Cory Combs was previously at Nueva from 2004 through 2007 as an innovative curriculum designer and educator, introducing initiatives such as digital music, digital filmmaking, jazz band, improvisation, rock band, and rock history. He was most recently the director of education for SFJAZZ, one of the preeminent presenters of artistic jazz performance and education programs in the United States. During his tenure, he was a senior management team member, responsible for community outreach and strategic partnerships, and design and implementation of educational programs, and he lectured widely on jazz history, interviewed numerous international performing artists on-stage, and played an instrumental role in the successful launch of the $60 million capital campaign to finance SFJAZZ’s first permanent home. In addition to his work at SFJAZZ and Nueva, Cory has been director and founder of the San Francisco Brass Weekend, music director at Waldorf High School in San Francisco, and director of jazz at the American Festival of the Arts in Houston. Cory is also an accomplished composer and bassist who has performed with numerous internationally known jazz artists and groups, and has released three critically acclaimed CDs of original compositions. Cory earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the world-renowned Eastman School of Music in New York.

Sin-Tung Chiu won prizes in violin and chamber music in Hong Kong at the age of 12 as a student of Chung-On Chan. He later studied with Denes Zsigmondy and Anneliese Nissen in Ammerland, Germany. Sin-Tung Chiu is an alumnus of Dartmouth College, The Juilliard School, Teachers College of Columbia University, Meadowmount Summer School of Music and the Aspen Music Festival. At The Juilliard School, he studied violin with Dorothy DeLay and privately with Ivan Galamian, as well as chamber music with Felix Galimir and members of the Juilliard String Quartet (Robert Mann and Claus Adam). Subsequently, he performed in master classes under the tutelage of Nathan Milstein at The Juilliard School and Ruggiero Ricci in Victoria, Canada.

 As a Founding violinist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in New York City, Sin-Tung Chiu performed in its concerts at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and participated in its tours to Europe, India, Israel, North and South America, and Puerto Rico, which included two U.S. State Department sponsorships.

He was Artist-in-Residence at Bay View Summer Conservatory and Music Festival (Michigan); Assistant Professor of Violin at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Visiting Associate Professor of Violin at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Co-Concertmaster of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and Concertmaster of its Chamber Orchestra, Music Consultant of the documentary film of the 1977 Van Cliburn Quadrennial International Piano Competition; and Associate Concertmaster of the Round Top Festival Orchestra (Texas). At that time, Sin-Tung Chiu frequently appeared in sonata recitals and faculty chamber music concerts, in addition to live broadcasts on regional public radio and television.

Sin-Tung Chiu became an American citizen in New York in 1984 and established his home in San Francisco in 1988.

In San Francisco, Sin-Tung Chiu teaches privately and is on the violin faculty of Community Music Center (CMC) since 1988, serving on the CMC Faculty Council from 2007 to 2010; Chinese American International School since 1997; Music City Academy since 2008, and in Hillsborough, California, on the violin faculty of The Nueva School as a Menuhin violin instructor since 1991, serving also as Director of the Nueva String Ensemble since 2005.

From 2005 to 2008, Sin-Tung Chiu was a member of the Board of Directors of the Del Sol Performing Arts Organization that oversees the career of the San-Francisco-based Del Sol String Quartet, known for its focus on contemporary chamber music working with living composers worldwide.

Sin-Tung Chiu performs in solo and sonata recitals with pianist Dmitriy Cogan. He also performs in chamber music concerts and enjoys teaching students of all ages, introducing them to the world of classical music and the performing arts.

While working in Latin America as a Cultural Attache for the U.S. Foreign Service, Lynne Herrick won by international competition the opportunity to study guitar with Andres Segovia and Carlos Montoya. From this she realized a major career change and her true joy in life, "to teach others a love of music through the guitar."

In the 1980s she was asked to initiate a guitar program at the Nueva School, and shortly after became the first guitar instructor chosen for the Yehudi Menuhin Scholars Program. She is as interested and adept in classical guitar as in the many other styles of guitar playing. She was mentored in fingerstyle guitar by Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane, and "Rambling Jack" Elliott of Woody Guthrie fame.

As well as having a full teaching schedule, Lynne finds time to perform and compose for documentary and animated films, television and radio commercials, NPR, as well as many studio session recordings. She maintains her international connections by serving as a board member of two major music festivals in Great Britain, as well as instructor and curriculum advisor for the government school of music in Mexico, Las Bellas Artes.

Carol Kutsch earned the M. M. in Violin Performance from University of Southern California following a B. A. in Music from Pacific Union College. She is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, the national academic honor society in music. Her first teacher was Jenny Rudin, former Nueva faculty member.

Ms. Kutsch has taught on the faculties of UC Riverside, University of Redlands, Loma Linda University, CSU San Bernardino, Ohlone College, and S.F. Conservatory of Music, Prep. Division, as well as the Menuhin faculty of Nueva. She was assistant conductor of Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra for ten years and director of NSE for ten years as well.

Performance includes faculty piano trios at UCR, CSUSB, U of R, and LLU, numerous performances with Louis Kievman, Eleanore Schoenfeld, Andor Toth, and Gabor Rejto, plus Baroque performance with the Los Angeles Early Music Academy. She was concertmaster for Herbert Blomstedt's International Conducting Institute Orchestra. As soloist on both violin and viola she has toured the U.S. west and east coasts, England, Scandinavia, and Jamaica.

Bay Area performance includes Monterey Jazz Festival, S.F. Opera, Silicon Valley Symphony, Opera San Jose, California and Monterey Symphonies. She is also violinist for TheatreWorks. Ms. Kutsch is heard as violin soloist in Musical Heritage Society CD "Lou Harrison: A Birthday Celebration," in his chamber work "New Moon" and has recorded with Roy Hargrove, the Women's Philharmonic, and the orchestra at Grace Cathedral, S.F.

Juliet McComas, pianist, made her professional debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at the age of 13. She received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Piano Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music where her principal teacher was Dr. Konrad Wolff. She has also coached with Leon Fleisher (Peabody), Karl Ulrich Schnabel (New York and San Francisco), Lilian Kallir (Aspen Music Festival), and Richard Goode. A scholarship recipient throughout her entire studies at Peabody, she has won numerous awards including the "Alexander Sklarevski Award for Outstanding Achievement in Piano." During this time, she received a second invitation to appear with the Baltimore Symphony. Juliet has presented many concerts on the East Coast and has performed in the San Francisco Bay Area with the Oakland Chamber Orchestra, the San Francisco Chamber Players, the Artea Chamber Orchestra and at most Bay Area venues. Television credits include "Peabody Presents" and the Bay Area's popular "Grand Piano" television show.

Previously, Juliet was on the faculties of the Peabody Conservatory and Towson State University in Maryland. In the Bay Area, she is a much sought after teacher both at the SF Community Music Center and her private studio in San Francisco. Many of her students have won competitions and scholarships and she is frequently asked to be a competition juror. An active performer, Juliet is a two-time winner of the Dr. Jess Shenson Faculty Artist Grant. In 2002, she was the winner of CMC's inaugural Faculty Concerto Competition. In 2004, Juliet began producing the highly educational keyboard marathons in San Francisco. These annual concerts featuring various Bay Area pianists have become "standing room only" community events. In June 2007, Juliet was accepted to the PianoTexas International Academy and Festival in Fort Worth. She was one of the five winners selected to perform with the Fort Worth Symphony under the direction of Jeffrey Pollock on June 17, 2007. In 2008 Juliet attended the Seattle International Piano Festival where she was selected as an alternate finalist.

Sally Northcutt, piano teacher, has performed as a free-lance soloist and chamber musician in the greater Bay Area for over twenty years. She has an MA in psychology applied to piano performance and pedagogy from Antioch University, a BA in Music from San Jose State, and her teachers include Nadia Boulanger and Jacob Lateiner. She has taught Orff-Schulwerk early childhood music at the Lycée  Français in San Francisco and at Burlingame's Tunes for Tots, and  musicianship classes in Mountain View at the Community School of Music and Arts. She is also a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® practitioner and has trained in the Taubman approach to piano technique. She currently maintains a private studio in San Francisco.

Lenora Warkentin began the flute in the fourth grade at her elementary school in Reedley, California. Her school music director, Robert Bauernschmidt was an accomplished flutist, composer, and arranger who gave her many opportunities to perform as a soloist with the school orchestra. She also performed frequently with her sisters, Cellist Wanda Warkentin, and Violinist Vivian Warkentin. During an interlude in Los Angeles area, the three sisters studied the Haydn Trios with violin-cello duo Eleonore and Alice Schoenfeld.  Lenora's flute lessons with Roger Stevens of the LA Philharmonic were often as long as they were inspiring -- sometimes lasting several hours if she was the last student of they day. During her elementary and high school years, she participated in many youth groups, including the Fresno Honor Bands and Orchestras, the San Gabriel Youth Symphony, All-Southern California Jr. High School Orchestra, All-California High School Orchestra, and summer workshops and orchestras at USC.

Returning to the Los Angeles area for her college years, Lenora attended UCLA where she had the opportunity to study chamber music with master teachers Joanna Harris, Mitchell Lurie, Bess Karp, and Aube Tzerko. Here she won first prize in The Atwater Kent, The Frank Sinatra Musical Awards, and the UCLA Concerto Competition. At the graduate level, Lenora served as a Teaching Assistant to Frederick Hammond, Gilbert Reaney, and James Westbrook.  TV and film recording artist Sheridon Stokes generously provided her flute lessons without charge during her years as a graduate student at UCLA. Lenora's current performance venues include symphony, opera, musicals, and chamber music. She will begin her fifth year at Nueva this fall and is grateful for her delightful students.

Jerri Witt has a Master's Degree from the Boston Conservatory of Music and did post-graduate studies at Boston University. She has performed many solo, concerto, and chamber recitals in the Boston area, in Texas, Colorado, and in the Bay Area. Television appearances include WGBH in Boston and "Grand Piano" in Los Altos, Ca. Ms. Witt is currently a member of the piano faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and has a private home studio in San Francisco.

Swiss Pianist Eva-Maria Zimmermann maintains a career on two continents through performances that are "breathtakingly intense" (Der Bund, Switzerland) and "brilliant and sensitive" (Berner Oberländer). Her solo appearances include recitals as well as concerto performances with major symphony orchestras, such as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Winner of the prestigious Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship, Eva-Maria has appeared at international festivals in Israel, the US, and Europe including the "Festival Piano en Saintonge" in France, the "Sommerfestspiele Murten" in Switzerland, the "Yerba Buena International Music Festival" and the "OtherMinds' Festival for New Music" in San Francisco, as well as the "Séance for New Music" presented by OtherMinds. Eva-Maria has studied with many distinguished musicians, such as Leon Fleisher, György Sebök, Leonard Hokanson and Dominique Merlet. She graduated with highest honors from the Conservatory of Geneva.

Eva-Maria's partnership in ChamberBridge with soprano Lara Bruckmann includes both concertizing and the production of an annual one-day festival celebrating the work and compositional lineage of a selected 20th/21st Century composer. Other collaborations include projects with the Del Sol String Quartet and bass-baritone René Perler. Eva-Maria was a founding member of the award winning Charmillon Piano Quartet. Many of her chamber music and lieder recitals have been broadcasted in Swiss Radio DRS2 and Radio de la Suisse Romande in such prestigious series' as "World Class on DRS2." Eva-Maria has been a faculty member of the University of San Francisco.

Scott Cmiel is well known as a teacher of highly accomplished young people. His students have won many local, regional and national awards and have been featured on national radio and television. His teaching has been praised by some of the guitar world's most outstanding artists, including Benjamin Verdery, chair of the guitar program at Yale University, who wrote: "I've had the honor and pleasure of teaching students of Scott Cmiel for many years at my annual master class on the island of Maui and as regular students in the guitar program at Yale. I've been awestruck by the joy, dedication, and high level of musical and technical expertise Scott's students bring to their art. Their performances are consistently imbued with a wonderful sense of confidence and accomplishment beyond their years. Scott Cmiel is one of the world's foremost guitar pedagogues." Scott is also on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he is chair of the Preparatory Division Guitar Department.