{"id":384,"date":"2014-12-08T20:38:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T20:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sollatimusic.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=384"},"modified":"2014-12-10T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T05:56:11","slug":"nurture-tunes-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.sollatimusic.com\/?page_id=384","title":{"rendered":"Nurture Tunes’ Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Laura Brenden<\/h2>\n

Laura Brenden holds a Bachelors Degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and an MBA from New York University. She is fluent in Spanish. She specializes in social ventures and technical assistance, and has written business plans for a New York City non-profit that have been funded at levels ranging from $75,000 to $7.5 million.<\/p>\n

Laura has also studied dance and voice at the New School and NYU and has performed in both fields in New York City. She has experience in all aspects of the theater and has taught early childhood music and movement for three years in New York and Northern New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Joe Vincent Tranchina<\/h2>\n

Pianist\/Composer Joe Vincent Tranchina, voted Hudson Valley 2010 Jazz Musician of the Year in Times Herald-Record’s annual Best Of readers poll; has been recognized for the past consecutive 15 years by ASCAP\u2019s \u201cASCAPlus Award,\u201d for \u201ccreative contributions to American music\u201d and performances of his Original Jazz Compositions; is an Honorable Mention (2nd place) winner of the Women\u2019s Choir Composition Competition, NY Sings: A Composer\u2019s Symposium; and has been consecutively honored by the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts \u201cBest of the Bronx\u201d series with Concert Presentations of his Original Works.<\/p>\n

Eight of his original compositions\/collaborations are featured on the Gabriele Tranchina Jazzheads release \u201cA Song of Love\u2019s Color.\u201d He is an established pianist, composer, arranger, and accompanist, having performed in most of the major Jazz and Club Venues throughout New York City and the greater surrounding area, including Dizzy\u2019s Club Coca-Cola (Jazz At Lincoln Center), Birdland, The Blue Note, The Iridium, The Zinc Bar, Shanghai Jazz, Trumpets, Chris\u2019 Jazz Caf\u00e9 and Ortlieb\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Joe has also performed in the concert venues of Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and Jazz Mobile, among others, and has toured abroad in Germany, Switzerland, Greece, and Japan. His credits also include domestic and international jazz festivals and a long list of stellar musicians he has shared the stage with, including Joe Lovano, James Spaulding, David \u201cFathead\u201d Newman, Jimmy Heath, Dave Valentin, Bobby Sanabria, Mark Murphy, Sheila Jordan and Dakota Staton. For more extensive info please visit: http:\/\/www.jovitra.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Gabriele Tranchina<\/h2>\n

Gabriele Tranchina started Music Together with 7 families in Morningside Heights in 1997. After her classes expanded, she founded Sol La Ti Music, Inc. in 2001. Today she overlooks 3 locations and is working on building a 4th in Central Harlem. When being approached by several German-speaking families and asked to offer a German early childhood music and movement program, Ms. Tranchina developed \u201cMusikalische M\u00e4use\u201d in 2012. Since 2013, Sol La Ti Music has been providing \u201cMusic Together\u00ae Preschool\u201d at Budding Blossoms Daycare.<\/p>\n

In 2014 a charter school asked Sol La Ti Music to provide them with an after school music program. This program is now available to all schools. Through its 19 years in business, Sol La Ti Music has experienced good times as well as hard times, especially those following 9\/11 and the current recession, all the while providing a safe haven for families to enjoy music with their children. In 2014 Sol La Ti Music won the \u201cGolden Daisy Award\u201d for best enrichment program in Morningside Heights and Harlem from Macaroni Kids. See why Sol La Ti\u2019s classes are the most popular in the area by watching Gabriele and her staff teach here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laura Brenden Laura Brenden holds a Bachelors Degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and an MBA from New York University. She is fluent in Spanish. She specializes in social ventures and technical assistance, and has written business plans for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-384","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sollatimusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sollatimusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sollatimusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sollatimusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sollatimusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.sollatimusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"http:\/\/www.sollatimusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384\/revisions\/444"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sollatimusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sollatimusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}