Steinway Gallery arts Academy
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Piano Ensemble Workshops for Summer -- Duets, Trios, Quartets, and more!
Summer Vocal Music Workshops -- Recital, Voice 911, and Jazz Standards Workshops
Summer Fun for Kids! -- Private and Group Lessons for Various Instruments
Summer Group and Private Lessons
Fall Enrollments begin August 1st
We are Pleased to Announce
Our Latest Additions to the
Steinway Gallery Arts Academy Faculty!
Robert Bergman, Cellist
Performer & Teacher
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
(Contact Steinway Gallery Arts Academy for teaching days and times.)
Robert Bergman began his tenure with the DSO in the summer of 1989. He previously served as Assistant Principal Cello for two seasons with the Sacramento Symphony and has held the positions of Principal and Assistant Principal Cello of the Tanglewood Orchestra, Principal Cello with the Chicago Civic Orchestra, Assistant Principal of the Springfield (Mass.) and Hartford Symphonies.
Bergman received his bachelor’s degree in 1986 from the Oberlin College Conservatory, studying cello under Richard Kapuscinski and piano with Joseph Schwartz. Also an accomplished pianist, Bergman has served as dance accompanist for ballet and modern dance classes at Amherst College, Mt. Holyoke College, Smith College, Harvard University, University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and Oberlin College. When not performing, Bergman enjoys teaching privately and cello building.
Gregory Staples, Violinist
Performer & Teacher
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
(Contact Steinway Gallery Arts Academy for teaching days and times.)
Thirty-year-old violinist Greg Staples joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in December 1999. A native Detroiter, Staples returned to the Motor City from Atlanta, where he served in the First Violin section of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since 1994. In the fall of 1998, Staples was appointed Acting Assistant Concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony.
The son of former DSO Concertmaster Gordon Staples and longtime first violin section member Beatriz Budinsky, Gregory Staples will now share the Orchestra Hall stage with both his mother and his former teacher, Principal Second violin Geoffrey Applegate. As winner of the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra’s concerto competition, Staples soloed with the DSO in 1987 and again in 1993. In 1988, Staples was one of seven American violinists chosen to participate in the first American-Soviet Youth Symphony, which toured the United States and the former Soviet Union.
A 1993 graduate of the Indiana University School of Music, where he earned an Artists’ Diploma, Staples is also an avid chamber music enthusiast and performs on a 1775 Ferdinand Gagliano violin. Staples has appeared with the Grosse Pointe Symphony Orchestra and the Birmingham Bloomfield Symphony, as well as at the Grand Teton Music Festival and the Holland Music Festival.