About us
Our Credo
We are a professional music school that is designed to give your child a comprehensive music education of highest quality. We continue the musical tradition of the famous Russian and Western European Schools of music.
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Yevgeniya (Jane) Lepskaya |
Yevgeniya (Jane) Lepskaya was born in 1974 in Kiev, Ukraine. She started studying piano at the age of five. From 1980-1989, she attended an elementary and middle school, as well as the children’s music school in District 24. At the age of 15 she was accepted to the highly competitive and prestigious Glier School of Music, presently called R. Glier Kiev Institute of Music (R.M. Glier Kyiv State Higher Music College).To visit Glier Kiev Institute of Music go to here. In 1993, Ms. Lepskaya graduated with honors from Glier Institute of Music after winning several piano competitions, including the Rachmaninoff all Ukrainian competition, Szymanowski Competition, and multiple Glier School’s competitions. Ms. Lepskaya immigrated to the United States in 1994 where she was accepted, with a full scholarship, at Roosevelt University Chicago Musical College, with a plan to major in piano performance and pedagogy. In 1995 she also received a private scholarship from Professor Frank Untermeyer (one of the founding fathers of Roosevelt University).
At the age of 13, Ms. Lepskaya began teaching privately, continuing at 15 as a volunteer in the lower division at Glier Music College. After arriving in Chicago in the United States, she began teaching at Brickton Montessori School, where she taught private piano lessons for 13 years. Overall, Ms. Lepskaya has 23 years of teaching experience; she is a member of the Music Teacher National Association. Over the years she has been teaching in the Chicago area; many of her students have received high scores and awards at local music festivals and competitions
In 2004 Ms. Lepskaya opened Lepskaya’s School of Music which now has over 100 students and is still growing. She continues to perform publicly. |
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Irina Zinevich (violin) |
Irina Zinevich is a graduate of the Minsk State Conservatory, one of the leading conservatories of the former Soviet Union. She has been teaching violin part-time at the De Paul Community Music Division for the last several years. She teaches both Suzuki and traditional violin methods. In addition to Irina’s violin teaching career, she has developed a second career in working with children with special needs. For many years Irina has been employed by the Morton Grove school district where as part of her services she presented music to such students for therapeutic purposes.
Since her student days at the Minsk State Conservatory, Irina never ceased to perform with multiple chamber orchestras, one of them being the North Western Chamber Orchestra. |
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David Zizic (Instructor) |
David Zizic has had the pleasure of performing, teaching and directing musical theatre for many years in the Chicagoland area. Recent performing credits include: Tenor in Phantom at Theatre at the Center, Harlequin in Triumph of Love and Assistant Stage Manager in Enter the Guardsman at Illinois Theatre Center. David is a fourth year ensemble member with Imagination Theatre in Chicago. Recent Directing and/or Musical Directing credits are: State Fair and Into the Woods at the Woodstock Opera House, Beauty and the Beast, Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz at Virtuoso Performing Arts and You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown with ArtCraft Theatre. David is also Director of Music and Theatre with Virtuoso Performing Arts.
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Chris Dziedzic (guitar) |
Chris Dziedzic has been playing guitar for fifteen years and has loved every minute of it.
He enjoys teaching and playing just about everything from classical to rock. He has been teaching privately for five years, and feels that students benefit most from one on one lessons. Chris teaches students the fundamentals of music, (sight reading, musical notation, music theory, composition, ear training) as well as expressing themselves as an individual through their instrument. In addition to teaching, he also enjoys composing new music for his solo career. |
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Takako Hironaka (piano) |
Takako Hironaka was born in Yamaguchi, Japan where she began studying piano at the age of three. In 1995 she was accepted into the Hiroshima Music High School and studied piano seriously. In 1999, she moved to Chicago to study piano at Roosevelt University. She received her bachelor’s degree in music performance from Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) in 2007. Takako also received a Masters degree in Piano Pedagogy at NEIU in 2009. She studied with Dr. Inna Faliks at NEIU, has previously studied with Dr. Mikhail Yanovitsky at NEIU and with Dr. Pavel Chechinksi at Roosevelt University. She has performed in the USA, Russia and Japan. Takako has been teaching at Lepskaya’s School of Music since 2008. |
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