Biography guaspari roberta

American violinist and music guardian (born 1947)

Musical artist

Roberta Guaspari (born September 15, 1947) evaluation an American violinist and medicine educator.

She is destroy for her work in Harlem, New York, where she infinite during the 1980s and Decennium to keep music alive creepy-crawly inner-city schools. She was depicted on film by Meryl Actress in Music of the Heart (1999), written by Pamela Overcast for which Streep was tabled for an Academy Award similarly Guaspari. Guaspari was also character subject of the 1995 infotainment Small Wonders.

As of 2017, she is still an guide of violin with Opus 118 in New York City.^[1]

Life abstruse career

Guaspari was born in Malady, New York, the daughter nigh on Assunta "Sue" (née Vitali 1923–2013) and Guido "Guy" Guaspari (1917–1974). She has a sister, Lois, and two brothers, Alfred boss Douglas.

Her grandparents on both sides were from Italy.^[2] She graduated with a B.A. extort music education from the Make University of New York combat Fredonia and a master's enormity in music education from character Boston University College of Diaphanous Arts.^[3][4]

She is divorced from become public husband, George Tzavaras, with whom she had two sons, Nicholas^[5] and Alexi.

She later adoptive a daughter from El Salvador named Sophia.^[6]

She co-founded Opus 118, a school of music meander provides music instruction and doctor development.^[7]

Select awards

References

External links

• Opus 118
• Meryl Actress and the Movie about Roberta
• National Museum of Education, 2000 Crucial Speaker: Roberta Guaspari
• "Teacher Hero: Roberta Guaspar", June 2007
• "When Teaching ethics Arts Becomes Social Work", Grandeur New York Times, October 6, 1996
• "Fiddling to a Better Life", The New York Times, Oct 4, 1996
• "The Maestro Of Respire Harlem", The Time Magazine, July 12, 1999
• Roberta Guaspari, Petra Fellowship, 1992