Thank You for Your Support
At the Colburn School, we are proud to offer over $11 million of scholarship support annually for nearly 1,000 students from the Community School of Performing Arts, the Conservatory of Music, the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute, and the Music Academy. This is made possible in partnership with our generous donor community, whose philanthropy pays for over 75% of the Colburn experience. The School’s comprehensive performing arts education includes access to more than 350 free or low-cost performances on campus, myriad opportunities to learn from guest artists in master classes, innovative career development curriculum, as well as inspiring and supportive rehearsal and performance spaces.
Gifts from individuals, institutional partners, our trustees, as well as the ongoing support from legacy gifts to the Colburn School endowment allow Colburn to continue to educate and inspire students from all around the world. We extend our heartfelt appreciation to the individuals and organizations whose giving makes a lasting impact on the creative endeavors of our young artists. Thank you.
Individual Donors
Thank you to our community of donors who have supported Colburn annually with gifts of all levels. The following individuals contributed $250 or more between July 1, 2022, and December 31, 2023, in support of the activities of our students and faculty
$100,000+
Anonymous (3)
Stephanie and Gregory Guyett
David Kobrin
Terri and Jerry Kohl
Anne Akiko Meyers and Jason Subotky
Ann Moore
Koni and Geoffrey Rich
The Ward Family
Marilyn Ziering
$25,000–$99,999
Anonymous
Wallis Annenberg
Daniel L. Avchen and David Johnson
Dr. Robert N. Braun and Dr. Joan A. Friedman
Henry and Queence Choi
Bethany and Alex Coffee
David D. Colburn
Alice Steere Coulombe
Jennifer Diener and Eric Small
Anthony DiResta and Terrance Mason
The Martine and Dan Drackett Family Foundation, Inc.
Linda and Darren Edwards
Lucy Farber and Jim Bright
The Forman Family
Jerome Guillen and Jeremy Gallagher
Dorothy Hendin*
Henry Family Fund
Bob Kelly
Priscilla and William Kennedy
Molly and Brian Kirk
Aliza and Michael Lesser
Allan Marks and Mara Cohen
Beverly C. Marksbury
J.H.B. Kean and Toby E. Mayman
Worthy McCartney, Cartier
Greg and Tracy McWilliams
Rosemarie Fall and Andrew Millstein
Diane Naegele
Mahnaz and David Newman
Gaylord “Nick” Nichols*
The Honorable Ernest M. Robles and Linda Curtis
Ronus Foundation
Mimi Rotter
Thomas L. Safran
Barbara and Heinrich Schelbert
Elizabeth Segerstrom
Mrs. Isaac Stern
Harry Suh and Patricia Koh
Cecilia and Keith Terasaki
Peter W. Wardle
Alyce de Roulet Williamson
Cari Wolk and Athena Parking, Inc
Dylan Yolles
$10,000–$24,999
Salome and James* Arkatov
Thomas and Judith Beckmen
Joan Benny*
Virginia and Austin Beutner
George* and Linda Cassady
Ellen DiResta and Jill DiResta
Kathleen and Jerry Eberhardt
Lyndie and Sam B. Ersan
Richard Fiock
Marianna and David Fisher
Dr. Robert N. Braun and Dr. Joan A. Friedman
Diane Henderson
Jessica Iclisoy
Zhenni and Kevin Jackson
Kardan Yui Family
Raulee Marcus
Judith S. Mishkin
Carole and John Moran
Michael Nissman
Linda Pierce
Kangzi Qiao and Jun Hu
Linda and Stephen Rosen
Dr. Lawrence Rubenstein and Dr. Susan Auyang
Beverly Ryder
Daisy and Bill Spurgin
Thatcher and Jill Thompson
Christine and Sean Yu
Emma and Adam Zhu
$5,000–$9,999
Linda* and Robert Attiyeh
Evelyn and Stephen Block
John and Louise Bryson
Lisa Kirk Colburn
Helgard and Irwin S. Field
Shari and Richard Foos
Michelle and David Horowitz
Susan Kendall
Marisa Silver and Ken Kwapis, in memory of Marjorie Kwapis
Robert and Kristen Lewis
Linda May and Jack Suzar
Christopher Meledandri
Marcy Miller
Joong-Seok Moon
Peter* and Merle Mullin
Amy Plummer
Ricki and Marvin Ring
Rockriver
Daniel Rothmuller
Michael and Lynn Russell
Allison Sampson
The Sarkisian Family
Frank Skocilich
Sabrina Strong
Michael Turner and James Durree
Samantha Winslow and John Williams
Shelley and Vic Wisner, in honor of Jonathan Wisner and Ted Atkatz
$2,500–$4,999
Noel and Diane Applebaum
Tim Disney
Gail Eichenthal
Jean and Jerome Friedman
Daniel Gould and Marina Kim
Betty Hsu
John F. Marshall
Gerry and Gary Matsuno
Nissenson Family
Selma Ankist Family Trust, Andrea Nobil Trustee
Tony and Kim Ruys de Perez
Jean F. Schwieger*
Abby Sher
Sarah Rosenwald Varet and Jesse Coleman
Gail Werner
The Wickert Family
$1,000–$2,499
Anonymous (2)
Claudia and Roberto Apelfeld
Shirley Ashkenas
Joan Boyett
Louise and David Cheli
Gil Cheung and Judy Liu
Erica and William Clark
Ami Cohen
Dvorah Colker
Kenneth Concepcion
Adrian Daly*
Erin David
Diana deNoyelles and Edward H. Bailey
Katharine DeShaw and Mark McConnell
Joan and Albert Dorman
Pepper Edmiston
Gail and James Ellis
Kate and Marvin Feinstein
Dora Fourcade
Janelle Friedman
Susan Friedman
Pat and Sandy Gage
Isla Garraway and David Shavelle
Lorena Gonda
I.H. and Anna Grancell Foundation
Anne and Jeffrey Grausam
Scott and Loree Hagen
Sue and Larry Hochberg
Linda Joyce Hodge
Ada and Jim Horwich
Felix Jen
Jennifer and Matthew Kallend
Cynthia and Marc Karlin
Harvey and Nina Karp
Jill Lawrence
Keith and Nanette Leonard
Carolyn Wright-Lewis and Edward Lewis
Shu-Yuan and Alexander Linna
Sandy and Robert Lipson
Jack Lipton
Francis Maas
Lawrence and Susan Grant Maisel
Maloney Family
Jess Morton
Heidi Novaes
Margaret O’Donnell
Robert Oehler and Helene Lin
Gia Paladino-Wise and Michael Wise
Kasi and Rob Peters
JBD Land Company, LLC
Kathleen Reiss
Gretchen and Jay Riley
Elizabeth and Mark Robison
Miriam Rutiz-Braveman
Jessica and Mark Samuel
Samantha and Marc Sandman
Stephen and Janet Sherman
Susanne Spangler and Eric Bell
Adrian Spence
Eva and Marc Stern
Maria and John Taglioli
Thomas and Elayne Techentin
Jill and Britt Terrell
Laura Francis-Thorp and Clay Thorp
Laurence Tighe
Truelyt-Knox Family
Tim Tuttle
Vicki Unger and David Kopitz
James and Robin Walther
Barbara and Ian White-Thomson
Teri Wilks
Allison and Jim Wilt
Cristen and Nathaniel Zeisler
Richard Ziman
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$250–$999
Anonymous (4)
Barbara Abell
Ramon M. Alvarez Jr.
Jane Madelon Anthony
Alan and Mary Arkatov
Elizabeth and Edward Avetisian
Noel Barragan
Jennifer Bellah Maguire
Andrew Bernstein and Mariel Mulet
Michael David Bicay
Lisa Bittan
Theodore Braun
Casey Breves and Sam Tsui
Amy Bryan and Tate Gardner
Catherine Bryan, in memory of Norman Bryan
Kevin Cassady, in memory of George E. Cassady
Yu Wei Chou and George Cheng
Lynn and Thomas Chu
Ki Chung
Rachel Civen and Peter Schubin
Stephanie and Dennis Cohen
Rachel Criswell
Paul Crost
Melinda J. Crowe
Claire Curley & Mason Rather
Andrea Dale
Donna and David* Dalton
Debbie Devine and Jay McAdams
Eric Drachman
Celina and Owen Duffy
Adrian Dunn
Elizabeth Dymond
Gale Epstein
Georgina Cabrera and John Factoran
Rachel and Zachary Fine
Mimi and Ed Fisher
Robert Follett
Bryan Galdrikian and Raina Pepke
Atsuko Gee and Stephen Wada
Matthew Gelfand and Robin Achen
Kimaree and Yehuda Gilad
The Girard Family
Alex Glikmann
Dana Gluckstein
Serena Goransson
Jacquelyn and Stanley Gottlieb
Tara Grand
Kelly Gray and Kevin Singleton
Richard Halverstadt
Arax Harutunian and Allen Gross
Wenxin He and Jay Zheng
Ginny Kim Heller and Mark Heller
Thomas Hildreth
Toby Horn and Harold Tomin
Ann Horton and Jean W. Horton
Julie and John Houlihan
Gina and Scott Hyers
Dana Jacobson
The Johnson-Brown Family
Simone and Thomas Johnston
Helen Kauder and Barry Nalebuff
Susan Bloch Kay and Steve Kay
Francis Kent
Michelle and Kevin Kim
Frances R. Kimbrough
The King Family Fund
Richard and Elizabeth Koshalek
Karen and Stephen Kraft
Hannah and Marshall Kramer
Diane Ward and James Kronman
Sarah Lang
Kelly and Eric Lee
Tera and Ryan Leonard
Christina Liao and John Lesher
Nina Lieberman
Renee and Meyer Luskin
Karen and David MacQueen
Fred Manaster
Leslie and Patrick Marckx
Paul and Kitty McNamee-Lazarus
Kelly and Claudio Miranda
Pamela and Mark Mischel
Gina and Charles Moffitt
Fatima Moldashova and Chris Bond
Phillip Moll
Donna Morton
Gretl and Arnold Mulder
Danielle Ondarza and Justin Lees-Smith
Meltem and Mehmet Ozpay
Margo Peck
Edward A. Perez
Thomas Peterson
Sifania and Victor Pineda
Joshua Portner
Henning Andersen and Mary Pottala
Jeffrey Ptak
Vladimir and Jan-Maureen Sakovich
Amelia and Ralph Saltsman
Mark Sandelson
Rachana Sar and Kazusa Kimura
The Schmidt-Scherrer Family Fund
Hazel Schmidt
Risa and Joel Silverstein
Indra and Lily Siswanto
Jeffrey and Tamthuan Smith
Jackie and Steven Stein
Ruth and Michael Steinberger
Elaine Sullivan
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Karen and Stuart Tobisman
Susan and Aaron Tout
Jennifer and Larry Trilling
Marie Trohman
Brigitta Troy and Alden Lawrence
Philippe Vaillancourt
Andrea Van de Kamp
Ruth Vasquez
Yanling Wang and Charles Dunkelman
Max and Diane Weissberg
Anjanette and John Whiteman
Libby Wilson, MD
Sandra Wisot
Georgeann Wyatt
Alison Yoshimoto-Towery
Sarah Zhou
*Deceased
Institutional Partners
Thank you to our foundation and corporate partners who have supported Colburn with gifts of all levels. The following institutional partners contributed $250 or more between July 1, 2022, and December 31, 2023, in support of the annual activities of our students and faculty.
$100,000+
Colburn Foundation
Dunard Fund USA
East West Bank
The Tippet Rise Fund of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation
Max H. Gluck Foundation
L.L. Foundation for Youth
The Negaunee Foundation
The Rose Hills Foundation
Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation
$10,000–$99,999
Anonymous (2)
Adams-Mastrovich Family Foundation
Annenberg Foundation
The Nancy E. Barton Foundation
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
California Arts Council
Capital Group
Cartier
Rafael And Luisa De Marchena-Huyke Foundation
Edison International
EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants
First Republic Bank
Gehry Partners, LLP
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
Institute of Museum and Library Services
McCarthy Building Companies
Nagata Acoustics International, Inc
The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation
Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts
Joseph Reich, Pumpkin Foundation
Sounding Point Academy
Sidney Stern Memorial Trust
TheatreDNA
United Nissan, Inc.
Vectis DC
Visionary Women
Whittier Trust Company
$2,500–$9,999
ARC Engineering
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP
Hennings-Fischer Foundation
LA Violin Shop
The Michaels Family Foundation
Middle Road Foundation
The Schmetterling Foundation
John and Beverly Stauffer Foundation
Steinway & Sons
$1,000–$2,499
Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP
City National Bank
Council For Canadian American Relations
Decker Lighting Supply, LLC
Diversified Thermal Services, LLC
JBD Land Company
Stanhope Company
VectorUSA
$250–$999
B&B Plumbing
National Philanthropic Trust
Endowment Circle
The Colburn School is honored to recognize donors who support the Colburn School's endowment, including the Access Fund, named chairs, scholarships, and programmatic endowments.
$1,000,000+
Anonymous (2)
Walter Arlen* and Howard Myers
Thomas and Judith Beckmen
Colburn Foundation
Dunard Fund USA
David Kobrin
Greendale Family Foundation
The Negaunee Foundation
Gaylord “Nick” Nichols*
Bruce Sutherland*
The Ward Family
$500,000–$999,999
Anonymous
$250,000–$499,999
Anonymous (2)
Patricia Duque Byrne
Charitable Foundation
David D. Colburn
Hilary Garland
William and Kathryne Garland
Max H. Gluck Foundation
Beverly C. Marksbury
$100,000–$249,999
Anonymous
The Ahmanson Foundation
Shirley Ashkenas
Linda* and Robert Attiyeh
Austrian-American Council West
Kardan Yui Family
Aliza and Michael Lesser
J.H.B. Kean and Toby E. Mayman
Mei-Lee Ney
Elizabeth Redleaf
Elizabeth Loucks Samson
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Mitzi Sutherland*
JoAnn Turovsky
Deborah and Lee Walcott
$25,000–$99,999
Anonymous
David and Margaret Barry*
Murray and Susan Brown
Christopher Essay*
Anne and Jeffrey Grausam
Henry Family Fund
Jee Sung Kang and Hun Ku Kang
The Karpman Foundation
Molly and Brian Kirk
Shih Lan Liu and Jeff Lavner
Dr. Paul and Mrs. Candice Lee
Norma and Ronald Leonard
Steven F. and Susan Matt, MATT Construction
Genie and Robert McAllister
Rosemarie Fall and Andrew Millstein
Diane Naegele
The Honorable Ernest M. Robles and Linda Curtis
Ann* and Robert Ronus
Linda and Stephen Rosen
Mimi Rotter
Susan Keran Solomon
Harry Suh and Patricia Koh
Barbara Machen-Tehranchi
Cecilia and Keith Terasaki
Keith and Cecilia Terasaki Family Foundation
The Ward Family
Peter W. Wardle
*Deceased
The following named endowments provide support in perpetuity for our students.
Anonymous
Ahmanson Foundation Scholarship Fund
Amron-Sutherland Fund for Young Pianists
Shirley and Irving L. Ashkenas Scholarship Fund
Austrian-American Council West Award
Barry Family Scholarship Fund
Nancy Baxter Endowment Fund
Judith M. Benjamin Fund
Iona Benson Trust
Emily Bernstein Scholarship Fund
Susan and Murray Brown Endowment Fund in Honor and Memory of Cellist Pat Hermann
Pat Byrne Piano Scholarship Endowment Fund
Richard D. Colburn Viola Chair
Catherine Colburn Høgel Scholarship Fund
Keith and Betsy Colburn Scholarship/ Galashiels Fund
Richard D. Colburn Scholarship Fund
Jennifer and Royce Diener Cello Scholarship Fund
Dorothy Duque Grant Russell
Financial Aid Endowment Fund for Piano
Ed and Mari Edelman Chamber Music Fund
Louise Garland Scholarship Fund
Max and Muriel Gluck Scholarship Fund
Grancell Scholarship Fund
Moe and Arlene Greendale Endowment Fund
Susan and Bruce Heard Financial Aid Endowment Fund for Cello
Henry Chamber Music Endowment
Molinda and Dr. Harold Karpman Fund
Wendy Kelman Scholarship
Beverly, Donald, and David Kobrin Scholarship Fund
Gene Krieger Financial Aid Fund
Candice & Paul Lee Endowment Fund for Community Engagement
Lesser Scholarship Fund
Rosalyne A. Lesser Musical Endowment Fund
Wesley Bing Leung Citizenship Award
Beverly Corcoran Marksbury Financial Aid Fund
Christine Martin Endowment Fund
Kean/Mayman Endowed Scholarship Fund
Millstein-Fall Colburn Youth Orchestra Fund
Negaunee Conducting Program Endowment
Negaunee Foundation Endowment Fund
Nichols Chair, Center for Innovation and Community Impact
Felix Racelis Piano Scholarship Fund
Elizabeth Redleaf Scholarship Fund
Frances Rosen Violin Prize Endowment Fund
Dorothy and Horace Sampson Cello Financial Aid Endowment Fund
Hugo Samuels Scholarship Fund
Harry Suh and Patricia Koh Scholarship Fund
Keith and Cecilia Terasaki Family Foundation Financial Aid Endowment Fund
Weintraub Family Endowment
Encore Circle
Donors who include the Colburn School in their estate plans are welcomed into the Encore Circle, and we gratefully celebrate the following donors for their profound support.
Anonymous
Walter Arlen* and Howard Myers
Linda* and Robert Attiyeh
Judith and Thomas Beckmen
Judith M. Benjamin*
Joan Benny*
Iona Benson*
Alan M. Binnie
Rebecca Bowne
Erica and William Clark
Lisa Kirk Colburn
Richard D. Colburn*
Alice and Joe* Coulombe
Jennifer F. Diener
Christopher Essay*
Richard Fiock
Roger Gendron
Anne and Jeffrey Grausam
Stephanie and Gregory Guyett
Susan and Bruce Heard
Dorothy Hendin*
Frances R. Kimbrough
David Kobrin
Barbara Leidenfrost*
Jo Ann and Josef K.* Lesser
Joel B. Levey*
Raulee Marcus
Beverly C. Marksbury
France H. Meindl
Mike and Lorraine Mohill
Mahnaz and David Newman
Mei-Lee Ney
Gaylord “Nick” Nichols*
Mimi Rotter
Allison Sampson
Elizabeth Loucks Samson
Mary Lea Schander
Jean F. Schwieger*
Harry Suh and Patricia Koh
Bruce Sutherland*
Mitzi Sutherland*
Ralph Tornberg* and Sheila Frost
Dr. Herbert Zipper*
*Deceased
Gifts in Kind
Colburn School appreciates the continued collaboration of the following partners from June 1, 2022, to December 31, 2023.
Anonymous
Cartier
Forrest Colburn
Erin David
Frank and Berta Gehry
Wendy Goldman
Henry Family Wines
Karen Kensek
Holland & Knight, LLP
Theresa Lawrence
Daniel Lu, MD, PhD
Raulee Marcus
Marcy Miller
Judith S. Mishkin
Rachel Moore and Rob Ryan
Diane Naegele
Mahnaz and David Newman
David Wheeler Newman, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
Suzanne Ponder
The Roebuck Family, in honor of Edith Roebuck
Connie Sheu and Paul Chun
Graham Sibley
Dr. Peter Stone
Alan J. Watson, Holland & Knight, LLP
Rosanne Ziering
Building Our Future, The Campaign for Colburn
We are profoundly grateful to our campaign supporters whose unwavering commitment and enthusiasm have propelled us to this pivotal moment at the Colburn School. Their belief in our project and willingness to join us in the early stages have set the foundation for its success. Now as we prepare to begin construction, we would like to take a moment to celebrate our generous donors for being champions of this journey. Together, standing on the precipice of transformative change in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles, we look forward to forging ahead and achieving incredible heights through this project.
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The Ahmanson Foundation
Linda* and Robert Attiyeh
Daniel Avchen and David Johnson
Bradford and Sharon Bolger
The Choi Family
David D. Colburn
Alice Steere Coulombe
Christiane and Carlton Cuse
Jennifer Diener
Anthony DiResta and Terrance Mason
Linda and Darren Edwards
Lucy Farber and Jim Bright
Richard Fiock
The Tippet Rise Fund of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation
Anne and Jeffrey Grausam
T. Robert Greene Foundation, in honor of Maestro Ernst H. Katz
Stephanie and Gregory Guyett
Henry Family Fund
Priscilla and William Kennedy
Molly and Brian Kirk
David Kobrin
Terri and Jerry Kohl
Aliza and Michael Lesser
Robert and Kristen Lewis
Beverly C. Marksbury
Steven F. and Susan Matt, MATT Construction
Worthy McCartney
Greg and Tracy McWilliams
Rosemarie Fall and Andrew Millstein
Ann Moore, in honor of Denise Scheerer
Peter* and Merle Mullin
Diane Naegele
Mahnaz and David Newman
The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Mimi Rotter
Thomas L. Safran
Samantha and Marc Sandman
Barbara and Heinrich Schelbert
Eva and Marc Stern
Harry Suh and Patricia Koh
Cecilia and Keith Terasaki
Peter W. Wardle
Alyce de Roulet Williamson
If your name has been omitted or is listed incorrectly, please accept our apologies and notify the Philanthropy department at philanthropy@colburnschool.edu so that we may correct our records.
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Make Colburn your home this summer! Colburn’s intensives, summer camps, and classes invite young musicians and dancers to enhance their skills with expert instruction from our esteemed faculty and renowned guest artists. Programs fill up quickly, so register today!
Music Camps
Chamber Music Intensive
Choral Workshop
Dalcroze Summer Intensive for Music Educators
Jazz Camp
Guitar Intensive
Los Angeles Brass Institute
Los Angeles Honor Band
Piano Camp Intensive
Saxophone Intensive
Sounding Point Academy
Music Classes
(open registration begins May 1)
Adult Jazz Workshops
Group Guitar/Piano
Drama
Early Childhood Summer Samplers
Music Theory Intensives
Dance Camps
Dance Academy Summer Intensive
Summer Dance Camp
Teen Modern Intensive
Teen Tap Intensive
Youth Ballet Intensive
Dance Classes
Summer Saturdays:
Creative Dance
Pre-Ballet
Ballet Prep I and II
Beginning Ballet
Modern I and II
Tap I and II
Teen Beginning/Intermediate Tap
summer camps are open for registration! Various dates in June and July
discover more at colburnschool.edu/summer
2024
Dear Audience,
Improvising as a form of expression.
Jazz music, at its core, is improvisational. The ability to interpret the written note and create something new is at the heart of American music.
Tap dancers developed this skill alongside the musicians who accompanied them. All the great tap dancers were also musicians. Dancing in big bands and later in smaller jazz combos, they created their own music with their taps. Honi Coles, Cholly Atkins, Chuck Green, and Jimmy Slyde led the way for dancers like Gregory Hines and Savion Glover to express themselves not just as dancers, but as jazz musicians.
Tonight, you will see our tap dance artists and musicians improvise together and pull rhythm and melody “Out of Thin Air.”
Denise Scheerer Tap and Musical Theatre Chair
Jerry Kalaf Music Director
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Featured Artists
Domenic Genova
Domenic Genova started working as a professional bassist in the mid ’60s, playing pop, rock, R&B, and later, jazz. He toured in the ’70s with a variety of pop acts: Bobby Sherman, Oliver, Lori Lieberman, Tony Orlando and Dawn, the 5th Dimension, Olivia Newton-John, Seals and Crofts, and Shaun Cassidy, then later with Melissa Manchester. In the late ’70s, Mr. Genova began working in the TV industry with composer Earle Hagen for the show Eight is Enough . Other TV shows included Happy Days , Laverne & Shirley , The Dukes of Hazzard , Cheers , Cagney and Lacey , Alien Nation , Punky Brewster , Taxi , Star Trek: The Next Generation , Deep Space Nine , Voyager , and Enterprise , Roseanne , Malcolm in the Middle , JAG , King of the Hill , MacGyver , Home Improvement , 8 Simple Rules , 7th Heaven , Boston Legal, Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, and The Secret Life of the American Teenager
From the late ’70s on he worked in films starting with Grease . Other movies include: This is Elvis , All the Pretty Horses , Clueless , Down Periscope , Bye Bye Love , Flight of the Intruder , For Love of the Game , Greedy , Gordy , Godfather lll , Hope Floats , Hot Shots , Ladybugs , Leap of Faith , Legally Blonde 2 , The Matrix Reloaded , McHale’s Navy , Mortal Kombat , The Negotiator , The Rising Sun , Rookie of the Year , Star Trek: Generations , Something’s Gotta Give , Surrogates , U-571 , Undercover Brother , Up in the Air , The X Files: the Movie . Mr. Genova has played with: Fred Tackett (from Little Feat), Jim Cox Trio, Lawrence Juber, Jerry Kalaf Trio, Jazz Tap Ensemble, Gerard Hagen Trio, Thom Rotella Quartet, Jeff Richman Group, Bill Labounty Group, Louis Durra Trio, and World of Warcraft Blizzcon.
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Johnnie Hobbs
Johnnie Hobbs III is a tap dance instructor, video game/ voice director, and filmmaker. A long-time tap dancer and performer from Alaska to Guatemala, Mr. Hobbs teaches as an adjunct dance professor at AMDA LA, the Colburn School, and Hollywood Dance Center in Los Angeles. He recently provided choreography for Kelly Marie Tran’s 2021 MISCAST performance for MCC Theatre, from The Book of Mormon . He’s been an artist-in-residence at the University of Colorado and a guest speaker at Broadway Dance Center, Temple University, Santa Monica College, and Art Institute of Philadelphia.
Jerry Kalaf
A resident of Los Angeles, Jerry Kalaf has been active in the Jazz community for many years. His credits include performances and tours with Eddie Harris, Gary Burton, Gary Foster, Frank Strazzeri, Bill Mays, Bill Perkins, Jimmy Cleveland, The Pointer Sisters, Gregory Hines, and Major Holley. Mr. Kalaf has toured Europe, Asia, Russia, South America, Africa, and the United States as musical director of the Jazz Tap Ensemble, with performances at the Playboy Jazz festival in Los Angeles, Salzburg Jazz festival in Salzburg, Austria, and at Carnegie Hall and the Apollo Theater in New York.
Active in the recording studios of Los Angeles, Mr. Kalaf has participated as both a performer and composer in scoring sessions for hundreds of film and television shows. A recipient of a Meet The Composer/California grant funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council, Mr. Kalaf’s recording, Just Like Old Times , is a collaboration with arranger Doug Walter and features eight of Mr. Kalaf’s compositions for string orchestra and piano trio. The arrangements challenge and inspire the soloists
Photo: Luiz Guanzon
and show the two sides of jazz composition: The interpretation of the written note and the improvising musician’s response to it. Mr. Kalaf’s most recent recording, Welcome to Earth, features eight new compositions for trio and sextet. He is also a member of the improvisational group wav.migration, whose newest recording is titled Soundscape , a collection of improvised music. Evocative and interactive, wav.migration endeavors to create something out of nothing, drawing influence and inspiration from the diverse worlds of painting, poetry, and film.
Liz Kinnon
Liz Kinnon—a pianist, arranger, composer, educator, and film coach—is a native of Los Angeles and has performed all over the world with numerous artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Andy Williams, Barbara Morrison, Sherwood Sledge, Kenia, Octavio Bailly, Embrasamba, Maiden Voyage, and Jackie Ryan.
Ms. Kinnon’s songwriting credits include “Say Goodbye” on Kenia’s Love Lives On , and her arrangements have been featured on recordings and live performances including The Duke Ellington Memorial Concert with legendary jazz greats Pepper Adams, Sonny Fortune, and full orchestra; strings for Sandy Graham’s By Request ; and tracks on jazz vocalist Jackie Ryan’s last three CD releases. In May 2007, Ms. Kinnon was commissioned to write and perform her own arrangement of Smile with Maiden Voyage (a 17-piece big band) at the Kennedy Center’s Tribute to Women in Jazz and returned in 2010 to play in a concert honoring jazz icon Mary Lou Williams.
During the 1990s, Ms. Kinnon worked as an orchestrator for Emmy award-winning composers Richard Stone, Steve Bernstein, and Tim Kelly on cartoons Animaniacs , Pinky and the Brain , and Histeria . She also worked for composer Shirley Walker on the feature film Mystery Men . Ms. Kinnon went on to compose and record the scores for the documentaries The Life and Times of Jean DePaul (2005) and Nicole Wood: Cars & Beauty (2012). She has worked in music preparation for hundreds of films, live performances, and television shows including many years on the music team for the Academy Awards.
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As a young faculty member at the Dick Grove School of Music from 1984–1992, Ms. Kinnon taught classes in jazz theory, arranging, and piano. In 2009, she joined the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts faculty as Jazz Piano Instructor, and in 2012, she helped to launch Colburn’s Adult Studies program. She is currently the Director of Adult Jazz Workshops and teaches other jazz-related classes.
In 2015, Liz coached actor Ryan Gosling through preproduction and filming for his role as an accomplished jazz pianist in the film, La La Land, for which he won the Golden Globe award for Best Actor. She has continued to coach multiple actors for numerous award-winning film and TV projects. Ms. Kinnon’s first solo CD, Ms. Behavin’ , features top international artists in a dynamic merging of Brazilian, Latin, and bebop jazz.
Zoe Lesser
Zoe Lesser is a tap dancer from Los Angeles. Ms. Lesser has performed with musicians and companies across the country including jazz singer Eliana Joy, Nashville-based group Doug & The Dying, and Santa Fe-based crooner Westin McDowell. She has performed works by Chicago Tap Theater across Chicago and worked on MADD Rhythms’ Hoofin’ It: The Untold Story of the Founders of Tap. Ms. Lesser has presented choreography at Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts in Albuquerque and at the Detroit City Dance Festival. She is an alumna of Jacob’s Pillow and has been on faculty at the National Dance Institute of New Mexico.
Denise Scheerer
Denise Scheerer has performed with the Jazz Tap Ensemble, and she’s studied and performed with tap legends Eddie Brown and Sam Weber.
Ms. Scheerer has taught workshops and master classes all over the Pacific Northwest and California and was a member of the dance faculty at Loyola Marymount University for five years. She’s taught in New York City for a Tradition in Tap workshop, which honored her husband, Robert Scheerer. And she has also taught for the St. Louis, Detroit, and Los Angeles Tap Festivals. Most recently, she taught and performed at the Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University in 2019. Ms. Scheerer teaches at the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts, and is currently chair of the tap and musical theater dance department.
Gary Solt
Gary Solt has worked as a professional guitarist for many decades. His television credits include: Knots Landing ; Star Trek: Next Generation , Deep Space 9 , Voyager , and Enterprise ; Becker ; National Geographic ; and Masters of Horror . His Broadway musical credits include: Evita ; A Chorus Line ; Sister Act ; DreamGirls in Concert ; Vanities ; Mask ; Stormy Weather ; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ; They’re Playing Our Song ; West Side Story ; Children of Eden ; Godspell ; Jaques Brel ; and many others. Mr. Solt has performed and toured with The Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, Santa Barbara Symphony, New West Orchestra, The Chris Walden Big Band, Bruce Paulson LA All-star Big Band, Shirley Bassey, Frank Sinatra Jr, Nancy Wilson, Clark Terry. Mr. Solt joined international tours with the Billy Vaughn Orchestra and the Percy Faith Orchestra. He has played jazz gigs with mostly everybody. Mr. Solt is a clinician and adjudicator for jazz festivals throughout California and Nothern Arizona.
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Melinda Sullivan
Melinda Sullivan is a tap dance artist, dancer, and choreographer. She has performed and taught worldwide at tap festivals and universities. Ms. Sullivan’s choreography has been seen on Broadway and in a variety of scripted and unscripted television shows. She is a guest artist with New York City-based, awardwinning tap company Dorrance Dance and is a founding member of the Syncopated Ladies. Ms. Sullivan is currently on tour and collaborating on an album with musician Larry Goldings.
Sam Weber
Sam Weber is an award-winning artist whose reputation in the world of tap dance spans the globe. Mr. Weber is in demand internationally as a performer, master teacher, and choreographer. A protege of tap master Stan Kahn in San Francisco, he was a principal dancer and choreographer with the Jazz Tap Ensemble from 1986–2009 and received acclaim at home and abroad touring with the company. Mr. Weber has appeared at international tap festivals since the first Colorado Tap Festival in 1986 and has taught and performed alongside such legendary tap masters as Charles “Honi” Coles, Jimmy Slyde, Steve Condos, Buster Brown, Gregory Hines, and the Nicholas Brothers. Mr. Weber is one of the few tap dancers in the world who performs Morton Gould’s Tap Dance Concerto . He was the first tap dancer to receive New York’s Bessie Award, presented in recognition of outstanding artistic achievement, and he is also the recipient of numerous tap dance awards, including Legacy Awards from the Orange County Tap Fest and the Third Coast Rhythm Project, the Juba Award from the Chicago Human Rhythm Project, the Hoofers Award from the American Tap Dance Foundation, and a lifetime achievement award from Chicago Dance Masters. He has taught at UCLA, California State University, Fullerton, California State University, Los Angeles, and San Francisco State University. He teaches regular classes in San Francisco.
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Joseph Wiggan
Joseph Wiggan was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He began tap dancing with Paul and Arlene Kennedy at the age of nine. Mr. Wigan is a 2003 Music Center Spotlight Award recipient, 2004 Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and a 2005 Princess Grace Award/Chris Hellman Dance Honor recipient. He has performed in the American tour of Riverdance; Imagine Tap!; À la Recherche de Joséphine; and made his Broadway debut in Shuffle Along. Other credits include Cirque du Soleil Banana Shpeel and Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour; N.Y.C.C. Encores: The New Yorkers; and This Joint is Jumpin’ at The Other Palace.
Mr. Wiggan works as a member of The Double J’s, a tap duo that includes his sister Josette Wiggan. The Double J’s have performed in Frankie 100 at The Apollo Theater; Tap Ellington at The Appel Room; TrailBlazer Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show; Tireless: A Tap Dance Experience at Jacob’s Pillow; Dorrance Dance The Blues Project at Vail Dance Festival and The Nutcracker Suite at the Joyce Theater. He was accepted to the New School for Jazz and Contemporary music as a tap dancer and hopes that other tap dancers will apply to university jazz programs worldwide.
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Josette Wiggan
An internationally acclaimed and much sought-after educator, choreographer, and performer, Josette Wiggan has dedicated her life to the perpetuation of African American vernacular jazz dance. She began her dance adventure with Paul and Arlene Kennedy in Los Angeles at the age of 12. Her love for performing was fostered by the Kennedys and then refined as an adult while dancing with Jazz Tap Ensemble until 2007. A graduate of UCLA, Ms. Wiggan’s career highlights include the 2001 Spotlight Award winner in non-classical dance category, the first National Broadway Tour of 42nd Street , 2004 and Bessie Award nominee for Outstanding Performance in the Baker/Tarpaga Project. She has worked on the movies Idlewild and Princess and the Frog , and studied with Germaine Acogny at L’ecole les Sables in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal.
Alongside her brother, Joseph Wiggan, she was part of two original casts of Cirque du Soleil’s Banana Shpeel and Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour from 2009–2013. The duo also performed in Tireless , a curated show by Michelle Dorrance that had its debut at Jacob’s Pillow in 2017. Ms. Wiggan was also a part of Dorrance’s all-woman quartet that created the works Until the Real Comes Along , All Good Things Must Come , and End . In 2019, Ms. Wiggan was a co-creator with Ms. Dorrance and Hannah Heller for a Christmas work entitled, … The Nutcracker Suite …, and in 2020, she created and directed a work for film featuring vernacular jazz and tap dance entitled Harlem Stomp . In 2021, Ms. Wiggan created her first evening length work, Praise: The Inevitable Fruit of Gratitude , in collaboration with Grammy-nominated jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold and the cast of Dorrance Dance. It had its debut at Jacob’s Pillow and the Queens Theatre in the Park. In 2023, Ms. Wiggan began her own tap company, Josette Wiggan Presents…, and developed a new work entitled On Solid Ground: A Celebration of Black Joy and Freedom In Our America and her first solo work, Threshing Floor: A Place of Mediation and Melody at American Dance Platform 2024. In addition, Ms. Wiggan is currently on faculty at USC’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, teaching Vernacular Jazz and Tap Dance and is excited to be participating in Colburn Tap Fest 2024.
Thank You
Tap Fest 2024 at the Colburn School is generously supported by Aliza and Michael Lesser.
Special appreciation goes to the Colburn Society members whose annual support of dance makes programs like Tap Fest at the Colburn School possible, as well as the extraordinary scholarship support of Ann Moore, David Kobrin, and Michael S. Turner.
Dance Scholarships
Millepied Scholarships , named for former NYC Ballet Principal Dancer, Benjamin Millepied, who was instrumental in the formation of the Dance Academy, support tuition and dormitory expenses for young male dancers each year. This scholarship program enables Colburn to offer a separate boys’ training program, which is vital to impart the different technique and skill requirements for male dancers as well as providing a comprehensive and balanced training environment for Colburn’s female dancers. In addition, need-based scholarships are available to young women in the Dance Academy and to qualifying children in the afterschool Youth Dance programs.
The Beverly, Donald, and David Kobrin Scholarship Fund supports young male dancers of color, who are traditionally underrepresented in classical dance. In addition to tuition, the Fund helps cover room and board, wardrobe, special classes, and other academic and performance opportunities. This scholarship helps exemplify the School’s commitment to access to excellence to all who wish to pursue their dreams here.
Margaret K. Turner Scholarship supports young dancers in their aspiration to pursue professional careers in ballet. Through a nomination and committee process, this scholarship is awarded in the fall of each academic year and seeks to honor the late Margaret K. Turner for her passion of dance and youth education.
If you would like to learn more about supporting the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute, contact philanthropy@colburnschool.edu
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Board of Directors
Officers
Andrew Millstein, Chairman
Carol Colburn Grigor, Life Chairman Emeritus
Vice Chairmen
David D. Colburn
Diane Naegele
Directors
Daniel L. Avchen
Robert N. Braun, M.D.
Henry Choi
Bethany Coffee
Richard W. Colburn
Alice Coulombe
Linda Curtis
Jennifer F. Diener
Darren Edwards
Juan Carlos Gonzalez
Greg Guyett
Carol F. Henry
Catherine Colburn Høgel
William T. Kennedy
Molly Kirk
Aliza Lesser
Robert E. Lewis
Allan T. Marks
Beverly C. Marksbury
Worthy McCartney
Greg McWilliams
Ann Moore
Mahnaz Newman
Heinrich Schelbert, M.D., Ph.D
Harry B. Suh
Keith Terasaki
Dylan Yolles
Honorary Life Directors
Robert S. Attiyeh
Toby E. Mayman
In Memoriam
David N. Barry
Iona Benson
Edmund D. Edelman
Robert B. Egelston
Warner Henry
Ann Ronus
Executive Leadership
Sel Kardan
President and Chief Executive Officer
Jennifer Kallend Vice President, Communications
Maeesha Merchant
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial and Operating Officer
Annie Wickert
Senior Vice President of Philanthropy and Director, Capital Campaign
Mira Wolff Vice President, Human Resources and General Counsel
Nathaniel Zeisler, DMA Provost
Academic Leadership
Lee Cioppa
Dean, Conservatory of Music
Susan Cook
Dean, Community School of Performing Arts
Margaret Tracey
Dean, Trudl Zipper Dance Institute
Artistic Administration
Nick Gianopoulos Manager, Artistic Administration
Community School of Performing Arts
Susan Cook
Dean
Timothy Lewis Program Manager department chairs
Dr. Nita Baxani Early Childhood
Henry Gronnier
Strings
Jeffrey Lavner Piano
Karen Lundgren
Winds, Brass, and Percussion
Kathy Sawada
Music Theory
Lee Secard
Jazz
Moni Simeonov Chamber Music
Michael Stevens
Voice
Conservatory of Music
Lee Cioppa
Dean
applied faculty
Edward Atkatz
Percussion
Andrew Bain
Horn
Martin Beaver
Violin
Richard Beene
Dean Emeritus, Bassoon
Fabio Bidini
Piano
David Rejano Cantero
Trombone
Yehuda Gilad
Clarinet
Clive Greensmith Cello
Eugene Izotov
Oboe
Robert Lipsett
Violin
Peter Lloyd
Double Bass
Tatjana Masurenko Viola
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Conducting
Aaron Tindall
Tuba
JoAnn Turovsky
Harp
Jim Walker
Flute
James Wilt
Trumpet
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academic chairs
Jordan Nelson, DMA
Music Theory and Aural Skills
Ian Pritchard, PhD Music History and Literature, Interim
Deborah Smith
Director of Academic Programs
colburn orchestra
Yehuda Gilad
Music Director
Music Academy
applied faculty
Edward Atkatz
Percussion
Andrew Bain
Horn
Margaret Batjer
Violin, Chamber Music, Academy Virtuosi
Martin Beaver
Violin, Chamber Music
Richard Beene
Bassoon, Chamber Music
Fabio Bidini
Piano, Chamber Music
Vanessa Fadial
Piano
Yehuda Gilad
Clarinet
Clive Greensmith
Cello, Chamber Music
Henry Gronnier
Violin, Chamber Music
Eugene Izotov
Oboe
Fabiola Kim
Violin
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HyeJin Kim
Piano, Chamber Music
Joan Kwuon
Violin, Chamber Music
Rodolfo Leone
Piano Duo, Chamber Music
Teng Li
Viola, Chamber Music
Robert Lipsett
Violin
Tatjana Masurenko
Viola, Chamber Music
Ian Pritchard
Harpsichord
Aaron Tindall
Tuba
JoAnn Turovsky
Harp, Chamber Music
Jim Walker
Flute, Chamber Music
Trudl Zipper
Dance Institute
dance academy and colburn youth dance
Margaret Tracey
Dean
department chairs
Tamsin Carlson
Modern
Denise Scheerer
Tap
Kelly Ann Sloan Ballet
Production Staff
Victor Pineda
Assistant Vice President, Operations and Facilities
David Mencos
Production Manager
Esteban Chim
Edward Graham
Luis Hernandez
Paul Loera
Ruben Lopez
Elmer Pacheco
Peter Phol
Pedro Ruiz
Stage Crew
Rachel Drudi
Facilities Scheduler and Rentals Manager
Alexx Zachary
Production Coordinator
Francesco Perlangeli
Audio-Visual Manager
Sergey Parfenov
Derek Williams
Audio-Visual Engineers
Greg Forbess
Lighting Engineer
Preebie Box Office
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Caitlyn Chenault
Performance Librarian
Chris Cho
Manager of Performance Activities
Piano Technology
Neema Pazargad
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Sammi Lee
Piano Technician Coordinator
Ryan Maas
Jesse Reyes
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Scott Reitz
Piano Technicians
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