The New Jersey Workshop for the Arts

Chin-Wen Deng
Chin-Wen Deng earned a B.A. at Soochow University in Taipei , Taiwan and an M.M. at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University . Ms. Deng's teaching experience includes a Department Assistantship as a part-time lecturer at the Mason Gross School of the Arts Music Department. Her professional performances include a Masters Degree Recital at Rutgers University and a senior recital at Soochow University in Taiwan . Ms. Deng plays double bass and the Er-Hu (the Chinese violin) in addition to the paino. She has performed at the National Concert Hall in Taipei , Taiwan as well as Singapore and Hong Kong .

Siu Yue Hung
Siu Yue Fung earned a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, a Master of Music degree in piano pedagogy from Temple University , Philadelphia , PA. She also attended Central Conservatory of Music, Peking , China . Her teaching experience includes St. Margaret's Girls College in, Hong Kong, Academie St. Cecile – Academy of Music , Windsor, Canada and Conservatory Without Walls, Moorestown , New Jersey. Many of her students have won top honors and scholarships in the Kiwanis Festival and are on the Academy Directrice Honor list. She is a member of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

Susannah Marks
Susannah Marks earned her Associate and Licentiate teaching degree from The Trinity College of London, directed her own music school of Kids On Keys in New Zealand and specialized in group teaching assisted by the latest in keyboard and computer technology She invented her own method of teaching the fundamentals in music theory called “Musique Rapide”. A native New Zealander, she has brought her program of “Musique Rapide” to the USA , which she uses, in Kids On Keys classes.

R. Brent Geyer
A graduate of West Chester University, R. Brent Geyer holds a Bachelor of Music in Education and in Piano Performance.

Mr. Geyer, who previously taught piano at the Friedlander Piano Studio in West Chester, Pennsylvania, has extensive performance and ensemble experience. He has been an accompanist at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia and the South African Benefit Recital. Also an accomplished cellist, Mr. Geyer has performed at the University of Villanova production of “Twelfth Night” and with the West Chester University Symphony Orchestra.

The recipient of nearly two dozen awards and scholarships, Mr. Geyer is a member of the American Choral Directors Association and is an elementary strings and classroom music teacher within the Westfield School system.

Gary Scott Lewis
Gary Scott Lewis, piano instructor, holds both a BA degree, with a concentration in music history and literature, and an MA degree, in musical composition, from Montclair State University. Experienced as a faculty member at the Montclair Music Studio, Mr. Lewis taught piano, violin and music theory. An organist and music director at Grace Lutheran Church in Union, Mr. Lewis is also a member of the Appraisers Association of America.

David Bokil
A graduate of Manhattanville College with a major in Music, David Bokil is a classically trained pianist with experience performing solo and with ensembles in a variety of music genres.

Mr. Bokil has been the recipient of numerous piano concerto honors and awards, among them from Manhattanville College , the New Jersey Professional Music Teacher's Guild, the American College of Musicians and the London Trinity College of Music.

He is also a skilled engineer and composer who has worked in post production sessions for radio and television commercials, as well as documentaries and short films.

Carl Baron
Mr. Baron received his BMA at Purchase College where he studied with Julia Lichten. He is currently pursuing his M.M. in performance at the Manhattan School of Music where he studies with David Soyer. He has also studied cello with Richard Aaron at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Marion Feldman at the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division. In December 2009, Mr. Baron toured China with the Manhattan Symphony. He has played with the Plainfield Symphony, South Orange Symphony, Little Opera Company of New Jersey Orchestra and the New Jersey Concert Opera Orchestra. He is an active chamber musician, collaborating frequently with pianist Suki Guerrier in the New York area. Mr. Baron is a Westfield High School graduate and a former New Jersey Workshop for the Arts student and intern.

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