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Flute Instructor

Phyllis Aronson started taking flute lessons as a child with her father, a professional musician and member of the Hartford Symphony. She received a Bachelor of Music in Flute degree, magna cum laude, from Hartt College of Music, and a Master of Music in Flute degree from Northwestern University. Her other teachers have included members of the Boston and Chicago Symphonies. While still an undergraduate, Ms. Aronson won a position with the Hartford Symphony and the Connecticut Opera Orchestras and was leader of the Hartford Symphony Woodwind Quintet which presented educational programs to

schoolchildren. She also was a member of the Springfield Symphony.

Ms. Aronson started teaching private flute lessons when she was 16 years old. Her teaching positions have included the University of Massachusetts, Western New England College, Hartford Conservatory, and the Music School of Rhode Island Philharmonic, and many after school lesson programs and community music schools. She enjoys teaching all levels, and is particularly known for helping adults feel comfortable learning something brand new, or helping them reconnect to music after many years.

Ms. Aronson is an active performer all over New England and performs regularly with the Plymouth, MA Philharmonic and Claflin Hill Symphony. She plays weddings and parties and gives lively “Adventures in Music” programs andperforms with her quintet, “Blowout Winds.” She can be heard on National Public

Radio’s “Here and Now.”

Violin, Viola Instructor

Lyra received her Bachelor of Music degree in Musical Studies in 2017 with a concentration on Music History and Violin at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, where she studied with John Lindsey and Liesl Schoenberger Doty. Previous musical studies include Hoff-Barthelson Music School, where she studied violin with Eriko Sato, chamber music with Gary Kosloski and David Oei, and musicianship and music history with the late Edmund Niemann. Lyra has also taken piano lessons with David Oei, whom she credits as one of her major mentors. Highlights from her time at Crane include being a panelist on diversity within music during the

"Untold Legacies of Black Composers" residency with the Potsdam community, and guest artists, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, and Burt Mason, as well as performing Faure’s Requiem with the Crane Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall led by Duain Wolfe. Lyra has participated in achamber music festival at Vianden, Luxembourg in 2014. Lyra's senior project titled, "Cultural Appropriation and Nationalistic Identities: How to Overcome Them in a Borderless Universe (As Told in "Butterfly Lovers" Violin Concerto)” focused on cultural appropriation in music.

Currently the Secretary for the Board of Directors at the Violoncello Society of New York, Lyra is still active in music. She has previously interned at the ARChive of Contemporary Music and

has performed at Mohonk Mountain House in A Keyboard for Share by Ionel Petroi and in Valse and Romance by Rachmaninoff with David Oei and Hélène Jeanney. She has also performed in the pit with Amore Opera and has been a regular participant of the Alaria Chamber Music program. Lyra is also a veteran page turner, with several appearances at Carnegie Hall.

Tuba, Euphonium, and

Trombone Instructor

Mike began his interest in music from a very young age, ultimately leading to his choice of low brass in his elementary school years. Through Middle and High School, he built his repertoire by playing in band, wind, jazz, and marching band ensembles along with  high-level regional and state groups such as Silver Star, State Regional and All-State ensembles. After High School, he attended Western Connecticut State University where he received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education in 2022. Micahel Abucewicz has  experience playing and teaching tuba, euphonium, trombone, beginning trumpet and percussion. Michael looks forward to the opportunity to join as an instructor at Judah’s Camp School of Music and excited to help you discover YOUR SOUND!