Private Lessons

List of 4 members.

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  Mark Alewine 

  Private Music Instruction - Woodwinds

  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.
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  Suneetha D'Apice 

  Private Music Instruction - Strings

  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.
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  Meredith Devine 

  Private Music Lessons - Piano
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  Carmen  Doubrava 

  Private Music Lessons - Piano; Accompanist

  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.