Eric Parchen

​Eric Parchen is a freelance percussionist who lives in Seattle, WA. He has played in various jazz bands, musical theaters, rock bands, and symphony orchestras. Additionally, he has a private lessons studio and works with many middle schools and high schools in the Seattle area coaching the student percussionists. Eric has done extensive work with drumlines including teaching multiple ensembles, giving clinics, teaching at camps, and writing music for marching percussion groups.

Eric will be the Percussion Tech at Middle and High School Camp and will teach Percussion Technique at Middle School Camp as well as assisting with percussion in other classes. 

Isabelle Aspin

Isabelle Aspin is an animator and painter based in Solano Canyon in Los Angeles, California. She has contributed designs, animations, and background art to award-winning films, ads and television series. Her personal work is inspired by the landscapes, people, and politics of her adopted home of Southern California, where Isabelle runs a Huell Howser themed plein air club called the Ralph M. Painters. Isabelle graduated with a BFA in Character Animation from CalArts in 2016.

For more information visit Isabelle's website.

Isabelle will be teaching Animation at Middle School Camp.

Hank Moore

​Hank Moore is a guitarist who lives in Sitka, Alaska. He has been a freelance musician for most of his life.

Hank will be teaching guitar at Elementary Camp and Rock Band and Guitar Technique at Middle School Camp.

Will Healy

Will Healy is a composer, pianist, and improviser, whose work across genres is characterized by textural richness, thematic depth, and vibrant experimentations. Based in Brooklyn, Healy composes music drawn from the musical traditions of New York City and the collaborations it inspires.

Healy is the founder and artistic director of ShoutHouse, a collective of hip-hop, jazz, and classical musicians. Recent ShoutHouse performances have taken place at the Kennedy Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and (le) Poisson Rouge, and their music has been featured on WNYC’s “New Sounds,” among other radio programs. Their debut album, Cityscapes, was released in 2019 by New Amsterdam records, and Healy’s recent 30-minute piece for chorus and ShoutHouse, Orbits, was premiered at Roulette Intermedium in 2022.

As a pianist, he has performed solo recitals in the United States and abroad, including programs of original music, world premieres of pieces by other composers, and a wide variety of works from the classical repertoire. Healy has performed the works of J.S. Bach extensively, including the complete Goldberg Variations. Healy is currently the pianist in Pathos Trio, an award-winning chamber group that has premiered dozens of new works.

Healy’s awards include the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Charles Ives Scholarship, two ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, Vassar College’s W.K. Rose Fellowship, a J-Fund commission, and residencies at the Bogliasco, Willapa Bay AiR, and Brush Creek Foundations. Healy has written pieces for the New York Philharmonic’s Bandwagon and YPC Concert series performances. He holds an M.M. in Composition from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Samuel Adler, John Corigliano, and Steven Stucky.

​For more information visit Will's website.
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Will will be a collaborative pianist and teach Piano Technique at Middle School Camp. 

Franco Zacha

​Franco Zacha is an Argentinian illustrator raised in Paraguay, Colombia, and the United States. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Here, he works as a freelance, editorial illustrator for a variety of newspapers, magazines, and online publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and more. Franco is also the art director at Creature Conserve--a non-profit dedicated to bringing artists and scientists together to study, celebrate, and protect wildlife around our planet.

For more information visit Franco's website.

Franco will be teaching Pen & Ink, Landscape Painting, and Illustration at Middle School Camp.

Erin Vonder Haar

​Erin Vonder Haar is a native of Seattle, Washington. She received a BFA in dance from Southern Methodist University. She has performed in works by Summer Rhatigan, Danny Buraczeski, James Barry, Russall Beattie, Bruce Wood, Joshua Peugh, & Desmond Richardson. Erin is the co-founder of Groundworks Dance Company located in Dallas, Texas. Erin has danced for two professional contemporary companies, founded her own dance company, and now lives in LA where she is performing live, dancing in film, and teaching. Erin was featured in the film, “Backcountry Basin” by Joshua Peugh, commissioned by Dance Now NYC which was featured in Forbes magazine. She also choreographed Sydney Cope’s music video “Think I found My Way”. Erin most recently choreographed and danced in a film for sculpture artist, Daniel Winn and performed in 100 live shows in San Francisco with The Empire Strips Back. You may also catch Erin on season 3 of Physical on Apple TV as a ballet dancer. Erin is a certified reiki healer and has recently began combining reiki with movement exploration. She has a passion for sharing her knowledge of the artform and life with dancers of all ages.

Erin will be teaching Dance at Elementary Camp, Ballet, Contemporary Dance, and Modern Dance at Middle and High School Camp.

Kyle Zeuch

​Dr. Kyle Zeuch serves as Director of Choral Activities and the Co-Chair of the music department at Lebanon Valley College. In addition to conducting the choirs on campus, Zeuch teaches courses on conducting and music education. He holds a bachelor of music in music education degree from Capital University, a master of music in choral conducting from Michigan State University (MSU), and a doctor of musical arts in choral conducting degree also from MSU. Dr. Zeuch’s teaching experience includes Director of Children and Youth Choirs at Michigan State University and the Head Director at Rivera High School in Brownsville, Texas, where he was named the Texas Choral Director Association’s Distinguished Young Director (2010). Zeuch received the Lebanon Valley College Inclusive Excellence Award (2020) and was an American Prize Finalist for the Dale Warland Award in Choral Conducting (2022). He is the President-Elect Designate and R&R chair for Community Choirs for ACDA-Pennsylvania. Dr. Zeuch conducts the Harrisburg Choral Society and is an active clinician, presenter, and conductor nationwide. Under his direction, Dr. Zeuch’s choirs have performed at state conferences, throughout Europe, and on the stage of Carnegie Hall.

Kyle will be teaching Vocal Technique, Choir, and Musical Theater at High School Camp.

Bethany Zeuch

​Bethany Zeuch is a music educator and piano accompanist with a Bachelor of Arts in music education degree from Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Bethany has held teaching positions at Stell Middle School in Brownsville, Texas as an assistant choir director, Charlotte High School in Charlotte, Michigan as a choir director, and is currently teaching elementary music in the Lebanon School district in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. While currently pursuing a Masters of Music in choral conducting degree from Messiah University, Mrs. Zeuch is also an active choral accompanist. Her piano accompanying roles have included playing for high school and collegiate choirs, choral reading sessions, honor choirs, festival choirs, vocal solos, pit orchestras, and church choirs. Bethany resides in Cleona, Pennsylvania with her husband, Kyle, and daughter, Harper.

Bethany will be a collaborative pianist and teach Piano Technique at High School Camp.

Elizabeth Jean Younce

​Elizabeth Jean Younce (b. 1993 Newport, RI) is a visual artist working primarily in Printmaking and Illustration. Specifically, through the mediums of Lithography and Graphite her work functions as a psychological investigation of the flora and fauna inhabiting our world. While primarily (and proudly) a printmaker, Elizabeth has produced her prints in conjunction with installation, sculpture, bookbinding, found object, drawing, and painting. In addition to her Fine Art studio practice, Elizabeth is also the owner of Mustard Beetle where she sells mainly screenprints, relief prints, and giclée prints, on paper and on fabric. Because of Mustard Beetle, Elizabeth is able to simultaneously function as a Fine Artist and a Commercial Illustrator. Elizabeth received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018 and her BFA in Illustration and Printmaking from the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) in 2015. Elizabeth has master-printing experience from Gemini G.E.L. and Tandem Press. Elizabeth currently resides in Los Angeles, CA where she is pursuing her fine art as well as her small business.

​For more information visit Elizabeth's website.

Elizabeth will teach Visual Arts at Elementary Camp, Digital Painting: Animals & Creatures, Digital Design & Printing, and Drawing the Natural World at Middle School Camp and Printmaking, Digital Design & Printing, and Drawing the Natural World at High School Camp.

Christopher Hanson

Conductor, violinist, composer, pedagogue, philosopher, and musicologist; Dr. Christopher T. F. Hanson enjoys working across a number of disciplines to promote the transformative power of the arts. Dr. Hanson holds three master's degrees from Texas State University in Music History, Music Theory, and Music Composition. He also holds a PhD in School Improvement from Texas State University, as well as a certificate of professional ethics from the Texas State Philosophy program.

As a violinist and composer, Dr. Hanson has premiered several works across multiple genres and serves as the chief arranger and first violinist of the Sacred Ensemble with Dr. Shana Mashego. Dr. Hanson regularly performs with his wife, mezzo-soprano Erin Hanson, in a chamber music series entitled “Sonatas & Songs” which explores a unique repertoire of music written for solo voice and violin.

Dr. Hanson is an assistant professor of music at Seattle Pacific University where he serves as the director of music education and orchestral activities. He has developed and instructs a number of courses in music and education, including but not limited to: Applied Pedagogy of Strings, Making Music with Diverse Learners, Foundations of Music Education, Teaching instrumental music in public schools, Teaching Music in the Non-Music Classroom, Advocacy in the Arts, and a number of courses that explore creativity, imagination, and interdisciplinary pedagogy. His research focuses on the transformative power of the arts, student and teacher agency, and the significance of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access (DEIA) in education. As a queer scholar, Dr. Hanson uses research platforms to challenge and “queer” professional spaces of teaching and learning, particularly within and through the arts.

Before his current position at SPU, Dr. Hanson worked as a public school teacher in central Texas for eight years. He designed, implemented, and taught unique curricula for music appreciation, AP music theory, and string orchestra in both middle school and high school. Hanson played a crucial role in reviving the public school strings program in San Marcos CISD through public advocacy for the arts within the community.

Dr. Hanson is the founder and former artistic director of the San Marcos Artist Retention and Training (SMART) Orchestra in San Marcos, Texas. The SMART Orchestra is a community music ensemble that promotes the transformative power of the arts by engaging its members and audiences in the orchestral experience. Hanson served as the artistic director for 10 years, from 2009 to 2019.

Currently, Dr. Hanson serves as the director of the Rainbow City Orchestra (RCO), a community music ensemble that serves and supports the LGBTQIA+ community in greater Seattle through the study and performance of contemporary and historically marginalized composers. The Rainbow City Orchestra is one of several ensembles under the umbrella of Rainbow City Performing Arts (RCPA). More information about the RCO and RCPA can be found at www.rainbowcity.org.

Dr. Hanson moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2019, and lives with his partner Erin and children, Emily and Graham, in Tukwila, WA.

For more information visit Christopher's website.
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Christopher will be teaching Orchestra, String Technique, and Chamber Music at High School Camp.

Susan Wingrove-Reed

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 at Middle and High School Camp.

Denush Vidanapathirana

​​Denush Vidanapathirana is the Technical Theater Manager for the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. Originally from Sri Lanka, working with local theater companies is what first interested him in theater. He then moved to Texas to study at Midwestern State University, where he earned his bachelor's in theater performance. During his time at MSU, he was involved in all aspects of theater production, from acting to design to technical operation, and that variety gave him a deep appreciation for the values that theater stands for. His identity as an artist continues to be shaped by the places he goes to and the people he meets.

Denush will teach Live Event Production at Middle and High School Camp.

Lee Soroko

​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 teach Stage Combat at High School Camp.

K. April Soroko

​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 Theatre; 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 teach Building Stage Props: Faux Food, Theater Stage Design, and Costuming: Sketching and Sewing at High School Camp.

Leslie Shows

​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 teach Painting, Abstract Painting, and Collage & Mixed Media at Middle and High School Camp. 

Ambar Navarro

Ambar Navarro is a Texan filmmaker and artist based out of Los Angeles. She holds a B.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Experimental Animation. Her films often explore the use of miniature, found objects, using in-camera, and special effects that play with scale and place her subjects into surreal fictional worlds. Her work is often shot on film, using rudimentary techniques and in the genres of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi. Her newest short film, "How To Lasso" is premiering at the Los Angeles Latino Film Festival (LALIFF) '23 and has been commissioned to direct music videos for labels such as (Warner Bros., Atlantic, Republic Records.) Her work has been featured in Rolling Stone, The Fader, and NPR.

For more information visit Ambar's website.

Ambar will teach Filmmaking at Elementary Camp and Filmmaking and Music Video Production at Middle and High School Camp. 

Richie Schiraldi

​Richie Schiraldi is a Chicago-based devised physical theatre maker, specializing in movement, physical comedy/clown, partner acrobatics, and cyr wheel. He has toured internationally with Aura CuriAtlas, as well as his own company Whisper Theatre. Richie has spent the last decade teaching physical theater, circus, and movement in Chicago to all ages, and has been focused on integrating circus into his theater-making. Richie holds a BFA in Physical Theatre from Coastal Carolina University, in conjunction with Accademia del’Arte in Arezzo, Italy, as well as an MFA in Devised Performance Practices from Columbia College Chicago, in conjunction with Arthaus Berlin (formerly LISPA). His latest artistic obsessions are dreams, the mothman, and being authentically odd. In his spare time, he is also a woodworker, cat dad, board game nerd, part-time chicken, and outdoors enthusiast.

Richie will teach Theater at Elementary Camp and Clown Theater, Stage Combat, and Acrobatics at Middle School Camp. 

Sara Sadawi

​Sara Sadawi is Syrian multidisciplinary artist born in Ohio, raised in Syria and Canada. She mainly works in ceramics and print-media—exploring the interplay of ceramics and intaglio. She examines themes of functionality and space through material-driven processes while referencing geometry and industrial objects. Her visual vocabulary is made up of abstract shapes inspired by geometry, architecture and ventilation systems. Through the use of clay to create industrial objects, Sadawi attempt to create a correlation between gendered practices, industrial spaces and invisible labor. Most recently her installation Ducts was selected in a group show titled The Sum of Our Shared Selves at the FOFA gallery in Montreal, Quebec. She is currently attending Cranbrook Academy of Art, as an MFA candidate within the Ceramics Department, 2024.

Sara will teach Wheel Thrown Pottery at Middle School Camp. 

Abel Ryan

​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 carver Jack Hudson of Metlakatla. He has carved in Metlakatla, Sitka, Juneau, and Fairbanks for over 30 years. Working in the medium of wood and metals, Abel produces masks, bowls, spoons, pipes, ladles, plaques, combs, bracelets, rings, pendants, drums and other hand carved items. He is also proficient in two-dimensional graphic design using Northwest Coast formline art. In June 2013 Abel was invited to an international carving competition in Beijing, China. Abel has taught classes at Sheldon Jackson College and the University of Alaska in Sitka, Juneau, and Fairbanks, Sitka Fine Arts Camp, and the Alaska Native Heritage Foundation in Anchorage as well as done artist demonstrations at the Sheldon Jackson Museum in Sitka, Museum of the North in Fairbanks, Washington DC, and the Alaska State Museum in Juneau, AK. Abel’s work is sold in galleries in Juneau, Fairbanks, Ketchikan, and Sitka. He also has work in private collections. ​

Abel will teach Formline Design at Elementary Camp and Northwest Coast Carving at Middle and High School Camp.

Niki Saludez

​NIKI SALUDEZ is a choreographer and educator based in New York City. With over a decade of dance and performance experience, Niki pulls from his training in street styles, hip hop choreography, freestyle, as well as contemporary dance to provide his students with a diverse and foundational dance education, to build and connect with the community, and to help others cultivate life skills through the art form of dance. Throughout Niki’s career, he has been a part of works both in commercial and concert settings. From being a part of projects with artists such as Don Diablo and Katy Perry, to being a member of Soul Project Dance Company (directed by Candace Brown) and tedted Performance Group (directed by Teddy Tedholm), Niki uses his knowledge from different realms/ideas of movement and career experience to uplift dancers in the art of expression and performance, onstage or on camera. Niki is currently on faculty with Broadway Dance Center and the BDC Children & Teen Program in New York City. Prioritizing safety, inclusion, and positive education, Niki always works to create and facilitate a space where students feel safe expressing themselves fully and authentically, stepping beyond their comfort zones, challenging limiting mindsets, and practicing building supportive mindsets as artists and humans.

Niki will teach Dance Jam, Freestyle Dance, and Hip Hop Dance at High School Camp.

Cassidy Russell

​Cassidy Russell (she/her) has been improvising since middle school (cool!). She performs, teaches, and directs all over Chicago—at Second City, the Annoyance Theatre, the Revival Theater, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago. She has acted in plays, movies, TV shows, and commercials, has been featured at theater festivals internationally, and been interviewed about comedy in print publications and on NPR. Additionally, she has an MFA in Printmaking from Savannah College of Art & Design and maintains an active studio art practice. Her teaching philosophy focuses on bringing emotion and vulnerability to the stage, whether you’re doing drama or comedy. Cassidy won a lot of high school theater awards, so she knows what she’s talking about.

For more information visit Cassidy's website.

Cassidy will teach Theater at Elementary Camp, Improv at Middle School Camp, and Improv, Advanced Improv, and Sketch Comedy at High School Camp.