MIDDLE C MUSIC
4530 Wisconsin Ave NW
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 244-7326

Mon-Thu
10:00am- 8:00pm

Fri-Sat
10:00am-6:00pm

Sun
12:00pm-5:00pm

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• PRIVATE MUSIC LESSONS - Weekly half-hour lessons with our excellent music faculty!  All lessons are $40 per half hour.
  
  Instrument lessons offered include: acoustic & electric guitar, piano, cello, violin, saxophone, bass, harmonica, percussion, voice, clarinet, flute, & recorder. 

• ROCK BAND CLASS - Mark Noone will teach ten-week sessions beginning in September.  Kids & adults.

Here is some more information about our faculty:

DAVE BAISE 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.
DENNIS BENJAMIN guitar	Dennis Benjamin earned his Bachelor of Music degree in 1991, majoring in Jazz Studies with a minor in Classical Guitar.  He graduated summa cum laude from Howard University.  He also earned a two-year professional diploma in Jazz Arranging and Composition from Berklee College of Music, in 1977.  He currently performs in partnership with Washington saxophonist and composer David White, recording and producing original and contemporary jazz.  They are working to produce an album which will be released in May of 2006.   Dennis Benjamin has performed extensively in the DC Metropolitan area with several groups, including the Scott Harlan Group, T-Group, Decoy, Howard University Jazz Ensemble, and Interface.
LINDY CAMPBELL percussion	Lindy Campbell studied percussion at Mount Royal Conservatory in Calgary Alberta. Her specialty is Latin and African Percussion including djembes, congas and bongos. She also loves to teach rock and jazz drum set and classical percussion. Lindy loves teaching younger kids as well as adults. She has performed extensively in Canada and the Northeastern United States. She has been teaching privately for five years.
MAGDALENA DUHAGON 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 5 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.” magdalenaduhagon.com
JEAN CIOFFI voice, clarinet, recorder, flute, piano	B. Mus. Ed. , Masters, Vocal Performance. Former Director of Music Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Denver , founder/director of the Cioffi Singers and Cioffi Players. Private/Public School teaching, private teacher of: voice, piano, clarinet, recorder, and beginning flute. Performed Europe and U.S. 45+ years experience performing and teaching all ages.
PETER FRAIZE saxophone
	Peter Fraize attended the New England Conservatory of Music from 1983 to 1985, studying classical performance with Kenneth Radnofsky and playing in the Big Band under the direction of Miroslav Vitous. In 1985, he traveled to The Netherlands, where he attended the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. After one year of private study with Leo van Oostrom of the Netherlands Saxophone Quartet, he entered the Jazz Performance program, which he completed in 1989. At the Royal Conservatory, Prof. Fraize studied with tenor men Rudy Brink, John Ruocco, and Sal Nistico. Prof. Fraize performed extensively in Holland, Belgium, and Germany. He toured with the Brazilian jazz group Tango, the Rene ten Cate Quartet and Loek Dikker's Waterland Ensemble. He has been featured as a bandleader at the Heineken and Gouda Jazz festivals, and he performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival.
SONYA HAYES violin	Sonya N. Hayes received her Master’s degree in violin performance from Catholic University, where she studied with Robert Gerle. Sonya has performed as a guest soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra (Young People’s Concert Series), the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (Discovery Concert Series) and most recently with the Indianapolis Philharmonic. Sonya is a former faculty member of the Levine School of Music and she currently maintains a private studio. Ms. Hayes frequently performs solo and chamber music recitals; some venues include University of Indianapolis, Pope Paul II Cultural Center, Friendship Heights Community Center, Church of the Epiphany (DC), National City Christian Church (DC), The Lyceum (VA), Blessed Sacrament (VA) and Anunciation Church (DC), Norwegian Embassy, and the Brazilian Arts and Cultural Institute. She performs regularly as a member of the Logan Circle Quintet. Ms. Hayes is an active freelance musician, performing around the metropolitan area and as a substitute musician with the National Symphony Orchestra.
ESTHER HAYNES voice, guitar, banjo	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.
GARY W. JOYNES jazz piano	More info to come. . .
ALICIA KOPFSTEIN-PENK guitar, songwriting & theory class	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.
JOSH MATTINGLY bass & guitar	Check back soon . . .
MARK NOONE guitar ,bass, ukelele	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.
GJINOVEFA SAKO piano	Gjinovefa Sako is both a distinguished pianist and experienced piano teacher.  She has performed in numerous concerts in Albania and Italy, and has taught piano lessons at the Academy of Fine Arts in both Albania and Italy. She was also a piano soloist with the Albanian Radio Television orchestra from 1983-1989.
FREDERIK SPIRO  cello	Check back soon. . .
FRED YONNET  harmonica	As one of the youngest professional mouth harp virtuosos, Frederic Yonnet began his harmonica career at age 19. Since then, he has devoted all of his time to performing in Parisian jazz and blues clubs and touring Spain, Germany, Africa and the U.S. Formerly, a frequent guest musician on the French television network Canal Plus, Yonnet is quickly changing the groove and image typically associated with the harmonica and harmonica players.

 

 

 

 

 

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