Eric Miller is the owner of Miller Music. He is an award-winning composer with 20 years experience as an accomplished musician and music educator.

Eric holds his B.M. in Film Scoring from the Berklee College of Music and has received awards such as the Parents Choice Award, and the Berklee Award for Outstanding Musicianship.

As a music educator, Eric enjoys working with students of all ages, levels and backgrounds. He creates a fun, “you can do it” environment, bringing to his teaching the highest level of support and respect for his students. Eric personally tailors each lesson to the student’s needs, interests and pace, while challenging them to improve their musical abilities. Eric is also an adjunct professor at Tunxis Community College in Farmington, CT. He teaches the history of rock ‘n’ roll and music production at the college.

As a composer, Eric has written music for over two hundred different productions, ranging from educational programs and commercials, to music for websites and multimedia. He writes and records all of the music at Miller Music Studios.

Additionally, Eric serves on the music worship team at Graceway church in Plainville CT. Eric has also released several independent albums of his music. Most recently, he formed a band True North Rising. They are a band playing original music blending elements of rock, Southern rock and blues. You can hear their music on all streaming platforms.

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John Cesar – Guitar

Born in Peru, international artist John Cesar is an up and coming classical guitarist. His musical studies began at the age of 13 with the electric guitar, and later he made the decision to pursue classical guitar studies in college. John graduated in 2016 from Montclair State University with a degree in instrumental performance under the instruction of guitarist Darren O’Neill. Throughout his undergraduate studies John worked on occasion with guitarists David Graessle, Sylwia Kloc, Seth Himmelhoch and world renowned guitarist Jorge Caballero.

John has made appearances in the New York City area, New Jersey and Connecticut, including performances at the Alexander Kasser Theater and the famous Trumpets Jazz Club in Montclair New Jersey. John is the founder of the New Jersey based concert series Classical Concerts at Grace, where he currently manages and also is a regular performing artist. John recently performed at Inabif, a major orphanage in Lime, Peru.

John has played for notable professional guitarists such as Scott Tennant, Carlos Barbosa Lima, Jason Vieaux, Michael Partington, The Newman Oltman Duo, Richard Provost, and Jorge Caballero. John has performed in a variety of chamber works and has received chamber instruction from Broadway singer Jan Prokap, pianist David Witten, early music specialist, Jeffery Gaul, flutist Susan Palma, and the world famous Shanghai String Quartet.

John is a student at the Hartt School of Music on a performance-based scholarship. He is a student of multi-award winning guitarist, Christopher Ladd.

Michael Stubblefield – Guitar

Composer, guitarist, and teacher Michael Stubblefield was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Michael began his professional studies in music at Diablo Valley Community college where he studied music theory and composition with Mark Alburger and Owen Lee, guitar with Mark Simons, and piano with Bruce Cook and Virginia Bigelow. He earned his BA and MA degrees in music from California State University, East Bay where he studied music composition and theory with Jeffrey Miller, Frank La Rocca, and Daniel Highman, and classical guitar with Marc Teicholz.

During his graduate studies at CSUEB, Michael was a graduate teaching associate for the music department and was awarded the 2015 Glenn Glasow Graduate Fellowship in Music Composition. Currently, Michael is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in music composition at the Hartt School, the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut, where he has studied with Robert Carl, David Macbride, and Ken Steen.

His musical style can be described as a blend between Dmitri Shostakovich and heavy metal music, in addition to Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Arvo Pärt, Edgard Varese, J.S. Bach, and Krzysztof Penderecki. Michael’s music has received numerous performances across the Bay Area and at the Hartt School, and he has worked with the Redshift Ensemble, Opus Project Ensemble, Cygnus Ensemble, CSUEB New Music Ensemble, Hartt Orchestra, and Hartt Composers Ensemble among others.

His experience as teacher ranges from private studio teaching on guitar, piano, and voice, to classroom teaching at the collegiate level, teaching courses in History of Rock and Roll and first semester Music Theory and Ear Training.

Sara Dvorsky

Sara Dvorsky is currently studying to get her Masters of Music Education at the Hartt School of Music. She is from Illinois where she was a K-8 general music teacher for 6 years. She was also the music director at her church.

Sara has been giving private lessons for the past 7 years, teaching piano, voice, and ukulele. Sara has been a featured vocal soloist with the Peoria Area Civic Chorale, St. Pius X and St. Philomena Churches, and ILMEA.

Her favorite part of teaching private lessons is getting to know her students and sharing her love of music with them!

Kate Thomas

Kate Thomas is a professional voice over artist, actress, and pre-k teacher originally from Long Island, NY. Kate has done musical theatre since the young age of 8 (when she directed and produced Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in her backyard) and has been honing her performance skills ever since.

She has performed as a violinist with her high school orchestra in Italy and China, and as an alto with her University Chorale in Ireland, Budapest, and Vienna. Kate has a Theatre Arts degree from Boston College and over the years has trained in voice with industry professionals such as John Finney, Denise Puccio, Chris York, and Melissa Medina.

She even spent a year working in entertainment at Disney World and then directing and teaching youth theatre in Boston! After recently moving to Farmington she has become involved with the Theatre Guild of Simsbury and continues to be a passionate patron of the arts. Her love for singing is second to none and she can’t wait to get started and help young performers build their voices!

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