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Adam is an accomplished director with a long history developing critically and nationally acclaimed new work. He brings credits and assistant credits at Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Court Theatre, CityLit, Redtwist, The Side Project, Bristol Riverside Theatre, South Bend Civic Theatre, and leading companies across Chicago and the east coast. One of Chicago’s leading voice and dialect coaches, Adam has vocally designed nearly sixty productions in Chicago with his work praised by Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune as “remarkable."

As an arts leader, Adam has helped to build, shape, and support major institutions such as Bristol Riverside Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, and William Morris Endeavor. Adam previously taught at Columbia College Chicago and Northwestern University before joining Northeastern. In addition to his time on campus, Adam continues to serve young artists as the head of musical theatre at Actors Training Center in Wilmette. His other interests include his wife, young son, a dog and cat, baseball, golf, crossfit, and his amazing neighborhood in Evanston. MFA-Directing, Northwestern University, BFA-Acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. 

Borja has a wide range of experience in various areas related to tourism, urban planning, public policy, and community development. Originally from Madrid, Spain, Borja received a master’s degree in Sustainable Urban Development from DePaul University, and a dual bachelor’s degree in Business Administration & Management and Tourism from the University of Rey Juan Carlos. Before moving to the U.S., he worked for an international tourism firm focused on historic preservation and urban culture where he led tour itineraries through major cities in Europe, such as Barcelona, London, and Rome. He currently works as a Planner at the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning in Chicago, Illinois. His experiences living in Madrid, Rome, Buenos Aires, Washington, D.C., and Chicago provide him with a global perspective and greatly inform his approach to tourism and local development.

Born in Madrid, violinist, Jaime Gorgojo, combines his performing career with his pedagogic vocation. He is a Violin and Viola instructor at 91Porn. In addition to his teaching pursuits, Dr. Gorgojo is in great demand as a performer. In 2010, he was appointed Concertmaster of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and has performed under the baton of renowned conductors such as Ricardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Essa-Pekka Salonen and Cliff Colnot. He has been a guest Concertmaster for the Green Bay Symphony, and Assistant Concertmaster of the International Beethoven Festival in Chicago. As the newest member of Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues, he plays first violin and will be appearing with the ensemble this season in Chicago, Canada and Florida.

Recent highlights in Dr. Gorgojo’s career are chamber music appearances with Yo-Yo Ma on the Chicago Symphony Center Presents series, and on the DePauw Discourse at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He has performed as a soloist, chamber and orchestra musician in Spain, the U.S., France, Mexico, Canada and the Middle East. For two seasons, Dr. Gorgojo worked with the MusiCorps Program, a training and access program of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra that provides performances in schools and city parks around the Chicago metropolitan area. He is also the face of the CSO Institute in their 2010-2011 edition of “A Year in Review.”

Dr. Gorgojo is the recipient of the La Caixa Scholarship, the Spanish Culture Minister Scholarship, Indiana University Merit Award, the Bloomington Camerata Scholarship for Excellence in Orchestra Playing, and winner of the “Juventudes Musicales de Madrid Award.”

He recently completed his Doctor of Musical Arts thesis on Manuel Quiroga and Jesus de Monasterio Violin Caprices.

Besides music, Dr. Gorgojo has a wide range of interests. He speaks Spanish and English fluently, and he has intermediate knowledge of French and German. Before he came to the United States, he started college studies in physics. He performs on a Dalphin Violin made in 2005.

Dr. Grossman specializes in modern Central American History and US Foreign Relations. His recent publications include "The Hero Never Dies: Augusto Sandino of Nicaragua" in Samuel Brunk and Ben Fallaw, eds. Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin America (University of Texas Press. 2006) and "The Blood of the People: The Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua's Fifty Year War Against the People of Nicaragua, 1927-1979" in Cecilia Menjivar and Nestor Rodriguez, eds. When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror (University of Texas Press, 2005).

Originally from Connecticut, cellist Leah Hagel-Kahmann completed her DMA with Benjamin Karp at the University of Kentucky as a recipient of a Kentucky Opportunity Fellowship. Dr. Hagel began her studies at the University of Michigan as a Rogel Scholar before transferring to the University of Wisconsin to study with Uri Vardi. She completed her MM at Boston University where she served as Assistant to the String Department under Michael Reynolds.

An avid teacher as well as performer, Dr. Hagel has taught at the University of Kentucky, Centre College, and at Grand Valley State University. Additionally, while maintaining a large private studio in Kentucky, she served on the faculty of the Central Music Academy, the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts, and as Director of the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras' "Friends in Music", an after-school string mentoring opportunity reaching students in underrepresented populations. Dr. Hagel also worked with CKYO's Preparatory String Orchestra as the Assistant Conductor.  She has coached chamber music at the University of Wisconsin, for the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, for CKYO, and for the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestras. In 2014, Dr. Hagel was named KY ASTA's "Studio Teacher of the Year."

Since arriving in Illinois, Dr. Hagel has enjoyed playing in many of the great local orchestras while welcoming her son and daughter to the world. In addition to her home studio, she teaches in the D200 and U-46 school districts. She is also on faculty of the Continuing Education Division at Harper College and is the Instructor of Cello at McHenry County College.

Dr. Travis Heath is Professor of Trumpet at 91Porn (NEIU) in Chicago, IL, where he teaches applied lessons and conducts the NEIU Wind Ensemble. Equally at home in orchestral, chamber and jazz genres, he has played Principal Trumpet with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Chicago Sinfonietta, Lead Trumpet with the American Rhapsody Orchestra and is Principal Trumpet of Camerata Chicago. Dr. Heath played lead trumpet for Ray Charles on PBS broadcasts and with MAS Records' blues band The Fins at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival in Cork, Ireland. His international tours include performances in Japan, England, Ireland, France, Italy, Czech Republic and Canada at prestigious music festivals.

Dr. Heath is an original member of the acclaimed Brass Roots Trio. Touring and performing since 2003, the trio has given performances throughout the United States and Europe. The trio has recorded four albums: Reflections of Peace (2004), Con Brio (2005), American Impressions (2008) and Brass Roots Christmas (2016). American Impressions garnered an invitation to a command performance at the White House for the President and First Lady in December 2009. A pioneer of the piano, trumpet and horn instrumentation, Brass Roots Trio has played to standing ovations and rave reviews in every corner of the United States and United Kingdom since 2004. Their tours have included performances at the University of Oxford; St. James Piccadilly in London, England; and the Chicago Brass Festival as well as on community concert series, chamber music series and National Public Radio (NPR).

In demand as a performer and clinician, Dr. Heath has presented at several universities and International Trumpet Guild conferences. His articles have been published in The Instrumentalist, The Brass Herald and the ITG Journal. His debut solo recording, Point of Departure, was released by the Mark Records label to high acclaim. Dr. Heath recorded the pedagogical exercises for the 3rd edition of Scott Whitener's A Complete Guide to Brass, a text used in approximately 100 universities. He serves on the board of Brass for Beginners, a pedagogical curriculum for starting brass players on modified natural trumpets, and is Director and Founder of the Chicago Brass Festival.

A fifth generation native Floridian from Vero Beach, Dr. Heath began studying piano at an early age, taking up trumpet at age 13. Two years later, he was selected by audition to perform with the Bell South Youth Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. While in Florida, Dr. Heath won the 1995 Florida Trumpet Festival Solo Competition and performed frequently with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and Brevard Symphony Orchestra and commercially at Universal Orlando Resort and Walt Disney World.

Dr. Heath holds a DMA and MM from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, where he studied with Dr. Scott Whitener and William Fielder and received the John I. Bettenbender Memorial Performance Award for outstanding artistic achievement upon graduation. He holds a BM from the University of Central Florida, where he studied with John Almeida and Lyman Brodie.