Location: Manhattan, NYC
Education
- B.M. from NYU Steinhardt.
Experience
- Daphne has 10 years of experience in teaching and specializes in online private lessons. She teaches virtual flute and piano lessons to students of all ages while traveling the country in her tiny house on wheels. Known as ‘Flutist With A Van’, she offers a unique opportunity to travel to a new place each week through music lessons! Students take pride in their playing and look forward to each lesson because they are given the tools to practice efficiently. Parents love that their young musicians are inspired with patience and creativity. Daphne has helped flutists and pianists learn to sight read, win auditions, create content and find performance opportunities. She believes in setting musical goals and designing lessons to achieve them!
Bio
Flutist Daphne S. has a diverse performance background. She has played for the New Amsterdam Opera, Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater, Staten Island Philharmonic Band and numerous regional theater productions. In 2019 she performed her arrangement of Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts” on the runway of the annual ‘Curvy Con’ event in NYC. Daphne has also served as music director for Pied Piper Youth Theater, Bedford Community Theater and Westmoreland Players. Daphne is a proud teaching artist for Crossing Point Arts in NYC, bringing arts to the survivors of human trafficking. She received her BM from New York University where she studied with Gary Schocker.