Cello Faculty
Interim Director, Joza Karas Adult String Ensemble
- B.S. from The Juilliard School; M.M. from
Yale University; both degrees are in cello performance.
- Primary
teachers included Luigi Silva, Dorothy DeLay, and Claus Adam in cello;
Jacob Druckman in composition; Robert Mann in Chamber Music; and Jorge
Mester in conducting.
- Served on the faculty of SUNY Albany from
1972-1979 and has been a professor of music in the Electronic Arts
Department and conductor of the RPI Orchestra at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute since 1994. Adjunct professor at Georgetown
University, Mount Holyoke College, Bennington College, Meadowmount School,
the Mannes College Preparatory Division.
- He has had a large private cello teaching studio for more than
thirty years and has placed students in every major conservatory in the
country during that time. Many of his students have become professional
cellists and have participated successfully in national and international
competitions, such as Clancy Newman who won the Naumberg International
Competition in 2001.
- Hartt Community Division faculty member since 2008
