Elvin Hsieh

Elvin Hsieh is a professional violinist and private violin teacher based in the Bay Area. He completed his bachelor’s degree on a full scholarship in Music Performance at UCLA, where he studied with Varty Manouelian. After winning the All-Star Competition at UCLA, he was featured as a soloist playing on an historic Stradivarius violin loaned […]

Lavinia Chen

Lavinia Chen is a professional violinist and passionate music educator who works for the San Francisco Symphony, performing music educational shows to elementary schools across San Francisco daily. Lavinia holds a Master’s degree in violin performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she achieved international recognition by winning competitions that led to solo […]

Jiayi Huang

Jiayi Huang was raised in China and began learning the violin at the age of six. Showing early talent, he began studying at the Wuhan Conservatory of Music Elementary School. He later expanded his skills, concentrating on the viola after which he graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 2014, Jiayi relocated to the […]

Margarita Dimov

Margarita Dimov received her bachelor’s degree in Violin Performance and Music Education from the Tashkent Khamza Music College, Uzbekistan, at the time a part of the former Soviet Union. She is an accomplished violinist who has been playing and teaching for over 35 years. Margarita worked as an associate concertmaster at the Tashkent Music Theatre […]

Anthony Doheny

Anthony Doheny CSMA Music Teacher

Anthony received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stanford University, his Master of Arts in Music from the University of Iowa, and a Diploma in Music from the Sydney Conservatorium in Australia.  He has been a student of Charles Treger and Robert Miller. Anthony has performed as a violinist in annual chamber music concerts, […]

Antoine van Dongen

Antoine van Dongen CSMA Music Teacher

Antonie van Dongen holda a Bachelor’s of Music and Master of Music from the Sweelinck Conservatory of Music in Amsterdam; studied with Davina van Wely and Herman Krebbers, concertmaster of The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He was Silver Medalist at the National Violin Competition Oskar Back in 1983, and a recipient of “the prize of the […]

Brooke Mickelson

Brooke Mickelson CSMA Music Teacher

Brooke Mickelson is a violist, music educator, and social entrepreneur with a passion for community arts engagement. Through all of her roles, Brooke’s mission is to connect people through the arts and provide access to music education. She started playing viola in public school at age 10 because it was “cool” and has never stopped […]

Chinh Le

Chinh Le CSMA Music Teacher

Chinh Le was born in Vietnam and came to the US in 1980. Mr. Le completed his Bachelor of Music from Indiana University.  He is also a recipient of Artist Diploma program where he studied under Joseph Gingold, Rostislav Dubinsky, Yuval Yaron and Nelli Scholnikova. In 1991 he joined Community School of Music as a […]

Hazelle Miloradovitch

Hazelle Miloradovitch CSMA Music Teacher

Hazelle Miloradovitch earned her Bachelor of Music with Distinction from Eastman School and her Master of Arts with major in music from Stanford University. Hazelle is currently Principal Violist, Livermore-Amador Symphony, and formerly Concert Master of the Livermore-Amador Symphony and Stanford University Symphony Orchestra. She makes frequent appearances in chamber music ensembles and as recital […]