Executive Director and Dean • Department Coordinators Strings • Woodwinds • Brass • Percussion • Guitar Piano • Organ • Voice • Staff Accompanists • Chamber Music Composition • Conducting • Eurhythmics • Musicianship Music Technology Lab • Jazz Studies Program The Preschool Center Eurhythmics RUTH ALPERSON, Ph.D. - Dean, Eurhythmics, Musicianship, Junior Chorus B.A., Oberlin; Ph.D., N.Y.U.; Dalcroze Eurhythmics Licentiate, London; Dalcroze Diploma, Geneva. Senior faculty, Dalcroze Program, Diller-Quaile. Workshops in Universities worldwide. Pianist, chamber music recitalist. Board of Directors: Bennington Chamber Music Conference. Former Faculty: Université Laval, Quebec, Manhattan School of Music, NYU. Dalcroze Certificate Track. LAURA BARNET - Eurhythmics B.Mus, Violin Performance, University of Michigan, M.M. Liturgical Music, St. Vladimir's Seminary. Violin studies: Kantor, Shipps, Malkin. Dalcroze studies: Ruth Alperson, Level II certification, Early Childhood Music and Movement Assoc. Former faculty: Academy of Music, Mahwah, N.J. NAOMI BLOCH-SCHARTZ - Eurhythmics B.M., The Rubin Academy of Music Jerusalem, Israel; Dalcroze Level 1, studied: Alperson, Farber, Lilley. Active: Piano, keyboard player. Performed: many major venues in New York, US, Israel, Cuba, Japan, Turkey. Appeared: National TV shows with SON DE MADRE and RETUMBA; many recordings. Musical Director: RETUMBA!, an all-women company performing Afro-Caribbean music and dance. Faculty: Preschool music teacher SAR Academy Riverdale; Suburban Torah Center, Livingston, NJ. YUKI HIRUMA CHARLESWORTH - Eurhythmics, Musicianship Diploma, Show Music College, Japan; Dalcroze School of Music; Studied: Sunhara, Schuster, Gephart, Nancy Williams, Rita Mathsen. ALICE FINGER - Eurhythmics, Prep Division B.A., University of Michigan, Orff Level 1 Certificate, Lucy Moses School, Dalcroze Level 2. Preschool music teacher, Riverdale Neighborhood House; Children's Chorus Director, Hudson River Revelers. Accompanist: Gilbert & Sullivan Society. Piano teacher, keyboard, vocals composing, arranging, band leader: Indigo. KATHRYN JONES - Director of Community Outreach, Eurhythmics, Director of Student Recitals B. Mus, Piano Performance, Salem College; B.Mus. and M.M., Organ Performance, Juilliard. Studied: Jon Gillock, Vernon de Tar, Gerre Hancock, Jack Hennigan, Margaret Mueller. Dalcroze studies: Ruth Alperson, Anne Farber; Dalcroze Certificate Track. Director of Music Ministries: Huguenot Memorial Church. Former Dean: Mount Vernon Music Academy, Yonkers Music Academy. Organ recitalist. YUKIKO KONISHI - Piano, Musicianship, Eurhythmics B.A., Osaka College of Music (Japan); Certificate, Dalcroze School of Music, NY. Studied: Kanazawa, Dorensky, Mikowsky, Abramson, Alperson, Farber, Schuster. Soloist: Kansai Philharmonic. Soloist: Arukadia Chamber. Recording: EMI. Winner: Young Artists Piano Competition, Hanshin, Japan. YING-CHEN (MIMI) HSU - Eurhythmics, Musicianship B.A., Chinese Culture University, Taiwan; Dalcroze Certificate, The Dalcroze School of Music, New York. Taught piano and group music lessons in Taiwan. Faculty: CPSM, Queens College; Greenwich House Music School. top of page