BRONX_SCHOOL_FOR_MUSIC - Key Persons
New York based Violist Adam Kramer regularly concertizes in and around the city as an orchestral, chamber, and solo musician. Performances include appearances at the Morgan Library, the Frick Collection, the Neue Galerie, solo recitals at Mannes, select concerts of the Mannes Sounds festival, Carnegie hall, and Lincoln Center. Recent collaborations include distinguished artists Benjamin Hochman, Vladimir Feltsman, Kaija Saariaho, and JoAnn Falletta.
Mr. Kramer Holds a BM and MM from the Mannes College of Music at The New School. Teachers include Ira Weller, Daniel Panner, Adria Benjamin, and chamber music with members of the Orion Quartet. Masterclasses appearances include artists such as Geraldine Walther, Toby Appel, Heidi Castleman, Genn Dicterow and others. During his time at Mannes Mr. Kramer spent several years as acting principal viola.
In an effort to expand the viola repertoire, Mr. Kramer works closely, and often, with living composers. Most notably, his commission of Julian Bennet Holmes' Viola Sonata helped Mr. Holmes place as a finalist in the 2016 International Antonin Dvorak Composition Competition. Internationally, Kramer has performed extensively in Quebec, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Italy.
Mr. Clark is also an accomplished visual artist, whose drawings and paintings have won awards at New Jersey arts festivals. He teaches privately in Manhattan and is on the faculty at the Ridgewood Conservatory in New Jersey. On Sundays, he can found playing the organ at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Bedford, NY.
Job Titles:
- Early Childhood Music Development Advisor & Curriculum Coordinator
Gloria (HyeWon) Huskey is a flutist and music educator based in Severna Park, MD. She holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music (BM), Columbia University's Teachers College (MA with emphasis on Early Childhood Music Education), and is also a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy. Gloria is a passionate and dedicated music teacher and well-rounded educator who has taught and assisted for over a decade in diverse settings, including The Montessori Schools at Flatiron, Columbia University's Teachers College, New York Philharmonic's Very Young People's Concerts and Children's Museum of Manhattan. In addition to teaching music to young students, she has collaborated with educators and musicians to create musical and artistic curriculum at many different institutions. Gloria continues to seek opportunities to develop and establish creative musical curricula for students of all ages. Most recently, she participated in Orff-Schulwerk workshops at George Mason University to expand her teaching skills and was selected as a cohort member at the Teaching Artist Training Institute for 2022-2023. As a current Teaching Artist, Gloria engages with the community and young students through Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's music education program, OrchKids. Gloria's primary teachers and mentors include, Dr. Lori Custodero, Mary Kay Fink, Nancy Stagnitta and Don Gottlieb.
Job Titles:
- President and Founder of the Bronx School for Music
Polish American pianist Philip Kwoka began his music studies with Svetlana Gorokhovich at the Music Institute of Long-Island (Manhasset, New York). In 2000, Philip started studying piano with Roberta Rust and Phillip Evans at the Lynn University Preparatory of Music in Boca Raton, FL. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying solo-performance with Daniel Shapiro and Paul Schenly, and chamber music with Peter Salaff, Anita Pontremoli and the Cavani Quartet. Upon graduating from CIM, he was awarded the 2015 Sadie Zellen Piano Prize for outstanding musical development. Philip then went on to study with Pavlina Dokovska at the Mannes School of Music, where he completed his Master of Music degree in Piano Performance. Philip has studied in masterclasses with internationally acclaimed artists including Phillippe Entremont, Jerome Lowenthal, Ann Schein, Orion Weiss, Yoshikazu Nagai, John O'Connor, Jon Nakamatsu, Pavel Nercessian, and Till Fellner. Philip is currently studying with Konstantin Soukhovetski and Paul Schenly.
Philip's success began when he was chosen to perform on Christopher O'Reily's National Public Radio program "From the Top". Following that performance he made his solo debut performing with the Warminsko-Mazurskie Filharmonia in Poland. Two years later he performed with the Tampa Bay Symphony Orchestra and was invited to perform a second time with the Warminsko-Mazurskie Filharmonia. Philip has been a first prize-winner in many competitions including the Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition, the Tampa Bay Symphony Young Artist Competition and the Bluthner Junior Piano competition. Other awards include second prize in the New World Symphony Concerto Competition, honorable mention at the 2019 Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition, and laureate in the Blount-Slawson National Young Artist Competition. Philip has also been a recipient of grants and scholarships from the National Chopin Foundation's Scholarship Fund for Young American Pianists and the Koszciusko Foundation's Fund for Graduate Studies.
Philip is the President and Founder of the Bronx School for Music.