Klemen Krklec – Violin teacher
Klemen Krklec is violinist from Slovenia, who fell in love with music and stage at the early age. His education began at the Glasbena Sola Rogaska Slatina. As a young musician Klemen won several prizes at national and international competitions such as TEMSIG, Euritmia, Grand Prix Rijeka and others.
In 2008, Klemen moved to Klagenfurt, Austria, where he began his studies with Professor Saewon Suh at the Gustav Mahler Private University. While studying in Europe, Klemen often performed in solo and chamber music settings in Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Canada and South Korea, among which were performances at Matinee concerts, organized by Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF); in 2015, invitation performance as a soloist with Yongin Youth Orchestra in South Korea. In 2016, Klemen earned Künstlerische Diplom (Artistic Diploma) with high distinction.
Klemen continually improved his musical ideas through performances and lectures at Festivals. He actively participated in Sommerkurse St. Paul (Austria), Festival Bled (Slovenia) and Verona Summer Festival (Italy). He also developed his style and technique through many Masterclasses and private lessons with world class musicians such as Ivry Gitlis, Anton Martinov, Helfried Fister, Maxim Vengerov, Ralph Kirshbaum, Margaret Batjer, Lucinda Carver, Kevin Fitz-Gerald, Alan L. Smith, Andrew Shulman, Philippe Graffin and others.
In 2020 Klemen earned his Masters degree at the USC Thornton School of Music (University of Southern California) in the studio of Professor Martin Chalifour (LA Phil Principal Concertmaster). Since graduation he actively teaches one-on-one and group classes in his studio and collaborates with music academies around the globe.
Gerard Secillano – Violin teacher
Gerard Secillano is a violinist and a music teacher from the Philippines. He graduated from St. Scholastica’s College, Manila with a Bachelor of Music Performance, Major in Violin in 2020. He also completed a diploma course in performance in the same school.
While studying, he was already teaching children and eventually volunteered as a violin teacher in the Streets to Strings program that caters to those kids who cannot afford to pay for lessons. While doing this, he also was teaching private students from different universities and colleges.
Whenever he is not teaching, he performs with different chamber groups in the Philippines and travels a lot across the country. In the recent ASEAN Music Festival last 2019, his group, Manila Camerata Artists represented the country and won several awards and medals.
The two major languages that he uses are Filipino and English.
José Gregorio Gómez Morillo– cello teacher
He started his musical studies at the age of 6 at the Federico Villena Music School. Later, at the age of 12 he began studying cello at the same institution. He did orchestral and cello studies in the Venezuelan Orchestra System, watching cello classes and practicing orchestral in parallel with the Federico Villena Music School. Later, he carried out workshops on music theory and orchestral practice in both institutions. He is a Professor of Music Education graduated from the Rafael Alberto Escobar Lara Experimental Pedagogical University (Maracay, Venezuela). Currently he teaches at the Libertador Experimental Pedagogical University (UPEL) in the socio-cultural area of the university. He is also part of the Aragua State Symphony Orchestra (OSA) and the Aragua State Typical Orchestra (OTA). He also teaches online courses in music theory and basic and intermediate cello. He teaches private online cello lessons with the Prodigio School of Music.
Jose is able to provide lessons in Spanish for our Spanish speaking students.
Dr. Amer Didi – Oud, bouzouk and mandolin teacher
Dr. Amer Didi is a PhD holder in Music and Musicology holder from Sorbonne Paris 4 University. He has his Master’s in Musicology from Antonine University, a B.A. in Music Education from the Lebanese University, and four final degrees in Harmony, Solfeggio, Oud, and Oriental Solfeggio.
His teaching experience covers 15 years in Schools, Conservatories and Universities, with ages varying between 5 to 25. He has taught the majority of Music Education and Musicology and World Music courses (Theory, Solfeggio, Harmony, Analysis, Music Education, History, Instruments, Music Technology, Music Composition…). As a musician, he had five masterclasses with renown musicians, such as Simon Shaheen, Naseer Shamma, Mehmet Bitmez, Ali Jihad Al-Racy and others. He plays professionally the Oud, the Baglama, the Bouzouk, the Mandolin, the Clarinet, with good skills in Piano, Cello, Nay and Daff. He presented as the director and arranger in nine concerts, as a soloist and as a conductor with students at the American University of Sharjah. He was the Chair of the writing committee of the New Curriculum in Music Education. Ministry of Education-Dubai-UAE, and member of AQAS (German Accreditation Institute, Cologne).
Currently he is the Research Consultant to several institutes in UAE where he is developing online music educational courses.
He speaks English, French, and Arabic at Full Professional Proficiency level, and German at an Intermediate Level.
Amer Didi is teaching the following courses:
Music Theory, Ear Training, Arabic Music Theory, Arabic Music Ear Training, Harmony and Analysis, Oud, Mandolin, Bouzouk, Clarinet and Oriental Clarinet (B flat, Böhm System)
He provides lesson for the above in the following languages: English, French and Arabic
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