Role: Mentor

Stephanie Nantell serves as a music teacher mentor. Stephanie joins Education Through Music directly from teaching elementary music in NYC public and charter schools for the past six years. She has two Masters from NYU; a Master of Arts in Music Education and a Master of Music in Trumpet Performance. While at NYU, Stephanie taught as a private …

Brian Frazee serves as a music teacher mentor. This is Brian’s first year with Education Through Music and joins us from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, where he was Manager of Educational Programs.  Prior to this, he worked in Chicago Public Schools for 14 years as an educator and administrator, teaching band, orchestra, and general music …

George Nicholson serves as a music teacher mentor. He has degrees in music education from the University of Miami and the University of Georgia. He taught orchestra and general music for seven years in Cobb County, GA at both the middle and high school level before moving back to New York City. Outside of Education Through …

Alice Rogers serves as a music teacher mentor with ETM.  She is a veteran music teacher with K-12 certification in New York and her home state of Massachusetts.  An alumna of Ithaca College, she earned her undergraduate degree in Music Education and pursued studies in piano and trombone on full scholarship.  She completed her M.M. in …

Rachael Carson serves as a music teacher mentor. Originally from rural Eastern Pennsylvania, Rachael joins Education Through Music after making the great state of New York her home for the last three years. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Violin Performance from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a Master’s degree in Music Education from …

Erin Giacinto has been working with Education Through Music for five years first as a music teacher, and now as a music teacher mentor. She is a clarinet player and vocalist who has been teaching general music and band in NYC schools since 2009. After obtaining her bachelor’s degree from Five Towns College in Music …

Ulises Solano serves as a music teacher mentor. Hailing  from Costa Rica, Ulises Solano is a graduate from Indiana University, performer and teacher and a veteran with Education Through Music. He has taught in several ETM schools both in the Bronx and Harlem since 2007. Ulises has a strong vocal performance background as an operatic …