In 2023, award-winning soprano and musician, Keri Lee Pierson, began searching for a female composer to write an opera for her International Women’s Day performance. Composer and EFSC professor, Dr. ChanJi Kim, answered the call, resulting in a musical collaboration that came to fruition in early March 2025 as part of the Timucua Arts Foundation’s […]
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Life as a Business Owner Recently, I had a chance to chat with EFSC student and small business owner, Afton Johnson. She’s well-known in the local wedding industry for her beautiful floral creations. Afton is truly an artist at heart. Her passion for art led her to respond to a Craigslist ad (that still a
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Discovering a Passion for Art and Teaching As an artist, EFSC instructor Georgi Gelalles has created wonderful, one-of-a-kind pieces. Today, she continues to shape new works of art: her students. A native of Virginia, Gelalles moved at a young age to Cleveland, Ohio. There she spent the majority of her grade school years. As a teen, her family
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Discovering Passion with Music Nick Barth’s music journey at EFSC began unexpectedly. As a sophomore at Titusville High School, Nick Barth struggled with declining grades. He felt a lack of motivation when an unexpected band class showed up on his schedule. He decided not to drop the course and agreed to the band director’s suggestion to join the percussion
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