Faculty

	Jeff Bradetich Double Bass Jeff Bradetich is regarded as one of the leading performers and teachers of the double bass. He has won many major solo competitions; has been featured on radio and television in North and South America and Europe; and has recorded five solo albums. He is an active lecturer and clinician and annually presents weeklong master classes on three continents. Bradetich served for eight years as director of the International Society of Bassists. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he chairs the instrumental studies division in the College of Music. He taught previously at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. At the College of Music since 1994, he directs one of the largest double bass programs in the world.
	Julia Bushkova Violin Acclaimed by Joseph Gingold as a "virtuoso of high rank", Julia Bushkova has been described in the press as having "remarkable expressiveness and an unusually large and beautiful tone.,, extraordinary technical execution... a Russian violin tradition of highest elegance." A graduate with highest honors from Moscow Conservatory where she studied with Professor Igor Bezrodny, Julia Bushkova comes from a family of remarkable violinists. Ms. Bushkova regularly performs as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber music collaborator throughout the United States , Europe and Central America . Her students have attended The Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music, Moscow Conservatory, and many other leading conservatories in the United States and Europe . Her former students may be found in Detroit , Dallas , Toronto Orchestras, New York Philharmonic and prominent chamber music ensembles throughout the world.
	Susan Dubois Viola Susan Dubois holds a bachelor's of music, magna cum laude, and master's of music from the University of Southern California, and a doctorate of musical arts from The Juilliard School. A native of San Diego, Susan Dubois comes to the University of North Texas from New York City, where she was the viola teaching assistant for Karen Tuttle. Dubois was the sole viola winner of Artists International's 23rd Annual Auditions and was presented in her solo New York recital debut at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall. She also was selected as a prizewinner and recitalist at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition in the United Kingdom. Dubois has extensive experience as a chamber musician, performing and coaching throughout the Australia, South America and the United States, as a faculty member of the American Festival for the Arts and a former member of the Rackham String Quartet.
	Jaymee Haefner Harp Jaymee Haefner’s performances have been described by the press as possessing“ an air of dreamy lyricism… interlocking melody lines with the deftness of a dancer’s footwork.” She has recently been featured on recordings with the Bloomington Pops Orchestra, acclaimed baritone Daniel Narducci, and Paraguayan harpist Alfredo Rolando Ortiz. Appearing regularly as a soloist, Dr. Haefner has performed throughout the United States, in Mexico, Russia, and at the World Harp Congress in Prague. She has also received numerous honors, including the Lauréate prize at the Madame Dulova International Harp Competition in Moscow, and the honor of performing for George H. W. Bush. She also was a winner of the President’s Concerto Competition in Tucson and the Indiana University Harp Concerto Competition. Dr. Haefner obtained her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the University of Arizona with Carrol McLaughlin, and her Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University, studying with Susann McDonald.
	Thomas Johnson Classical Guitar. Thomas Johnson has been active as a performer and teacher for over twenty years. His career has taken him to Canada, Italy, France, Mexico, South America and Spain. As founder and head of the classical guitar program at the University of North Texas, he has attracted students from countries such as England, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru and others. As a faculty member of Guitar Studies International, he took American students to Spain for seven consecutive summers. Mr. Johnson has served as juror for many guitar competitions. In October 1993, he was a juror for the Guitar Foundation of America International Competition. He is also on the board of directors of the Dallas Classical Guitar Society, the largest organization of its kind in the world.
	Phillip Lewis Violin. Philip Lewis, professor of violin at the University of North Texas, has been described as a violinist of "rare excellence-combining sensitivity, virtuosity, warmth and vitality" (Baltimore Sun). Mr. Lewis has concertized as soloist and recitalist throughout the Asia, Canada, Europe and the United States. Mr. Lewis studied with Ivan Galamian in New York, and then Berl Senofsky at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where he earned his master's degree. Mr. Lewis has won several competitions including the Young Musicians' Foundation Competition in Los Angeles, and has been the recipient of a Rockefeller Grant.
	Eugene Osadchy Cello Eugene Osadchy joined the faculty in fall 1999 as associate professor of cello in the instrumental studies division. He is also artistic co-director of the Vetta Chamber Music and Recital Society and principal cellist with CBC Radio Orchestra. Mr. Osadchy regularly performs throughout Canada and the United States, participating in chamber music festivals and series in Vancouver, Courtney, Seattle, Anchorage and Sitka, as well as the Bargemusic Series in New York, the Mozart Festival in Long Island and the Groningen International Festival in Holland. Highlights of his last season included concert appearances at the Lincoln Center in New York, the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, the Mozart Festival in Woodstock, Ill., and the Amsterdam Chamber Music Festival in Holland.
	Cynthia Roberts Baroque Violin Cynthia Roberts, one of America’s leading advocates of the Baroque violin, has been advanced to the faculty rank of lecturer. She serves as concertmaster of New York’s Concert Royal, and Cleveland’s Apollo’s Fire as well as regularly appearing with Paris-based Les Arts Florissant and the New York Collegium. In addition, she performs regularly with North America’s other most prominent period instrument ensembles, including Tafelmusik and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. At age 12, Cynthia debuted with Chicago’s Grant Park Symphony, performing the Mendelssohn Concerto, and three years later appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops. Recent highlights include a national broadcast on NPR’s “Performance Today,” a solo at the Mostly Mozart Festival, recordings of the complete Brandenburg Concertos and Monteverdi’s Orfeo with Apollo’s Fire, chamber music at the Prague Festival and the Boston Early Music Festival. She has made more than fifty recordings as well as numerous broadcasts for NPR, CBC (Canada) and WDR (Germany).