Preparatory School

Kenneth Amis
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Kenneth Amis was born and raised in Bermuda.  He began playing the piano at a young age and upon entering high school took up the tuba and developed an interest in performing and writing music.  A...

Mickey Katz
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Mickey Katz joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in September 2004, and occupies the BSO's Stephen and Dorothy Weber Chair. He joined the NEC Preparatory School faculty in fall 2011.

A native of...

Lautaro Mantilla
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LAUTARO MANTILLA, DMA is a guitarist, composer, and improviser from Bogotá, Colombia. In his performances, he typically combines guitar, extended vocalization techniques, and homebuilt electronics to...

Jennifer Caraluzzi
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Hailed by Opera Today as a “polished, soaring soprano,” Jennifer Caraluzzi is an award-winning and critically-acclaimed singer from Connecticut, who began her career singing the National Anthem for...

Amanda Hardy
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Amanda Hardy, oboist, studied with Boston Symphony Orchestra principal oboist John Ferrillo at the New England Conservatory (NEC), where she received the Gillet Scholarship and Tourjée Alumni...

Kai-Yun Lu
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Kai-Yun Lu is the principal clarinetist of Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, holding the Muriel Bledsoe Chair since 1998. She is also a frequent performer with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston...

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Violinist Kyoko Horowitz has twice been named winner of the prestigious Mainichi Competition in Japan. She studied at the Sibelius Academy in Finland and at the Hanns Eisler Conservatory in Berlin...

James Markey
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     James Markey joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as Bass Trombone in Fall 2012 following a 15-year tenure in the New York Philharmonic as Associate Principal (1997-2007) and Bass Trombone (2007...

ChrisRathbun
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Chris Rathbun has enjoyed decades of bass playing from orchestra and chamber music to blues, free improvisation, be-bop, Bluegrass, Dixie-Land, swing, Broadway shows, cabaret, Klezmer, Latin, and...

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Dimitar Petkov, a Bulgarian violist, has performed in recitals and chamber music appearances in Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, Italy, Turkey and the United States. He received a BM and a MM from State...