Teaching Pianists of all ages and experience levels, focusing on Classical or Jazz Studies.
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Alan Dynin has taught piano and music for over 25 years, and has taught over 30,000 lessons. He has taught students from ages 4 to 78, from complete beginner to advanced, and he plays and teaches all genres : classical, blues and jazz, pop and more. Alan is both the service and choir pianist for the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Lancaster.
As a musician, Alan has been a repeat featured performer for The Atlanta Symphony Associates, The North Carolina Jazz and World Music Society, The Circular Congregation ( Charleston) Jazz Vespers Series, The Marcus Jewish Center of Atlanta’s Performance Series ( featuring Tribute Concerts to Dave Brubeck and The Beatles), and many other series. His new piece Summer Suite for Piano and Flute was premiered as part of the Community Music School’s ( in Trappe, Pa) Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration. In 2024 so far Alan has put on a 12 song Chopin Concert and has been tapped to give a lecture and performance in March around the subject of Jazz History, as part of the Walters Lecture Series held at the Lancaster Unitarian Congregation.
Ashley Oros is an orchestral flutist and teacher. She graduated with her Master of Music in flute performance at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music in 2022. She earned her Bachelor of Music in flute performance, also from Temple University. Her teachers include David Cramer, former associate principal flute of The Philadelphia Orchestra, David DiGiacobbe, principal flute of the Harrisburg and Lancaster Symphonies, Prema Kesselman, former principal flute of the Santiago Philharmonic, Jeff Zook, piccolo of the Detroit Symphony and Amy Orsinger, flute of the Charlotte Symphony.
Currently, Ashley freelances in the Lancaster and surrounding areas, often playing with groups such as The Lancaster Symphony, The Fulton Theater, Allegro Orchestra of Lancaster, PA Phil and Penn Square Opera.
At Temple, Oros has performed as principal flute with the Temple University Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the opera orchestra, Temple Composers Orchestra, Temple Contemporary Ensemble, and Temple University Wind Symphony. She has also performed in master classes with Marina Puccinini, Leone Buyse, Brad Garner, Göran Marcusson, Bonita Boyd, Alexa Still, (ZAWA): Jill Felber & Claudia Andersen, Stephen Preston and Lea Pearson, among others.
Before moving to the United States to attend college, Oros performed with several Santiago, Chile area youth orchestras. She has performed solos and participated in festivals in the United States, France, Italy, Chile, Argentina and Brazil. An enthusiastic and dedicated teacher, Oros teaches privately in the Philadelphia, Lancaster and surrounding areas. Having begun teaching while still in secondary school, Ashley has been a
teacher for over 15 years. She loves learning from her students and watching them grow as they make music an important part of life.
Pomice Stoltzfus has a BS in Music from Temple University and a MM in Composition from Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins. Her compositions have been performed in the Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Lancaster Areas. She has been teaching Composition, Music Theory, and Piano Performance for thirty plus years. She taught at the Lancaster Conservatory, State Street Studio and Harrisburg Area Community College. Her experience has allowed her to develop clear teaching strategies that afford students to retain and apply compositional technique in a wide range of styles (modern classical to songwriting).
Pianist Lewis Arscott is an experienced performer, having given recitals and performances as a soloist and collaborative musician. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in music education from West Chester University, studying with Dr. Carl Cranmer, Dr. Theresa Klinefelter, and Jeremy Ajani Jordan, and continued his studies with Dr. Cranmer earning a masters degree in piano pedagogy. During his undergraduate and graduate studies, he studied and performed compositions from all major musical styles and composers, such as Bach, Haydn, Chopin, Faure, and Bartok, to name a few. He participated in several ensembles, recitals, and events such as Men’s Chorus, Jazz Combos, Latin Jazz, Statesmen, Keyboard Honors recitals, the Wells School of Music Convocation, and accompanied other students at the Wells School of Music. In 2023, he was accepted to the New Orleans Piano Institute as an active participant, taking lessons and performing in masterclasses for nationally renowned pianists and pedagogues. His love for performing also coincides with his love of teaching, whose students have given solo performances in the West Chester area.
Lewis’s love for piano started with piano lessons at the age of 4. Throughout middle school and high school, he accompanied choir performances and played jazz piano for his high school jazz band. He routinely performs in the Lancaster and Chester County area, providing accompaniment for schools, and playing keyboard for his band, Marquette.
