Kostritsa's recordings of classical masterpieces and his original compositions are available on Amazon, iTunes, and Spotify. Kostritsa has been actively teaching since 2006 and is currently employed as a piano instructor at Cuyahoga Community College. He made his international debut when he was 8 years old with a concert tour to Japan and has since performed as a soloist in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, South Korea, and the United States. Kostritsa is a prizewinner of international piano competitions Premio Rovere d’Oro (Italy, 2007), Slavic Music Festival (Ukraine, 2007), and Paul Badura-Skoda (Spain, 2010). He studied with world-renowned pianists Mikhail Petukhov and Antonio Pompa-Baldi. Kostritsa received his Master's degree in Piano and Music Education from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Kostritsa was born into a musical family in Moscow and started his piano lessons at the age of 6. ALEXANDER KOSTRITSA, Piano, teaches classical and popular piano to students of all levels starting at age 5. As an active music instructor, Jonathan is committed to continuously growing as a musician and imparting what he has learned to his own students.ĭR. His teachers have included local woodwind players Tom Lempner and Lou Gangale as well as critically-acclaimed saxophonist Greg Banaszak. Jonathan received a Bachelor of Arts in Music with a Jazz Emphasis from Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music. Jonathan is also a former member of the renowned Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony. He has also had the opportunity to play with Cleveland’s own NeoDixie jazz combo and is a founding member of the Lake Erie Saxophone Quartet and BMONK jazz combo, which has performed at several locations throughout Cleveland. While a student at Baldwin Wallace, he participated in the Concert and Symphonic Wind Ensembles, the BW Sax Quartet, the BW Jazz Ensemble and Jazztet, in which he was a featured soloist and composer, and the BW Beatles. JONATHAN GRIFFIN, Saxophone, Clarinet, Jazz Studies, has performed and soloed at many different venues including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Lakeland Jazz Festival, the Tri-C Jazz Fest, The Brothers Lounge, Case Western Reserve’s Harkness Chapel, and Cleveland State University’s Drinko Music Hall.
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