Meet Our Faculty
Founder & Director
Mariana Green Hill
Founder and Director of Four Strings Academy, an intensive string program held during the summer geared to children, ages 4-18 and some adults. demonstrating the potential to become professional musicians and love for the art form.
Mrs. Green-Hill is also the Strings Director at Boston Arts Academy under the leadership of Gregory Holt, directing both technique and orchestral classes for the school's string students. From 2012-2013, her role was expanded to teach violin at the Orchard Gardens School under the leadership of Principal Andrew Bott with his Arts Initiative Team also considered President Obama's choice turn around school in Boston.
Along with these responsibilities, she currently serves as Artistic Advisor to the Artistic Director of Project STEP program located in Boston's Symphony Hall, where she teaches, coaches and advises students and parents grades K
12. Ms. Green-Hill also performs in various venues as a soloist and chamber musician and teaches privately and as a member of the New England Conservatory's Preparatory Division.
Mariana Green-Hill is a multi- prize Winner of The Sphinx Competition as well as the recipient of the 2009 Sanford Allen Award in recognition of her "artistic merit, persistence, and extraordinary achievement." She has also won first place in the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Harry and Marion Dubbs Competitions. Mrs. Green-Hill has been a featured guest soloist with the New Jersey, Memphis, Detroit, and Boston Symphony Orchestras and The Boston Pops.
In addition to her solo performances, she is an experienced chamber and orchestral musician. The Amaryllis String Quartet, of which she was a member, was awarded First Prize in the prestigious Fischoff Chamber Music Competition Ur. Division). Ms. Green-Hill has performed with YoYo Ma, Pamela Frank, Lynn Chang, Marcus Thomson, and with members of the Houston and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras. She was also a member of the Young Eight String Octet Tor six seasons.
Mariana Green-Hill is one of the Concertmasters of Soulful Symphony, a symphony ensemble made up of classical orchestra, big-band and gospel choir. Their performance of "Song in a Strange Land" composed and directed by Darrin Atwater earned an Emmy. This ensemble has also performed in collaboration with members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Green-Hill is the one of the violinists of the MarNi Duothat performed for a benefit concert for the now President Barak Obama in Boston's Jordan Hall. She enjoys performing with non-classical musicians, and has recorded with gospel artists Donnie McClurkin and Richard Smallwood. She has also performed with the "Gorillaz," and with Joss Stone and Alicia Keys. Ms. Green-Hill studied violin under the auspices of Project STEP and attended Walnut Hill School for the Arts. She received her Bachelor and Masters Degrees from The Juilliard School and a Professional Studies Diploma from the Mannes College of Music under the respective tutelage of the late Dean Stephen Clapp, Dr. Ann Setzer and Ida Kavafian.
Creative Director & Head of the Preparatory School
Keith Sanders
With a reputation as one of the most versatile performers on the music scene today, his passion for creating has led him to composing, arranging, theatrical performances, singing and dancing. His diverse performances include being a Cirquador (Circus Ambassador - performing throughout the community for Cirque Du Soleil's "Kooza" and utilizing electric effects, creating bowed, plucked and looped percussion effects to collaborate with
"Sounds in Bloom" & "Dr.T and the Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble. His dedication to passing the craft of music on to the next generation through creative arts & educational workshops has led him to Cameroon working with Cultures in Harmony, and teaching throughout Boston. Keith was awarded the coveted Glazier Scholarship to attend the Hartt School of Music, where he received his Bachelor of Music degree, followed by a Master of Music degree in Modern American Music from the Lolksy School of Music in Boston, MA.
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