Dr. Glicklich is principal flute of the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony and has performed with many prestigious ensembles, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony, and Passacaglia from the Westside Music Collective. His artistry extends beyond classical music, with notable recordings alongside artists like Neil Diamond, Harry Connick Jr., and the Hollywood Klezmer Ensemble. Martin has also performed with celebrated figures such as Marvin Hamlisch, Theodore Bikel, Marilyn Horne, and Midori, and his work can be heard on numerous film and television soundtracks, further showcasing his adaptability across musical genres.
As an educator, Dr. Glicklich is passionate about nurturing the next generation of flutists. His students have been accepted into some of the most prestigious music schools, including the Colburn Conservatory, USC’s Thornton School of Music, UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, Rice University, and the University of North Texas. Many of his former students have gone on to successful careers in performance, education, and arts management, with some securing positions in top orchestras such as the Houston Symphony and Atlanta Symphony.
Dr. Glicklich is currently on the faculty at the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts, where he is also Coordinator for the Introduction to Chamber Music program. He is also on the faculty at La Sierra University where he teaches flute, flute methods, and music appreciation. In addition to his performing and teaching career, Dr. Glicklich is deeply engaged as an advocate for music education and arts leadership. He serves as the Vice President of the Southwestern Youth Music Festival (SYMF) and as Regional Co-Director for the Elite International Music Festival. He is an active board member of the Westside Music Foundation, the Music Guild of Los Angeles, and an advisory board member for Best Fit Education. Dr. Glicklich has also held leadership roles, including Co-Director of the Montecito International Summer Music Festival and Director of the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts at La Sierra University, where he founded and directed the Summer Music Programs for students in grades K-12.
Dr. Glicklich holds a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) from the Thornton School of Music at USC, where he studied with the renowned flutist Jim Walker and was honored as the Most Outstanding Doctoral Wind and Percussion student. He also earned a Master of Music (MM) from Northwestern University, studying under Walfrid Kujala, and a Bachelor of Music (BM) from California State University, Northridge (CSUN), where he studied with Geraldine Rotella.
As a teacher, performer, and advocate for the arts, Dr. Martin Glicklich continues to have a profound impact on the musical community, inspiring students, enriching audiences, and shaping the future of music education. www.martinglicklichflute.com
Jeff studied music composition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.M. 2006) and at the University of California-Los Angeles (M.A. 2008 & Ph.D. 2011) and he has taught music theory, ear training and composition at UCLA and the Colburn Conservatory of Music.
Some of his recent credits include composing the score for the Disney+ documentary series The Imagineering Story, the HBO Max documentary series Superpowered: the DC Story, and the documentary feature Traces of the Brush, as well as orchestrations on: Inside Out 2, The Batman, Society of the Snow, Marvel’s Spider-Man trilogy, What If…?, the Jurassic World trilogy, Jojo Rabbit, Glass Onion, Coco, Incredibles 2, Vivo, Rogue One: a Star Wars Story, Doctor Strange, Zootopia, and Star Trek Beyond.
For more information, please visit www.jeffkrykamusic.com
Chelsea has previously served on the faculties of SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music and Penn State University. In the Spring of 2020, Chelsea graduated with her Doctor of Musical Arts from The University of Texas at Austin. Chelsea held the position of Second Flute in the Central Texas Philharmonic from 2016-2019. Her career as a performer has led her to perform in festivals such as the Aspen Music Festival, the National Repertory Orchestra, and the Round Top Festival Institute.
As the creator of two online programs for young musicians, Chelsea is dedicated to the growth and development of young musicians. Through her programs, Flute Boot Camp and her 30-Day Mindset Reset, she helps young people empower themselves through music and mindset work. As a certified mindset coach, Chelsea’s mission is to help musicians find satisfaction in their lives and careers.
Chelsea has been active in competitions across the country. She has been a finalist in the Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia Young Artist Competition, the Mid-Atlantic Flute Society Young Artist Competition, the National Society of Arts and Letters National Woodwind Competition, and a quarterfinalist in the National Flute Association Young Artist Competition. She was the winner of the Central Ohio Flute Association Collegiate Competition, the Women in Music Scholarship Auditions, and the Ohio State University Concerto Competition.
Chelsea received her Artist Diploma from The University of Texas at Austin studying with Marianne Gedigian. She earned her Master of Music from Carnegie Mellon University studying with Jeanne Baxtresser, and her Bachelor of Music from The Ohio State University with Katherine Borst Jones.
Chelsea is an active member of the Emissary Quartet, a long-distance flute quartet dedicated to the development of flute quartet repertoire. (emissaryquartet.com)
Designed for both Suzuki and traditional violin students, the Violin Ensemble (VE), previously known as Violin Sight Reading and Musicianship (VSRM), is an entry-level ensemble for the Community School of Performing Arts pre-college orchestra program. Emphasis is placed on reinforcing reading skills, developing musicianship, and introducing orchestral performance techniques, such as learning proper violin posture when seated with a music stand and how to read and mark a music score.
All new and returning students must audition for placement.
Weekly on Wednesdays, 6:00 – 6:40 pm
Participants must study privately and are required to have finished Joanne Martin, I Can Read Music, Volume 1 prior to audition. No previous orchestral experience is necessary.
3rd grade; must be eight years old by September 1, 2024
Dvořák Humoresque (Suzuki Vol. 3)
In-person auditions for the 2024–2025 academic year will be held on Saturday, June 2, 2024. Upon completion of the application form, a link will be provided to schedule an audition time.
Please be prepared to demonstrate:
Audition results will be sent via email by midnight on June 15.
Hailed as “superb” by the San Francisco Classical Voice, Alex Granger has premiered numerous works as a soloist, concertmaster, and chamber musician, working directly with some of the world’s foremost musicians and composers. Alex is a founding member of the Webern Quartet, and recently performed the complete Arnold Schoenberg String Quartets as part of a week long residency at the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna. Alex’s chamber music performances have been featured on NPR and in the New Yorker, and he has recorded on major labels such as Warner Classics with Delirium Musicum. Alex regularly performs on different concert series’ around Los Angeles including Jacaranda, Le Salon de Musiques, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Noon to Midnight, and Street Symphony, to name a few. During his time as a student at the University of Southern California, Alex had the honor of studying with Henry Gronnier, Bing Wang, and Midori Goto. Aside from performing and teaching, Alex’s hobbies include going on runs by the ocean and playing sports.
Keum Hwa Cha, DMA has given numerous concerts as a soloist, chamber musician, and concertmaster in the United States and South Korea. She has had the privilege of performing with maestros David Effron, Robert Shaw, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. As a concertmaster, Cha has performed with Chee-Yun, the Marcus Roberts Trio, Béla Fleck, and Time for Three. She has also performed with the Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players, the Binghamton Philharmonic, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Han-Eum Chamber Ensemble, and the Seoul Tutti Ensemble. Her summer festival appearances include performances at the Kneisel Hall, the Castleman Quartet Program, the Philadelphia International Music Festival, and the Lydian String Quartet Festival.
Cha has taught at universities including Pepperdine University, California Lutheran University, and Idaho State University as an Assistant Professor of Music. She studied violin with Hyo Kang, Masuko Ushioda, Charles Castleman, and Chee-Yun Kim, and she was a Teaching Assistant of Charles Castleman at the Eastman School of Music. Her chamber music coaches were Lucy Stoltzman, Katherine Murdock, Eric Shumsky, James Dunham, Norman Fisher, Alan Harris, Andres Diaz, Stephen Drury, Malcolm Bilson, the Lydian String Quartet, and the Ying Quartet.
Cha’s students have won various concerto competitions and received multiple academic and music scholarships and accolades for their accomplishments. Her pre-collegiate students have served as principal players in youth orchestras and have been selected to play with All-State Honor Orchestras, the MTAC Convention Honors Ensemble, and the SCSBOA High School Honor Orchestra. Cha’s students have gone on to study at music schools and Ivy League universities including Indiana University, SMU Meadows School of the Arts, Brown, Cornell, and Yale.
Cha is a Suzuki violin teacher at the Colburn Suzuki Strings Program and is on the faculty of the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts, teaching violin, viola, and chamber music. She also coaches chamber music at the JCM (Junior Chamber Music – the Conejo Valley/San Fernando Valley branch) and offers the Certificate of Merit through the Music Teachers’ Association of California, and the ASTACAP through the American String Teachers Association.
Cha received her BM from the New England Conservatory, her MM and DMA from the Eastman School of Music, and her Artist Certificate from the Meadows School of the Arts.
Jessie Oliver (she/they) is a singer and voice teacher originally from Chicago, IL. She holds a Masters in Vocal Performance with an emphasis in Pedagogy and is currently pursuing a Certificate in Vocology at New York University. Her extensive continuing education includes Estill Certification, LoVetri’s Somatic Voicework™ (Levels I-III), Linklater training, Gender Affirming Speech and Singing through the Voice Lab, Total Vocal Freedom Body Courses, and multi-year participation, both as a teacher and singer, in her mentor Steve Smith’s Naked Voice Institute.
Jessie is passionate for Vocal Rehabilitation and Trauma informed Holistic Teaching. She has collaborated with Speech Pathologists to create warm-ups and practices for wellness for the singing actor.
As a performing soprano, Jessie Oliver has been thrilling audiences with their, ‘dramatic choices’ and ‘sizable beauty’ of her instrument’. She has sung with Opera Theater of the Rockies, New Moon Opera, Third Eye Theater, and starred and produced Opera on Tap’s first ever full-length opera with the Chicago chapter. In the competition circuit she was a finalist at the Denver Lyric Opera Guild, a semifinalist in the NATS competition, finalist for the Bel Canto competition, and the winner of the Society of American Musicians competition. Recent roles include Eliza in Dark Sisters, Agathe in Der Freischütz, and Mother Abbess in Sound of Music.
Jessie also has held positions in theater and cabaret companies throughout Chicago and Colorado. They are an Emeritus member of Playmakers Laboratory Theater, InGen Productions, and Brain Surgeon Theater and well as a frequent collaborator with ModBo Cabaret.
Jessie is a proud member of NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing), VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers Association), PAVA (Pan-American Vocology Association), The Voice Foundation (SoCal Chapter), and the Somatic Voicework Teachers Association
John Craig Johnson, baritone, has been praised internationally by Opera News as a distinguished voice of “solid technical facility and impressive, rich, singing.” He has performed forty operatic roles on stage, with the Los Angeles Times calling him “very appealing” and a singer who “handled roles with honor and conviction.” He has sung principal roles with Los Angeles Opera (in the world premiere of Nathan Wang’s On Gold Mountain, the inaugural Voices of California project), Long Beach Opera, Orange County Opera, Opera de Tijuana, and the San Bernardino, Bakersfield, and Palisades Symphonies. He has been heralded as “the star of the evening . . . deliciously comic and richly sung” by the Pasadena Star for his Papageno in Die Zauberflöte. He continues to sing both opera and musical theater roles and collaborates frequently with San Diego Opera, Opera de Tijuana, OB Playhouse, Coronado Playhouse, and Intrepid Theatre.
Johnson is the recipient of many awards and holds a doctorate in vocal arts from the University of Southern California where he was honored as the outstanding DMA Vocal Arts Graduate of the Year. Dr. Johnson is an alumnus of OperaWorks and has sung with the organization in many special events. At the National Classical Singer Convention, he collaborated with OperaWorks’ founder and director, Ann Baltz, in presenting an “operavisation” workshop. Eighteen of his students have been selected for the nationally competitive OperaWorks summer intensive training program, eleven of whom have completed the Advanced Artist program. His students have also completed apprenticeships and sung roles with Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass, Wolf Trap Opera, Aspen Musical Festival Opera, Tanglewood, Opera Academy of California, and Opera Neo.
Dr. Johnson maintains a very active role as a voice teacher, passionately mentoring and promoting singers. He is currently on the voice faculty of Colburn Community School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles and Associate faculty San Diego Mesa College, where he teaches all sections of beginning – advanced voice and directs the Mesa College Choir. He has taught at the University of Southern California, Azusa Pacific University, Mt. San Antonio College, and La Sierra University, where he served as Director of Vocal Studies. At Point Loma Nazarene University, he served as the Vocal Studies Director and faculty adviser and music director/conductor for Point Loma Opera Theatre and the Point Loma Musical Theater Club. From 2010 to 2017 he produced and/or conducted 23 works including Gianni Schicchi (2009), I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (2009) Dido and Aeneas (2010, ‘15), Massenet’s Cendrillon (2011, ’14), La finta giardiniera (2011), You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (2012) Edges (2012), Die lustige Witwe (2012), Most Happy Fella (2013), Così fan tutte (2014) Offenbach’s Daphnis et Chloe (2014), Donizetti’s Rita (2014), Rachmaninoff’s Aleko (2014), Hänsel und Gretel (2015, ‘16), La bohème (2015), Trouble in Tahiti (2015), Don Giovanni (2015), Rota’s Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (2015), Mikado (2015), Old Maid and the Thief (2017), and Heathers (2017).A champion of younger singers, Dr. Johnson has taught the summer opera intensive at the nationally recognized San Diego High School for Creative and Performing Arts, and served on the guest faculties of Opera Academy of California, Broadway Dreams Summer Intensives (Los Angeles, Omaha, Sacramento, and Philadelphia, where he taught Titus Burgess, Quentin Earl Darrington, Ryann Redmond, Alex Newell, Jailen Josey, and Carina-Kay Louichey;) and Atlanta’s Renaissance International School for Performing Arts. He teaches voice students who are pursuing or currently engaged in professional careers singing opera, pop, rock, and musical theater. From 2008 – 2018 alone, his students garnered ten first place wins and thirty other awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. His students are also winners and grant recipients of auditions sponsored by the Sullivan Foundation, National Association of Teachers of Singing, Carmel Music Society, Los Angeles Opera Buffs, La Jolla Symphony Young Artists, Musical Merit of San Diego, Virginia Hawk Memorial Scholarship, and most recently Operalia, the World Opera Competition. His students are engaged as professional singers on the local, regional, national, and international levels. They have completed graduate degrees and/or certificates in Voice Performance at University of Southern California, Yale, Academy of Vocal Arts, Rice, University of Colorado – Boulder, Boston Conservatory, University of North Texas, Manhattan School of Music, California State University – Northridge, University of Kansas, and Boston University’s Opera Institute.
Ms. Kiefer teaches Suzuki and Traditional cello. She has taught at Suzuki schools in Hong Kong, Toronto, Boston, Utah, and Virginia. As an orchestral player, she has been a member of the Boston Ballet, Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic and Viterbo Opera. She holds a Master’s Degree from New England Conservatory and honors from the Yale Chamber Music Seminar in Norfolk, Connecticut.
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Please note, in a change to the schedule, Spring Semester Early Childhood classes will now begin on January 20, 2025.
Embark on your child’s journey in the performing arts! We offer a sequential curriculum designed to support the cognitive, creative, and social development of children ages 7 months to 7 years.
Our program is inspired by a rich diversity of approaches, such as the internationally recognized Kodály and Orff methods, which provide a supportive and interactive learning environment for young children. Our expert instructors use a variety of activities, including singing, playing instruments, and moving to music, to foster children’s natural musicality and expressiveness.
As students approach 4 to 5 years of age, different areas of instruction open up for them at Colburn. They may remain in the Early Childhood Creative Arts Program and continue to develop fundamental skills in music and movement, or they can branch out into Drama, Dance, Suzuki, and more.
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Dr. Baxani has held leadership roles in arts programs and schools in both the United States and Germany. She received a Doctor of Education degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, where her dissertation focused on the musicality of infants within a childcare community. Her work in creating new programs and curriculum design is collaborative in nature and covers a variety of pedagogical approaches that foster an inclusive child-centered environment. As an arts advocate, Dr. Baxani enjoys creating programs and cultivating partnerships with schools and community and cultural organizations.
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Classes employ developmentally appropriate materials to encourage growth in key areas such as:
Caregivers are a child’s first teachers, so your involvement in our classes is crucial to your child’s progression through the curriculum. By attending classes with your child, you will continue to strengthen the connection with your child while laying a foundation for their continued artistic growth at Colburn.
One of our goals is to support students as they work towards independence. As your child progresses through the curriculum, the level of your involvement in class may change.
These classes have been very important for my daughter’s upbringing and development. I don’t speak a lot of English, so the classes are a great way for my daughter to learn English words through music. Juana Sajbin, mother of Yuliana Gomez-Sajbin (pictured)
These classes have been very important for my daughter’s upbringing and development. I don’t speak a lot of English, so the classes are a great way for my daughter to learn English words through music.
Open enrollment for new students for Spring 2025 is available now. To enroll in Early Childhood classes, please complete the inquiry form below. The Early Childhood Chair, Dr. Nita Baxani, will follow up with you to determine the appropriate class placement for your child.
Early Childhood Inquiry Form
Register Online
Come and explore the Early Childhood Music Program at the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts! Take a sample class, meet faculty and the Early Childhood Department Chair, Dr. Nita Baxani, and attend an orientation at this free family-friendly event.
Event Information Saturday, January 18 11 am–2 pm Colburn Campus Free, registration required for sample classes
Register for Open House
As students approach 4 to 5 years of age, they have the option to explore music and dance in both the Community School of Performing Arts and the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute. Both programs offer a range of options for young students including group piano and guitar, pre-ballet, Suzuki strings and guitar, and more.
Students at this age also have the option to continue their journey in the Early Childhood Program! We have several classes for children ages 4+ that prepare them for more in-depth study later on. Exploring the Keys is a great way for those interested in piano to build their keyboard skills and musical awareness, and our newest class, Singing More, prepares students for the Children’s Chorus by introducing them to ensemble singing.
Explore Colburn’s offerings for young students below.
Discover Music and Drama
Discover Dance
If you have any questions, please contact the Community School office at cspa@colburnschool.edu or 213-621-4548. Thank you!