{"id":330041,"date":"2026-08-26T10:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330041\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:42:13","slug":"the-strad-news-string-faculty-changes-announced-for-manhattan-school-of-music-orchestral-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330041\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strad News &#8211; String faculty changes announced for Manhattan School of Music orchestral programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"picture\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NEW\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/44490_new_355060.jpg\"  loading=\"eager\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestrad.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more news stories here<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Manhattan School of Music (MSM) has announced a number of changes to its orchestral programme. Violinist David Chan will be departing his role as chair of the programme, a position he has held since 2022. He is succeeded by trumpeter David Krauss.<\/p>\n<p>Among the new appointments to the programme faculty is Argentine violinist Jerem\u00edas Sergiani-Vel\u00e1zquez. He has studied at New England Conservatory, the Juilliard School, and at the Manhattan School of Music with Sylvia Rosenberg. He is currently a second violin with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and has performed with ensembles including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>Korean\u2013American violinist Julia Choi, who has taught on the MSM precollege faculty, will be joining the college classical division faculty to teach orchestral repertoire. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School and the MSM orchestral programme, studying with Glenn Dicterow, and is also a first violin with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>The other appointments were oboist John Upton and trumpeter Ethan Bensdorf as chair of brass.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We are absolutely thrilled that David and Ethan are assuming these important leadership roles, and Julia, Jerem\u00edas, and John will add tremendous depth of knowledge and experience to MSM\u2019s distinguished faculty.\u2019 said James Gandre, MSM\u2019s president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Read more news stories here\u00a0 The Manhattan School of Music (MSM) has announced a number of changes to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-330041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}