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Slater Music Academy
"Quality Music Instruction for the Entire Family"
"Quality Music Instruction for the Entire Family"
| Fort Thomas location: 143 N. Ft. Thomas Ave., Ft. Thomas, KY 41075 Burlington location: 3024 Washington St., Burlington, KY 41005 Phone: 859-486-1032 |
Guitar and Strings Faculty
DOMINIC DESTEFANO (both locations), Suzuki and traditional method violin and viola,
teaches with violin and viola technique rooted in the methods of Ivan Galamian and Dorothy
Delay. He is a member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas and studied Suzuki violin
pedagogy at the Capital University Suzuki Institute. Dominic received his Bachelor of Music and
Master of Music degrees from the College-Conservatory of Music studying with Masao
Kawasaki and Catharine Carroll. As an orchestral musician, Dominic performs with the CCM
Philharmonia and Aspen Festival Orchestras. Dominic's performances as a chamber musician
have taken him to Italy to perform with members of the Lark Quartet and to Aspen, Colorado to
perform in the Center for Advanced String Quartet Studies at the Aspen Music Festival where he
was also a collaborative artist in chamber music. He has studied chamber music with members of
the Julliard, LaSalle, Manhattan, and Tokyo String Quartets. A proponent of new music, he has
performed and recorded new works, including his own, in Cincinnati and has been featured on
the Fresh Ink Series in Aspen. Dominic is currently pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at
the College-Conservatory of Music as a winner of the Gee International Viola Competition.
MARK HAAP (both locations), electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, mandolin and
dulcimer, has studied music from the age of eight. He has studied at the Guitar Institute of
Technology in Hollywood, California, The National Guitar Summer Workshop in Connecticut
and with many teachers from a wide variety of musical styles. You can find him playing at
numerous venues around Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. He has been teaching privately for
eight years. He has a BA and BS from Northern Kentucky University. His main interests are
rock, blues, ethnic music, world music and ancient music theory.
MIAO LI (both locations), Suzuki and traditional method violin and viola, began her violin
studies at the age of seven in Nanjing, China and was the winner of numerous regional and
provincial competitions in China. Ms. Li received her BM from the State University of New York
at Purchase and MM from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.
Ms. Li is currently a DMA student of Kurt Sassmannshaus and Won-bin Yim at the
College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. She was the winner of the CCM
Starling Violin Scholarship in 2002 and 2004. In summer 2003 and 2004, Ms. Li was a
fellowship student at the Aspen Music Festival and School. She was the winner of the Prokofiev
Violin Concerto Competition at CCM and performed the concerto with the CCM Concert
Orchestra in October, 2004. In 2003, Ms. Li was a winner of the Virtu Foundation Instrument
Scholarship and plays on an 1853 French violin by Charles Adolphe Maucotel. She has taught
extensively in China, New York and Cincinnati. During summer 2003, Ms. Li was the teaching
assistant for Mr. Kurt Sassmannshaus at the Aspen Music Festival and School in Aspen,
Colorado.
ERIC SUTTON (both locations), guitar, currently resides in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. He has
studied guitar with Ed Vardimen, Bob Mercer and Chris Wilke. He is currently in the process of
obtaining a Bachelor of Music degree from Northern Kentucky University. Eric has participated
in the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music classical guitar camps for several summers. In these
camps Eric has played in master classes for well-known classical guitarists such as Carlos Perez
(winner of many prestigious classical guitar competitions) and Stanley Yates (composer of a
series of classical guitar arrangements published by Mel Bay publications). Eric specializes in
classical guitar but is comfortable teaching students of all ages and styles.
DOMINIC DESTEFANO (both locations), Suzuki and traditional method violin and viola,
teaches with violin and viola technique rooted in the methods of Ivan Galamian and Dorothy
Delay. He is a member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas and studied Suzuki violin
pedagogy at the Capital University Suzuki Institute. Dominic received his Bachelor of Music and
Master of Music degrees from the College-Conservatory of Music studying with Masao
Kawasaki and Catharine Carroll. As an orchestral musician, Dominic performs with the CCM
Philharmonia and Aspen Festival Orchestras. Dominic's performances as a chamber musician
have taken him to Italy to perform with members of the Lark Quartet and to Aspen, Colorado to
perform in the Center for Advanced String Quartet Studies at the Aspen Music Festival where he
was also a collaborative artist in chamber music. He has studied chamber music with members of
the Julliard, LaSalle, Manhattan, and Tokyo String Quartets. A proponent of new music, he has
performed and recorded new works, including his own, in Cincinnati and has been featured on
the Fresh Ink Series in Aspen. Dominic is currently pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at
the College-Conservatory of Music as a winner of the Gee International Viola Competition.
MARK HAAP (both locations), electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, mandolin and
dulcimer, has studied music from the age of eight. He has studied at the Guitar Institute of
Technology in Hollywood, California, The National Guitar Summer Workshop in Connecticut
and with many teachers from a wide variety of musical styles. You can find him playing at
numerous venues around Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. He has been teaching privately for
eight years. He has a BA and BS from Northern Kentucky University. His main interests are
rock, blues, ethnic music, world music and ancient music theory.
MIAO LI (both locations), Suzuki and traditional method violin and viola, began her violin
studies at the age of seven in Nanjing, China and was the winner of numerous regional and
provincial competitions in China. Ms. Li received her BM from the State University of New York
at Purchase and MM from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.
Ms. Li is currently a DMA student of Kurt Sassmannshaus and Won-bin Yim at the
College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. She was the winner of the CCM
Starling Violin Scholarship in 2002 and 2004. In summer 2003 and 2004, Ms. Li was a
fellowship student at the Aspen Music Festival and School. She was the winner of the Prokofiev
Violin Concerto Competition at CCM and performed the concerto with the CCM Concert
Orchestra in October, 2004. In 2003, Ms. Li was a winner of the Virtu Foundation Instrument
Scholarship and plays on an 1853 French violin by Charles Adolphe Maucotel. She has taught
extensively in China, New York and Cincinnati. During summer 2003, Ms. Li was the teaching
assistant for Mr. Kurt Sassmannshaus at the Aspen Music Festival and School in Aspen,
Colorado.
ERIC SUTTON (both locations), guitar, currently resides in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. He has
studied guitar with Ed Vardimen, Bob Mercer and Chris Wilke. He is currently in the process of
obtaining a Bachelor of Music degree from Northern Kentucky University. Eric has participated
in the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music classical guitar camps for several summers. In these
camps Eric has played in master classes for well-known classical guitarists such as Carlos Perez
(winner of many prestigious classical guitar competitions) and Stanley Yates (composer of a
series of classical guitar arrangements published by Mel Bay publications). Eric specializes in
classical guitar but is comfortable teaching students of all ages and styles.
| Fort Thomas location: 143 N. Ft. Thomas Ave., Ft. Thomas, KY 41075 Burlington location: 3024 Washington St., Burlington, KY 41005 Phone: 859-486-1032, Fax: 859-908-2607 Email: info@slatermusicacademy.com |