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Music Lesson Instructors
Staff Bios
Alan Acosta (He/Him)
Specialties:
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Beginner - Advanced Woodwinds (Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute)
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Beginner - Advanced Piano
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Beginner - Advanced Music Theory
Meet Alan Acosta, our private piano and woodwind instructor at the Q StudioLab!
Alan is a professional musician and educator who has traveled the globe performing and presenting for nearly two decades. When Alan isn't teaching in Sunnyside, he is an assistant director for Jazz at Lincoln Center's Jazz Academy program and also works at The New School University as a teaching assistant.
Availability:
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday (3:00pm-6:30pm)
Saturday (3:00pm-6:30pm)
Sunday (12:00pm-6:30pm)
Izzy Oram Brown (She/Her)
Specialties:
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Guitar, Electric Bass, Ukulele
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Voice, Songwriting
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Beginner Piano
Izzy Oram Brown is a guitarist, singer and songwriter based in New York. Originally from Western Massachusetts, she lived in Nashville before relocating to New York to pursue a degree in Jazz Guitar from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Since then, she has played, recorded and toured with numerous artists and bands including Why Bonnie, Youbet, Pearla, Katy Pinke and Leńa Bartels while also
pursuing her solo project.
She released her first record Mess in 2022 and has since opened for artists such as Julian Lage and Myriam Gendron. Her debut LP is slated to release in spring of 2026.
Availability: Monday & Thursday (3:00pm-6:30pm)
Adam Baksh-Garcia (He/Him)
Specialties:
Percussion (All Levels)
Beginner piano (Subbing)
Adam Baksh-Garcia is a musician and educator from New York City. He specializes in performing and teaching folkloric Afro-Latin percussion styles, employing techniques and theories from both the Jazz and Classical realms of music.
Adam believes in fostering scholastic environments for African and Indigenous musical traditions, emphasizing the importance of its role within the socio-historic contexts of American culture, through implementing modern anti-racist ethnomusicological
practices.
Availability:
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday (3:00pm-6:30pm)
Saturday (9:00am-6:00pm) & Sunday (9:00am-3:00pm)