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Lessons assist students with developing and maintaining fundamentals, technique and musicianship to play their instrument at the highest levels. Music ensembles bring students together to perform in small and large group settings. Students will experience a high level of performance literature and concert opportunities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602a7e32f6b7c4321ae2c2ff/1635200462053-1T3KOQ5JORB685KXUDDS/unsplash-image-LQ1t-8Ms5PY.jpg Home - Mentoring and Parent Programs Mentoring The life of a fine arts students can be fulfilling and busy. Legacy Fine Arts Inc. NFP commits to providing mentoring opportunities for students with specific interests and aspirations in the fine arts. Partnerships include educators, composers, recording technicians, and more. Parents So you have a child in the fine arts - now what? Special sessions will be offered to inform and help parents with supporting their fine arts students. https://www.legacyfinearts.org/board-of-directors daily 0.75 2022-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602a7e32f6b7c4321ae2c2ff/7540d849-8670-47c2-8530-0103512d73a0/Karen+Lega+Headshot+2021.jpg Board of Directors & Staff - Karen Lega, Board of Directors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602a7e32f6b7c4321ae2c2ff/1634753209959-9HYG29B8O2NVXCGZEEW9/Don+headshot.jpg Board of Directors & Staff - Don Stinson, Founder/CEO Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602a7e32f6b7c4321ae2c2ff/669108f7-ba4d-4e95-a222-3ea6e70c4bc9/Brian+Fruits+Headshot+2021.jpg Board of Directors & Staff - Brian Fruits, Board of Directors Brian Fruits holds an M.F.A. in Theatre (Stage Directing Focus) from the University of Memphis and originally hails from Chicago, Illinois. He also has a B.A. in Secondary Education from Concordia University of Chicago in River Forest. Brian has directed several educational, community, regional, and professional productions throughout the land. He even served as Assistant Director to 2010 Chicago Director of the Year, Rachel Rockwell, for Chicago Shakespeare Company’s world premiere of The Adventures of Pinocchio. While he was in graduate school, he received the prestigious 2012 Meritorious Teaching Award, given to one graduate student teacher a year, and the 2013 Creative Excellence Award, given to one student in the Fine Arts Department. He was the Ostrander Award Winner for Best Director at the University of Memphis for Wit and received a full scholarship for one year to study masks and physical Theatre in Europe with Donato Satori and Paola Coletto. He has also taught and created drama classes for adults with special needs and disabilities at the L'Arche Community Center and West Suburban Special Recreation Association and served as an intern with the StillPoint Theatre Collective in Chicago. There, he worked with incarcerated, severe and profound, and the homeless individuals creating art. In 2014, he worked for B.B. King and helped mount the current show Beale Street Heat on a few of the major Holland America Cruise line ships. Brian is a proud member of the Illinois Theatre Association (ITA) and an associate member of the Stage Director & Choreographers Union (SDC). In 2021, he was selected to attend the Directors Lab in Toronto on a full scholarship. Brian also serves as the Alumni Board President of Hephzibah Children’s Association in Oak Park, Illinois and is a 2018 inductee into Leyden High Schools Alumni Wall of Fame for his service to the community in the names of the arts and education. He is currently a full-time member of the Joliet Junior College Theatre Program. Check out his 501c3 theatre company, Saltbox Theatre Collective, that is housed in Edgewater. Learn more at www.saltboxtheatre.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602a7e32f6b7c4321ae2c2ff/975b4339-40fb-4f03-885e-630a73c137a2/2019-spring_jermaine-stegall.jpg Board of Directors & Staff - Jermaine Stegall, Board of Directors Jermaine Stegall is an accomplished and versatile composer and conductor. With over 50 projects to his credit, Stegall most recently completed the score for “Coming 2 America”, the highly anticipated sequel to the Eddie Murphy classic, with Murphy, Arsenio Hall and James Earl-Jones all reprising their roles. Stegall’s recent scoring and conducting assignments have included “Senior Year” (2022) for Paramount Pictures, and the upcoming film “Oracle” for Universal Pictures. He has also had the opportunity to collaborate over the years with notable film composers including Danny Elfman, Christophe Beck, William Ross, Marco Beltrami, Harry Gregson-Williams, Christopher Lennertz, and Blake Neely, and Mark Isham. As a musical conductor, Stegall led a live string orchestra alongside Grammy-winning artist Tori Kelly at the televised 2019 ESPY Awards. A year prior, he conducted the orchestra to Camila Cabello’s performance of “Consequences” on ABC’s American Music Awards. Learn more about Jermaine at www.jermainestegall.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602a7e32f6b7c4321ae2c2ff/f6e8a702-bcca-4277-9e58-5ceb862a00b6/Wes+Russel+Headshot+2021.jpg Board of Directors & Staff - Wesley Russell, Board of Directors Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. 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