Academy for Strings, Piano, and Woodwinds at Four Oaks

Faculty

The violin, viola, cello, flute, bassoon, and piano/theory instructors at Four Oaks are highly qualified in their field.  Please read on to learn more about our faculty's impressive educational and professional backgrounds.

Violin,Viola, and Flute

Masha Andreini, violin instructor, attended the Moscow Conservatory.  She was the winner of the 1992 Violin Concerto Competition at the University of Minnesota School of Music.  Mrs. Andreini graduated on full scholarship and with honors from Oberlin Conservatory with her Bachelor of Music degree and her Artist Diploma..  Masha performs with several professional orchestras in the Cleveland area, including City Music Cleveland, "Red" an Orchestra, and the Cleveland Opera Orchestra. She has performed recitals at the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Music School Settlement, and Cleveland State University, as well as numerous recitals in Europe and Russia.  Mrs. Andreini, who also teaches privately in Shaker Heights, has over 18 years of teaching experience. She is the instructor for the current and the previous concert mistress of the Mentor High School Orchestra.

Amber Inman, violin and flute instructor, is studying music education at Cleveland State University. At CSU she is actively involved with playing violin in the University Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra. She is experienced at playing flute and piccolo in the CSU Wind Ensemble. Amber is a violinist with the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra, and also plays in their chamber ensemble. Amber, who received her early training from Susan Knapp, studied at The Academy for Strings, Piano, and Woodwinds at Four Oaks from its inception until her graduation from Perry High School. As a student at Four Oaks, she studied privately and was an active member of the Four Oaks Ensemble. While at CSU, she has studied violin privately with Daniel Reins, Molly Fung-Dumm, and Victor Liva, and violin and viola with Hanne-Berit Hahnemann. At Four Oaks Mrs. Inman directs the Four Oaks String Ensemble, and is a member of Musica Antiqua de Lago, The Four Oaks String Quartet, and Duo d'Archi.

Susan Knapp Rust, violin and viola instructor, and founder of Four Oaks Music, earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Kent State University, and studied special education at the graduate level at Kent State and Edinboro Universities.  Susan studied Suzuki Pedagogy at Capitol University in Columbus and the National Suzuki Institute at the University of Wisconsin.  She was the founder of the Ashtabula Youth Orchestra, a twenty-four member string orchestra which was in residence at Kent State University, Ashtabula Campus. Ms. Knapp, who utilizes both Suzuki and Conventional methods with her students, also teaches violin at The Andrews-Osborne Academy in Willoughby, Ohio.   She is a member of the Music and Drama Club of Lake County, and has been listed in the registry for "Women of Excellence" from the National Association of Professional and Executive Women. Ms. Knapp serves as Director of The Preludio and Intermezzo Ensembles and assists with The Four Oaks String Ensemble, which has performed at recitals, Art in the Park, a fund-raising event for Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, and nursing facilities in Northeast Ohio.  

Cello

Jerry Yarovich is a graduate of Odessa State Conservatory, Odessa, Ukraine.  He holds a Master of Arts in Cello Performance and a Master of Music Education degree.  Before arriving in the United States, he served as Assistant Principal Cellist for the State Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in Odessa.  In the United States,  he has served as principal cellist and soloist with the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, and has performed solo recitals in the Cleveland area.   Mr. Yarovich, who has extensive experience with the wide range of classical repertoire for string quartet, is currently on the faculty at Cuyahoga Community College and the Solon Center for the Arts. In addition to private instruction, Jerry coaches cello ensembles. His high school students have all received superior ratings at the Ohio Music Educators Solo and Ensemble competitions, and he has been the instructor for the past two principal cellists of the Mentor High School Orchestra. Mr. Yarovich was recently added as adjunct faculty as a cello instructor for Lake Erie College, in Painesville, Ohio.

Johanna Groh, cello Instructor, is currently pursuing a Master’s of music in cello performance at Cleveland State University, where she studies in the studio of Bryan Dumm, Cleveland Orchestra cellist. During her high school tenure in Lakewood, where she performed in numerous string ensembles, she studied under David Alan Harrell, also of the Cleveland Orchestra. Ms. Groh earned her Bachelor of Science in music from Eastern Michigan University, studying under Dr. Diane Winder. While in Michigan, she performed frequently with the Eastern Michigan University Symphony Orchestra, EMU Dance Studio, and the early music ensemble Collegium Musicum. Currently, Johanna is a member of the Rockport Quartet

Piano, Theory, and Bassoon

Chien-Hui Haynes, pianist, bassoon performer, and music instructor, holds a diploma from Idyllwild Arts Academy, a Bachelor of Music degree from California State University, and a Masters of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Chien-Hui was recruited from Taiwan at the young age of twelve to further her music education in the United States. She has been teaching and performing since 1989, working with many well-known conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Mehli Mehta, John Williams, and Seiji Ozawa. From 2000-2006, she instructed piano, bassoon, recorder, and music theory at The Children's Creative Art Center in Granite Bay, California. Mrs. Haynes, who instructed music theory at The Cleveland Music Settlement, includes both solo material and theory in her private music lessons. She instructs recorder and theory in both private and group lessons for the Four Oaks Homeschoolers Program, as well as private piano lessons.

Visiting Conductor and Clinician

Ryan Haskins, the Music Director of The Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, holds degrees from Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music in Cleveland, and from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, Wales UK. At Baldwin-Wallace, Ryan was conducting student of and assistant to Maestro Dwight Oltman. While in Cleveland, he was Music Director of The Mozart Sinfonietta of Cleveland from 2000-2005 and was founding Music Director of the Baldwin-Wallace Contemporary Orchestra. He celebrated his radio debut concert in the spring of 2003 on WCLV in a national broadcast conducting the Baldwin-Wallace Symphony Orchestra.

Ryan, who received his early training from Susan Knapp, was Director of Ensembles and taught piano at the Academy for Strings, Piano, and Woodwinds at Four Oaks from 2000 to 2005, where he continues to return as a guest conductor and clinician. A former Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Euclid Orchestra, Ryan has worked with such ensembles as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and the National Chorus of Wales. He is currently secretary of the international organization 'K12', an elite collection of some of the world's leading conductors who encourage international educational exchange and the promotion of young musicians throughout the Mr. Haskins resides in Baltimore where he is currently under the tutelage of master teacher Gustav Meier, Marin Alsop and Markand Thakar at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where he holds an assistantship in orchestral conducting.

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