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Diana Trost
Executive Director, Music School & Day Care
Our teachers
Meet Our Faculty
Impressive professionals, both as educators and as early-childhood caregivers. Many are graduates of Europe’s leading conservatories.
Exceptional educators
We cultivate exceptional educators across NYC and honor their skills, creativity and excellence in the classroom.
Our teachers are world travelers, savvy expats and brilliant polyglots. We hire teachers who are not only wonderful teachers but also amazingly talented at other things. Your teacher can likely recommend a great foreign band in town, outlast you on the salsa floor, and put together the perfect international playlist for a road trip, all while being incredibly good at teaching you to dance, sing or play chess.
Our faculty at a glance
- Music & Voice
- 17 teachers
- Dance
- 4 teachers
- Art, Drama & Chess
- 3 teachers
- Day Care
- 7 staff
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Sofia Fomina
Piano Teacher
An outstanding piano teacher with broad experience. A graduate of the Minsk Music Conservatory, she taught piano in Belarus and Tashkent.
Dora Gluzman
Piano Teacher
Graduate of the Lviv (Lvov) Conservatory.
Irina Prirodnaya
Piano Teacher
Graduate of the Donetsk Conservatory.
Irina Shchipacheva
Piano Teacher
Graduate of the Kyiv (Kiev) Conservatory.
Irina Shein
Piano Teacher
Graduate of the Rostov-on-Don Conservatory.
Gennadiy Sinelnikov
Piano Teacher
Graduate of the Gnessin State Musical College, Moscow.
Irina Volynsky
Piano Teacher
Graduate of the Kyiv (Kiev) Conservatory.
Roman Davidovich
Violin Teacher
Graduate of the Moscow Conservatory; PhD in Music.
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Alexander Tenenbaum
Violin Teacher
Georgi Goryadze
Cello Teacher
Graduate of the Tbilisi Conservatory.
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Alexander Glukhoy
Guitar Teacher
Graduated from a Moscow music academy as a professional guitarist and teacher. He has taught in the US and Ukraine and prepares students for admission to prestigious schools.
Svetlana Dubova
Guitar Teacher
Graduate of the Kyiv State Institute of Culture.
Palina Tsinkevich
Guitar, Drums & Voice Teacher
Graduate of Brooklyn College.
Boris Kurganov
Saxophone Teacher
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Olga Lomteva
Drums & Voice Teacher
Has performed with companies around the world in operatic roles by Verdi, Puccini, Bizet, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky.
Tatiana Paletskaya
Drums & Voice Teacher
Graduate of the Moscow Conservatory; soloist of the American Opera.
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Kristina Brovikov
Vocal Teacher
Lika Ageeva
Classical Ballet Teacher
Nona Alekperova
Classical Ballet Teacher
Svetlana Spichenetsky
Classical Ballet Teacher
Lyudmila Grushanskaya
Modern, Ballroom & Latin-American Dance Teacher
Galina Bash
Drawing, Painting & Crafts Teacher
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Arnold Shvetsov
History of Art, Theater & Drama Teacher
Boris Umansky
Chess Teacher
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Alina Nudelman
Certified Day Care Teacher
Fina Babin
Day Care Pre-School Teacher
Irina Tomin
Day Care Pre-School Teacher
Alona Zhelezko
Day Care Pre-School Teacher
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Olena Bila
Day Care Assistant Teacher
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Tamara Voinova
Day Care Assistant Teacher
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Maria Blobshteyn
Day Care Cook