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Our Teachers

LMA offers you the opportunity to study your favorite instrument with some of the world's leading instructors from the comfort of your own home!

LMA is proud to have some of the world's most prolific performers and educators as part of our faculty.   Students will have the chance to learn from winners of countless international competitions, and graduates of the top conservatories including Juilliard, Yale, Manhattan School of Music, Curtis, and others. 

Meet Your Teachers

Violin

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   Bela Horvath    

Featured violin teacher of the week

 

Hungarian born violinist/violist, Bela Horvath, is winner of the National Janos Koncz Violin Competition in Hungary, and was the youngest prizewinner in the 9th International Carl Flesch Violin Competition.  Bela has performed all over the world as soloist and chamber musician, including a Carnegie Hall debut in 2003.  Bela completed his Bachelors and Masters of Music Degrees from the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec.

Bela is currently violin faculty in Manhattan School of Music's Pre-College division, and has also tought at several renowned summer festivals including Summit, NAC's Young Artists Program in Ottawa, and the Heifetz Institute. Read More....

Violin

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  David Lisker  

Violin

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  Siwoo Kim  

Violin

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  Regi Papa  

Violin

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  Solomon Liang  

Violin

Viola

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   Bela Horvath    
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  Kaya Bryla-Weiss  

Featured viola teacher of the week

 

Violist Katarzyna Bryla-Weiss was born into a family of musicians and has gone on to earn more than two dozen prizes and awards in the United States, France and her native Poland.  Katarzyna regularly performs with orchestras, chamber groups, and as a soloist in an international career that has taken her across four continents. In 2019 she became a member of St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, the artistic core of Orchestra of St. Luke’s.

Katarzyna is currently a member of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New York City Ballet Orchestra, New York Pops Orchestra, and regularly appears with New York City Opera.  She was a soloist with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra in their tour of China in 2010, and was soloist for the noted Maazel/Vilar Conducting Competition in Cracow in 2001.  Read More....

Viola

  David Lisker  
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  Igor Fedotov  

Viola

  Siwoo Kim  
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   Chloe Thominet    

Viola

  Regi Papa  
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   Bruno Silva    

Viola

Cello

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   Sunghee Choi    
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   Yves Dharamraj   

Cello

Featured cello teacher of the week

 

Captivating his audiences with a “primer of technical feats” (New York Sun), and his warm, lush tone “that might be described as something akin to rich old wood” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), YVES DHARAMRAJ has earned a worldwide reputation as a dynamic cellist who blends an immaculate command of the instrument with deep musical understanding to express his fresh and elegant interpretations.  As soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and teaching artist, the Franco-American cellist enjoys a multifaceted career that takes him to the major stages of the United States and abroad, including appearances at Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center (New York); the Kennedy Center (DC); Orchestra Hall, Ravinia Festival, and Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago); Disney Hall (LA); National Arts Center (Ottawa); Berliner Festspiele; Téatro Nacional (Dominican Republic); Panama Jazz Festival; and the Thailand National Cultural Center (Bangkok).   Read More....

   Kaya Bryla    
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  Bruce Uchimura  

Cello

   Matt Lipman    
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  Alex Hersh  

Cello

   Molly Carr    
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  Andrea Casarrubios 

Cello

Piano

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   Brannon Cho   
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   Larry Weng    

Featured piano teacher of the week

 

A laureate of the 2016 Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition, Larry Weng has been described in The New York Times as playing with “steely power and incisive rhythm.”  Mr. Weng is also a laureate of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Concerto Competition, the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition for Young Musicians, and The New York International Piano Competition. 

 

In 2009, Mr. Weng graduated from the joint degree program between Columbia University and The Juilliard School with a BA in Economics and an MM in Piano Performance under the tutelage of Professors Jerome Lowenthal and Matti Raekallio. He continued his studies with Professor Boris Berman at the Yale School of Music, where he received his Doctorate.  Read More....

Piano

  Yves Dharamraj  
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  Art Lisker  

Piano

  Alex Hersh  
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   Susan Boettger    

Piano

  Andrea Casarrubios 
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   Adrienne Kim   

Piano

Guitar

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   Larry Weng    
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Guitar

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   Max Anisimov   

Guitar

Music Theory/Ear Training

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   Peter Dugan    
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  Inessa Khurgel  

Music Theory

   Adam Neiman    
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  Fernando Arroyo  

Music Theory/Composition

   Susan Boettger    
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  Bruno Silva  

Arranging

  Yves Dharamraj  
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   Chris Kapica  

Ear Training

Music History

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  Inessa Khurgel  
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   Elad Kabilio   

Music History

  Fernando Arroyo  
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   Larry Weng    

Music History

Electives

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   Elad Kabilio   
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  Max Anisimov  

Audio/Video Engineering

   Larry Weng    
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  David Baron  

Jazz Theory

HOURS OF OPERATION

 

CLASS SCHEDULES VARY 

PRIVATE LESSON TIMES ARE AGREED UPON BY TEACHER AND STUDENT

 

CONTACT

Tel: 949-742-4679

EMAIL: INFO@LISTESOACADEMY.COM

ADDRESS

 

233 EAST 13TH ST. APT 1408

CHICAGO, IL 60605

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