Alessio di Tonno – Guitar Alessio joined the TASIS music team in 2013. Over the past 10 years, Alessio has developed an accessible group and individual teaching technique for students in both elementary and middle schools in Italy and Switzerland. During this time he has also been a freelance guitarist performing with his band Tra liga e Realtà and has performed in over 1000 concerts throughout Italy and central Europe. Alessio has greatly increased the numbers of students engaging in guitar and modern music, through guiding students’ initiative to create music with others. He also offers coaching in songwriting and composition.
Samantha Forrest – Voice Now in her fourth year at TASIS, Samantha shares her experience and expertise as both a teacher and professional soprano coaching the TASIS choristers and teaching voice. Initially trained as a cellist, her professional background includes singing engagements with Lyric Opera Australia, English National Opera, London Voices Covent Garden, Scottish Opera, the BBC London and the Volksoper Vienna, and theater management in London’s West End. Internationally educated and Masters qualified, she now coordinates the TASIS music program and maintains elements of her performance career as a concert recital artist.
Jonathan Morris – Voice Jonathan has an international career as a pianist, répétiteur, and vocalist that has spanned 60 years. His principal collaboration, initiated at the Metropolitan Opera House with Grace Bumbry, lasted 33 years and included performances at every major opera house and theater in the world. This includes historic performances such Nelson Mandela’s first European concerts in Paris, varied performances for charity events for Prince Charles, and the inauguration of Ronald Reagan at the White House. His background encompasses performances with classical colleagues such as Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Gwyneth Jones, Rita Streich, Shirley Verrett, Montserrat Caballe, Eva Marton, Edita Gruberova, Placido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti, and with popular music names such as Frank Sinatra, Liza Minelli, Johnny Carson, Charlie Pride, and Dean Martin. Jonathan’s collaboration with Ms. Bumbry led to engagements to teach Masterclasses to advanced professional students which began in Salzburg in 1988 and successfully continued for a decade. This lead to the development of his specialist teaching studio which has given birth to many professional singers who are now enjoying enormous success in major opera houses throughout the world, including the Metropolitan New York, Covent Garden London, Salzburg Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, Geneva Opera, Paris Opera, and La Scala Milan. He has been working with TASIS students since 1999 and continues to regularly travel to Sweden, Portugal, Croatia, London, New York and Salzburg to teach.