Sitka Fine Arts Camp Faculty - 2022

Arranged in alphabetical order by last name. Click picture for full biography. ​
Hannah Gossett has set up bases in dance communities all over the country including Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Seattle and New York City. She began her training in all styles at age 10 and has been creating her own art since age 15. As a commercial dancer and choreographer, her credits include, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Ricky Martin, Kimberly Cole, Herb Alpert, Beacon, T Mobile, Sonos Speakers and Amazon, to name a few. In 2015, she created her own training company, The Westsiders, based in Seattle, Washington. The Westsiders has recently expanded, now holding weekend intensives throughout the country known as The Westsiders Camp. Gossett is a dedicated faculty member for the national dance convention, Artists Simply Human and continues to freelance at studios, camps and intensives all around the country.

For more information visit Hannah's website.

Hannah will be teaching Dance Jam, Hip Hop, and Modern Dance at Middle School Camp.

Alex Hahn is a multi-award winning saxophonist and composer based in Los Angeles, California. Still early in his career, Hahn has had the opportunity to perform with many renowned artists such as Herbie Hancock, Esperanza Spalding, Rod Stewart, The Grammy Award Winning John Daversa Progressive Big Band, Bob Mintzer, Peter Erskine, John Beasley, Patrice Rushen, and many others. He also recorded on Michael Bublé’s last two Grammy Nominated albums, “Nobody but Me” and “Love.” In addition, Hahn has performed and taught all over the world including the Panama Jazz Festival, Sitka Alaska Jazz Festival, and at International Jazz Day in Havana, Cuba and St. Petersburg, Russia. Hahn is a 6-Time Downbeat Magazine Award Winner, 3-Time Next Generation Jazz Festival Outstanding Soloist, 1st Place Winner in the North American Saxophone Alliance Jazz Saxophone Competition, and winner of the 2015 Perform with Mintzer International Saxophone Competition. In 2019, he won 1st Place in the Michael Brecker International Saxophone Competition held at the Red Sea Jazz Festival in Eilat, Israel. In addition to his many awards, Hahn is also very active as a studio musician in Los Angeles, CA. He has recorded alto, tenor, clarinet, and baritone saxophone on commercials for brands such as Disney, Wayfair, and Devoted Care. He can also be heard on movies such as Bad Trip, written and starring comedian Eric Andre, and is a featured soloist on the Eddie Murphy movie Coming 2 America. Lastly, Hahn is featured on screen on the Emmy Award Winning Television show Glee. Hahn completed his second Master of Music degree at the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz where he studied with jazz legends Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Jimmy Heath, and many more. He also holds a Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Southern California, where he was a graduate student and teaching assistant under Bob Mintzer and Jason Goldman. Hahn graduated with a Bachelor of Music from the University of North Texas in 2014 where he performed/recorded with the 7-Time Grammy Nominated One O’ Clock Lab Band. He is a featured soloist on the Lab 2014 Album. Also during his time at North Texas, Hahn was selected as a member of the Disney All-American College Band. This ensemble consists of the top college musicians from all across the United States. He was also chosen to return as the Teaching Assistant/Student Director the following summer. Hahn has recorded and released four studio albums featuring his original music. His first release, Traveling in 2014, was recorded in Denton, Texas inside his then home. The music focused on creativity, fun grooves, and soulful melodies. In 2017, Hahn released his second album, Emerging. This project featured three horns, rhythm section, and an orchestra. The music blended jazz, pop, classical, and cinematic music. New Flight, his 3rd studio album released in 2019, was a drummer-less ensemble that featured vocalist Michael Mayo and Grammy Award Winning saxophonist Bob Mintzer. His fourth studio album, Second Wind, released in August 2021. Hahn’s original music always focuses on strong sing-able melodies and groove. In addition to his professional performing and recording career, Alex Hahn is an avid educator. He has given master classes, clinics, and has had guest artist appearances at The University of North Texas, Cal Tech University, San Jose State, Saddleback College, as well as a number of high schools and middle schools across the country. Hahn also has a very strong private lesson studio. He has taught students from all over the world including Egypt, South Korea, Australia, United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada, and New Zealand. His private students have gone on to receive music scholarships at some of the most prestigious schools in the country including the University of Miami, Berklee College of Music, Manhattan School of Music, University of Southern California, The University of North Texas, and the James Morrison Academy in Australia to name a few. He currently serves as the Director of Jazz at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. Since becoming the director at LACHSA, his students have won countless awards from Downbeat Magazine, Spotlight, and Young Arts. Three of his students have been selected to participate in the Herbie Hancock Institute National Peer-Peer All Star Jazz Septet. This group is hand selected by Dr. JB Dyas, Vice President of Education at the Herbie Hancock Institute, and consists of the top high school musicians from across the country. 

Hahn has also released several educational products. These include four different volumes of transcription etudes and the Alex Hahn Saxophone Technique Essentials. His products have been sold in over twenty-five US states and in over twenty countries.

Alex Hahn is an endorsed artist of D’Addario Woodwinds and Andreas Eastman Saxophones, and Key Leaves.

For more information visit Alex's website.

Alex will be teaching Saxophone Technique, Jazz Band, and Jazz Combos at High School Camp.
Kendra McKinley is a singer-songwriter whose music bursts with vibrance, sensuality and wit. Her lush blend of chamber pop, jazz, and soul draws from a deep well of inspiration. Whether she’s performing solo with a guitar and loop pedal or dancing with a full live band Kendra’s confident, honeyed voice indulges all who hear it.

For more information visit Kendra's website.

Kendra will be teaching Guitar Technique and Rock Band at High School Camp
Joel Chapman is a conductor, bass-baritone, and songwriter in the Bay Area. He sings professionally with Volti, an SF-based ensemble that performs and animates completely new works, as well as Endersnight, a choir specializing in Renaissance music. A sought-after low bass, Joel has been made appearances with groups peppered throughout the Bay Area, including the San Mateo Masterworks Chorale, Convivium, California Bach Society, and Stanford Chamber Chorale. A composer and songwriter, Joel is co-creator of Gravity, a new musical most recently seen at the 2016 TheatreWorks New Works Festival in Palo Alto. As an educator, he teaches voice privately and works with the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir as a conductor and accompanist. Joel’s new work for TTBB chorus, The Song, poetry by Naomi Shihab Nye, will debut on April 20 with the Fog City Singers. Recent theatrical credits include Sweeney Todd (music director, Judge Turpin), The Last Five Years (music director), Sunday in the Park with George (music director), Company (music director), The Fantasticks (El Gallo), My Fair Lady (music director), and [Title of Show]  (music director). Joel is a graduate of Stanford University, where he received his B.A. in Music with honors with focus in vocal performance and conducting. Joel studied with Gregory Wait, Laura Dahl, and Stephen Sano. At Stanford, Joel was a recipient of the Carolyn Applebaum Memorial Prize for his work as a conductor in bringing over fifty students together for his senior recital. He also received the Stanford Chamber Chorale Director’s Choice Award for his leadership and dedication to the group. Joel later received his M.A. in Music, Science, and Technology from Stanford at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), where he studied digital signal processing, recording technologies, and specialized in sound design.

For more information visit Joel's website.

Joel will be teaching Songwriting, Vocal Technique, and Choir at Middle School Camp.
Eric Parchen was born and raised in Richland, Washington where he started his musical career playing percussion in many school ensembles. He attended the University of Idaho where he studied with Dan Bukvich and received degrees in Percussion Performance and Music Education. After graduating, he moved to Seattle to start his career as a freelance drummer and instructor. In addition to coaching drumlines and percussion sections at middle and high schools, he also has played with a wide variety of ensembles around Seattle. These include Seattle Seahawks Blue Thunder drumline, Seattle Sounders Sound Wave band, Lake Washington Symphony Orchestra, Rainier Symphony, Seattle Musical Theater, Renton Civic Theater, and various large and small jazz ensembles.

Eric is the Percussion Assistant for Middle and High School Camp and will be assisting in Symphonic Band and Percussion Technique.

Alex Abreu is a recent graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, where he studied with Richard Hawkins to earn a Bachelor of Music in Clarinet Performance with a Concentration in Arts Administration and Leadership. During the past school year, Alex remained in Oberlin to work as the Conservatory’s Interim Operations & Ensemble Personnel Manager. He maintains an active performance role in the Cleveland area, having recently played with groups such as the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, BlueWater Chamber Orchestra, Firelands Symphony Orchestra, and Blue Streak Ensemble. Some of his favorite projects undertaken while a student at Oberlin include recording Elizabeth Ogonek’s The Water Cantos and performing as bass clarinet soloist on Michael Frazier’s Panels with the Oberlin Percussion Group. Alex is looking forward to continuing his studies at the Eastman School of Music in the fall.

Alex Abreu is the Clarinet Assistant at Middle and High School Camp and will be teaching Clarinet Technique and assisting in Symphonic Band.
Jeni Hacker is an actress, singer, dancer and choreographer based in Miami, Florida. Her work has been seen on multiple stages throughout South Florida. Recent credits at Zoetic Stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts include: Mrs. Lovett - Sweeney Todd (Carbonell winner Best Actress, Musical and Silver Palm Award) Helen - Fun Home (Carbonell winner Best Supporting Actress, Musical), Fosca - Passion (Carbonell winner Best Actress - Musical and Silver Palm Award) and Connie - After (Carbonell winner Best Supporting Actress, Play). Other credits include: Mom - Grindr Mom (Carbonell winner Best Actress, Play) TheatreLab: Anne - Everything is Super Great. Boca West Theater: Evelyn - The Camp (Carbonell Nominee Best Supporting Actress, Play). Actorsʼ Playhouse: Choreographer - Once (Carbonell Nominee Best Choreography), Poppy - Noises Off, Aunt Sheila/Choreographer- It Shoulda Been You, Louise/Eve - Ruthless! The Musical. Other favorites: Our Town - Miami New Drama, Les Miserables - Maltz Jupiter Theater, The Most Happy Fella - Palm Beach Dramaworks.

Jeni will be teaching The Art of Auditioning, Acting I, and Musical Theater at High School Camp.
Katie Orlinsky’s photography tells stories about the everyday lives of people in extreme situations, capturing the intimate moments of daily life behind larger global issues. She has photographed all over the world documenting everything from conflict and social issues to wildlife and sports. For the past six years a large portion of her work has focused on climate change, exploring the transforming relationship between people, animals and the land. Katie is a regular contributor for National Geographic and a member of Prime Collective. Her work is also frequently published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian Magazine and Marie Claire, among others. Katie has won numerous awards over the course of her career from institutions such as World Press Photo, The Alexia Foundation, Pictures of the Year International and the Art Director’s Club. She received her BA at Colorado College and a Masters degree in Journalism from Columbia University. In 2018 she was named the Snedden Chair of Journalism at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she taught photojournalism as a visiting professor.

For more information visit Katie's website.

Katie will be teaching Digital Photography at High School Camp.
Elizabeth Jean Younce is an award-winning, Los Angeles based, visual artist working primarily in Printmaking and Illustration. Younce received her BFA in Illustration and Printmaking from the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) in 2015 and her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018. She owns and operates a small business, Mustard Beetle, through which she designs and produces textiles, prints, and goods. Additionally, Younce maintains a fine art Printmaking practice. Specifically, through the mediums of Lithography, she references scientific, medical, and children’s-book illustration, as well as symbology, natural history, wunderkammers, and feminism. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in museums, galleries, and private collections.

For more information visit Elizabeth's website.

Elizabeth will be teaching Digital Painting at Middle and High School Camp.
Anna Wittstruck joined the University of Puget Sound School of Music in 2017 as Assistant Professor, Director of Orchestra. Before that she spent two years at Stanford University as Acting Assistant Professor, serving as Interim Music Director and Conductor of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra and Stanford Philharmonia. In 2019 she was appointed Music Director of the West Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Wittstruck has conducted concerts across the United States, in Latin America, Europe and in Asia. She has served as a guest conductor with the Harbin Symphony in China and as the 2017 and 2018 Conducting Fellow with the Eastern Sierra Symphony. She conducted concerts at Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and Teatro Nacional de Cuba in Havana, where she performed with Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba and the Chamber Orchestra of Havana. In December 2013 she conducted the first-ever symphonic concert on Catalina Island and returned with her touring ensemble the following three seasons. She has conducted concerts at the Rudolfinum in Prague and the Musikzentrum Augarten (home of the Vienna Boys’ Choir) in Vienna, as well as concerts in Berlin, Bad Elster, and Teplice. Wittstruck is also an active orchestral musician whose performances as a cellist span from the Beijing Modern Music Festival to the 2011 YouTube Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. Her string quartet gave a concert tour of Thailand sponsored by the Yonok and American-Thai Foundations, in honor of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn’s sixtieth birthday celebrations. She won a blind audition at the age of fourteen to become the youngest contracted member of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, and has participated in orchestra festivals such as Tanglewood, Round Top, and the National Symphony/Kennedy Center Institute. She has appeared as a soloist with the Charlotte and Hendersonville Symphonies, on the Public Radio International show, “From the Top,” and with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra. Wittstruck appears regularly as a judge and clinician for WorldStrides Heritage Festival. She served on the jury of the 2014 Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, China. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Princeton University with certificates in orchestral conducting and creative writing, and her PhD in musicology from Stanford University. While a graduate student, she conducted the Summer Stanford Symphony Orchestra for six consecutive seasons, served as assistant conductor of Stanford’s orchestral studies program, and directed the Stanford Wind Symphony, the Stanford New Ensemble, and the Stanford Chinese Ensemble. She also helped create the Stanford Youth Orchestra, an international program for advanced high school students, and taught courses through Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies. At Princeton, she spent two years as assistant conductor of the Princeton University Orchestra and as associate conductor of the Princeton Sinfonia. Wittstruck has attended the Pierre Monteux School of Conducting in Hancock, Maine, where she studied with Michael Jinbo, and the Conductor’s Retreat at Medomak, where she studied with Kenneth Kiesler. Other conducting teachers include Michael Pratt, Ruth Ochs, Stephen Sano, Jindong Cai, and Edwin Outwater.

Anna will be teaching String Technique, Orchestra, and Chamber Music at High School Camp.
Pianist Susan Wingrove-Reed enthusiastically embraces any and all opportunities to collaborate with singers and instrumentalists. She plays keyboard with the Anchorage Symphony, is the collaborative pianist with the Alaska Chamber Singers & the annual Alaska All State Choir, performs at the Sitka Summer Music Festival and regularly works with the West, Dimond and Bartlett HS choirs plus countless solo and ensemble festivals/competitions.  Susan has been part of the SFAC team since 2011.  She has been the resident music educator (pre-concert lectures and program notes) for the Sitka Summer Music Festival and the Anchorage Symphony for over thirty-five years, sharing stories about composers, music and history. A graduate of Indiana University with Piano Performance and MAT degrees, she returned home to Alaska to work with Anchorage Opera and the Alaska Repertory theater. She is a retired choir/drama teacher (Bartlett) and received an Alaska Governor’s Award for her contributions in arts education. When Covid began, she joined the Alaska Black Caucus to further her commitment to anti-racism and concert programming that is inclusive of historically neglected voices and serves on the Justice Committee.

Susan will be a collaborative pianist in vocal classes at Middle and High School Camp.
Eric Trope is a freelance dancer, choreographer, repetiteur, and teacher. He finished his eighth season with the Miami City Ballet in April of 2021. He previously danced with the Pennsylvania Ballet for four seasons and most recently was a guest artist with BalletX. Eric has danced a vast amount of repertoire including works by Balanchine, Robbins, Forsythe, Ratmansky, Taylor, Kylian, Peck, and many others. Some of his featured roles include Riff in Robbins' West Side Story Suite, Phlegmatic in Balanchine's The Four Temperaments, Johnny in Taylor's Company B, the Paul Taylor solo in Balanchine's Episodes, and “Taylor” in Justin Peck’s Rodeo. Eric has toured extensively including the NY State Theater and NY City Center in NYC, the Music Center and Segerstrom Center in LA, and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Eric’s latest choreographic work was seen at the Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival in July of 2021, after receiving a commission for winning their 2020 “Choreo-contest.” Eric also premiered a piece for the Miami City Ballet School and Apprentice Program for their spring showcase in June of 2021. Earlier that year, Eric premiered Fire and Gold for the Miami City Ballet outdoor pop-up series at the Wynwood Walls. He was also selected to participate in the 2016 Fall Session of the New York Choreographic Institute, an affiliate of the New York City Ballet. He also made works for the Mainly Mozart Festival, Dimensions Dance Theater of Miami, Louisiana Delta Ballet, the New World Symphony, and the fundraiser Shut up and Dance. Eric has been a guest teacher at the Rock School for Dance Education, the Finnish National Ballet, Maryland Youth Ballet, Ballet Elite, among many others. In March 2021, Eric began staging Justin Peck’s Heatscape for the Finnish National Ballet; the ballet is set to be performed in Helsinki in September 2022. Finally, Eric is a cofounder of Buddy System, an nonprofit focused on food insecurity that was started in response to the Miami community’s immense need during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

For more information visit Eric's website.

Eric will be teaching Ballet, Intro to Dance, and Dance Composition at Middle and High School Camp.
Lee Soroko is delighted to have been invited to the Sitka Fine Arts Camp where he is looking forward to sharing his passion for physical storytelling through the illusion of violence. Lee is a recognized Fight Director, Certified Teacher of Stage Combat and a Theatrical Firearms Instructor with the Society of American Fight Directors who earned his MFA from the Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Texas. He is also a former National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient for his work in character masks. Lee provides professional fight choreography for theater, opera companies and universities across America and lives is sunny South Florida where he is the Assistant Professor of Movement at Florida Atlantic University.

Lee will be teaching Stage Combat at High School Camp.
K. April Soroko – Professional Scenic and Costume Designer Ms. Soroko has been a professional scenic and costume designer since 1993. She is currently the Associate Professor of Scenic Design at Florida Atlantic University where she has taught since 2016. Prior to her tenure at FAU, she was the Associate Professor of Scenic Design at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL from 2007-2016. Ms. Soroko is a member of USA Local 829 in both Scenery and Costumes and holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Some of her notable credits are listed below- Off-Broadway: Scenery for Napoleon at New York Musical Festival; Costumes for Mariage Blanc at Playwrights Horizons. Regional: Scenery for Collected Stories, A Long Day’s Journey Into Night and My Old Lady for Palm Beach Dramaworks, Scenery for The Tempest, King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing, Costumes for The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at NC Shakes; Costumes for Manifest at Portland Stage; Costumes for The Cure at Troy at Yale Rep, Scenery for Pump Boys and Dinettes, Scenery and Costumes for Androcles and the Lion, The Last Romance, Talley’s Folly, The Savannah Disputation, Race, The 39 Steps, Costumes for Native Gardens, The Fabulous Lipitones and Beehive: The 60s Musical at Florida Studio theater; Costumes for Man of La Mancha, Dracula, Driving Miss Daisy, Hedda Gabler, Gas Light, Mirandolina, Debunked and Suddenly Last Summer at Triad Stage.

For more information visit April's website.

April will be teaching Building Stage Props: Faux Food, Theater Stage Design, and Theater Costuming: Sketching & Sewing at High School Camp.
Leslie Shows is a Los Angeles-based artist whose mixed media paintings explore materiality, abstraction, and representations of nature. She grew up in Juneau, Alaska and has taught art for 12 years. Her work has been exhibited at institutions like the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, and the Anchorage Museum. Recent public commissions include a 35-ft glass artwork for the San Francisco Central Subway and a large-scale lithomosaic for a school in Richmond, CA.

For more information visit Leslie's website.

Leslie will be teaching Painting at Middle and High School Camp.
Christine Octavia Shaw is a devised theater creator, performer, and educator in Philadelphia. Her work was in residence with Bethany Arts Community in 2020 and 2021 and she is an inaugural artist-in-residence with the Yale University Schwarzman Center for her work on The Wandering. Georgia-born and raised, she attended Yale University where she studied theater and dance. Since then, she has performed and created original works in Chicago (Titus Andronicus - The Home for Wayward Artists), New York (Scorched - The Araca Project), and Philadelphia (The Choice, winner of best work of theater in the 2021 Philly Fringe). Now Philadelphia-based, she received her MFA from the UArts/Pig Iron program in devised theater.

For more information visit Christine's website.

Christine will be teaching Acting and Clown Theater at Middle School Camp.
Geatali Tampy is a versatile and passionate professional dancer from the NJ/NY area, who enjoys performing, learning, and teaching across the world. She has trained in the Indian classical dance style of Bharatanatyam, Bollywood, jazz, ballet, contemporary/modern, hip hop, West African dance, and flamenco, and enjoys choreographing in a style called Indocontemporary Fusion which blends multiple dance styles together. Geatali believes dance is something that can and should be enjoyed by all humans, and loves nothing more than bringing her own love for the art form to other people.

For more information visit Geatali's website.

Geatali will be teaching Dance Jam, Hip Hop Dance, and Modern Dance at High School Camp.
Ben Gordon was born and raised in Sitka. He is a filmmaker and commercial salmon fisherman. He has a BA in Visual Media Arts Production from Emerson College. His short films and music videos have screened in film festivals across the country and are featured on the independent streaming channels Eternal Family TV and NoBudge. He is currently working on an experimental documentary series centering around his experiences working on a salmon fishing boat. He lives in Brooklyn where he makes movies with his friends and hosts a live film screening series featuring contemporary independent filmmakers from all over the world. 

For more information visit Ben's website.

Ben will be teaching Filmmaking and Music Video Production at Middle and High School Camp.
Misaki Saito was born in Toyota, Aichi, Japan and began playing the piano at age eight. Dedicated to bringing happiness through music, Dr. Saito performs everywhere from recital halls to vocational aid centers, hospitals, and nursing centers throughout Japan and the United States. Dr. Saito holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at the Thornton School of Music in University of Southern California, where she studied with the eminent pianists Daniel Pollack and Kevin Fitz-Gerald. She also minored in Music Theory, Instrumental Conducting, and Arts Leadership. She attended the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan from 2007-2010, and then Lynn University Conservatory of Music on full scholarship with Roberta Rust. Her previous teachers include Naoko Watanabe, Michael Coonrod, Thomas Bara. She has performed in master classes with Philippe Entremont, Jon Kimura Parker, Rebecca Penneys, Nicola Melville, John Milbauer, Brian Preston, Thomas Lymenstull, and Robert Palmer, among others. She also was a participant in chamber music master classes with eminent violinists Elmar Oliveira and Midori. She was a winner of the Walenstein Competition in 2013, and was awarded the Best Haydn Performance in the Great Composers Competition in London 2016. Aside from her solo career, she is also active in chamber music, and received USC’s Keyboard Collaborative Award in 2017 for her extensive collaborative services to the school. Dr. Saito is also the founder and artistic director of heARTists, a collaborative platform where survivors of painful experiences join with artists to transform stories of trauma, abuse, and injustice into works of art, compassion, and empowerment. Dr. Saito strives to transform and heal the world through art, and was awarded the $10,000 Artists For World Change Grant Yusaku Maezawa & Mago Nagasaka in May 2021 to further the organization’s mission and vision. Dr. Saito enjoys all types of music. She has recorded for many films, including the Annie Award nominated movie “Nice to Meteor You”, and a Chinese film “Insomnia”, for which she performed Bach’s Goldberg Variations as the film’s main musical theme. She has collaborated with various artists such as Cécilia Tsan and has made many guest appearances on the popular YouTube piano group, Super Piano Brothers. She has performed in Walt Disney Concert Hall, NY Steinway Hall, Japan, China, Thailand, South Korea, Russia and many parts of the world. In addition to playing the piano, Dr. Saito developed a variety of interests such as ballet, figure-ice skating, Japanese traditional dance, travel, musical theater, and sugar-crafting. Dr. Saito also has a huge passion for photography, and is a certified contributor for Getty Images, 1x, Adobe Stock, Shutter Stock and many others. Currently, she serves on the piano faculty at the 88 Keys Music Academy.

For more information visit Misaki's website.

Misaki will be teaching Piano Technique and will be a collaborative pianist in vocal classes at Middle and High School Camp.
Abel Ryan was born in Ketchikan, Alaska in 1978. He was raised in Metlakatla on the Annette Island Reserve in Southeast Alaska. Abel is half Tsimshian, a member of the Metlakatla Indian Community, and a member of the Laxgiboo Clan. In May of 2006 Abel graduated from Sheldon Jackson College with a B.A. in Liberal Arts and a minor in Art. In May of 2009 he graduated from University of Alaska Fairbanks with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Native Arts Studio and Printmaking. Abel studied traditional Tsimshian art under master carv