The HPH Team
ADMINISTRATION
ZOË AUERBACH
Artistic Director |
Zoë Auerbach has enjoyed a varied and full career as a violinist/violist, teacher, and arts administrator. She completed undergraduate work in violin and viola performance, string pedagogy and philosophy, and earned her MA in philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. In addition to maintaining an active performing and teaching schedule, her work has focused on exploring the philosophical and ethical considerations at the nexus of epistemology, sociology and policy, as pertains to paradigms and philosophies of education. Zoë has performed throughout the US, South America, and Canada with many groups, including The Orchestra of Northern New York, Orquesta Sinfónica de Santo Domingo and The West Side Chamber Orchestra of NYC, with whom she can be heard on the Naxos recording Glass - Rutter - Francaix: Harpsichord Concertos. A dedicated and passionate teacher, Zoë completed her Suzuki teacher training at The School for Strings in NYC, maintains a large violin and viola studio in Tivoli, NY and is Director of CHIME and Young Leader programs at Empire State Youth Orchestra (ESYO). She is the founding executive director of Harmony Project Hudson, a tuition-free music program aimed at helping young people in Hudson, NY reach their fullest potential as individuals and citizens through the powerful connections forged in the study of music.
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JOSH ARONSON
Founder and Sponsor |
After starting his career as a still photographer for Time Life, Josh began directing television films and commercials. Through Aronson Films, he directed MTV videos, television pilots and specials and over 500 commercials before turning to documentaries in 1999. Since then, he has made award winning documentaries on a fascinating variety of topics, but Josh has oftern returned to music as a theme in his films. These include ORCHESTRA OF EXILES, a Holocaust-era feature about the violinist who founded the Israel Philharmonic, TALENT HAS HUNGER, a 7 year odyssey following the cello students of master cello teacher Paul Katz at the New England Conservatory of Music and a fim about the Harmony Project in Los Angeles which Aronson made for PBS Weekend News. It was seeing first hand the remarkable impact of that program on inner city kids in LA that inspired Josh to found Harmony Project Hudson in a community that he knew could benefit from an after school music program for kids. Josh is also an amateur pianist and regularly plays chamber music in New York and at the Telluride Musicfest, the chamber music festival he founded in 2002 with his wife, violinist Maria Bachmann.
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ANNEICE COUSIN
Operations Director |
Anneice Cousin is a singer/ songwriter based in Hudson, NY. She is the founder of Beautiful Racket, LLC a creative arts program also based in Hudson, NY. Anneice is a Hudson High graduate. She received her Associates degree in Business from Hudson Valley Community College. She has a resume of experience in Finance, Program Management, Office Administration, and Community Engagement.
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NICK EDWARDS
Program Director, low strings teaching artist |
Nick Edwards, a Hudson Valley-based bassist, has enjoyed a varied career playing music of all genres throughout the United States, South America, and Europe. Nick completed his masters degree in jazz studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, and has attended many jazz festivals and institutes, including Skidmore Jazz Institute, Banff, and Hudson JazzWorks. He can frequently be heard playing with Armen Donelian, Bobby Previte, Roland Vazquez, John Esposito, and for the Rhinebeck Performing Arts Center. In addition to his performing schedule, Nick maintains a studio of students who he teaches bass and coaches chamber music. He can be heard on the Scott Healy album Live at Kilbourn Hall.
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TEACHING ARTISTS
LANA AUERBACH
Violin and viola teaching artist |
Lana Auerbach graduated from Oberlin Conservatory in 2019 with a BM in violin performance. She has taught at Harmony Project Hudson since the summer of 2016. She has also taught violin lessons through Oberlin Community Music School in Ohio and the River Road String Studio in Red Hook, NY. Lana has had the opportunity to attend and perform at numerous institutions such as Greenwood Music Camp, Kinhaven School of Music, Meadowmount School of Music, ENCORE Chamber Music, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Brancaleoni International Music Festival, the Music Academy at Domaine Forget. In 2015, Lana was awarded first place in Rhinebeck Chamber Society’s annual concerto competition, and was awarded the Dean’s scholarship to Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
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NICK EDWARDS
Program Director, low strings teaching artist |
Nick Edwards, a Hudson Valley-based bassist, has enjoyed a varied career playing music of all genres throughout the United States, South America, and Europe. Nick completed his masters degree in jazz studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, and has attended many jazz festivals and institutes, including Skidmore Jazz Institute, Banff, and Hudson JazzWorks. He can frequently be heard playing with Armen Donelian, Bobby Previte, Roland Vazquez, John Esposito, and for the Rhinebeck Performing Arts Center. In addition to his performing schedule, Nick maintains a studio of students who he teaches bass and coaches chamber music. He can be heard on the Scott Healy album Live at Kilbourn Hall.
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CINDY KUBIK
Musicianship teaching artist |
Cindy Kubik has been directing children's theater for the past 35 years. She holds a BFA in Theatre and an MA in English Literature from NYU. A former coordinator of community-based mental health programs throughout lower New York State, Cindy switched to teaching when she had children of her own. She taught high school history at Poughkeepsie Day School, and is currently a substitute teacher in the Red Hook and Rhinebeck districts. Seven years ago, Cindy established the Mill Road Players Shakespeare Program in the Red Hook elementary and middle schools, and has been directing Shakespeare plays with hundreds of third through eighth graders annually since then. Cindy joined the Hudson Harmony Project staff three years ago as the summer Drama Teacher, and a year later began teaching musicianship to beginning students. Her own daughters have studied violin with Zoë Auerbach during the past decade, and Cindy was inspired by Zoë's patience, skill, and dedication to each and every child. She believes that music education at the earliest stages ought to be fun, engaging and involve the whole child. Cindy loves that Harmony Project blends the performing arts to support the long term musical lives of all students.
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JoAnne Schubert
Choir and ear training teaching artist |
JoAnne Valentín Schubert, along with her husband, is the premier music director at the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, as well as performing with Woodstock Youth Theatre, Cocoon Theatre, SUNY New Paltz (where they co-taught), Queen City Stage, Gilbert and Sullivan Society, and Chrysalis, a Christian youth theatre that they founded in 1998. JoAnne has her MA in piano performance from the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, where she studied with Michael Rodgers and NY Philharmonic pianist Paul Jacobs; she also has studied harpsichord, organ, and conducting. She has taught locally and throughout the NYC area from elementary grades through college, and continues to teach private piano & vocal coaching, which she has done for four+ decades. She has been director of music ministries at Grace Community Church in Lake Katrine since 1992.
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