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Rebecca BallhausAsa Barth-MaronIna Marie BenDaniel BernsteinGemma BreitAlexander CellumNora Chanko Alex ClaesAidan Coruzzi DalyGina D’AmicoYollyn-Marie De La CruzLeia DelgadoPeter DutkoArielle Elmaleh-SachsMalinee FawcettJack FlemingMax FrankCullen GoldenMelissa Gollance

Nickson GomezBenjamin HirschSam HollierTakuya ItoAdam J. Johnson May KhoChristopher KinneyArmando LambertiRonny LeonYuriy LysonokJack McDermottIsabelle McGovern Debbie MilburnKeaton Morris-StanAlexa NicolasLily NishihiraNadia OgborChristopher O’NealChristine Pang

Forrest PettersonMarini PickeringJohn PlotzGregory QuinlanOriana RodriguezMichelle RollenasAnthony RomanBo ScarimJ.T. SchaferAnais SchindlerEva Coruzzi SchneiderAlix Eve SchramInna ShteinbukKelvin TamAdrian ZemorCalais ZumbachLucas Zwirner

2009 SENIORSCONGRATULATIONS!

We congratulate you on reaching this important milestone in your life and wish you a future filled with music, dance and joy!

On this special occasion, we welcome you into the Third Street Alumni Association and wish you success and happiness as you follow in the footsteps of Third Street alumni who have helped make the world a better place for 115 years.

Lee KoonceExECuTIvE DIRECTOR

Mary Lou FrancisASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

REBECCA BALLHAUS violinTEACHER Claire ChanBrown university

“[Music’s] language is a language which the soul alone understands,

but which the soul can never translate.”— Arnold Bennett

“Those who find the ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”— Oscar Wilde

ASA BARTH-mARon BassTEACHER Rebekah Griffin-Greene

Franklin Pierce university

InA mARIE BEn violinTEACHER Claire Chanuniversity at Buffalo, The State university of New York

dAnIEL BERnSTEIn GuitarTEACHER Nadav Lev

Davidson College

“You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then you practice, practice, practice.

And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.” — Charlie Parker

GEmmA BREIT FluteTEACHER Susan FriedlanderOberlin College

“I will miss my teacher torturing me with scale after scale! Five flats, six flats, twenty-two flats, how many flats could there be in the universe!?”

ALExAndER CELLUm violinTEACHER Claire SmithFordham university

“Thanks to my wonderful teachers who have put up with me over the years.”

noRA CHAnko PianoTEACHER Roger PeltzmanMcGill university

“My musical education at Third Street has been memorable, fulfilling, and enriching. I will continue and cherish my study of piano. My teacher is a mentor who has been an invaluable addition to my life.”

ALEx CLAES GuitarTEACHER Jeff Peretz

AIdAn CoRUzzI dALy Piano, CompositionTEACHERS Marcia Lewis, Nick ScarimHarvard university

“Third Street may be only two blocks from my house, but when I talk about how close it is to my home, the students and teachers I met over the years know exactly what I mean.”

GInA d’AmICo violinTEACHER Amelia HollanderCornell university

“I have been at Third Street since I was four years old. I grew up here. Words cannot express how much it has shaped who I am today.”

“To those who are given much, much is expected.”— Anonymous

yoLLyn-mARIE dE LA CRUz PianoTEACHER Hugh SamSiena College

LEIA dELGAdo violinTEACHER Ina Litera

Moore College of Art & Design

“The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea,

passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal,

all are free and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.”

— Barack Obama

PETER dUTko CelloTEACHER Troy Stuart

ARIELLE ELmALEH-SACHS PianoTEACHER Ming FongThe Sophie Davis School for Biomedical Education, CuNY

“Here is my secret. It is very simple: we only see well with the heart, what is

essential is invisible to the eyes.”— Antoine de Saint Exupery, “Le Petit Prince”

“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

mALInEE FAwCETT PianoTEACHER Paul Kim

university of Edinburgh

jACk FLEmInG GuitarTEACHER Paul HemmingsTufts university

“And then black night. That blackness was sublime. I felt distributed through space and time: One foot upon a mountaintop, one hand Under the pebbles of a panting strand”— vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

mAx FRAnk Piano, PercussionTEACHERS Roger Peltzman, Adam Issadore

university of Chicago

“The secret of the arts is to correct nature.”— voltaire

CULLEn GoLdEn GuitarTEACHER Nadav Lev

“Third Street has been a wonderful place to study music. I’ve been lucky to have four very talented and caring teachers. I hope to continue playing music all my life.”

mELISSA GoLLAnCE PianoTEACHER Maritza Robles-AlvarezWashington university in St. Louis

nICkSon GomEz violinTEACHER Gary Tigner

Queensborough Community College

“Do you know the difference between education and experience?

Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.” — Pete Seeger

BEnjAmIn HIRSCH TrumpetTEACHER Micah KillionHarvard university

SAm HoLLIER CelloTEACHER Sibylle JohnerHampshire College

“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed

towards ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading

the individual toward freedom.”— Albert Einstein

SAm HoLLIER CelloTEACHER Sibylle JohnerHampshire College

“Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.”— Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus”

TAkUyA ITo PianoTEACHER Neal Kirkwood

Washington university in St. Louis

AdAm j. joHnSon SaxophoneTEACHER Loren StillmanNorthwestern university Henry and Leigh Beinen School of Music

“Musicians who give in to negativity, never rise to something amazing. The same thing goes for academic citizens too.”

mAy kHo PianoTEACHER Marcia LewisOxford university

“Whenever I give young people advice, I implore them not to take critics and their negativity to heart. There are many people who will try to stand in your way, even cut you off at the knees for whatever reason, but it is often more about them than about you. Believe in yourself !”

— Katie Couric, The Right Words at the Right Time

CHRISToPHER kInnEy PianoTEACHER Hugh Sam

ARmAndo LAmBERTI violinTEACHER Steven RochenRamapo College of New Jersey

“As far as the student-teacher relationship goes, I’ve never found a more like-minded and talented individual suited to my own personality than Mr. Steven Rochen. I was privileged enough to learn from him for almost a decade and the violin just won’t be the same without him to guide my education with his characteristic wit and insight.”

Ronny LEon GuitarTEACHER David Moreno

Polytechnic Institute of New York university

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”— Berthold Auerbach

yURIy LySonok GuitarTEACHER Paul Hemmings

jACk mcdERmoTT DrumsTEACHER Adam Issadore

Bard College

“Flex your head.”— Henry Rollins

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ISABELLE mCGovERn GuitarTEACHER David Moreno

dEBBIE mILBURn violinTEACHER Min Sun Kim

Cleveland Institute of Music / Case Western Reserve university

“Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.” — Janet Long

kEATon moRRIS-STAn Piano, voiceTEACHERS Marcia Lewis, Barbara BlanchardBard College

“ ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words And never stops – at all–” — Emily Dickinson

ALExA nICoLAS Dance/BalletTEACHER Jessica Smithuniversity of Pennsylvania

“For several years Third Street was my base, ‘The roof which supported an electric Sign – Dance – but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years.’*My sign has remained lighted.”—Truman Capote*

LILy nISHIHIRA violinTEACHER Amelia Hollander

nAdIA oGBoR violaTEACHER Ina LiteraHampshire College

“Rock and Roll is fun, but if you ever hear someone say you are huge, look at the moon,

look at the stars, look at the sun. Look at the ocean, at the desert and the mountains and the sky and say

I am just a speck of dust inside a giant’s eye.”—Kimya Dawson, “I Like Giants”

“An eye for an eye will only leave the whole world blind.”— Anonymous

CHRISToPHER o’nEAL GuitarTEACHER Scott Anderson

CHRISTInE PAnG violin, PianoTEACHERS Min Sun Kim, Marcia Lewis

Grove City College

“Third Street has given me the gift of music, and has inspired me to use music

as a gift for others.”

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.”

— Gandhi

FoRREST PETTERSon GuitarTEACHER Jeff Peretzuniversity of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

mARInI PICkERInG CelloTEACHER Carolyn Jeselsohn

Earlham College

“One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.” — Bob Marley, “Trenchtown Rock”

“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.”— Max Beerbohm

joHn PLoTz PianoTEACHER Mary Jo Paganovassar College

“It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open them to the possibilities that lie within the human spirit –enable them to see visions and dream dreams.” — Eric Anderson

GREGoRy qUInLAn CelloTEACHER Sibylle Johner

Adelphi university

oRIAnA RodRIGUEz PianoTEACHER Mary Jo PaganoSt. Peter’s College

“If I could thank God that I am here and that I am alive. And everyday I wake and tell myself a little harmless lie, the whole world is mine.” — Angels & Airwaves, “Rite of Spring”

mICHELLE RoLLEnAS PianoTEACHER Sarah SilvermanSuNY Cortland

“Music is about communication, creativity and cooperation, and by studying music in school, students have the opportunity to build on

those skills, enrich their lives and experience the world from a new perspective.”

— Bill Clinton

AnTHony RomAn GuitarTEACHER Paul HemmingsSt. Frances College

Bo SCARIm PercussionTEACHER Adam Issadore

Macalester College

“I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.” — Simon & Garfunkel

“I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.” — Simon & Garfunkel

j.T. SCHAFER GuitarTEACHER Nadav LevThe Johns Hopkins university

“Many thanks to all of my Third Street teachers through the years: Daniel Moyer, David Moreno, Jeff Barone, Liam Wood, Adam Rafferty and Nadav Lev.”

AnAIS SCHIndLER Dance/BalletTEACHERS Cara Gargano, Kim Dooley-Kittay

Allegheny College

“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders,

all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.”

— Moliere

“Only later did I discover that you dance joy. You dance love. You dance dreams.”— Gene Kelly

EvA CoRUzzI SCHnEIdER Tap/Dance, PianoTEACHERS Yvonne Curry, Marcia Lewis Barnard College

ALIx EvE SCHRAm voiceTEACHER Dale SmithKenyon College

InnA SHTEInBUk violinTEACHER Claire ChanThe Macaulay Honors College at City College

“Music is not an illusion but revelation.” — P. I. Tchaikovsky

kELvIn TAm PianoTEACHER Marcia LewisThe Cooper union for the Advancement of Science and Art

AdRIAn zEmoR CelloTEACHER Sibylle Johner

university of vermont

“Each individual is so complex, so different, that trying to put them in a box with a name on it is just

stupid. I say each one of you is beautiful and free. Explore yourself, explore the universe.”— Adam Darski, “Nergal”

“The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owned their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life . . . the need is a deep one, transcending thought,

and disregarded at our own peril.”— Richard Baker

CALAIS zUmBACH violinTEACHER Gary Tigneruniversity of Colorado at Boulder

LUCAS zwIRnER GuitarTEACHER Jeff Peretz

Yale university

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235 East 11th strEEt • NEw York, NY 10003 • 212-777-3240

www.thirdstreetmusicschool.org

It is the mission of third street Music school settlement to provide

quality education in music and the arts, primarily to children of New

York’s Lower East side, in an environment that nurtures achievement

and creativity and offers to all who attend, regardless of artistic

ability or economic circumstances, the opportunity to pursue their

own personal development and enrich the quality of their lives.