Private Lessons

List of 3 members.

Mark Alewine

Private Music Instruction - Woodwinds

214-365-6619

Bio
Mark Alewine has been teaching woodwinds (flute, clarinet, saxophone and oboe) at Hockaday since 1998, and teaches privately in the Plano and Richardson independent school districts as well. He earned a Bachelor of Music Education and a Master of Arts from West Texas A&M University where he studied saxophone with Don Lefevre, and flute with Sally Turk.

He is an active woodwind performer and adjudicator throughout Texas, and has served as guest clinician at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention on several occasions. His students have garnered many awards including TPSMEA all-state bands and jazz bands, Texas Association of Symphony Orchestras young artist competition, Plano Symphony young artist competition, the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Wind Symphony, and the Dallas Asian American Youth Orchestra. His professional and student quartets have also appeared as finalists in the Fischoff National Chamber Ensemble Competition.

Mark has performed with the Texas Wind Symphony, Dallas Wind Symphony, Texas Saxophone Quartet, Turtle Creek Chorale, Dallas Women's Chorus, Dallas Theatre Center, Theatre Three, Water Tower Theater, and many other musical theatre productions in the DFW area.
Suneetha D'Apice

Private Music Instruction - Strings

214-365-6615

Bio
At Hockaday since 1994, Sunny D'Apice teaches private violin lessons and is the founding and current Director of the Hockaday Lower School Orchestra, the 2nd Grade Strings Program and the Hockaday String Festival. Many of her students have earned TPSMEA and TMEA and other recognized music awards and some continue to major or minor in music in college. Prior teaching experience includes the New School of Music in Austin and the Westchester Conservatory of Music in White Plains, NY, where her six-year-old violin student was accepted into the prestigious Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School in NYC.

Sunny began her college studies in Microbiology and received her B.S. from Texas Tech University and a M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in Microbiology while actively performing as a professional violinist in the Lubbock and Austin Symphonies, respectively.

Realizing her true passion was music, she began her graduate studies in violin at the University of Texas at Austin with Leonard Posner and earned a Masters in Violin Performance. While pursuing post-graduate violin studies in the Professional Studies Program at the Mannes College of Music in New York City with Ani Kavafian, she also completed the two-year Suzuki Pedagogy Program at the School for Strings in NYC with Louise Behrend, earning certification in all of the Suzuki Violin Books 1-8.

Since 1992 and currently, Sunny is a violinist with the Dallas Opera Orchestra and is an active member of their elected Orchestra Players Committee. Professional orchestra experience includes the National Repertory Orchestra, Greenwich Symphony, Austin Symphony and Fort Worth Symphony.

Sunny's passions include chamber music, cooking with friends, and traveling with her family to Europe and Asia. Sunny and her husband, Peter, an attorney, are parents of five children, Hannah, Rachel, Lizzy, Joseph and Tony.
Carmen Doubrava

Private Music Lessons - Piano; Accompanist

214-365-6610

Bio
Carmen Doubrava was born in Berlin, Germany, but has lived in the Dallas area since she was 6 years old, where she took piano lessons from Lee Ann Hooton and Carolyn Campbell. She received her bachelor of music and master of music degrees in piano performance from the University of North Texas where she studied with Larry Walz. Ms. Doubrava was also a graduate teaching assistant. She is a member of the Dallas Music Teachers Association and is a founding member of the Carrollton Music Teachers Association where she served as president from 1990-1992. She served on committees and chaired competitions for the Texas Music Teachers Association for over ten years. Ms. Doubrava was on the Fine Arts faculty at Brookhaven College for 10 years and joined the fine arts faculty at The Hockaday School in 1999 where she teaches piano and accompanies the middle school choirs and orchestras. She is also the choir accompanist at Horizon Unitarian Universalist Church in Carrollton. Ms. Doubrava is an active adjudicator, accompanist and performer, and has accompanied recitals in Michigan, New York, Colorado and Wisconsin, and also at the State Department in Washington, D.C. She has been featured in articles in Keyboard Companion magazine, Clavier magazine and the Dallas Morning News. She is also a contributing writer for Clavier Companion magazine; you will find her articles in the “Pupil Savers” section.

List of 3 members.

Juliette Flanagin '89

Private Music Teacher - Piano

214-360-6612

Bio
Dr. Juliette Flanagin has been teaching at the Hockaday School since 2014. A Dallas native, Dr. Flanagin began playing the piano at age 4 and performed her debut solo recital at age 15. After graduating Cum Laude from the Hockaday School, she earned Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees in Applied Piano from the Eastman School of Music and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Flanagin has been teaching private, partner, and group lessons for over 25 years at her home and at the Gray School of Music. Her pupils range from age 4 to adult and she has had winners in the Dallas Jazz Festival and TMTA Composition Competition. An award winning teacher, she received the Texas Excellence in Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants for her instruction of class piano at the University of Texas at Austin. Active in a variety of organizations, Dr. Flanagin was one of the founding members of the Hockaday School orchestra and serves on the board of the Richardson Music Teachers Association. She returned to Hockaday in 2005 as a guest panelist for the Hockaday Alumni in the Arts program. Dr. Flanagin also led a group presentation on the format of studio performance class at the MTNA National Convention in Minneapolis.
Currently, Dr. Flanagin maintains a private piano studio at her home and at the Hockaday School. An active performer, she has played numerous solo, chamber, and collaborative recitals throughout the United States. She also adjudicates for various piano festivals and enjoys freelance work with various schools in the area. Dr. Flanagin loves to spend time with her husband and three children and enjoys cooking, reading and gardening.
Mary Glennon

5/6 Choir, Voice Instructor

214-365-6613

Bio
A classically trained vocalist, vocal coach and music teacher, Mary Glennon received both her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Vocal Performance from Baylor University. While at Baylor, Mary performed in a number of operatic productions and jazz concerts and was featured as a soloist in several choir concerts. She discovered her love of teaching voice lessons while serving as the graduate assistant for the voice department at Baylor and upon graduating in 2012 began teaching private voice lessons for Plano Independent School District. During her time in Plano ISD all of her students earned Superior ratings at solo competitions, and many were selected as members of the prestigious All-Region and All-State choirs. Since moving to the Dallas area, Mary has enjoyed participating in and directing a variety of community musical theater productions and coordinating annual recitals for her students. Mary joined The Hockaday School in the summer of 2014 serving as music teacher for Creative Arts Camp and directing the Unwind! Musical for Summer at Hockaday. She is currently the Director of Creative Arts and Science Camp for Summer at Hockaday. She has also served as the after school classes coordinator for the lower school’s Daisy Afternoon program. Mary also performs as a staff vocalist with the Highland Park United Methodist Church and provides private voice lessons through her home vocal studio. Mary and her “best man” Alfie (a miniature schnauzer) live in Dallas.
Grace Long

Fine Arts - Piano

214-365-6614

Bio
A concert pianist, teacher, and adjudicator, Dr. Grace Long received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Point Loma Nazarene University, and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance degrees from the University of North Texas.

Born in Shanghai, China, Dr. Long started her piano study at a very young age. She performed and broadcasted many concerts when she was a pianist in a Song and Dance company in Nanchang, Jiangxi province. Her life story was published in the book titled “What Music Means to Me” by Richard Rejino.

Dr. Long’s teaching career started when she was in Jiangxi Normal University in China. After the completion of her Doctoral degree in 1991, she devoted herself to private teaching in her home studio. In the fall of 2000, she joined the piano faculty at the Hockaday School. In her teaching, Dr. Long focuses on developing a strong technical foundation in her students. She emphasizes the importance of listening and creating the most desirable tone quality. She teaches a wide-range of classical repertoire to all-ages, helping students understand the different styles and genre of music. She stresses that success comes from discipline and diligence. She promotes and provides a variety of learning and performing opportunities for her students. As a result, her students are frequent winners in many local, regional, state, national, and international competitions. Among them were 1st place winners in the events such as the RMTA Jazz Competition, the Dallas Piano Solo Competition, the Dallas Symphonic Festival, the McKinney Young Artist Competition, the Youth Duo-Piano Competition in Fort Worth, the TMTA State Level Solo Performance Contest Senior Concerto Competition, the MTNA Solo Performance Texas State Competition, and the MTNA Solo Performance South Central Regional Competition. Most recently, her student won a 2nd place at the International American Protege Piano Competition, and was invited to perform at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York July, 2016.

Dr. Long also teaches the curriculum of the Royal Conservatory Music Development Program. Her students participate in the annual RCM examinations.
Dr. Long is a member of “Who’s Who of American Woman”, and “Who’s Who Among Asian Americans”. She is a juror member of the Piano Guild Audition and is frequently in demand for adjudication of piano events. Dr. Long was awarded “MTNA Teacher of National Finalist” in 2013. She was the competition chairman of the DMTA Dallas Symphonic Festival in 2007-2008, 2008-2009, and 2014-2015. She continues her professional development through many prestigious festivals, seminars, and master classes such as the International Piano Academy in Freiburg, Germany, and the annual “Piano Texas” in Forth Worth, to name a few.

Dr. Long and her husband, Gordon, reside in Plano, Texas. They are the parents of two Marksmen, Nathaniel and Daniel.