Paul Di Dario
Executive Director
piano, Suzuki piano
Danielle Ingram
piano
Ms. Ingram received a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College and a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from the University of Delaware. She has performed in benefit concerts, premiered works of contemporary composers, and performed a concerto with members of the Delaware, Lancaster, and Reading symphony orchestras. She is an active member of the Music Teacher’s National Association (MTNA), NJMTNA, MENC: The National Association for Music Education, and has previously served on the faculties of Trenton Community Music School, Westminster Conservatory, and the Westminster Piano Camp for middle school students. Ms. Ingram is a certified early childhood music teacher and currently teaches elementary general/choral music in Little Falls, NJ.
flute, clarinet, saxophone
As a Manhattan School of Music student, Mr. Garges pursued saxophone studies under Joe Allard. He also pursued flute studies with John Wyan, Kim Haley, and Laura George; clarinet studies under Mitch Kriegler and Bill Shadel; recorder studies with Pete Rose, and jazz improvisation studies with Andy Fusco. He is also a member of the faculty at the Far Brook School in Short Hills. Mr. Garges took his teaching courses at Kean State University and is an insightful teacher for children and adults. Music lessons, he says, have the value of teaching children something about discipline: “They learn that if you stick at something and do it consistently, you will get better at it, regardless of native talent,” he says.
Allen Weakland
violin, viola
Mr. Weakland is a 1974 graduate of Rutgers University who studied under Samuel Applebaum and Michael Tree. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, at the Vatican City in Rome and other international venues. The former Concertmaster for Seton Hall University’s orchestra and the first violinist for The Summit Strings, he has been a violin instructor at Seton Hall as well as teaching students in his own studio in Cranford
guitar
Mr. Sundquist has written, performed and produced words and music for four CDs, along with network commercials, films, and shows. A Grammy-finalist, Mr. Sundquist has played and taught guitar for three-plus decades and is an innovative performer and teacher. Mr. Sundquist’s classical guitar recordings were the focus of two award-winning National Public Radio documentaries; he continues to write, perform and record. He has studied classical guitar with Virginia Luque, who is a direct student of Andres Segovia and a Juilliard graduate