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Na'ama Lion
Na’ama Lion is well known in the Boston area as a versatile performer on early flutes. She has explored medieval music, playing with “Sequentia”; Renaissance music with the Renaissance flute quartet “Travesada”; Baroque, Classical and Romantic music with numerous groups, including La Donna Musicale, Boston Baroque, Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Cecilia, Arcadia Players, Grand Harmonie, Cappella Clausura, and overseas with Academia Daniel, Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra and Barrocade orchestra. She is also a committed performer of new music, and has had new pieces written for her and her various ensembles by composers John McDonald, Jorge Ibanez, Atsushi Yoshinaka, Julie Rohwein, Paul Brust, Murray Barsky, Marti Epstein, Robert Carl, and pre-eminent Israeli composer Leon Schidlowsky. She has collaborated with the crossover ensemble “Rumbarroco” playing Latin American music. Na’ama holds a Doctoral degree from Boston University, a Soloist Diploma from the Arnhem Conservatory in the Netherlands, and a BMus. degree in modern flute performance from the Tel Aviv University. She teaches at the Longy School of Music and directs a chamber music program at Harvard College. She is a sought-after teacher at summer workshops, including Amherst Early Music and the International Baroque Institute at Longy. Na’ama has recorded for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Telarc and private labels.
Weronika Balewski
Weronika Balewski is a flutist, teaching artist, and educator dedicated to creating engaging musical experiences that connect us to ourselves and to each other. She is the Flutist and Co-Founder of Marvento Duo, winner of the Brookline Symphony Concerto Competition, and active as a Baroque flutist and new music advocate in various chamber, orchestra, and educational projects. Weronika is the 2018-2019 Integrative Education Fellow and Director of Development at Integral Steps in Louisville, Colorado.
Weronika is performing this season with 208 ensemble in Boise, Idaho, and in Music of Reality’s Reef Music, a Boston event bringing together music, poetry, and scientific lectures on the topic of coral reefs and oceans. She is also a featured guest with Roslindale-based classical/jazz duo Room to Spare and continues her work with Marvento, a flute and piano duo of performing teaching artists specializing in themed concerts and interactive workshops for children, adults, and seniors. In summer 2019 Marvento will be in residency at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute. Weronika is completing her certificate in Dalcroze Eurhythmics, a holistic movement-based approach to learning music. She applies Dalcroze Education principles in her flute studio, at interactive concerts and workshops, and as an instructor and fellow at Integral Steps. Formerly a musicianship faculty member at the Suzuki School of Newton, Weronika rewrote and implemented a new musicianship curriculum and student workbooks, served as Musicianship Department Chair, and interviewed young musicians for the Suzuki Radio podcast. Weronika has taught music and movement musicianship classes at the Suzuki Association of Colorado Fall Festival and Old Town Suzuki. She also taught group flute classes for Making Music Matters! in Boston Public Schools. Weronika is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and the Longy School of Music.
Weronika is performing this season with 208 ensemble in Boise, Idaho, and in Music of Reality’s Reef Music, a Boston event bringing together music, poetry, and scientific lectures on the topic of coral reefs and oceans. She is also a featured guest with Roslindale-based classical/jazz duo Room to Spare and continues her work with Marvento, a flute and piano duo of performing teaching artists specializing in themed concerts and interactive workshops for children, adults, and seniors. In summer 2019 Marvento will be in residency at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute. Weronika is completing her certificate in Dalcroze Eurhythmics, a holistic movement-based approach to learning music. She applies Dalcroze Education principles in her flute studio, at interactive concerts and workshops, and as an instructor and fellow at Integral Steps. Formerly a musicianship faculty member at the Suzuki School of Newton, Weronika rewrote and implemented a new musicianship curriculum and student workbooks, served as Musicianship Department Chair, and interviewed young musicians for the Suzuki Radio podcast. Weronika has taught music and movement musicianship classes at the Suzuki Association of Colorado Fall Festival and Old Town Suzuki. She also taught group flute classes for Making Music Matters! in Boston Public Schools. Weronika is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and the Longy School of Music.
Emma Shubin
Flutist, Dalcroze Eurhythmics instructor, and Suzuki educator, Emma Shubin has been joyfully making music since the age of six. She is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy where she studied music, creative writing, and photography. A proponent of integrative education, Emma is the co-founder and director of the Colorado based non-profit Integral Steps, which strives to bring integrative education and balanced development to individuals, families, and communities through music, movement, psychotherapy, ecology and creative arts. Emma received her MM in flute performance under the tutelage of Marco Granados (flute) and her Licensure and Certificate in Dalcroze with master Dalcroze pedagog Lisa Parker. Her teachers include legendary flutist Robert Willoughby, and she completed her BM in flute performance as a student of Christina Jennings at CU Boulder. Emma received her BA in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2012, and continues to be active in research around mammals and the effects of climate change on the Rocky Mountain Region. Emma is always looking for ways to share her love of great music, masterful composers, mixed media, and the performers who bring their mediums to life with diverse audiences throughout the Front Range. She is the founder and director of the concert series Meet the Composer, focused on an in-depth exploration of one composer per performance, and Among Friends, a mixed media concert series dedicated to combining visual and musical mediums in performance. Emma can be found enjoying the Rocky Mountain Region from her home in Louisville, CO where she works on various projects from composing and recording, performing and collaborating, to community engagement and integrative education and artistic events. She travels throughout the year performing all genres of music, giving workshops and masterclasses on audience engagement, Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Integrative education, and she teaches Skype/FaceTime and private lessons from Boston to Boulder and beyond. She is the co-executive director of Integral Steps and currently serves as the coordinator for new programming and an instructor with the Dalcroze School of the Rockies.
Teddie Hwang
Since 1999 Teddie Hwang has dedicated herself to historical performance, being fascinated by the timbre and vocal qualities of
the traverso. She studied with Wilbert Hazelzet and received her Master's degree in Historical Flute Performance from the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague, Netherlands. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Music and Germanic Studies from Indiana University, where she studied modern flute with Kathryn Lukas and graduated with high distinction. First-prize winner of the 2004 Baroque Flute Artist Competition held by the National Flute Association of America, she has also adjudicated its Baroque Flute Masterclass Competitions. Currently living in Germany, Teddie collaborates with a wide spectrum of chamber ensembles and orchestras, playing repertoire ranging from 17th century airs de cour to Beethoven symphonies. In addition to performing, her pedagogical activities extend to coaching professionals and conservatory-level students. She has been guest lecturer and performing artist at institutions such as the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in Limerick, School of Music of the University of Victoria BC, Tunghai University in Taiwan, International San Francisco Flute Festival, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Teddie takes inspirations from songs of turtledoves and blackbirds. She believes in the power of music to heal, to inspire creativity and endless vitality.
the traverso. She studied with Wilbert Hazelzet and received her Master's degree in Historical Flute Performance from the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague, Netherlands. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Music and Germanic Studies from Indiana University, where she studied modern flute with Kathryn Lukas and graduated with high distinction. First-prize winner of the 2004 Baroque Flute Artist Competition held by the National Flute Association of America, she has also adjudicated its Baroque Flute Masterclass Competitions. Currently living in Germany, Teddie collaborates with a wide spectrum of chamber ensembles and orchestras, playing repertoire ranging from 17th century airs de cour to Beethoven symphonies. In addition to performing, her pedagogical activities extend to coaching professionals and conservatory-level students. She has been guest lecturer and performing artist at institutions such as the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in Limerick, School of Music of the University of Victoria BC, Tunghai University in Taiwan, International San Francisco Flute Festival, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Teddie takes inspirations from songs of turtledoves and blackbirds. She believes in the power of music to heal, to inspire creativity and endless vitality.