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  Christopher Sleboda

  Associate Professor of Art, Graphic Design; Chair, BFA Graphic Design

  Christopher Sleboda is a designer, illustrator, curator, and educator. From 2005 to 2020, he served as the Director of Graphic Design at the Yale University Art Gallery. Overseeing graphic design and wayfinding for the museum—from exhibition identities, motion graphics, and signage to brochures, programs, and art books—Sleboda worked closely with graphic design students in the […]
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  Kathleen Sleboda

  Lecturer of Art, Graphic Design

  Kathleen Sleboda is an art director, graphic designer, and illustrator. Her work crosses disciplines and often involves the acts of making, curating, collaborating, and documenting. She is co-founder and design director of Draw Down Books and from 2013 to 2019 she curated the website Women of Graphic Design. For the past 15 years she has […]
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  Matt Smallcomb

  Drumset Class Instructor

  Matt Smallcomb is currently a percussionist with Alarm Will Sound, a collaborative ensemble at the forefront of contemporary music and reputed as “one of the most vital and original ensembles on the American music scene” (New York Times). With a career spanning across diverse genres, Smallcomb has performed with leading artists and musicians including Tyondai […]
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  Andrew Smith

  Lecturer in Music, Composition and Music Theory

  Andrew Smith is active in Boston’s musical community as a composer, guitarist and educator. His music has been showcased at nationally recognized venues such as Carnegie Hall, Chicago’s Symphony Center, Hill Auditorium, and the Hawaii Theatre, and presented at various festivals including Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute, the University of Central Missouri’s New Music Festival, the […]
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  Gareth Dylan Smith

  Associate Professor of Music, Music Education

  Gareth Dylan Smith is active nationally and internationally as a teacher, speaker, researcher and drummer. His main research interest areas are drum kit studies and popular music education, and his principal disciplinary approaches are sociological, philosophical, and autoethnographic. Themes in his scholarship include eudaimonia, improvisation, creativities, punk pedagogies, and meaningfulness. Gareth’s work has been published […]
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  Jacqueline Smith

  Lecturer, Music Education

  Jacqueline Smith is a Lecturer in Music Education at Boston University. Before coming to BU, she was an Adjunct Faculty in Music and Dance Education at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School, and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she was Visiting Assistant Professor in 2018-2019. Before moving to higher education, she taught instrumental […]
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  Tawnya Smith

  Associate Professor of Music, Music Education

  Dr. Tawnya D. Smith is an integrative researcher who explores expressive arts principles to promote holistic learning, wellbeing, and sustainability in music education settings. She has an extensive qualitative methodology background and has collaborated on a number of research projects in music and arts education. Her current research is in the area of trauma and […]
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  David Snyder

  Assistant Professor of Art, Sculpture; Chair of Graduate Studies in Sculpture

  David Snyder’s sculpture, video, installation, and image-based work engages the unstable and mutable potential of objects, language, imagery, physical space, and social relationships. Through the distortion and reconfiguration of familiar material and rhetorical constructs, the work addresses persistent, under-contended assumptions that contribute to the formation of economic and social value, cultural hierarchies, and divisive polemics. […]
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  Samuel Solomon

  Lecturer in Music, Percussion

  Samuel Z. Solomon teaches percussion at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Boston University, is Percussion Director of The Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI), and Artistic Director of the Juilliard Summer Percussion Seminar. From 2007-2011 he was president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society.  His book, “How to Write for Percussion,” has received critical acclaim […]
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  Jane Starkman

  Lecturer, Historical Performance - Baroque Violin

  Jane Starkman received BM and MM degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music. She continued her studies in Basel, Switzerland, at the Schola Cantorum with Jaap Schroeder and in New York with William Lincer. While living in Basel she performed with the Radio Orchestra Basel. Ms. Starkman has performed as both a violinist and […]
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  Nicholas Stovall

  Lecturer in Music, Oboe

  Nicholas Stovall has served as principal oboe of the National Symphony Orchestra since September 2008 and made his solo debut with the NSO in December 2014. In addition to regular appearances with the Kennedy Center Chamber Players, Stovall has collaborated with pianist Christoph Eschenbach in chamber music performances. He has performed as soloist with Eclipse […]
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  Shannon Streets

  Director of Graduate Student Services

  Shannon Streets is Director of Graduate Student Services at Boston University College of Fine Arts. Originally from the Thousand Islands region of Northern NY, Shannon joined the College of Fine Arts in 2011 to work with CFA online programs and is currently the Director of Graduate Student Services. Shannon holds an EdM in Educational Leadership […]
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  Marcelina Suchocka

  Percussion Coaching Faculty and Area Coordinator, Young Artists Programs, BU Tanglewood Institute

  Born in Bialystok, Poland, Marcelina Suchocka is the Principal Percussionist of the Sarasota Orchestra. Ms. Suchocka enjoys a diverse career spanning orchestral, chamber, new music, and solo playing. She was a fellow at the New World Symphony in Miami and has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, […]
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  Douglas Sumi

  Senior Lecturer in Music, Vocal Repertoire and Coaching

  American pianist, Douglas Sumi, is a frequent collaborator with many of today’s artists and opera theaters. He is a versatile artist, comfortable in the capacities of pianist, coach, and assistant conductor, and has a recognized commitment to song and opera. He has assisted conductors such as James Conlon, Patrick Summers, Michele Mariotti, and Emmanuel Villaume. […]
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  April Sun

  Staff Pianist, School of Music

  Boston-based pianist April Sun, Staff Pianist at Boston University School of Music, enjoys a multi-faceted musical life as a performer, educator, and arts organizer who values curiosity, sincerity, and fun in her work/play. An avid chamber musician, she co-founded the Meadowlark Piano Trio, frequently collaborates with Phoenix and the Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra, and has […]
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  Michael Swartz-Flores

  Business Manager, CFA School of Theatre

  Michael is a Boston-based artist currently working as the Business Manager at Boston University School of Theatre. Michael has been running his own businesses for almost a decade from make-up brands to salons around Boston. While invested in those, he also worked freelance as a professional photographer, make-up artist, and event coordinator. He is known […]
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  Victoria Sweetser

  Lecturer, Lighting

  Tori Sweetser is a Boston based production electrician, lighting supervisor, and educator with over twenty years of experience. She started out with a computer science degree, but ran off to join the theater with four days of work lined up and has been busy ever since. As a freelance production electrician she worked with Odyssey […]
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  Peter Sykes

  Lecturer in Music, Historical Performance

  Peter Sykes' playing has variously been called “compelling and moving,” “magnificent and revelatory,” and “bold, imaginative, and amazingly accurate.” He has appeared in recital for the American Guild of Organists, the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society, the Organ Historical Society, American Institute of Organbuilders, International Society of Organbuilders, at the Library of Congress, Boston Early Music […]
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  Klaudia Szlachta

  Lecturer in Music, Violin; Director, Violin Workshop, BU Tanglewood Institute

  Klaudia Szlachta is an award-winning violinist who has both performed and taught internationally. A Polish national, Ms. Szlachta was a scholarship recipient, earning her Bachelor of Music degree from Boston Conservatory, summa cum laude, with Professor Magdalena Suchecka Richter as her teacher. Her Masters and Doctorate of Musical Arts degrees were achieved at Boston University under the tutelage […]
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  Lorena Tecu

  Staff Pianist, School of Music; Staff Accompanist, Violin Workshop & Cello Workshop, BU Tanglewood Institute

  Lorena Tecu is the Staff Pianist, Strings for the School of Music. Creative Works CD Romantic pieces for violin and piano released under Dinemec Geneva Switzerland Awards International Piano Competiton Citta di Catanzaro, Italy International Piano Competiton Citta di Marsala, Italy Best Romanian Collaborative Pianist, Romania