Justin Paschalides

B.A. in Music with a minor in jazz from George Mason University.  Justin has been an active educator with kids for most of his live.  With more than 10 years of expreience, he started volunteering to tutor homesless children in High School.  For over 10 years he worked with the Boy Scouts of America, teaching in the nature center and shooting range to eventually running and administrating these camps.  Before teaching music, Justin worked the National Rifle Assocaiton and taught thousands of people to operate firearms and bows (archery) and trained other instructors. 

Now Justin is an active performer in the Metropolitan area.  He has worked in several rock groups, once opening for the famous Jefferson Starship.  He has conducted orchestras for musical theater, corrdinated and performed church music programs, plays accordion for farmer's markets, plays jazz for private events and parties frequently, and studied classical Indian Hindustani music to perform on harmonium and sitar, once even for the Kennedy Center. 

He also has recently been composing and arranged musicals.  Recently his worked was debuted in Studio 54 in New York City.  Justin Paschalides has a passion for sharing the many offers music has to children and welcomes all artistic desires in his studio.