CMS offers individual lessons (one teacher to one student) in piano/ keyboard (including jazz piano), voice, violin, viola, cello, mandolin, fiddling, guitar, electric bass, flute, piccolo, clarinet, saxophone, recorder, trumpet, trombone, horn, drums, marimba, composition, jazz improvisation and theory. Youngsters and adults (including seniors) are welcome!

Highlights and features

Strings, Horn, Trombone, Bass, Trumpet, Mandolin, Cello, Music Theory, Viola, Clarinet, Violin, Drums, Voice, Fiddle, Flute, Piano, Guitar, Saxophone

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Hassan Al-mufti

Hassan Al-Mufti is an accomplished performer, teacher and composer, who joined the CMS faculty in December 2001. Mr. Al-Mufti came here as a refugee from Iraq in September of 2001, where he found a new beginning in Buffalo. Prior to leaving his native country, he studied piano at the Music and Ballet School of Baghdad under Igor Chernyavsky and Agnes Bashir, and earned his Bachelors in Music at the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad.

Leslie J. Bahler

Leslie J. Bahler joined the CMS string faculty in 2008. Previously, she was a CMS voice student under the late Joanne Goldman. In fall, 2010, she and fellow string teacher Rebecca Torres formed the CMS Side-by-Side String Orchestra; adding to the school's growing repertoire of musical offerings.

Audrey Shafer

Audrey Shafer is an accomplished soprano; having performed solo works and operas nationally and internationally. She has performed in Carnegie Hall multiple times over a fifteen year span between 1981 and 1996, as well as across the greater Tri-State area. Ms. Shafer also performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC in 1983.

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