DOROTHY KLOTZMAN - Composition
Chair
(See Faculty Music Studies).
JAN COLEMAN - String Chair (2007)
Teacher
(violin/viola) and Director of the Coleman Violin Studio.
Jan continues in her full capacity as Director and
Teacher.
A full partner with Kent for over 20 years, Jan continues
in her role as teacher, Director, and manager. Simon James, 2nd Asst. Concert Master, Seattle Symphony, solo performer, and owner/operation of Simon James Studio,has accepted the
responsibility of teaching the advanced students in the Studio. Kent
dedicated 100% of his professional time to the studio, so more
outstanding teachers may be needed to fill the incredible number of
lessons, recitals, concerts, auditions, and competitions to be covered at
the highest professional level.
KENT COLEMAN - Emeritus String Chair
Kent was Academy String Chair
from Sept. 1997 - June 2007.
Honorary String Chair (in memoriam). American String Teachers
Association "Outstanding Studio Teacher of the Year 2000" for Washington
State. Chairman of Strings and Chamber Music, Washington State Music
Teachers Association. B.A., Rice University, Shepherd School of Music.
Music Advisory Panel, Seattle Young Artists Music Festival.
The loss of Kent
Coleman in June 2007 left each of us deeply grieved. We will continue to
honor him as Emeritus Chair. Kent was with us from 1997 - 2007.
A memorial benefit will be held, and a Kent Coleman Violin
Scholarship has been established at the Academy.
WIL
LARD SCHULTZ - Piano Chair
Assoc.
Prof.Emeritus., U. of Calgary; Teacher, Performer, Accompanist,
Collaborator, Lecturer, Master Class presenter; Faculty, Adamant Summer
School for Pianists in Vermont. Helped developed the Masters Degree
program in performance and theparallel program for Performance &
Pedagogy at U. Calgary; "Visiting Associate Professor and Artist
Teacher" at Washington State University (filling a sudden vacancy).
Formerly: active teacher and performer in the Banff Centre for the
Performing Arts for over twenty years; Head of Piano in Wuhan
Conservatory, PR. of China for three semesters; active presenter in
conventions here and abroad, including the South Bohemia Festivals in
the Czech Republic. Mr. Schultz presented Pedagogy and Master Classes
recently in NY. His students consistently win major local, regional and
national competitions.
NANCIE LINN SHAW - Chamber
Music Ensemble Director
Viola, Violin. Orchestra Director, Bellevue HS, and
Odle MS. Professional chamber music performer. Teacher, violin, viola.
Conductor; frequent clilnician and adjudicator in WA; faculty at
Southern Oregon University; performed in Ashland, OR, and continues to
coach chamber music for the Ashland Summer Chamber Music Festival.
Active performer on violin, viola, and in chamber music.
ALAN FUTTERMAN - Chamber
Orchestra Music Director
Former Music Director of the Bellevue Youth Symphony, the
Dover Symphony and the Weierstrass Society Concerts of New York. He has
conducted throughout Europe with the Zaccho Festival Orchestra and as
Conductor-in-Residence for Jeunesse Musicale of Europe. Locally, Mr.
Futterman is the Music Director of the Peninsula Ballet Orchestra,
Bremerton Orchestra, Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra, and serves on the
faculty of Central Washington University. Mr. Futterman holds a Master's
Degree from the Juilliard School and a Bachelor's Degree from the
Manhattan School of Music. As a Doctoral candidate, he served as
Assistant Conductor to Maestro Vladimir Kin of St. Petersburg and
participated in master classes with Sir Georg Solti and Leonard
Bernstein. An active composer, Mr. Futterman's works include Farrago and
Fugue, Lepi Nash Kostanich, and the World Beat Dance Suites I and II
commissioned by the Yakima Symphony Orchestra.
DANIELA LANDOLFI - Children's Program Director, Effective 2007.. Academy faculty since 2002, Daniela has taught Children's and Pre-College classes. Daniela attended the
Manhattan School of Music in New York City from the age of 2, where her
major teacher was her mother, Carol Macaulay, founding Director of the
Academy Children's Program (see listing below). Daniela's studies included theory, ear
training, sight singing, private and ensemble instruction in violin,
percussion, and voice. She pursued additional vocal education with
private teachers specializing in various vocal styles and techniques.
She participated in performances, solo and ensemble, both nationally and
internationally including Carnegie Hall and Medugorje, Bosnia. She has
taught private voice lessons, and performed in varied styles as part of
different musical projects, that included several CDs as soloist. She
was also lead singer of the original rock band, Inergroove, and
is a worship leader for the Disciples of Christ, both locally and
nationally.
Wind Chair - Open Position.
MICHAEL CRUSOE - Percussion
Chair
Principal Timpanist, Seattle Symphony
Orchestra.
CAROL MACAULAY - Emeritus Children's
Program Chair
(2002-2006) 
Theory, Director of Tutoring at the Manhattan School of
Music, NY; MM, BM, Manhattan School of Music; Full Certificate, Dalcoze
School of Music; Harmony Studies with Nadia Boulanger; Conducting with
Igor Markevitch. Founder/Director Vagabonds Childen's Ensemble;
Consultant: American Council for the Arts in Education; Children's Music
Workshops. Publications: The Musical Toolbox and The Pitch
Constructs of Western Tonal Music. Former faculty: Hunter College,
New York University. MSM Faculty since 1984.
