Melanie Maz, Piano and Violin B.A. in Music Performance with Distinction and Honors, Goucher College. Post-college violin studies at the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival with Itzhak Rashkovsky and Lewis Kaplan, and at Longy School of Music with Janet Packer. Founder and director of the Serenata Chamber Musicians. Violinist in the Serenata Chamber Musicians, Newton Symphony, and the Boston Neo-politan Chamber Orchestra. Perfomances with the Brahms Society Orchestra, New England Philharmonic, and Longwood Symphony. Piano Faculty: Haggerty Community School in Cambridge and Boston Collegiate Charter School in Dorchester.