Antonio Espinal

Piano Teacher

Mr. Antonio Espinal is a Candidate for a DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) in orchestral conducting and Musicology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He has served as Orchestral Conductor (BA, National Conservatory of Music, MFA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA) , Choral conductor (MFA, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA) Classical Pianist (BA with Honors, UNAM, Mexico). Piano Accompanist, Choral Director and Orchestra Director, he made his Opera conducting debut with La Traviata. He was a Student of the most prominent choral and orchestral conductors: Juan Pablo Izquierdo and composer Dr. Samuel Jones, (orchestral), Dr. Robert Page, (choral conducting at Carnegie Mellon) and a personal invitation for an apprenticeship with Maestro Essa-Pekka Salonen (Orchestral conducting).

king at the NATIONAL OPERA COMPANY as one of the main Repetiteurs (Accompanist) under the baton of many international Opera conductors: Alfredo Silipigni, Miro Belamaric. A Specialist in Opera, Maestro Espinal has participated in more than 60 Opera Productions from every aspect of the field: As an accompanist, prompter, assistant to the Stage Director, off-stage bands and chorus, assistant to the conductor, and CHORUS MASTER (Artistic Founding Director of the Teatro del Bicentenario Opera Chorus) preparing the chorus for International conductors Arthur Fagen, Marco Boemi, Marzio Conti, Sébastien Rouland,etc. His work had rave reviews.

A strong promoter of the Arts in Communities where Classical Music, Opera and contemporary music was never part of it, during his private apprenticeship with maestro Essa-Pekka Salonen, (at that time, artistic Director of the Los Angeles Phil), he became the artistic founding director of the Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral Choir and started his own non profit organization; Harmonies Girls Choir”, who reached a high level of musicianship to the level of been professional hired at the SAINT DENIS FESTIVAL in Paris France (2007) becoming also an exclusive recording artist of French Recording label MILAN RECORDS, who distribute his CD world wide.

Piano

My son has been taking piano lessons for almost a year. He loves his teacher's method of teaching and I can tell that they really care about my kid. Ottley Music School is wonderful and I highly recommend it.

Lorena Fuentes / parent

The school has everything that children need for successful study: textbooks, daily assignments, planner, notebooks, music sheets, a staff who are very nice and kind, and ready to help at any time.

Maria Kisker / parent

I am most grateful that my son's guitar teacher not only makes learning fun and shares his knowledge, but his passion for music as well. I could not have found a better place for him to learn guitar.

Victor Baules / parent

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