1. Ms. TAMARA WITKIN
(informally, Tamari)
Permanent Address: Email: middleseamusic11@gmail.com
39 Richard Street
Milford, CT 06460 Phone: 203.218.8984 vm/txt
WHAT I DO: Choir conducting/direction; organ playing, music teaching, performing;
ensemble work, coaching, singing, sales; administrative; facilitating
cooperative learning; (classroom instruction), achieving musical
objectives by helping others to work harmoniously in a spirit of mutual
respect, under firm; loving direction and guidance.
HOW I GOT
THERE:
Perform regularly both as a vocalist and as a pianist with two long
established musical organizations in CT, most recently in Summer of 2015
and February 28, 2016
Teach one-on one piano and voice instruction both privately and at the
Little Red School for Art and Music, Main Street Stratford CT
Performed Duties as Acting Music Director at UPC, 2014-2015 during
which she encouraged and recruited additional choir members, created
audio cd’s for those who could not read music, to learn their anthem
voice parts, played organ and piano for every service and worked
closely under the guidance of the pastor. Performed as an Organist,
Vocal Soloist, Pianist, and Choir Director for the Holy Week Services in
Bethlehem CT April, 2015
Served as an Independent professional Musical Advisor on a content-
managed website--Adjunct to Homegrown Music Publishing, Inc.
providing tempo indications; song descriptions, genres and in-putting
biographical data for the entire song catalogue (dating from the 1950’s
through the 1990’s) for licensing this music for film & television.

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Tamar Witkin Marcus (Tamari) was born to an artistic family, her father was
an renown sculptor, Isaac Witkin, (d. 2006) and mother, Thelma Appel, a
fine artist, painter and collagist who has exhibited widely. She was born in
London, England, where her parents met each other in Art School, and
was spent her early childhood in Bennington, Vermont, where her father
was a Professor of Fine Art; Sculpture and Life Drawing.
She began music studies before leaving the continent, and
continued right through Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music and Art
where she was a voice major and accompanied the Junior and Senior
choruses at the piano, went on to earn her BFA from Purchase College,
SUNY, in piano performance (mentor: Artur Balsam, Chamber Pianist and
German Diez, (assistant to Claudio Arrau, Beethoven Specialist) and
composition for film, and MM in Piano Performance and MM in
comparative literature music in film studies; composition, from Indiana
University School of Music, Bloomington, IN, where she also sang
comprimario roles in operatic productions, alto in the contemporary music
ensemble, (CME), and worked as an accompanist/vocal coach and
chamber music pianist. She has taught General Music in public school, K-
4, as well as held a private studio for piano & voice students beginning to
advanced, and began studying and teaching guitar to beginners. She
has sung in ensembles, operatic performances, and choirs, as well as
done vocal coaching, conducting and direction. One of her
compositions for choir won honorable mention in the Guild of Temple
Musicians contest. Published article in the Musical Quarterly trade
magazine.
In 2005, Tamari added guitar playing to her skills as a musician, and
has acquired enough skill with the acoustic instrument to offer instruction
of the fundamentals to beginning guitar students. In the early 2000’s, She
recorded her first virtuosic solo piano album, Reflections of a Golden Time,
to which her graphic designer husband put together the accompanying
booklet, and created illustrative music videos to some of the major
compositions on the album. Those will be posted online, soon.
Shortly after the creation of this album of her polished performances, she
attended Connecticut’s Alternate Route To Teacher Certification, (the
ARC program in Bloomfield, CT), where she trained to teach music in
public school, learning how to incorporate Kodaly, Orff, Suzuki and
Dalcroze methods of pedagogy, as well as class management
techniques. She did her student teaching in New Britain H.S., and taught
General Music K-6, in a prominent Fairfield County School District for the
better part of an academic year, when she realized this was not the path
she would like to pursue long term. However, it was during this experience
she discovered her love of working with children in a classroom music
setting and helping students work with each other cooperatively to learn
and perform music.

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Ms. Witkin Marcus is an active member of the Music Teachers
National Association, the Schubert Club of CT, and the Wednesday
Afternoon Musical Club, one of the oldest music organizations in the State.
She performs both as a Vocalist (Mezzo Soprano) and as a Classically
trained pianist in various concerts throughout the year.
Since February, 2012, she, together with her Legalshield colleague, Mr.
Doug Turnage, Co-Host a Networking Breakfast in Stratford for business
professionals in all fields from both New Haven and Fairfield Counties, CT.
Education CT’s ARC Program for Music Teacher Certification K-12,
M.M. Piano Performance; MM Composition; Minor in Voice; Music in Film
(Cognate Filed); Comparative Literature
Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington, IN
BFA Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase (Harrison), NY Piano & Composition
for film, Comparative Literature: Poetry
Musical Education from age 5; Diploma in Music and General Subjects;
H.S. Music and Art, Fiorello Laguardia School of the Arts, NY, Voice Major &
Accompanist to all the chorsus Freshman through Senior, with after school
Piano Instruction-Gina Raps & Artur Balsam, Chamber Pianists Private
Vocal instruction with Broadway Singer, Mary Castagne, and Maestro
Guiseppi Moretti (student of the tenor Benjamino Gigli), in the 1990’s;
adorning the many years Ms. Witkin learned vocal techniques and training
in opera and vocal workshops both at Purchase College, SUNY and at the
Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University Bloomington, IN
Legalshield Small Business Legal Solutions Certification.
Legalshield & Kroll Advisory Solutions Employee Benefits (Group)
Certification Training, New Jersey 2012
iMovie Basics Certification; Lynda.com March 2016
Skills Piano, Voice, and Organ performance; excellent sight-reading facility,
enthusiasm and positive direction and leadership qualities, patience,
computer skills; typing, word processing, multi-media, basic digital and
technical proficiency, good communication skills, strong singing voice
(Alto; Mezzo Soprano range), organ, writing skills, teaching and hosting
public events; public speaking; good organizational skills; compassionate

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inter-personal communication skills
middleseamusic11@gmail.com
203.218.8984 mobile office—voice and text
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