Meet The Team

American Prize-winning conductor Michelle Perrin Blair engages diverse ensembles and audiences across a variety of genres and styles, including symphony orchestra, musical theatre, new music, and educational ensembles. She serves as Music Director and Conductor of the Coppell Community Orchestra and Owner, Director, and Violin Faculty of Lark Music Loft in Carrollton, Texas.

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Héctor Alfonso Torres González, DMA, is an award-winning guitarist and lutenist from Puerto Rico. He is an active performer and teacher that has played and taught throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, South America, Europe, and China, both as a soloist and ensemble musician. Distinguished by his versatility and sound, he frequently performs many styles of music, including early music, Latin music, rock and pop, and modern classical music.

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Kailey Braff earned her bachelor’s in Piano Performance from Coe College in Iowa. She’s taught several piano students, in addition to accompanying middle and high school choirs. She enjoyed playing for her church and performing with a local string quartet in Iowa. Now, having recently moved to Texas, she looks forward to becoming involved in the music community in Carrollton.

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With a degree in Piano Pedagogy, Alissa enjoys helping students of a variety of ages find their love of music and develop skills to pursue what they love at the piano. She is currently working on her Masters of Music in Collaborative Piano at University of North Texas.

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Elizabeth is a performer, collaborator, and teacher currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Collaborative Piano Performance at the University of North Texas. A passionate collaborator, she has performed with a wide variety of instrumentalists, vocalists, chamber groups, and wind ensembles. A graduate of James Madison University in Virginia, she was the 2021/2022 pianist for the JMU Wind Symphony. While at UNT, she performed as a pianist with the Amici Sextet, which was a prize winner in the 2022/2023 American Virtuoso International Music Competition, and will be performing with them at Carnegie Hall in November 2023. As a teacher with nearly 10 years of experience, Elizabeth loves to help her students approach music as both a sport and an art, and strives to nurture holistic musicians through humanity and imagination. 

 

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After earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music from Stephen F. Austin, Mr. Elias toured Europe for several years with the New York Harlem Opera Ensemble performing the opera, “Porgy & Bess.” After the tour, he landed in the Dallas area and pursued a Master in Arts Administration from the University of North Texas. He has worked, either as a performer, management or a lighting/audio technician with the Forth Worth Opera, Denton Chamber Orchestra, Richardson Chamber Music Society, Unity Church of Dallas, Cathedral of Hope, Lewisville Lake Symphony, The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Richardson Symphony Orchestra, Texas Chamber Orchestra, Flower Mound Symphony Orchestra, Turtle Creek Chorale, and the Dallas Winds. Mr. Elias maintains an active performance/tech career and has shared the stage with the likes of Chicago, Amy Grant, Frank Sinatra, Jr., The Fifth Dimensions, Jewel, ELO, Phil Collins, Willie Nelson, Kenny G, The Rolling Stones, Van Cliburn, Bruce Hornsby, Rich Little, and many, many more. Mr. Elias is known for always having a “gig” coming up soon - “Waiting to play…”

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Dan is a native Texan and a graduate of the University of North Texas, where he played in the LINT orchestra and cello choir and served as piano accompanist in a variety of departmental recitals and juries.

 

After graduating, he played for several seasons in the Richardson, East Texas, Garland, and Irving and Symphonies and the Texas Chamber Orchestra. Currently, he
plays in the Wichita Falls Symphony and the Lewisville Lakes Symphony, where he has held the principal cello position for more than 35 years. As a member of these orchestras and others, he has met and collaborated with a host of nationally
famous entertainers and pre-eminent concert artists, including more than a dozen Van Clibum Piano Competition prize winners. This season he is looking forward to perfouning with the Silver Medalist from the 2022 quadrennial competition, Anna Geniushene.

 

In addition to his activities as a private teacher and accompanist, Dan has performed in ensembles in four international concert tours and several music festivals, from the Anchorage Festival of Music to the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.