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Brett Bachus
Brett Bachus, LLCM, LTCL, ALCM, DipLCM, ALCM(TD) founder of Bachus Conservatory, is a nationally acclaimed concert pianist and cellist. A versatile, dynamic, and sensitive virtuoso, he has performed in solo and chamber recitals, choral works, and has been a guest artist with orchestras. Appearing on radio and television, Mr. Bachus is known for his mastery of the keyboard with an extensive repertoire list.
Mr. Bachus has been teaching children and adults since 1979. He was a cellist in the Scottsdale Symphony. He co-founded The Four Seasons Chamber Orchestra, and founded the Phoenix Valley Chamber Symphony and was President of the board of directors for both. Mr. Bachus is active as a solo performer and frequently accompanies local musicians for recitals and charitable events.
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Mandy Clare
Mandy Clare's repertoire includes many styles of music including art songs, opera and musical theatre, with a special emphasis in contemporary music. Her music education is from Oklahoma Christian University where she majored in Voice Performance. Extended study of theatre and voice was accomplished at the University of Texas. She has performed with the Oklahoma Christian University Chorale and has performed in solo, duet and ensemble concerts with the Amici Music Ensemble, including a benefit for Project Access and the Rachel Blasingame Scholarship Fund. Ms. Clare frequently performs at weddings, anniversaries, and holiday events.
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Arnold Yzaguirre
Arnold Yzaguirre is a classically trained guitarist and a highly talented performer and teacher. He studied classical guitar with Cain Budds at Laredo Community College and then with Robby Gibson, Aleksandr Tsiboulski and Adam Holzman at the University of Texas at Austin.
Mr. Yzaguirre actively performs as a solo artist and with singers. He has performed in ensemble recitals and professional concerts in south Texas, Laredo, and the Austin area. He has also performed in several master classes with recognized guitarists such as Philip Hill, Douglas Rubio, Adam Holzman and Pasquale Rucco.
Mr. Yzaguirre teaches classical, romantic, contemporary, folk, and flamenco guitar styles and techniques. He has taught private lessons with children and adults from beginner through performance levels. In a Laredo elementary school, he taught group classes in beginning guitar. He also taught summer classes in beginning classical guitar with pre-school, elementary, middle, and high school groups.
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Rachel Kaplan
Rachel Kaplan earned her Doctorate in Flute Performance at the University of Arizona, a student of Dr. Brian Luce. She holds a Master of Music degree from the Boston Conservatory and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Miami, both in flute performance. Her teachers have included Geralyn Coticone, Christine Nield-Capote, Helen Blackburn and Claire Johnson. Through the University of Arizona's Archive Ensemble, she has worked with renowned jazz flutist Paul Horn, performing works written for and arranged by him. For two years, Dr. Kaplan held the position of Librarian for the National Flute Association, maintaining the music collection of more than 15,000 works kept at the University of Arizona. In this capacity, she presented at the annual national convention in New York City. She has also served as adjudicator for the Arizona All-State Festival and the Tucson Philharmonia Youth Orchestra.
Dr. Kaplan performed in Boston with the Pasticcio Chamber Players and the Ludovico Contemporary Music Ensemble, premiering numerous works by Boston area composers. While in Arizona, she performed with the Sierra Vista Symphony Orchestra, Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Chamber Orchestra, Tucson Masterworks Chorale Orchestra, Arizona Symphony Orchestra, and Ratio H Wind Quintet. In addition, she was a featured soloist with the Tucson Boys and Girls Choirs, the Arizona Choir and the Arizona Symphonic Choir. As a founding member of Absolute Flutes, she was a guest artist with the Lake Havasu Regional Orchestra and held a master class in Rancho Cucamonga, California. Dr. Kaplan has also performed with Flutefinity Spectrum at the National Flute Association Convention in Albuquerque and the Las Vegas Flute Club Flute Festival. In addition, her performance travels have taken her to the Bahamas as a guest of the Bahamian National Youth Choir and to England to work with several orchestral flutists of the British Isles.
Rachel Kaplan recently moved to Austin after completing her doctorate. As a Doctoral candidate in Arizona, Rachel assisted the flute professor with lessons for both music majors and minors, through the graduate level. As part of this, she also taught technique classes, focusing specifically on the fundamentals of music and flute playing as well as standard orchestral repertoire. In Boston, she maintained a large private flute studio, from very beginning students through high school. Many of her students participated in the Massachusetts All-State Festival. In addition, her more advanced students were featured soloists with the high school orchestra, performing advanced concerti, and several also played with the school jazz ensembles. She works with students of all ages - from beginner through advanced levels.
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Josh Casiano
Josh Casiano earned his Bachelor's degree in Music Theory/Composition at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Members of the music faculty have raved about his performances as doctoral-level repertoire, describing him as an "excellent resource" in music theory and instrumental knowledge. His compositions were described as "absolutely fabulous" with "very idiomatic" use of instruments.
Mr. Casiano has taught composition, orchestration, multiple systems of music theory, music literature, percussion, ear training, and use of the Finale family of notation software. In music theory, he has taught Tonal Harmony/Roman numeral analysis, Baroque counterpoint, species counterpoint, set theory, and Schenkerian analysis.
Mr. Casiano has performed with the Austin Chamber Music Center, at the Keyboard Percussion Festival, and was the principal percussionist of the Southwestern University Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble for three years. He played timpani in the world premier of Michael Cooper's edition of Mendelssohn's "Symphony No. 4" and was principal percussionist in the world premier of Jason Hoogerhyde's "The Color of Dissonance." Josh Casiano's compositions have earned him invitations to lecture and to perform future works, including a symphonic piece and a work for percussion ensemble. Mr. Casiano co-composed the music for Natalie Goodnow's play "Muntu" with Travis Jeffords. He performed the percussion part in the production, which received an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Vanessa Beaumont
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Dr. Vanessa Beaumont graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in voice from Millsaps College in Jackson Mississippi, where she studied under Dr. Cheryl Coker. She holds a Masters of Music Degree in Vocal Performance, as well as a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance/Opera Emphasis from the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied with Professor Martha Deatherage.
Dr. Beaumont has won several competitions including: the Mississippi National Association of Teachers of Singing in 1996 and 1997, the Mississippi Music Teachers Association- College Aria Division in 1997, the Mississippi Federation of Music Clubs in 1998 and 2000, the National Federation of Music Clubs- State and Southeast Regional Divisions in 2001, and the Robert J. Murray award, Shreveport Opera Competition in 2003. In 1999, she performed the concert suite Frida by Robert X. Rodriguez with the University of Texas New Music Ensemble.
Dr. Beaument has appeared professionally as the Mother in Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors. Dr. Beaumont's roles with the University of Texas Sarah and Ernest Butler Opera Center include Rebecca Nurse in Ward's The Crucible, Marcellina in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, the Mother in Menotti's The Consul, Madame Flora (Baba) in Menotti's The Medium, La Principessa in Puccini's Suor Angelica, Mujer vieja in Las Tentaciones de San Antonio by Luis Jaime Cortez, Madame Fifi in The Old Majestic by Robert X. Rodriguez (for which she was awarded an Austin Critics Table award in 2004), Filipevna in Eugene Onégin by P. I. Tchaikovsky, and Carmen in Bizet's La Tragédie de Carmen. In 2001, she performed Ernest Chausson's Chanson Perpétuelle with the Cavani String Quartet and on the Salon Concert Series directed by Mr. Robert Rudie. In 2002, she performed "O don fatale" from Don Carlo by Giuseppe Verdi with the UT Orchestra. She appeared as the Second Maiden in Elektra by Richard Strauss with Austin Lyric Opera in January 2005. In May of 2006, Vanessa traveled to Cochabamba, Bolivia, where she gave concerts featuring songs of the late Mexican composer María Grever. Dr. Beaumont has performed with Opera Vista of Houston, Texas each year since its inception in 2007. Her roles with them include the Mother in Edalat Square by R. Timothy Brady in 2009, and in 2010 Nun/Nurse 4 in Anorexia Sacra by Line Tjørnhøj and Apsara Song in The Silent Prince by Somtow Sucharitkul. With Austin's own Spotlight on Opera, Dr. Beaumont performed the role of Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana by Mascagni in 2010, and most recently, Mrs. Nolan from The Medium by Menotti.
Dr. Beaumont began teaching voice in 2000 while pursuing her graduate studies at UT. As her singing accolades grew, so did her student load of both university and private students. Her students have ranged in age from 6 to 68. In 2006 she began working in Leander ISD as a private vocal instructor. She has taught students from several high schools and middle schools, including Leander High School, Rouse High School, Hutto High School, Westwood High School, Henry Middle School, and Wiley Middle School. Dr. Beaumont's students consistently earn high honors at Solo & Ensemble and TSSEC, and several have made the All State Choir. Many of her students have gone on to pursue music degrees at institutions such as The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas at San Antonio, The University of North Texas, Texas State University, Concordia University, Stephen F. Austin State University, Baylor University, and The University of Mary Hardin Baylor.
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Briana Garcia
Briana Garcia has been playing piano for sixteen years and percussion for ten years. She is a multi-percussion player. She has studied with Bill Patterson of the San Antonio Symphony, Thad Anderson of Cage Percussion Players and Erin Martysz of the Midland Odessa Symphony. She has performed as the timpanist for the Southwestern Orchestra and as a percussionist for the Austin Civic Orchestra and Round Rock Symphony Orchestra. As the leading member of the Southwestern University Percussion Group she has performed at the Georgetown and Southwestern Arts Festivals. She is also the principal percussionist for the Southwestern Wind Ensemble. As a chamber musician she has premiered contemporary works by Austin composers and performs with Soundscapes, a contemporary music ensemble from San Antonio. As a solo performer, Miss Garcia has had the opportunity to play in masterclasses for renowned percussionists Nancy Zeltsman and Alan Abel. She has participated in annual recitals and talent shows and currently serves as the pianist for her church choir at Southwestern.
Her passions are in playing and teaching music. She has taught piano as well as jazz, rock and funk drum set and has directed the percussion ensemble group, orchestra, and steel pan ensemble at Southwestern University. She coached fifth grade percussionists and helped them to achieve top band status. She appreciates the importance of teaching her students the fundamentals of music theory and encourages the development of sight-reading skills from the beginning.
Briana Garcia is a senior at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, majoring in Music Performance. She is a Paideia Scholar and has been on the Dean's List for five semesters.
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