Category: 2023-2024

Several of our high school dancers participated in prestigious summer intensive programs this year. We are very proud of their continued progress as dancers! Isabela Atienza, CEA class of 2020 and CEC dance student, participated in the Joffrey Ballet School Ballet and Contemporary Intensive in Miami. After the intensives, she was invited to join the ballet and contemporary trainee programs in New York. Mia Toribio, CEA class of 2021 and CEC dance student, spent the summer at the Alvin Ailey Summer Intensive in New York City. Alexa Veloso, CEA class of 2020 and CEC dance student, participated in the…

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Diego Varela, CEA/CEC 7th grade student, at Killington Music Summer Program Congratulations to Diego Varela, who received a scholarship to attend the Killington Music Festival residency program in Killington, Vermont this summer! Each summer, KMF gathers some of the most talented and well-prepared musicians in the country and abroad from institutions such as The Juilliard School, Boston Conservatory, New England Conservatory, Manhattan School of Music, Peabody Conservatory, Eastman School of Music and the University of Arizona for a summer of classes and performances. Diego is currently in the seventh grade at CEA, a CEC violin, piano, and clarinet student and…

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Paloma Diaz and Felipe Diez, CEA class of 2021 and CEC music students, Perform in Vienna Congratulations to two of our CEA alumni and Conservatory music students, Paloma Diaz (violin) and Felipe Diez (clarinet and piano) who participated in the Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival in Vienna, Austria this summer. Paloma currently studies violin at CEC with Jose A. Guibert. Felipe studies clarinet at CEC with Norman Milanes and piano with Ileana Cortizo. During their time at CEA, they both formed part of the CEA Music Mastery and Conchita Espinosa Orchestra.

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Fernanda Miranda, CEA and CEC Class of 2015 Fernanda Miranda, CEA/CEC class of 2015, is currently a senior at Georgia State University College of the Arts. She began her piano training at CEC with Alina Gonzalez and Yirka Ledon. This summer, she was invited by the Chopin Society of Atlanta to participate and perform in the Chopin Academy Paris International Summer Session at Conservatoire de Vincennes and Chopin in Vienna week-long program for Atlanta and Musik21 students in cooperation with Gulda School of Music Vienna. Congratulations Fernanda!

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On September 25th, the Spanish dance department was invited back to perform as the official representatives of Spanish culture at the Education Office of the Embassy of Spain‘s Spanish Educators’ Conference, held at Florida International University. CEC is one of the few institutions to honor the four disciplinary traditions of Spanish dance: classical Spanish dance, Escuela Bolera, folklore, and flamenco, giving our dancers an appreciation of the richness of Spanish dance and the historical and geographical context for their area of study. Thanks to this exposure to the various facets of Spanish dance and immersion in the Spanish language…

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