classes throughout the DC area, and also teaches beginning banjo at Septima Clark Public Charter School for Boys. Maureen believes in integrating music into her students lives and works to incorporate jamming and performance opportunities at local open mics and area 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 is a 2010-2011 Artist in Residence at the Strathmore Center for the Performing Arts with her pop/folk duo The Sweater Set. You can download Maureen's original songs from iTunes and can find out about her performances at www.thesweaterset.com.
Dave Baise

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Guitar

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.
Nelson

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Guitar, bass, ukulele

Nelson graduated from Brevard College with a major in Jazz.
Magdalena Duhagon

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Guitar 

Guitarist Magdalena Duhagon has performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, Middle East and South America. 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 given Masterclasses at the Guitar Festival of Ireland, at the Conservatoire D’Alexandrie in Egypt and at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC. 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. 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. Her teaching experience includes ten years of teaching in Uruguay, Italy and in the United States at Middle C Music, the Washington Conservatory, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and the North Potomac School of Music. She teaches classical, folk, pop, and bossa nova music. In a review of her CD produced by Middle C Music 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.” Duhagon was Associate Artistic Director of the Iberoamerican Guitar Festival of DC for its first 3 editions. Learn more at www.duhagon.com
Esther

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Guitar, banjo, voice

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.

Brock

 

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Guitar, bass, beginning piano

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.

Tom

 

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Guitar

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.

 

 alicia

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Guitar, theory, sight reading, ukulele

Alicia Kopfstein-Penk has received a BM and MA in music history from American University. Alicia is a teacher, award-winning musicologist, published author, classical guitarist, folk singer, and classical singer. This broad range of experience provides her with an unusually varied perspective. As a scholar and author, her articles have appeared in Guitar Review, Soundboard, Journal of the American String Teachers Association, and Classical Guitar. She has performed in a variety of 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.
Nick

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Guitar, bass, violin

An accomplished violinist in a variety of capacities, Nick Montopoli has been performing as a soloist and in chamber and orchestral ensembles in the DC area for over 8 years. Hailed by the Washington Post as a performer with "no-fail agility," Nick has performed as a soloist with the Capitol City Symphony and the DC Youth Orchestra, and has placed in the Goldie B. Feder String Competition, the Army Band Concerto Competition, and the Strings International Music Festival Concerto Competition in Pennsylvania. As a chamber musician, Nick has performed in a variety of prestigious local venues, including the White House, the Phillips Collection, and the Kennedy center. A champion of new music, Nick is a member of the TEMPO new music ensemble, whose Fall 2009 performance was described by the Washington Post as "bracing and engaging." Orchestrally, Nick served as Concertmaster of the DC Youth Orchestra for four years, and has performed with various orchestras at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Constitution Hall, and the Music Center at Strathmore. Currently, Nick plays with the acclaimed University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra, where he has served as both Concertmaster and Principal Second Violin. Nick has played under such world-renowned conductors as Lorin Maazel, Leonard Slatkin, and Benjamin Zander, and such soloists as Yo-Yo Ma, Leila Josefowicz, and Jon Kimura Parker. Nick's principal teachers include Juilliard-graduate Virgilio Joven and Curtis-graduate David Salness. He has also participated in lessons, coachings, and masterclasses with the Guarneri Quartet, Bill Preucil, Charles Castleman, the Biava Quartet, Steven Isserlis, and many more. Nick is currently studying Violin Performance with David Salness at the University of Maryland.
Mark Noone

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Guitar, bass, rock voice

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.