Private Lesson Faculty

St. Andrew's music faculty includes talented local artists specializing in particular instruments.  Students are able to schedule private lessons with these dynamic instrumentalists and vocalists through the Arts department.

                                                                                                                                                         

Ed Ryan
Ed Ryan

Mr. Ryan is a long-time music teacher who for most of his life performed and recorded as part of the New York City music scene.  He is a rock, blues and country musician with classical and jazz training.  While performing in New York City, Mr. Ryan attended Hunter College where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in music and an MA in music composition and theory.  At St. Andrew's, Mr. Ryan teaches private lessons in guitar, bass, drums, banjo, mandolin, composition and theory.  He also co-teaches jazz improvisation.  Additionally Mr. Ryan teaches Music History at Wesley College and private instruction at Premier Center for the Arts.  He continues to compose, record and perform his original material.

                                                                                                                                                          

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Eliezer Gutman

 Romanian Born and raised in Israel, Eliezer Guytman has been a member of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra since 1994 and is currently concertmaster with the Kennett Symphony of Chester County, the Allentown Symphony Orchestra, and Opera Delaware.  He also performs with various local orchestras, including the Reading Symphony Orchestra.  Eliezer has performed solo recitals in France, England, Spain, Israel and the USA.  He was concertmaster of the Israel Technion-Institute Symphony Orchestra, Kibbutzim Symphony Orchestra, the Haifa Israel Symphony Orchestra and the Ensemble-Carmel-Israel Chamber Orchestra.

Eliezer earned a Bachelor of Industry and Management from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and a Master of Music from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.  He studied under David Arben, Philadelphia Orchestra concertmaster, and Avigdor Zamir, Associate Concertmaster of the Dutch Orchestra The Concertgebouw.  Elizer finds his greatest joy spending time with his two children, Elad and Ayelet.
                                                                                                                                                        

Eunice Kim
Eunice Kim

Ms. Kim completed her undergraduate work at Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, majoring in harp and minoring in piano under the tutelage of the late Marilyn Costello, a former long-time principal harpist of the Philadelphia Orchestra.  She also completed a master’s degree in harp performance Music at Temple University.  In addition to being a harp and piano instructor in the Mid-Atlantic region, she is currently principal harpist of Jubilate Deo Chorale & Orchestra since 1993.   She has performed with that orchestra in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center in New York, and the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.  She has performed with the Philadephia Orchestra and the Delaware Symphony.  She recently performed as a soloist with the Temple University Symphony Orchestra.