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Sarasota Music Conservatory co-founder Sean O’Neil (middle) leads students Sommer Altier and Giordano Scarano in a violin lesson.

Music Mentors Sarasota Music Conservatory moves downtown By expanding their school’s space, Sarasota Orchestra violinists Léna Cambis and Sean O’Neil hope to also expand their students’ appreciation for music.

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t was time for them to pick an instrument. Léna Cambis and Sean O’Neil were thousands of miles and dozens of years apart from eventually meeting at a party by happenstance in Sarasota in 2002, but the girl from Montpellier, France and the boy from New Orleans had one thing in common: They both picked the violin.

Now the couple, through their Sarasota Music Conservatory, help kids make that same decision. PAGE 2

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Sarasota Music Conservatory moves downtown FROM PAGE 1

The organization, which recently relocated to Second Street in downtown Sarasota, began in the couple’s Lakewood Ranch home in 2008. Then named the Sarasota Music Academy, the school was an extension of Cambis and O’Neil’s roster of violin students that they had slowly been growing since they arrived in the area in 2000 and 2002, respectively.

Since then, the music-instruction collective has steadily grown.

The couple, who play in the Sarasota Orchestra, expanded their 17-member faculty with their friends and colleagues, which allowed them to offer lessons for every string and woodwind instrument as well as lessons in music theory and solfège (learning to internalize pitch). What started out as 16 students blossomed into 60. In 2013, the school moved out of the couple’s home and into a rental space on 10th Way. Now with a new name, a new tax nonprofit designation and a new space, the Sarasota Music Conservatory is poised to expand its mission of exposing students of all ages to music.

“Something I think people will latch onto, especially now that we have conservatory in the title, is that it’s way too serious or exclusive, but it’s not,” says O’Neil.

“It’s just about showing some level of dedication.”

“We want people to understand that we can also teach casually, not just students who want to

STUDENT SNAPSHOTS “Music is a better form of expression than just speaking. Sean and Léna make playing the violin seem effortless and great. It’s always fun to see what the composers were thinking as you try to understand the music.”

– Giordano Scarano, playing violin for eight years

“I love improving and learning new things about the violin. Taking lessons here helps me grow and become a part of my instrument.”

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Above: Sean O’Neil and Sarasota Music Conservatory student Giordano Scarano play during a lesson in the conservatory’s new space.

Right: O’Neil leads students Scarano and Sommer Altier through a music theory lesson.

– Sommer Altier, playing violin for 11 years

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Cambis walking Joy Chotzistamatis through a difficult phrase in her practice music.

become professionals,” adds Cambis. “The percentage that come out of conservatories in Europe that become professional musicians is around 2%.”

For practical purposes, the Sarasota Music Academy was founded as a for-profit organization so Cambis, O’Neil and the faculty could start teaching without starting a board of directors required for nonprofit institutions. But after four years, Cambis and O’Neil realized that a music school was never going to be and never was intended to be a moneymaking venture. And whenever they tried to raise funds, they hit roadblocks because they couldn’t offer any potential patrons a tax write-off.

But with the school’s recent changes, the couple hopes to attract new donors and supporters. This will help fuel their plans for more public recitals, master classes and international performance programs.

But first, there’s practice.

“My favorite part is discovering the little individual pieces and movements inside a work of music. It’s one thing to listen a to a famous violinist, but to start learning a piece yourself is thrilling.

They always teach me how to play a work how it's generally done, but Sean and Léna let me branch out and do my own thing and add my personal interpretation and touch to a song.”

– Joy Chazistamatis, playing violin for 15 years

Hidden on the second floor of 1491 Second St. and just behind the door of suite D is a musical explosion. Students ranging in ages from 5 to seniors in high school mingle in the lobby and three separate classroom and practice rooms. Students tune their strings and practice scales, preparing their next recital piece written by a master composer.

In adjacent rooms are students on the opposite end of the musical spectrum. With piano chord charts and toy versions of xylophones and other instruments scattered all around, parents are enrolling their children (some as young as 15 months) into the conservatory’s early musical development program. Cambis and O’Neil and their musical faculty are corralling these musically inclined students on this Saturday. Although the conservatory offers lessons throughout the week, it’s on the weekends during the school year when a good chunk of musical education takes place.

And with such a wide range of ages, Cambis and O’Neil not only see these students as their extended family, but they also see a little bit of themselves at that age.

“I treat them like my own children,” says O’Neil. “Sometimes it’s hard because you see a part of yourself in them that you don’t like and parts of yourself that you really like, but you have to let them become their own musicians.”

And though they have had students go on to study music in college and pursue music professionally, Cambis and O’Neil aren’t after a masterpiece in each student. They just want make

Sommer Altier has been taking lessons at the conservatory for two years.

sure they can hit all the notes that life has to offer.

“It’s a big responsibility,” says O’Neil. “I really feel strongly when I see their progresses, successes and them learning from their failures. I want to make sure when they leave and move on from us that they are more prepared for life than I was.”

One of the biggest initiatives that the Sarasota Music Conservatory is undertaking this year is the Montpeyroux Chamber Music Festival.

Located in southern France’s wine region, the conservatory started a collaboration with the small vineyard town and the Castelbarry winery.

From July 16 to Aug. 1, a group of about 10 students went to France with Cambis and O’Neil.

There, the students performed five times in and around the village and vineyard as well as in a neighboring medieval castle. Cambis and O’Neil hope to expand the festival to include British and French music students to perform with their Sarasota students, thus becoming an annual and international cultural exchange.

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Jenny Medved feels most at home in the wilderness. Growing up near Atlanta, she and her family used to camp in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Cherokee, N.C. It was there that she learned of her Native American heritage and found inner peace and inspiration among the wildlife.

After arriving in Sarasota in 2000 to attend the Ringling College of Art and Design, Medved wed her love of nature and indigenous cultures with her art.

Through her lifelike watercolor portraits, she tells the stories of Native American and other indigenous cultures around the world.

Recently, she and 12 other SARTQ members moved their equipment out of their studios and into an exhibition space for a monthlong residency at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts, which runs from Sept. 26 through Oct. 31.

In preparation for the opening, Medved says she spends a minimum of five hours a day working on her pieces, which focus on Native Americans in the American West and Central Plains, as well as Hawaiian and Polynesian tribes.

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Beginning with reference photos, Medved pencils the outline and form of the figures, then sets out to capture the ornate details of their ceremonial garb with watercolor.

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“This is the first one of the series of Pacific Islanders. I like the feeling of community and storytelling in their bodies, from the way they dance to the way they dress themselves.”

“I get that a lot, that watercolor is easy.

It’s about learning control and learning to work with the paint.”

“I don’t use a lot of water. I like to use more of a dry paint.

I put less water on my brush so I can control it better. But even now, I’m trying to explore letting the water and the paint do its own thing.”

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After being a couple for 17 years and having a commitment ceremony in 2000, Phil King and Dennis Stover said “I do” on Sept. 9.

“The commitment ceremony wasn’t legal, and now that we have the legal right, it’s important to us,” says King.

The couple first met online and agreed to meet in-person in a safe, open place — a Walmart parking lot.

“Who knows?” says King.

“He could have been a serial killer. Walmart was close to my house, and I knew there would be plenty of people and security cameras.”

Within a year, they bought their first home together, and they have been together since.

“We came here to retire, but obviously that didn’t work,” says King. “Sarasota has become so much a part of our lives.”

One of the couple’s favorite parts of Sarasota has been their neighbors on Floyd Street, from which they recently moved. At their going-away party, the neighbors decided they should be married in a New Orleansthemed street party.

Later that evening, Stover told King about the idea.

“The neighbors have decided we should be married,” he said.

“And we’re going to do it on your birthday.”

King asked if that was a proposal. Stover said it was close as he was going to get.

The couple was married at Longboat Key’s Bay Isles Beach Club, which was decked out with New Orleans-style food, décor and a jazz band.

“Of course, once we started the guest list, which was the most difficult part, it became a big party,” says King. “Just what this town needs.”

PHIL AND DENNIS THE DETAILS Honeymoon: New York City, next month First-dance song: “At Last,” recorded by Brenda Williams. “She’s our favorite entertainer from Indianapolis,” says King. “She sang at the Glasser/Schoenbaum event when they honored me.”

Photography: Cliff Roles Floral design: All decorations were done by former neighbors and friends, including the orchids on the table.

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Favors: Homemade pralines by Sugar Cubed Something new, borrowed, blue: The grooms shirts were new, blue and matching.

Fun fact: The couple bought their rings at Tiffany & Co. a year ago in anticipation of the wedding, but they wanted to wait until they could be married in their own state.

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