Snippet from [12Petals Fireside Chat]
What are the most challenging, unaddressed difficulties of being an educator?

Speakers:
Neil Reyes (https://www.weare12petals.com/mentors/p/neil-reyes)
Caroline Reyes (https://www.weare12petals.com/mentors/p/caroline-reyes)
Preston Bailey (https://www.weare12petals.com/mentors/p/preston-keller-bailey)
Kitty Cheung (https://www.weare12petals.com/mentors/p/cheung-man-yui-kitty)

Fireside Chat Facilitator: Justin Kim (https://www.taesongkim.com/)

✨ Neil Reyes has aspired to be a music teacher since he was a preteen. He majored in Music Education and earned his bachelor’s and master’s from the Eastman School of Music. He served his first five years of teaching in Rochester (NY), before moving to Huntington Beach (CA). He’s been teaching full-time for more than 10 years and has since shared his passion for music with students of various ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds while empowering them through music-making!

✨ Caroline Reyes received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in harp performance and ethnomusicology from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. An active performer and educator, Professor Reyes currently serves on the faculty of Los Angeles City College and has performed with many notable ensembles, including the Long Beach Symphony and The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.

✨ My name is Preston Bailey, and I am a freelance trumpeter based out of Nashville. I perform regularly with the Nashville, Chattanooga and Huntsville Symphonies. I’m also a first call studio musician in town, recording soundtracks for video games like Destiny 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Fortnite, Spiderman: Miles Morales, and many more. Additionally, I enjoy teaching at Middle Tennessee State University and Lipscomb University as an Adjunct Professor of Trumpet.

✨ Dr Kitty Cheung enjoys a versatile musical career as a violinist. She is the co-founder of Romer String Quartet and Contrast Trio (violin-saxophone-piano), and adjunct lecturer at the Hong Kong Baptist University. She was the Associate Concertmaster of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. She received her doctoral and undergraduate degrees from the Eastman School of Music, and double masters from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

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We do this by connecting professionals with mentees through workshops, panel discussions, direct mentorship, and more. Through these programs, we strive both to bring clearer awareness to the common pitfalls of our craft and to purify our awareness of its true value.

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