YOUNGARTS MIAMI 2019 Lead Faculty & Creative Team Bios

MARIE ARAGO | YoungArts Miami Photography Co-Director | Marie Arago is a photographer from California who has been based in Port-au-Prince since 2011. Arago has spent her career involved in the photography industry—as a photographer, educator and producer of photographic workshops around the world. In 2010 she co-founded FotoKonbit, an organization that teaches photography to youth and adults in Haiti. Arago has also worked as a consultant to Le Centre d’Art, a cultural organization in Port-au-Prince that has supported artists in Haiti since 1944. At Le Centre d’Art she was involved with the creation and implementation of a new digital arts center. Arago’s photographic work is focused on and inspired by cultural identity, religion and history. She is currently working on a project that uses photography and GIS to map relationships and tell stories about Haitians and Dominicans on the island of Hispaniola. Arago’s clients have included National Public Radio, Reuters, ProPublica, AARP, Harper’s, CRS and various non-government and non-profit organizations. Her photographs have been exhibited both in Haiti and abroad and most recently her work titled “Haitian Journal” was shown as a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Circus in New York. ANDREA ASSAF | YoungArts Miami Writing Master Teacher | Andrea Assaf is the founding artistic

director of Art2Action Inc. She is a performer, writer, director and cultural organizer. Assaf currently

serves as the National Coordinator for the National Institute for Directing & Ensemble Creation, and is

an artist-in-residence at the University of South Florida School of Theatre and Dance. Her original work,

Eleven Reflections on September, has toured to Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Kennedy Center

Millennium Stage, The Apollo, La MaMa and more. Her awards include the 2014 & 2010 Princess Grace

Awards, 2011 NPN Creation Fund, 2007 Hedgebrook Residency for women authoring change, and 2004

Cultural Contact with Mujeres en Ritual Danza-Teatro. Assaf has a Master’s degree in Performance

Studies and a BFA in Acting, both from NYU. Her former positions include artistic director of New World

Theatre (2004-09), and program associate for Animating Democracy (2001-04). Assaf is also a published

poet and author of numerous articles and publications on arts and culture. She currently serves on the

board of the Consortium of Asian American Theatres & Artists (CAATA) and Alternate ROOTS.

DELALI AYIVOR | YoungArts Week + YoungArts Miami Writing Discipline Coordinator | 2011 YoungArts

Winner in Writing and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts | Delali Ayivor is a multi-genre creative writer

from Accra, Ghana. An avid performer, she is often referred to as a spoken word artist. Currently based

out of Brooklyn, New York, Ayivor first grew to know poetry in the backwoods of northwest Michigan as

a creative writing major at Interlochen Arts Academy. Following an uncontrollable tendency to move to

the whitest places in the United States, Ayivor then attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where

she matriculated with a B.A. in cultural anthropology. Her work has appeared recently in publications

such as the Miami Rail and Miami Herald. She has had her work presented at the Smithsonian National

Portrait Gallery and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts. Ayivor has been an artist-in-residence at

Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL, the National YoungArts Foundation in Miami,

Florida, and with Tin House Publishing in Newport, Oregon, in addition to acting as a panelist and

performer at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Arts Policy Roundtable at the

Sundance Institute and at Americans for the Arts’ 2014 annual convention. She is an Usher-Raymond-

loving, plantain-addicted, unapologetic, fat, black, femme.

LETICIA BAJUYO | YoungArts Miami Visual Arts Master Teacher | Bajuyo's sculptures and installations have been exhibited nationally in exhibitions at K Space Contemporary in Corpus Christi, Texas; Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHCIA) in Athens, Georgia; Living Arts in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and at Women & Their Work Gallery in Austin, Texas. Recent exhibitions include Frame Of Mind 2016, a northern Mindanao contemporary art exhibit in Mindanao, Philippines, and the 2015 IV International From Waste to Art exhibition at the From Waste to Art Museum in Baku, Azerbaijan. Bajuyo's large-scale public art installations include the Nashville International Airport in Tennessee; the Tony Hillerman Library in Albuquerque, New Mexico; the entrance of the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis; and the Lyon Square outdoor plaza in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Bajuyo is a member of Land Report Collective and ENID, a collective of female sculptors who gather and exhibit in respect of Louisville native and recognized sculptor Enid Yandell. A recipient of Hanover College's Daryl R. Karns Award for Scholarly And Creative Activity, a Great Meadows Foundation Professional Development Grant recipient, and a Visual Artists Network Exhibition residency and grant recipient, Bajuyo received her M.F.A. in 2001 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and her B.F.A. in 1998 from the University of Notre Dame. Bajuyo is a member of the board of directors for the National Performance Network and Visual Arts Network. CHRISTINE A. BANNA | YoungArts Miami Classical Music Projection Artist | Christine A. Banna is an internationally showing, multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. She pulls from both modern and traditional methods such as painting, drawing and animation and utilizes them in her art practice. Banna is thrilled to be working with the National YoungArts Foundation as projection designer. Some of her former credits and clients include Greater Boston Stage Company’s production of “The Salonnieres,” MassOpera’s upcoming production of “Die Fledermaus,” MassOpera’s production of “Old New Borrowed Blue” and Flat Earth Theatre Company’s production of “Delicate Particle Logic.” Banna received her M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and her B.F.A. from Boston University’s College of Fine Art. She is currently an adjunct faculty member in the Animation Department at Lesley University’s College of Art and Design. GERMANE BARNES | Design National Reviewer | YoungArts Miami Design Master Teacher | Germane Barnes is the director of Studio Barnes, a testing ground for the physical and theoretical investigations of architecture’s social and political agency. He is also the designer-in-residence at the Opa-Locka C.D.C. and a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Miami. His design and research contributions have been published and exhibited in several international publications and institutions, most notably The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, The Swiss Institute, Design Miami/Art Basel, Architect Magazine and Curbed.com, where he was named a member of the 2015 Class of Young Guns, under-the-radar professionals who are busy challenging the status quo in the design industry. IGNACIO BERROA | YoungArts Week + Miami Jazz Master Teacher | Ignacio Berroa has been recognized as one of the greatest drummers of our time. He was included in the 2011 MP3 compilation entitled “Jazz Drumming Legends,” which features some of the most renowned drummers in Jazz history. He began his musical education at age 11 at the National School of Arts and by 1975 Berroa had become Cuba’s most sought after drummer. In 1980, he settled in New York City where he met the great Cuban musician Mario Bauza who introduced him to Dizzy Gillespie, who invited him to join his quartet. Berroa also took part in many of the bands Gillespie assembled during that decade including The Dizzy Gillespie 70th Anniversary Big Band, The Dizzy Gillespie All Stars Big Band and the Grammy Award winning, United Nation Orchestra. Gillespie defined Ignacio as “… the only Latin drummer in the world in the history of American music that intimately knows both worlds: his native Afro Cuban music as well as Jazz…” Berroa has recorded and played with musicians including McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Wynton

Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry, Lou Donaldson, Jackie McLean, Jimmy Heath, James Moody, Jon Faddis, Slide Hampton, Michael Brecker, Milt Jackson, Jaco Pastorius, Ron Carter, Charlie Haden, Tito Puente, Mario Bauzá, Lalo Schifrin, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Danilo Perez, Michel Camilo, Eliane Elias, Chico Bouarque, Gilberto Gil, Ivan Lins, Joao Bosco, Lenny Andrade, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, WDR Big Band and BBC Big Band. DAVID BRICK | YoungArts Miami Dance Master Teacher | The experience of growing up in a deaf family has continually influenced David Brick’s interest in the body as an active manifestation of culture. Since directing Headlong Dance Theater’s “Hotel Pool” in 2004, Brick has focused on the choreography of presence and perception and the porous boundary between the ordinary world and that of performance. He has received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts (2006), an Independence Fellowship (2005) and along with Amy and Andrew, a “Bessie” for choreography (1999). In 2008, Brick co-founded the Headlong Performance Institute, a training program for creating experimental performance in Philadelphia. He has also taught at the American Dance Festival, The Volcano Conservatory in Toronto and the Whenever, Wherever Festival in Tokyo. Recent classes and workshops include Making and the Circle of Insight, The World is Choreography, Good Boring/Bad Boring, Art Party/Dance Research and Luminous Presence and the Sensation of Space. He has also been teaching Dance Composition at Bryn Mawr College since 1998. KIMBERLEY BROWNING | YoungArts Miami Cinematic Arts Co-Director | Kimberley Browning is a director and producer of film, television and new media. She also works extensively as a film festival programmer and as a film festival consultant and strategist for film, animation & documentary. Her film Room 19 is a documentary about a courageous elementary school art teacher and the students that are transformed by her innovative approach. She is the founder and festival director of Hollywood Shorts. Browning studied at the University of Southern California.

ORLANDO CELA | YoungArts Miami Classical Music Master Teacher | Venezuelan-born musician Orlando Cela is known for his engaging performances using imaginative programming. Cela has premiered over 100 works, both as a flutist and as a conductor. As a flutist, he has performed at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and at U.C. Berkeley. His concert credits include performances at the Zentrum Danziger, the Espace des Femmes and the Musikverein. As a collaborative artist, Cela has performed with flutist Paula Robison, tabla player Samir Chatterjee, harpsichordist John Gibbons and sheng virtuoso Hu Jianbing. Cela recently launched FluteLab, an online forum in which he answers composers’ questions about writing for the flute with engaging video. As the former music director of the Boston-based Willow Flute Ensemble, Cela arranged over a hundred works from Baroque to contemporary, including folk music from five countries. Cela is known for his dynamic workshops and lecture demonstrations. He is currently an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches conducting, and at Middlesex Community College, where he teaches world music. As a conductor, Cela launched the orchestral department at Ningbo University in China. He is currently the music director and conductor of the Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra and the orchestra of the Governor’s School of North Carolina. ROBERT CHAMBERS | Visual Arts National Selection Panelist | YoungArts Miami Visual Arts Co-Director | Robert Chambers has work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida; Museum of Science and Industry, Tampa, Florida; Tufts University, Medford, Massechussetts and Sugabus at The Laumier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri.

Recent public art commissions include Light Field, an interactive 100-foot light wall, and Orbital 1 & 2, 10- and 12-ton marble CNC sculptures at the South Dade Art Center. He has exhibited at the American Academy of Arts and Letters; MoMA PS1; Sculpture Center; Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia; Projektraum M54, Basel, Switzerland; The Kunst Raum Riehen Museum, Basel, Switzerland; Casa Tua e Casa Mia: The American Academy in Rome, Italy; Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia; Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine and for 2018, the AIRE (Artists in Residence in the Everglades) Residency. Chambers earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Miami and a master’s from New York University. He is currently a visiting assistant professor at Florida International University. Awards include the Nancy Graves Award, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Fellowship, and the U.S.A. Nimoy Fellowship. LUIS CUEVAS | YoungArts Week Dance Discipline Coordinator | YoungArts Miami Multidisciplinary Group Discipline Coordinator | Luis Alberto Cuevas hails from the Dominican Republic via New York City. Cuevas attended the New World School of the Arts and has worked with choreographers Peter London, Garth Fagan, Dale Andree, and Bill Doolin. Cuevas has had the privilege of performing with several companies including Gold Coast Theater Company, Momentum Dance Company, Feddrick Bratcher and Company, Teo Castellanos’ D- Projects, CircX, as well as with director Heidi Marshall in a world premiere original musical, with Rosie Herrera Dance Theater and most recently, in Diane Paulus’ “Donkey Show” as Puck/Dr. Wheelgood. As a choreographer, Luis’ work has been presented by New World School of the Arts, Miami Dade College, the Emerging Choreographers Series, The Florida Dance Festival, The New World Symphony, and Thomas Amour Youth Ballet with The Dranoff International Foundation. In 2012, his work was commissioned by Miami Light Project for Here & Now. RICK DELGADO | Cinematic Arts National Selection Panelist | YoungArts Miami Cinematic Arts Director | 1992 YoungArts Winner in Visual Arts | Rick is a director, cinematographer, producer and operator of Nufrontier Pictures and Section 16 Films. Nufrontier focuses on commercial work, with clients such as Victoria’s Secret, Discovery Channel, Hasbro, Nickelodeon, Resorts World, Karisma Hotels, Lilly Pulitzer and NASA. Delgado prefers Red Cinema cameras with all his productions, pioneering the acquisition of video and stills simultaneously. He produces more of his narrative and documentary work through Section 16 Films. Being of Cuban and French descent, he fuels his companies not only with the passion of leaving specs behind for future generations, but also with cafecitos and Perugina chocolate. BRANDON VICTOR DIXON | YoungArts Miami Ansin Stewart Theater Master Teacher | 1999 Winner in Theater | Brandon Victor Dixon, following his Tony Award nominated role as Eubie Blake in “Shuffle Along” on Broadway, joined the cast of “Hamilton” on Broadway in the role of Aaron Burr and the STARZ hit drama “POWER” in the role of Terry Silver. A Presidential Scholar semi-finalist and scholarship winner at the British Academy of Dramatic Acting in Oxford, Dixon is a graduate of Columbia University and a recipient of the University's I.A.L. Diamond Award for Achievement in the Arts, which is an honor he shares with Tony Kushner, Jeanine Tesori and Katori Hall. Since his professional debut, in the role of Adult Simba in “The Lion King” National Tour, Dixon has displayed his diverse abilities in a number of roles. Most notably, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his role as Harpo in Broadway's “The Color Purple,” a Grammy for his portrayal of Berry Gordy in “Motown The Musical,” and he was also nominated for Oliviers, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, and AUDELCO awards for his outstanding portrayal of Haywood Patterson in “Kander and Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys.” Other Credits include: ABC's “One Life To Live,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” and ABC's “The Good Wife.” Originally from Gaithersburg, Maryland, Dixon currently resides in New York City.

EDOUARD DUVAL CARRIÉ | YoungArts Miami Visual Arts Master Teacher | Edouard Duval Carrié is a contemporary artist and curator based in Miami, Florida. Born and raised in Haiti, Duval Carrié fled the regime of “Papa Doc” Duvalier as a teenager and subsequently resided in locales as diverse as Puerto Rico, New York, Montreal, Paris and Miami. At heart, Duval Carrié is an educator, he challenges the viewer to make meaning of dense iconography derived from Caribbean history, politics and religion. His mixed media works and installations present migrations and transformations, often human and spiritual. Recently the conceptual layering of Duval Carrié’s works has been further emphasized in his materials and through consistent attention to translucent and reflective mediums, such as glitter, glass and resin. At their most fundamental, Duval Carrié’s works ask the viewer to complicate the Western Canon, to consider how Africa has shaped the Americas and how the Caribbean has shaped the modern world. His works have been exhibited in major museums, art institutions and galleries in Africa, Europe and the Americas. Recent solo exhibitions include “Decolonizing Refinement” at Florida State University, Florida Atlantic University and at the Fondation Clément, “The Art of Haiti” at the Fine Arts Center in Colorado, “Mémoires Encastrées/Memory Windows” at The Miami International Airport, “The Saga of the Baobab” at the Musée des Civilization Noir in Senegal and “The Marvelous Real” at VIAD, the University of Johannesburg. Duval Carrié’s recent group shows include “Bordering the Imaginary”, “Art from the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Their Diaspora,” “En Voyage: Hybridity and Vodou in Haitian Art,” “Relational Under Currents,” and the “Kingdom of This World.” Major current curated exhibitions by Duval Carrié are “Visonary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom” co-curated with Ada Ferrer and Laurent Dubois and “PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artistsof Port-au-Prince” co-currated with Leah Gordon at Pioneer Works in New York. Duval Carrié has been awarded The Ellie’s Michael Richards Award in 2018. ZACHARY ELKIND | YoungArts Miami Multidisciplinary Performance Dramaturg + Assistant Director | Zachary Elkind is a New York based director and teaching artist. Selected directing credits include “Henry IV,” “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” “Arcadia,” “The Merchant of Venice” and “Here Be Dragons.” Teaching artist and director credits include New York University, Acting Manitou and Friends Seminary. Assistant directing credits include BEDLAM, Live from Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center Education, Theater for the New City, Yale School of Drama and Symphony Space. Elkind attended Yale University. JASON FERRANTE | Voice National Selection Panelist | YoungArts Miami Master Teacher | Tenor Jason Ferrante’s opera and concert career includes performances at New York City Opera, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Pavarotti in Modena, Opera Philadelphia, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center, Wexford Festival, Wolf Trap, Tanglewood, Aspen, Interlochen and opera companies around the world. He is on the guest voice faculty for the Young Artists Programs at Wolf Trap Opera, Minnesota Opera, Nashville Opera, Michigan Opera Theater and has also served on faculty for the programs at Arizona Opera, Florida Grand Opera and Virginia Opera. He is on the voice faculty of the U.B.C. Summer Voice Workshop in Vancouver, B.C. His students sing in opera houses around the world and have been winners in competitions such as the Met National Council Auditions, George London Awards and the B.B.C. Cardiff Singer of the World. He has been a panelist on the Metropolitan Opera Quiz and written articles for the Juilliard Journal. The Baltimore native holds the B.M. and M.M. from The Juilliard School, where he was a student of the legendary vocal pedagogue Beverley Peck Johnson. CARTER GILL | YoungArts Miami Interdisciplinary Master Teacher | Carter Gill is a New York City based actor, theatre-maker and teacher of acting, clowning arts and commedia dell’arte. Recent stage credits include “The Comedy of Errors” at Shakespeare Theatre Company, “The 3 Farids” at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, “The 39 Steps” at Actors Theatre of Louisville, “Commedia Dell Artichoke” at The Gene Frankel Theatre, “Moonchildren” at Berkshire Theatre Group, “Even Maybe Tammy” at The Flea

Theatre, and “The Merchant of Venice” at Colorado Shakespeare Festival. He has also participated in workshops and new play readings at The Women’s Project, Lincoln Center Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, New Dramatists, The Lark and Manhattan Theatre Club amongst others. Television and film credits include “Law & Order,” “Person of Interest,” “Turn: Washington’s Spies,” “Younger,” and “Banana Split.” Directing credits include “A Doctor in Site of Himself,” “Ubu Roi,” “A Flea in Her Ear” at Rider University, “Ruzante,” “Skeleton in the Pantry” by Elisabeth Gray and “The Servant of Two Masters” at Marymount Manhattan College. He received his M.F.A. in Acting from Yale School of Drama, his B.F.A. in Directing from Southern Methodist University and took on a formal teaching apprenticeship with master teacher Christopher Bayes from 2011-2013. Gill has studied Clown extensively under Philippe Gaulier and has served on faculty at Yale College, Yale School of Drama and New York University and is currently on faculty at Pace University, Rider University and Marymount Manhattan College teaching clown studies, commedia, movement and acting. ISAAC HARLAN | Young Arts Miami Multidisciplinary Performance Music Director | Isaac Harlan is a Pittsburgh native who studied classical piano at Penn State University. For the past seven years, he has lived in New York City where he has worked as a pianist, music director and arranger. Harlan has played concerts for Renee Goldsberry, Norm Lewis, Eden Espinosa and Michael McElroy among others. Last summer he orchestrated music by Adam Gwon and Stephen Flaherty for the first annual Lincoln Center Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Most recently he conducted “Guys and Dolls” at the new Argyle Theatre on Long Island. Harlan also works as an orchestrator and pianist for the Broadway Inspirational Voices. CARLA HILL | YoungArts Miami Keynote Speaker | 1990 YoungArts Theater Winner | Carla Hill is an educator, arts advocate and spokeswoman for early detection awareness and research for the impact of breast cancer on young women, especially those of African descent in the Caribbean. She taught for nine years in the Miami-Dade County Public School System, including seven years at her high school alma mater, New World School of the Arts. During her time as a high school teacher, Hill earned a Fulbright Memorial Fund Scholarship to Japan for a month-long, intensive cultural exchange between educators from both nations. She is a former member of the New World School of the Arts Foundation Board and has served as a Nordstrom national scholarship panelist for the past two years. Hill has been married to Marlon Hill for 19 years and holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Secondary Education from Florida State University and a Master's of Science in Counseling from Barry University. LONI JOHNSON | Visual Arts National Selection Panelist | YoungArts Miami Visual Arts Co-Director | Loni Johnson is an artist, educator, mother and an activist that understands that as artists, there is a cyclical obligation to give back and nurture our communities, and believes that her creative gift must be utilized to better our world. Born and raised in Miami, she graduated from the New World School of the Arts in 1998 and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from SUNY Purchase in 2003. She returned to her alma mater, New World School for the Arts as an adjunct professor from 2006 to 2012. In 2012, she became the prevention coordinator of The A-List Company, a youth arts peer education program funded through Florida’s Department of Children and Families. In 2011, Johnson exhibited at Art Africa during Miami Art Week and as part of Slavery to Self-Determination, an exhibit in honor of Black History Month at the University of Miami. She has been featured at the 5th Annual Spoken Soul Festival, in Miami Art Week’s PRIZM Art Fair in 2013 and 2014, and in the Nada Art Fair in 2017 in collaboration with Bas Fisher Invitational. She is currently collaborating with site-specific dancer and choreographer Hattie Mae Williams as The OMM SISTAS, focusing on performance/installation pieces throughout Miami, and is part of the creative team for Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Youth Artist Leadership Summer (YALS) Program, which was created to empower young women of color who have a passion for the arts. Johnson has

been a member of the YoungArts family since 2010, first as the Visual Arts Discipline Coordinator, and since 2016 as a member of the Visual Arts National Selection Panel. MITCHELL KAPLAN | YoungArts Week + Miami Writing Master Teacher | Born in Miami, Mitchell Kaplan is best known for the creation of the Miami Book Fair International, the largest community book festival in the United States and a model for book fairs across the country. He also serves on the steering committee of the Florida Center for the Literary Arts, Miami-Dade College’s literary center. Kaplan recently served a two-year term as president of the American Booksellers Association and continues to have an active involvement with the organization. He also serves on the Board of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression. Kaplan began his working career as a high school English teacher. LONI LANDON | YoungArts Miami Multidisciplinary Performance Choreographer | Dance National Reviewer | 2001 YoungArts Winner in Dance | Loni Landon is a dancer, choreographer and movement consultant based in New York City. In addition to creating dances for her own collective Loni Landon Dance Projects, her work is commissioned by dance companies and filmmakers across the country. Born and raised in New York City, Landon received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance from the Juilliard School in 2005. After Juilliard, Landon performed with Aszure Barton and Artists, Ballet Theater Munich, Tanz Munich Theater and The Metropolitan Opera. Landon is the 2013 Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship winner awarded with BODYTRAFFIC. As a sought-after choreographer, her work has been commissioned by Keigwin and Company, Whim Whim, LEVY DANCE, Juilliard School, BODYTRAFFIC, American Dance Institute (for Loni Landon Dance Projects), Northwest Dance Project, Hubbard Street II, Ballet X, Ballet Austin, SUNY Purchase, and Marymount Manhattan College. Her company has performed at The Joyce Theater and Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out series, as well as at Bryant Park and the first annual Beach Sessions in Rockaway Beach. MIA LEONIN | YoungArts Miami Writing Master Teacher | Mia Angela Leonin is the author of Braid (Anhinga Press, 1999) and Unraveling the Bed (Anhinga Press, Van K. Brock Florida Poetry Series, 2008). Her poems have appeared in New Letters, Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner and River Styx, among others. Leonin is of Cuban-American descent and was raised in Missouri. She lives in Miami, Florida where she teaches at the University of Miami and frequently writes about performance, dance and theater. JACOB LENARD | YoungArts Miami Design Master Teacher | Jacob Lenard is a practicing interior designer and furniture designer in Miami, Florida. Lenard’s designs are involved in projects in North America, South America and Asia. Lenard has shown at Rossana Orlandi and Wallpaper Handmade during Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy. His furniture has been produced for CB2 stores. He has participated in collections featured in the New York Times, Wallpaper Magazine, Core 77 and Architectural Digest. Lenard holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and Communication Design from Washington University in St. Louis and a Master of Design in Designed Objects from School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

KARELLE LEVY | Design Arts National Reviewer | YoungArts Miami Design Master Teacher | Designer and artist Karelle Levy founded Krelwear fashion collection in 2002. Born in Paris and raised in Miami, she graduated with a Textile degree from Rhode Island School of Design. She applies her multi-cultural background to designing and fabricating colorful, body-conscious knitwear for tropical climates. She specializes in eco-friendly cotton and metallic fibers with advanced technology. Hand-knitted dresses,

tops, hot shorts and accessories come in her exclusive, signature fabrics. In addition to creating art installations, including Quickie Couture, a series for on-the-spot custom pieces, she hosts “Stitch N Bitch” monthly knitting and crochet workshops at her studio and boutique in Miami Ironside and at the Freehand Miami hotel.

CASSANDRA LOVERING | YoungArts Miami Classical Music Performance Director/Writer | Cassandra is the artistic director for MetroWest Opera. Lovering studied at Susquehanna University and received her masters at Villanova University. DEZI MARINO | YoungArts Week + Miami Cinematic Arts Master Teacher | Originally from New York, Marino's love for film started at a young age. He graduated from Full Sail University majoring in film. Marino has spent over 10 years working in the film industry for major labels such as National Geographic, Orange Theory Fitness, Victoria’s Secret and Ford Automotive. Through his on-set experiences and working at a film rental house, he has cultivated a well-rounded skill set in the lighting, grip and cinematography departments. JILLIAN MAYER | YoungArts Miami Interdisciplinary Master Teacher | Jillian Mayer is an artist and filmmaker living in South Florida whose work explores how technology affects our identities, lives and experiences. Through videos, online experiences, photography, telephone numbers, performance, sculpture, painting and installation, her projects investigate the tension between physical and digital iterations of identity and existence. Her video works and performances have been premiered at galleries and museums internationally such as MoMA, MoCA:NoMi, BAM, Bass Museum, the Contemporary Museum of Montreal with the Montreal Biennial (2014) and film festivals such as Sundance, SXSW and the New York Film Festival. She was recently featured in Art Papers, ArtNews and Art Forum discussing identity, the Internet and her artistic practices and influences. Mayer is a recent recipient of the prestigious Creative Capital Fellowship for 2015, the South Florida Cultural Consortium's Visual/Media Artists Fellowship 2011 and 2014, Cintas Foundation Fellowship 2012 and was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. She is also a fellow of the Sundance New Frontiers Lab Program for 2014, the Elsewhere Residency as a NEA Southern Constellation Fellow and the Zentrum Paul Klee Fellowship in Bern, Switzerland for 2013. Recent projects include sculpture commissions by MoMA PS1, MoMA, MoCA:NoMi and a solo show at the Pérez Art Museum. She is represented by David Castillo Gallery in Miami. ALLISON MILLER | YoungArts Miami Jazz Master Teacher | 1992 Winner in Jazz | Allison Miller has been teaching jazz drumming for 20 years. She holds adjunct teaching positions at The New School, Kutztown University and Jazz Camp West. Miller also teaches privately, gives percussive master classes and leads big band instructional clinics. She has been a guest artist conducting master classes, clinics and workshops nationally and internationally – including New York University, Berkeley Jazz School, Reed College, University of Wisconsin, University of Washington, U.C. Berkeley, Bryn Mawr and University of Maryland. She studied with the great Walter Salb, Michael Carvin, and Lenny White. Miller’s instructional lessons have been published in Modern Drummer Magazine, DRUM Magazine, TomTom Magazine, and Yamaha All Access 360. She is on Yamaha’s Top 30 Clinicians List. Miller believes that developing a solid rhythmic foundation begins on the ride cymbal. She also believes in keeping it simple, starting with repetition of quarters notes. JOAN MORGAN | YoungArts Week Writing Master Teacher | YoungArts Miami, Los Angeles and New York Writing Director | Regional Anthology Editor |

Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist, author and provocative cultural critic. A pioneering hip-hop journalist, she began her professional writing career freelancing for The Village Voice. Joan went on to write for publications such as Vibe, Spin, MS., More, Interview, and Essence (where she served as Executive Editor). She also authored a book titled When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost. DANIEL JOSÉ OLDER | YoungArts Miami Writing Master Teacher | Daniel José Older is the New York Times bestselling author of the Middle Grade historical fantasy series Dactyl Hill Squad, the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series, Star Wars: Last Shot and the award winning young adult series the Shadowshaper Cypher, which won the International Latino Book Award and was shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize in Young Readers’ Literature, the Andre Norton Award, the Locus, the Mythopoeic Award and named one of Esquire’s “80 Books Every Person Should Read.” JONATHAN RAGONESE | YoungArts Miami Jazz Director | 2007 Winner in Jazz | A composer-arranger-

saxophonist, Jonathan Ragonese is a native of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. He moved to New York

City in 2007 to attend the Manhattan School of Music and has lived and worked there since. As a

saxophonist he has performed and recorded with a wide array of musicians including Steve Wilson,

David Liebman, the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, Tim Warfield, Tin Can Buddha and Steve Rudolph.

As a composer his works have been commissioned and premiered by The New York Film Festival,

saxophonist Steve Wilson, Jazz @ Lincoln Center, The Museum of Modern Art, the Vermont Mozart

Festival Orchestra, the Harrisburg Symphony, the The Righteous Girls, Bucknell University, West Chester

University and the Harrisburg Youth Symphony. “Pandora’s Box,” a new film score for G.W. Pabst’s

iconic film, was commissioned by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and premiered at Alice Tully Hall in

October of 2017, with Jonathan conducting a 17-piece ensemble. Ragonese is an active educator, with

lectures, writings, and the development of Music Before Words, a music program for infants with

educator Renee Bock. He is currently on faculty at West Chester University Wells School of Music in

Pennsylvania. His first recording, “Ardent Marigolds,” was released in 2013, a duo with musical father

Steve Rudolph.

JOHANNE RAHAMAN | YoungArts Miami Photography Master Teacher | Johanne Rahaman is a documentary photographer working in both digital and film formats since 2002. Her most recent body of work, an ongoing photographic archive of shifting urban and rural spaces occupied by the Black communities throughout the State of Florida, consists of environmental portraits, landscape, architectural and still life images, underscoring the urgency and importance of recording neighborhoods that are in a constant state of flux. She started documenting these communities that mirror her hometown–the stigmatized Laventille Hills of Trinidad–out of a sense of duty to offer the public an alternative view of working class Black neighborhoods as a sense of place-as home, in a project called BlackFlorida. At completion, these images will be repatriated to the communities in which they were created via a trust, to serve as a bridge to the existing archives throughout the state. Rahaman's work has appeared in Vogue Magazine, National Geographic, Huffington Post and she has been featured in New Yorker Magazine, Miami New Times, Orlando Weekly, and on NPR affiliate stations. Rahaman is a recipient of the Ellie's Creator Award 2018, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Knight Arts Challenge 2017 grant. She has completed a 2017 summer residency at the Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation first live-work program in Miami at Mana Wynwood. JEANCARLO RAMIREZ | YoungArts Week + Miami Cinematic Arts Discipline Coordinator | 2012 YoungArts Winner in Cinematic Arts |

JeanCarlo Ramirez is a Colombia- born, South Florida-based filmmaker and photographer who has directed, produced and shot a wide range of projects from music videos and short films to documentaries and corporate projects. In 2014, he started his production company IndieHouse Films. Ramirez has had the chance to work with artists and clients such as National Geographic, Hilton Hotels, The Related Companies, Vogue, BEBE, Vera Wang and worked with Academy Award winners Doug Blush and Kirk Simon, Grammy-nominated composer Pascal Le Boeuf, and popular recording artists MAX, Pitbull and Johan Vera. Ramirez’s work has been featured at the Norton Museum of Art as well as galleries and film festivals all over the world. MICHELE DE LA REZA | YoungArts Miami Interdisciplinary Master Teacher | 1987 Winner in Dance | Michele de la Reza is co-founder and artistic director of Attack Theatre, now celebrating their 23rd season. Known for their “audacious athleticism” (Dance Magazine), original live music and multimedia performances, the company has performed throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia including at the Avignon Festival, the 7th Next Wave Dance Festival in Japan, the Indonesia Arts Festival, Monaco Danses Forum and the Spoleto Festival. de la Reza danced with Pittsburgh based Dance Alloy and was a founding member of New York City based Perks Dance Music Theatre, creating and touring new works throughout the U.S. with both companies for seven years. With her partner, Peter Kope, de la Reza has received three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowships, Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2007 and the Hardie Educator of the Year award. During the last school year, de la Reza served as a curriculum consultant for Pittsburgh Public Schools, South Fayette School District and Burrell School District to integrate dance into their K-12 Health, Wellness and Physical Education curriculums. de la Reza is an associate teaching professor at Carnegie Mellon University, holds a B.F.A. from the Juilliard School and a M.S. from the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. GINA REIMANN | YoungArts Miami Design Master Teacher | Gina Reimann is an industrial designer and strategic thinker who steers new products through the entire product development life cycle from conceptualization all the way to on the shelf. As Wearables Industrial Design Lead at Google, she leads a small team working on smart wearables and accessories, most recently launching Google Pixel Buds and Google USB-C earbuds. Prior to working with Google, Gina held the role of design director at a New York City based innovation firm Redscout, where her role was a hybrid of industrial design and design strategy, as well as Smart Design in New York City and Philips Design in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. With experience on both the agency and client-side, she has received a number of awards and press attention for her design work over the years including Spark Award Gold, Red Dot Best of the Best, iF Product Design Awards and iF Advanced Studies Award, as well as being named on a number of patents. Clients she’s had the pleasure of working with include American Express, Bacardi, Domino's, Hewlwett-Packard, Intel, Johnson&Johnsson, LG, Microsoft, MillerCoors, Nike, Panasonic, PepsiCo, SC Johnson, Unilever and Westin Hotels. PEDRO REYES | YoungArts Miami Visual Arts Master Teacher | Pedro Reyes studied architecture and although his works integrate elements of theater, psychology and activism, considers himself a sculptor. His work takes on a great variety of forms, from penetrable sculptures to puppet productions. In 2008, Reyes initiated the ongoing Palas por Pistolas where 1,527 guns were collected in Mexico through a voluntary donation campaign to produce the same number of shovels to plant 1,527 trees. This led to Disarm (2012), where 6,700 destroyed weapons were transformed into a series of musical instruments. In 2011, Reyes initiated Sanatorium, a transient clinic that provides short unexpected treatments mixing art and psychology. Originally commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Sanatorium has been in operation at Documenta 13, Kassel; Whitechapel Gallery, London and OCA, Sao Paulo, among others. In 2013, he presented the first edition of pUN: The People’s United Nations at Queens

Museum in New York City. pUN’s second edition took place at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. The third General Assembly of pUN took place at the Museum of the 21st century in Kanazawa, Japan. In 2015, he received the U.S. State Department Medal for the Arts and the Ford Foundation Fellowship. In late 2016, he presented Doomocracy, an immersive theatre installation commissioned by Creative Time. He is currently conducting his residency at M.I.T.’s CAST as the inaugural Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist. In addition to his artistic practice, Reyes has curated numerous shows and often contributes to art and architectural publications. CRAIG ROBINS | YoungArts Miami Design Master Teacher | Over the past three decades, Craig Robins has nurtured the growth of neighborhoods that combine commerce, culture and a strong sense of community as the President and C.E.O. of Dacra. His approach to real estate development, passion for art and design and commitment to innovation have unequivocally transformed Miami. Early in his career, Robins focused on the revitalization of South Beach. Years of meticulous renovation brought the grandeur of South Beach’s Art Deco District back to life. Robins was encouraged by the impact of this critical work and turned his attention to other neglected neighborhoods. He made a long-term commitment to redeveloping an 18 square block area of abandoned warehouses. Here, Robins has cultivated a new kind of neighborhood – the Miami Design District. Today, the Miami Design District is home to creative businesses of all kinds. The neighborhood inspired the creation of Design Miami/ and Design Miami/ Basel, design fairs that Robins owns in partnership with the producers of Art Basel, MCH Swiss Exhibition. He is the founder and chairman of the Anaphiel Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting arts education and exploration. Anaphiel created the Miami Design District’s Performance Series presented by the Knight Foundation. The live event series is produced by 19-time Grammy© Award winning producer Emilio Estefan in collaboration with Maestro Eduardo Marturet of Miami Symphony Orchestra. Robins is on the board of trustees of the Miami Art Museum and received the 2006 Design Patron Award from the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. LUCIANA SCRUTCHEN | YoungArts Miami Design Master Teacher | Luciana Scrutchen, textile designer and educator, is an assistant professor of Fashion at Parsons School of Design. She received her B.F.A. in Weaving and Textile Design from Rochester Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design. Her textile and digital work embody an exploration of plant, insect and earth colorants with the visceral materiality of new and experimental fibers and leathers gathered from Alaska’s sustainable and subsistence cultures. Her research integrates intersections of biology and textiles, developed into constructed and printed materials, investigating the relationship to fashion, ecological systems, as well as the impact of small-scale and large-scale textile production practices. Her professional practice as a textile designer, corporate digital fashion trainer and consultant includes clients such as Calvin Klein, Victoria's Secret and Talbots. Areas of specializations include fashion technology, surface and textile design, sustainable methods in materials and processes and distributed learning. Works-in-progress publication, Textile Design approaches with Kaledo, fosters a practice for designers to see their concepts culminate into wearables and non-wearables products. JAY SCHEIB | YoungArts Miami Interdisciplinary Master Teacher | Jay Scheib is an American stage director, playwright and artist, noted for his contemporary productions of both classical and new plays and operas. Scheib is a professor for Music and Theater Arts and director of the program in Theater Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches Performance Media, Motion Theater, Media and Methods and Introduction to Directing. Scheib has been a regular guest professor at the Mozarteum Institute für Regie und Schauspiel in Salzburg, Austria, where he conducts an annual "viewpoints and composition" studio. Scheib's work as a theater and opera director has been seen in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France, Norway, Finland, Turkey, Netherlands, Czech

Republic, Hong Kong, China, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia, Italy and Austria. Known for his sometimes controversial contemporary staging and for pioneering his live cinema performances, he has won numerous awards including the 2012 Obie Award for Best Director, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, the Richard Sherwood Award from the Mark Taper Forum, The National Endowment for the Arts / Theater Communications Group Program for Directors and the Edgerton Award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2009, Scheib was named by American Theater Magazine as one of the “25 Artists who will shape the next 25 years of American Theater.” Most recently Scheib's production of “Bat Out of Hell” won London's Evening Standard Award for Best Musical. For Scheib's staging of “Bat Out of Hell,” he has been nominated for Best Director for the 2017 WhatsOnStage Award. ALEX SOMARRIBA | YoungArts Miami Cinematic Arts Master Teacher |

Alex Somarriba graduated from The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale with a Bachelor of Science in visual

effects and motion graphics. Since graduating he has worked on many forms of production, including

commercials, music videos, episodic TV, corporates, shorts and feature films. He is a gigital imaging

technician (DIT) and a camera assistant with almost eight years of experience in the industry, and

whether he is doing live production, broadcast or film, he can always be found in the camera

department.

MAGGIE STEBER | Photography National Reviewer | YoungArts Miami Photography Co-Director |

Maggie Steber’s photos have appeared in Life, The New Yorker, Smithsonian, People, Newsweek, Time

and Sports Illustrated. Her work in Haiti won two major grants and culminated in the book Dancing on

Fire: Photographs From Haiti. Steber has won numerous honors, including the World Press Foundation

Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence.

CHRISTOPHER SWIST | YoungArts Miami Classical Music Master Teacher | Christopher Swist composes

in a wide variety of genres that explore both the traditional and the experimental. His instrumentation

pallet encompasses a great deal of marimba literature as well as chamber music, orchestral music and

electronic music. His compositions have been performed across the United States and Canada as well as

in Europe, Brazil and Argentina. He completed a B.M. in Music Performance under the tutelage of Jan

Williams and Tony Miranda at the University of Buffalo. He moved to New England, where he completed

dual M.M. degrees in Performance and Composition at The Hartt School. Swist has taught percussion,

composition, music theory, aural skills and counterpoint at Keene State College in New Hampshire since

2003. He is on faculty at Holyoke Community College and Hartt School Community Division. He was the

percussion instructor at Bennington College from 1998-2002. He is the section leader of the New Britain

Symphony and performs across New England in a wide variety of ensembles and musical styles.

ZUZANNA SZADKOWSKI | YoungArts Miami Multidisciplinary Performance Artistic Director | 1997 YoungArts Winner in Theater and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts | YoungArts Board Member | Zuzanna Szadkowski played Dorota in the CW’s hit drama series “Gossip Girl.” She can be seen as Nurse Pell on the Cinemax series from Steven Soderbergh, “The Knick.” Other television credits include “Search Party,” “The Good Wife,” “Elementary,” “Girls,” “Guiding Light,” “The Sopranos,” “Law and Order,” and “Law and Order: Criminal Intent.” Film credits include “Pigeon,” “Growing up and Other Lies,” “Loserville” and “Butterflies of Bill Baker.” Off-Broadway theater credits include “queens” at LCT3, “Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet” (Wall Street Journal Performance of the Year 2018) and “Peter Pan” with Bedlam, “The Comedy of Errors” as part of the Public Theater’s Mobile Shakespeare Unit, and “Nora and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss and What I Wore.” Regional theater credits include “The 39 Steps” at The

Actors Theater of Louisville, “The Merry Wives of Windsor” at Two River Theater and “The Nerd” at Bucks County Playhouse. Szadkowski received a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.F.A. in acting from the A.R.T./MXAT Institute at Harvard. PHILIP TOLEDANO | YoungArts Miami Photography Master Teacher | Phillip Toledano’s work is primarily socio-political and varies in medium from photography to installation. He believes that photographs should be like unfinished sentences. There should always be space for questions. Toledano has exhibited worldwide, and his work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Wallpaper, The London Times, The Independent Magazine, Le Monde, and Interview Magazine, among others. His first book, titled Bankrupt (photographs of recently vacated offices) was published by Twin Palms in 2005. His second book, Phonesex, was published by Twin Palms in December 2008. Days With My Father, his third book, was published by Chronicle in the spring of 2010. Toledano’s most recent project was an art installation America, the gift shop. The premise was: If George Bush’s foreign policy had a souvenir shop, what would it sell? This work was shown at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. He is currently working on two new bodies of work: A new kind of beauty, featuring portraits of people who have re-created themselves through plastic surgery; and Kim Jong Phil, a project about the dangerously narcissistic tone of post-9/11 patriotism in America. CHAT TRAVIESO | Design Arts Selection Panelist | YoungArts Miami Design Director | 2003 YoungArts Winner in Visual Arts and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts | Travieso is a Brooklyn-based artist, designer and educator. He creates socially engaged architectural public art. His past work has been commissioned by or organized in collaboration with the Architectural League of New York, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Design Trust for Public Space and the NYC Department of Transportation. His artist residencies include LMCC Process Space and Smack Mellon Studio Program. His recent honors include a U.S.A. YoungArts Fellowship in Design, a Graham Foundation Grant, a New York State Council in the Arts Independent Projects Grant, the Matthew J. Quinn Prize from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, a New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship as part of his Smack Mellon residency and a Community Arts Fund Grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council. ERIC VALDES | YoungArts Miami Cinematic Arts Master Teacher | The son of a 2nd generation cotton farmer turned salesman, and an artistic, free spirited mother, Erik Valdes was born in Lubbock, Texas. Having done a lot of theater throughout the years, Valdes decided to pursue a career in television and film and moved to Los Angeles in the summer of 2004. In his spare time, Valdes enjoys working on and racing cars, traveling, volunteering with charities and organizations such as The Young Storytellers Foundation, Best Buddies and St. Jude. Valdes is a location sound recordist with ten years of experience in film and television and is the owner of Narrative Noise. As a lover of storytelling and post sound designer, he turns raw edits into professional, polished products. He is known for his work on “The Dive” (2010), “The Bunker” (2011) and “Rionegro” (2011). DEREK WALLACE | YoungArts Miami Classical Music Performance Discipline Coordinator | Currently serving as Manager of Operations and Communications for Miami’s Nu Deco Ensemble, Derek Wallace oversees the day-to-day operations of the orchestra as well as the marketing and development strategies for the ensemble. Outside of his day job, Wallace serves as a steering committee member for Miami’s chapter of Emerging Arts Leaders, an association that helps and encourages the growth of young arts leaders through networking and informative panel discussion. A recent transplant to Miami, Wallace joined the Nu Deco team in 2016 after serving as Assistant to the Dean of the School of Music at Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y. where he worked closely with pianist and dean, Karl Paulnack. Since receiving his Bachelor of Science in Music Management (vocal emphasis) and minor in Business from

Florida Southern College in 2014, Wallace has pursued numerous arts management opportunities at venues such as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Putney, V.T. TIM WARFIELD | YoungArts Miami Jazz Master Teacher | Tim Warfield, Jr. began studying the alto saxophone at age nine. He switched to tenor saxophone during his first year at William Penn Sr. High School. In 1990, he was chosen to become a member of trumpeter and CBS/Sony recording artist Marlon Jordan's Quintet. In 1991, he was selected to record Tough Young Tenors on the Island/Antilles label. He also joined Jazz Futures, a world touring group assembled by George Wein to showcase some of the world’s brightest young stars in jazz. Warfield has made several television appearances including the “Today Show,” Bill Cosby’s “You Bet Your Life,” and Ted Turner's 1998 Trumpet Awards. Additionally, he has made numerous stage appearances with such names as Donald Byrd, Michelle Rosewoman, Marcus Miller, Marlon Jordan, James Williams, Christian McBride, The Harper Brothers, Dizzy Gillespie, Isaac Hayes, Shirley Scott, Jimmy Smith, Nicholas Payton, Charles Fambrough, Eric Reed, Carl Allen, Terell Stafford, Stefon Harris, Orrin Evans, The Newport Millennium All Stars, "Papa" John Defrancesco, Joey Defrancesco, Claudio Raggazzi and Danilo Perez, amongst others. Warfield’s first recording, “A Cool Blue,” was selected as one of the top ten recordings of the year in a 1995 New York Times critic’s poll, as was his 1998 recording “Gentle Warrior” featuring Cyrus Chestnut, Tarus Mateen, Clarence Penn, Terell Stafford, and Nicholas Payton. In the fall of 1999, Warfield exclusively joined forces with New Orleans trumpeter and Warner Bros. recording artist Nicholas Payton of with whom he toured and recorded until 2005. In 2006, Warfield joined trumpeter and Maxjazz recording artist Terell Stafford's quintet. Warfield has appeared on several Grammy-nominated recordings such as Stefon Harris' "The Grand Unification Theory," and "Dear Louis" and "Sonic Trance," both led by trumpeter Nicholas Payton. Warfield is a board member for the Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz as well as an artist-in-residence at Messiah College in Grantham, P.A. ANGWENIQUE WINGFIELD | YoungArts Miami Interdisciplinary Master Teacher | Pittsburgh native, Anqwenique Wingfield is an extremely versatile vocalist and teaching artist specializing in opera, classical music, jazz and soul. Wingfield has performed lead operatic roles such as Magda Sorel in Carl Menotti's “The Consul” and Zerlina in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Voice Performance from Indiana University of P.A. Wingfield is the founder and director of Groove Aesthetic, a Pittsburgh based multidisciplinary artist collective experimenting with contemporary performance and collaborative processes. She has performed across the Pittsburgh region including with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 2018 celebrating the legacy of Black artists in Pittsburgh’s historic Hill District. Wingfield has been recognized with many awards and opportunities for her creative work. In 2017, she was named “Best Singer” by the Pittsburgh Magazine readers poll, listed among “Who's Next in Music” by The Incline and “40 Under 40” by Pittsburg Magazine and PUMP. In 2015, Wingfield was recognized as one of Whirl Magazine's “13 under 30,” and in 2018 was nominated for the Carol R. Brown Award as an Emerging Artist. Currently she serves as education director of Pittsburgh Festival Opera. She is also the studio manager of BOOM Concepts, working to provide affordable studio space and resources to artists and creative entrepreneurs. CYNTHIA LEE WONG | YoungArts Miami Classical Music Performance Director | 2000 Winner in Classical Music | Cynthia Lee Wong has composed for orchestra, chamber ensemble, dance, voice, narrator and musical theater. In 2017, Wong’s futuristic comedy “No Guarantees” with librettist Richard Aellen received funding from OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Female Composers program, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. Wong and Aellen are also finalists under consideration for a Houston Grand Opera Song of Houston commission. In 2013, Wong was selected for New Voices, an initiative

with New World Symphony, San Francisco Symphony and Boosey & Hawkes, where she received commissions, mentorship and premieres. Among the selection committee were John Adams, Steve Mackey, and Michael Tilson Thomas. In 2010, Wong received an Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Project 440 commission in which her music was premiered on opening night at Carnegie Hall. Past commissions and premieres include works for the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Portland Symphony, Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Festival, La Jolla Music Society, Mivos Quartet and Tokyo String Quartet. Wong graduated from Juilliard and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Wong is assistant professor of Composition at the University of Nevada and a board member at the League of Composers. BETTY WRIGHT | YoungArts Week + Miami Voice Master Teacher | Betty Wright is a soul singer with deep gospel roots, and a seven octave range. Born singing gospel with her family group, The Echoes of Joy, Wright began singing R&B music at the age of 11. In 1968, she released her first album, “My First Time Around,” and at 14, scored her first national hit, “Girls Can’t Do What Guys Can Do.” In 1971 her song, “Clean Up Woman,” became a top five pop and #2 R&B hit, and would later be sampled in Mary J. Blige’s “Real Love” remix, SWV’s “I’m So Into You,” Afrika “Bambaataa’s Zulu War Chant,” and Sublime’s “Get Out!” remix. In 1974, Wright scored big with the songs “Tonight is the Night” and “Where is the Love?,” which received a Grammy for Best R&B Song. She made music history as the first woman to have a gold record on her own label, Mother Wit, which featured two of her biggest hits, “No Pain No Gain” and “After The Pain.” Wright was co-producer of two Joss Stone albums, and was featured as a vocal coach on “Making the Band 3.” Today, the mother of five mentors young singer-songwriters in the camp The MOST (Mountain Of Songs Today), and has been instrumental for artists including Beyoncé, Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez, Lil’ Wayne, Flo Rida, DJ Khaled, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Alice Cooper, Bill Wyman and more. CHRISTINA WRIGHT-IVANOVA | YoungArts Miami Classical Music Performance Music Director | Christina Wright-Ivanova serves as assistant professor of Music and coordinator of Piano & Collaborative Piano at Keene State College, N.H. Wright-Ivanova frequently performs solo recitals with a special focus on new music, in addition to an international performing career in chamber music. She is on faculty at New England Conservatory’s Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice. She has performed both solo and collaborative new works in such venues as Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Berklee School of Music, MIT, The Harvard Club, Opera America (NY), Jordan Hall, Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall, Old North Meeting House, and in the Clutch New Music Series in Austin, T.X. and the NEXTET series in Las Vegas. She has enjoyed working with composers such as Jo Kondo, Augusta Read Thomas, Steve Reich, Julian Anderson, Joan Tower, Daniel Brewbaker, Tristan Murail, Robert Beaser, Jennifer Bellor, Daron Hagen, Paul Chihara and Virko Baley. She has worked as an opera pianist, coach and scenes director with Boston Opera Collaborative, Commonwealth Lyric Theater, Handel & Haydn Society and the Pacific Opera Victoria in Canada, and has been the official pianist for the Metropolitan Opera Auditions. As a chamber musician, she has been heard in over fifteen countries throughout North and South America, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and Australia, appearing in recital with many established artists, including Tchaikovsky Competition Bronze medal cellist Bion Tsang, virtuoso violinist Yevgeny Kutik, Israel Philharmonic violinist Sharon Cohen and Joachim International Violin competition winner Dami Kim. NICOLE YARLING | Jazz National Reviewer | YoungArts Miami Jazz Master Teacher | Nicole Yarling has a rich velvet voice embroidered with technical skill and personality to boot. She is a rising star in the jazz community who, like many others, has been at it for years. Her chosen instruments are voice, violin and fiddle (in that order). Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, a musical household laid groundwork for

Yarling’s career. As early as age nine, Yarling would jam on the violin with her father. Aside from the familial influences, Yarling’s education is extensive, ranging from a B.A. in Music from Baruch College, to a Masters in Music Education at Columbia University. For more than a decade, she has been a part of South Florida's musical world as a singer and violinist, working in jazz, rock, R&B, experimental music and a few other styles that defy description. Yarling’s musical excursions have brought about stints with Dizzy Gillespie and three years on tour as a featured soloist with Jimmy Buffet. She also participated on Buffet's platinum-selling album, “Fruit Cakes,” and then went on to do eight worldwide tours with her own project, Little Nicky and the Slicks. MICHAEL YAWNEY | YoungArts Miami Theater Master Teacher | Michael Yawney holds an M.F.A. in Directing from Columbia University and a B.F.A. from the Experimental Theater Wing of New York University. His original play “Exile Jesus Starbucks” debuted at Miami Light Project in 2015 and he directed Rudi Goblen’s “PET,” which premiered at Miami Light Project in 2013 and is currently touring. He also dramaturged and directed Heather Woodbury’s 12-hour stand-up novel “As the Globe Warms,” which was seen at Austin’s Vortex Rep and L.A.’s Redcat. Other recent productions include Juan C. Sanchez’s “Catherine’s Wheel” and Kenny Finkle’s “A Thousand Years” at F.I.U.’s Summer Theater Festival, “Noye’s Fludde, Amahl and the Night Visitors” and Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” for Orchestra Miami, as well as “Cardenio” and “The Liar” for Florida International University. Yawney was a fellow in Miami-Dade County’s Playwright Development Program 2010-2012. Professor Yawney’s production of “Three Angels Dancing on a Needle” was named Best Theatrical Production of 2007 by Miami New Times. His work has been seen at New York’s Public Theater, Dixon Place, HERE, Ensemble Studio Theater and the Pittsburgh Performance Art Festival. Yawney’s critical writing has appeared in Theater Week, Propaganda and OFF as well as in the book, Michael Chekhov: Critical Issues, Reflections, Dreams.