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Rogelio Bonilla is a Georgia native violist and music educator who constantly seeks new challenges or places to perform. He has performed with Georgia State University, University of Georgia, Orchester Bezirkskantor, the Atlanta Sinfonia, and many local performances. He received his bachelor’s degree in music education from Georgia State University. While there, he studied in the studio of Tania Maxwell Clements. He has volunteered and coached with many local high, middle, and elementary schools. Also, he spent three months student-teaching at a Department of Defense Education Activities school in Germany with Dr. Mario Bertoluzzi. DODEA provides Pre-kindergarten through 12th grade schools, ensuring all school-aged children of military families receive a world-class education.
He is a member of the National Association for Music Education, American String Teacher Association, and the Suzuki Association of the Americas.
Rogelio currently studies at the University of Georgia pursuing a Master of Music Performance in the studio of Maggie Snyder. He is also a private instructor with DoReMi music lessons. He is capable of teaching all string instruments and beginning-intermediate piano.
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At a young age Logan Souther is quickly developing a reputation as an orchestra conductor and pianist of significant talent in Atlanta, Georgia. Recent highlights include debuts with The Opera Initiative of Augusta (GA), OperaNEO (San Diego) and a return to the Georgia State University Opera Theatre for performances of Puccini’s Suor Angelica/Gianni Schicchi and Bernstein’s Candide. Mr. Souther also recently made his debut with the Harrower Summer Opera Workshop conducting and coaching performances of Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte.
A diverse musician, Mr. Souther is a skilled interpreter of symphonic works as well. For four years Mr. Souther was the founding artistic director of The Gainesville Sinfonietta which presented high-quality performances free of charge to the north Georgia community. As a gifted entrepreneur, Mr. Souther successfully fundraised over $25,000 for the Sinfonietta.
Mr. Souther is committed to giving back to the community through music. Mr. Souther is proud to serve the South Atlanta community as conductor and music director of the Atlanta Music Project’s orchestra. The Atlanta Music Project is an El Sistema inspired program which provides high quality music education to underserved communities and seeks to bring about social change through music.
Mr. Souther began intensive studies in conducting at the age of sixteen with distinguished conductor Michael Palmer. Additional teachers include Carroll Freeman, David Effron and Dwight Oltman. Mr. Souther attended Georgia State University where he completed a Bachelor’s degree in piano performance (2016) and a Master’s degree in orchestral conducting (2017) as a member of a unique program which combined undergraduate and graduate coursework. He was the 2016 winner of the prestigious Theodore Presser Foundation Award which he used to fund his performance of the Erwin Stein arrangement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 for chamber orchestra.