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Welcome Sandra McClain who is represented in the Sound Espressivo Competition 2021 by her voice student Asmik Arutuniants Soprano Sandra McClain, Metropolitan Opera Auditions national winner, has appeared in opera and recital throughout the United States. Love’s Seasons, her recording of American art songs with pianist Margo Garrett, was released by Musicians Showcase. Now teaching in Raleigh, NC, Dr. McClain is retired Professor of Music from Florida Atlantic University and has served NATS in both state and regional offices. Her students have performed with local and regional opera companies and in summer artist programs in the US and abroad. In 2018, her student was the NATS southeastern region recipient of the Joan Boytim Award for Independent Teachers. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Meredith College, a Master of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music, and the Doctor of Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Email: sandramcclainstudio@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-mcclain-studio

Welcome Marissa Murphy who is represented by her violin student in the 2021 Sound Espressivo Competition!

Welcome Donna Weng Friedman who is represented by her piano students in the 2021 Sound Espressivo Competition!

< Back CARLA AULD Flutist Learn More Videos About CARLA AULDwww.CarlaAuld.com Carla Auld continues to distinguish herself as both a performer and one of the foremost proponents of the flute in the world today. Constantly in demand as a concert artist and teacher, she has also been hailed for her work as a founder and artistic director of organizations specifically related to music and arts administration. Born in New York and raised in New Jersey, Ms. Auld attended Temple University, having studied with Julius Baker, whom she credits with having helped her form the artistic perspective readily apparent in her approach to repertoire, performance, and interpretation, which continues to bring her accolades from critics and audiences alike. She has also coached with such distinguished artists as Michael Parloff, Robert Dick, Bernard Goldberg, Gerardo Levy and Julius Baker. Jerry Dubins of Fanfare Magazine describes Ms. Auld as “beguiling” with a “smooth balanced tone throughout the registers of her instrument,” as well as “marvelous breath control, and [a] technical command distinguishing all of her performances,” while Roger Hits of Highlight Hollywood has proclaimed her “ absurdly talented, creating her own atmosphere with her ethereal flute work.” Auld’s solo performances exist along a broad spectrum of both venues and collaborators, and include engagements with Sante Fe’s Flute Immersion, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Mexico, the Verdi School of Music, Italy, the Saint Paul Festival of the Arts, and the Festival of Strings in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. She has been invited to perform for numerous flute organizations throughout the United States of America. Well-known for her interest in new music as well as the promotion of works by living composers, she has personally commissioned works from James Cohn and Allen Cohn, while also having had works written especially for her, including "Voyage to a New Land” for flute and orchestra by Steve Giammarino, recorded on the MSR label. Ms. Auld has also commissioned works along with her flute colleagues as a member of the award-winning flute octet, UpTown Flutes. She was featured as both piccolo and flute performer on three of the ensemble’s CDs. As Founder and Artistic Director of From Bach to Broadway, a classical music services company, Auld was responsible for giving audiences the opportunity to engage professional artists on demand for events, combining specific instrumentalists to accommodate the need for solo and chamber ensembles of both new and traditional works to audiences. She is also founder of two other chamber groups, the Auld flute and piano ensemble and the London Trio with cellist Lanny Paykin and violinist Gabriel Schaff. -2- Constantly in demand for her work as an advisor and adjudicator, Auld has served on the boards of both the New York Flute Club, and the New Jersey Flute Society, and has served as an international judge for the Magalif Flute Competition. Previous Next

< Back Carla Algeri Bandoneon Learn More Videos About Carla Algeri was born in Almirante Brown, Buenos Aires, Carla studied with legendary Maestro Osvaldo Pugliese and she is direct disciple of Maestro Rodolfo Mederos and Maestro Néstor Marconi. Carla obtained her Master's Degree in Latin American Composers at UNAM and Conducting Youth Orchestras and Choirs at UNA National University of Arts, in addition to her studies at National University of La Plata UNLP at the Faculty of Engineering. She was also trained in Learning Pedagogy at the Violeta de Gainza and Gladys Esperanza School. Carla is Professor at the Universidad de Artes Network, Colombia, in extracurricular activities of the Faculty of Arts. Carla is Director and founder of Polo Bandoneón a Cultural Center for the preservation and dissemination of the Bandoneón as the axis of the Patrimonial Culture of the Río de La Plata. As a Cultural Advisor of the City of Buenos Aires, she is carrying out important concerts, museum activities, master classes at Universities in Colombia and Portugal about the language of Tango. Carla is member of the International Arts Council and in charge of the Bandonium Foundation and responsible for the Patrimonialization of Tango at UNESCO. Outstanding personality of the culture of the City of Buenos Aires, Carla received the Order of the Mano Blanca Mailbox and also awarded the key to the City of Miami from Miami’s Mayor Office for her work in Culture. The municipalities of Santuario, Medellín, Pereira, Andes, Jericó, Buga, Santa Fé de Antioquia, Bucaramanga, and other cities in Colombia, offered her different recognitions. Tango Cultural Ambassador of the City of Buenos Aires and her native municipality Almirante Brown and currently Member of the International Academy of History and Communication Sciences. Among her recordings can be mentioned: Rodolfo Mederos Typical Orchestra 2006; “Gardel's Seventy” together with Juanjo Domínguez 2007; Carla Algeri Quintet “Tribute Album” 2012; “Balada del Alba” with Chico Novarro 2013; “Response” for bandoneon, piano and symphony orchestra. “Tribute to Aníbal Troilo” 2015; “When you are not here” , bandoneon and string orchestra, “Tribute to Carlos Gardel” 2015; “Memories of a Bandoneón” 2016 a symphonic recording nominated for the “Buenos Aires Gardel Awards”. “Together 20 years” , 2019 with Armando de la Vega. “Two and two are three” 2020, Trio with Armando de la Vega and Rafael Gintoli. “Testament of a Mozart Milonguero” 2021 with bandoneon octet. “Tribute to Piazzolla” 2022 for Trio with Rafael Gintoli and Armando de la Vega. “Gray of Absence” 2022. Duet with Leonardo Marconi. “Song of October” 2022 with bandoneon Octet, music by Piazzolla. Previous Next

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