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Contact us by phone 972-772-7692 |
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2010 February Judges:
Gustavo Tolosa Jim Higgins Mitta Angell Karen Austin John Geisel George Papich Luis Sanchez Curt Thompson |
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Dr. Gustavo Tolosa Dr. Gustavo Tolosa, Founder and Director of "Musica for the World", is an active concert pianist, teacher and adjudicator of national stature, originally from Argentina. He holds a Doctorate in Music from the renowned Eastman School of Music in New York. Dr. Tolosa is included in the publication "Outstanding Musicians of the 20th Century." He is also the Director of Keyboard Studies at North Lake College, in Irving, Texas and the Director of the Arts Academy at Brookhaven College in Farmers Branch, Texas. Dr. Tolosa is a member of the Music Teachers National Association, the Texas Music Teachers Association and the Dallas Music Teachers Association. |
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Jim Higgins Jim Higgins teaches music history and music theory at the University of Dallas in Irving. He is also the cello instructor at Brookhaven and Richland Colleges as well as maintaining a private cello studio at his home in Richardson, TX. An active free-lance cellist in the Metroplex, Mr. Higgins had performed with most of the major musical organizations in the area as well as numerous churches and choral societies. He is a founding member of the University of Dallas Chamber Ensemble and of Timelessconcerts, a concert series based in Arlington, TX. Mr. Higgins has had many compositions published for public school orchestra and he continues to write arrangements for commercial groups in TX and other states. |
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Mitta Angell Mitta Angell joined the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 1965. She graduated from Baldwin-Wallace College with a double major in violin and piano. She then taught piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music and violin at the Cleveland Music School Settlement. She has performed as a piano soloist with the Dallas Symphony, Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra, Fine Arts Chamber Players, Hubbard Chamber Music Series and Music in the Mountains Festival in Durango, Colorado; and as a viola soloist with the Dallas Bach Society, Dallas Chamber Orchestra and Hubbard Chamber Music Series. In 2001 she was appointed assistant artistic director of the Dallas Chamber Music Society. Mitta often plays second keyboard with the Dallas Symphony as well. |
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Karen Austin Karen Austin is currently the Artistic Director of the McKinney Musical Arts Society. She has been a lecturer, clinician and adjudicator in Texas, New Mexico Alabama and Oklahoma. An independent teacher in Dallas and McKinney, Texas since 1973, Mrs. Austin is a graduate of Texas Christian University. She has served on the board and in numerous capacities for the Dallas Music Teachers Association, the Texas Music Teachers Association, and the Richardson Music Teachers Association. |
