Southport Performing Arts Conservatory and Entertainment

S.P.A.C.E offers private and half private music lessons for
* Piano * Violin * Cello * Bass * Guitar * Flute * Percussion * Harp * Voice starting at age of three to adults. Guitar and flute is recommended at the age of 8.

Mrs. Fusun Naska is a native of Turkey, she started playing violin at the age of eight as a student of well-known composer and violinist Ekrem Zeki Un and Prof. Yusuf Guler Aksoz. After she graduated Istanbul State Conservatory, in 1988, she worked for 10 years in Istanbul State Opera and Ballet Orchestra as assistant-concertmaster.

Hulya Alpakin is a native of Turkey and holds a Bachelor's degree in piano from Istanbul State Conservatory, a Master's degree in piano performance, and an Artist Diploma, both from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. She has been performing internationally as soloist, as part of ensembles, and as accompanist. Her performances were featured on the radio and as well as on records, among them compositions especially dedicated to her.

Pianist Elena Lacheva performed Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto (1st movement) with the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra shortly after she turned 19 years old.

Elena was the soloist in a concert featuring select members of the Oberlin Orchestra, conducted by Konstantin Dobroykov, where she played Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major.

Lindsay began playing in fourth grade in Olathe, Kansas. He performed extensively with every ensemble that would let him: Concert Band, Pep Band, Jazz band and was a member of the Kansas City Youth Symphony. This led him to go to The University of Michigan where he studied with Dr. Michael Udow, Julie Spencer, Salvatore Rabbio, and Michael Gould. He graduated with a bachelor degree in Instrumental Music Education.