Brooklyn’s Conservatory of Music

Ms. Crenshaw taught voice as well as tutored students in music during both her undergraduate and graduate education. With all students she identifies their strengths and areas needing improvement, then encourages them in a supportive environment to achieve their goals. Ms. Crenshaw has appeared in numerous musical theatre and opera productions. Some favorites include: The Telephone (Lucy), The Fantasticks (Bellomy), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tytania), and Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife).

Sydney teaches both piano and voice and enjoys working with students to inspire passion for music. She teaches classical, musical theater, pop, worship, and choral music. Lesson focus is on mastering fundamentals, improving technique, building repertoire, learning to improvise and transposition to take each students skills and creativity in many musical directions to build a wide-ranging appreciation for music.

Sydney has 20 years of Musical Theatre experience having performed in over 50 shows with various school, community, and private organizations. Some of her favorite shows were Rent, Les Miserables and Guys and Dolls. She also has directed musicals including Godspell, Singing in the Rain, and Beauty and the Beast. She has led several children summer camps and taught classes in both acting and voice. Sydney is passionate to help each student meet their individual goals and grow in their music journey.

She has coached, recorded, collaborated and performed with many gifted, upcoming and established artists, musicians, music producers and sound engineers. Since a very young age Jasmin was very passionate about music. She first began studying classical piano with concert pianist Natascha Konsistorum in Hannover, Germany and later proceeded her studies at Santa Monica College, UCLA Extension and Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, CA, where she finalized her education with a Bachelors of Arts degree. Prior to completing the degree program, she graduated from the MI certificate program and was honored with the Stanley Clarke scholarship. Her initial introduction to teaching music classes began with Macy Gray and the M – Gray Music Academy in Los Angeles, CA, where she was privileged to work with highly skilled children and celebrity clientele. The main focus was musical direction and preparing students for auditions, live performances and T.V. appearances. Since Jasmin had been continuously requested to work with young children, she was invited to participate in a teacher’s training program at Piano Play Music Systems in Sherman Oaks, CA, where she was trained to teach toddlers and young children. Through many valuable experiences, she created a very unique and holistic teaching method in order to increase Creativity, Memory, Focus and Physical Awareness. Besides her great passion for teaching music, Jasmin is currently completing a solo album and composing & producing music for various established artists as well as for T.V. & Film. For more information, please visit www.Integrativesounds.com

He is also the music director of his church. He directs the choir, organizes all special music and events, and sings and play guitar. He specializes in singing and playing acoustic guitar at the same time, blues, rock, and worship..

He performs works by Mozart, Verdi, Mendelssohn (as well as contemporary composers like Marquez and Lawson) with the VC Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Ashley Walters. When he’s not practicing the same technique for hours at a time, he enjoys a strong cup of coffee. And another… and a few more after that.

Teaching is very meaningful to Alex, as he believes teaching fulfills a key role in understanding one’s thought process. “While we teach, we learn,” said the Roman philosopher Seneca, and Alex is always looking for more to teach and more to learn. He is on a constant journey of self-improvement, and is very excited to teach at Brooklyn’s Conservatory of Music.

Ever since Lily was a little girl, from the second she heard the deep rich dulcet tones of the cello, she immediately fell in love and knew this is what she wanted to pursue for her musical career. Lily’s main goal as a music teacher is to enable her students to build their own confidence in themselves and to show them the beauty of music and how one can really express themselves in and through the art of music.