I'm grateful to my music teachers; their names are highlighted in blue. Through my research I've discovered that some of their teachers can be traced back to major composers, professors and/or performers (highlighted in black). Here are my teachers in chronological order...

 

E. Paul Degee, Music Director at West Center Church, Bronxville, NY, where I sang in the children's choir and learned to read music.

Avis Reisinger, Music Teacher at Elementary School No. 8, Yonkers, NY.

George McGettrick, Band and Orchestra Director at School No. 8, Walt Whitman Jr. High school, and Roosevelt High School, Yonkers, NY. I accompanied the orchestra in elementary and junior high schools.

Joyce Neal, Music Teacher at Roosevelt High School, Yonkers, NY, where I accompanied the choir.

Jean Anderson Wentworth (1928-2017), Juilliard graduate and winner of the Naumburg Award in 1954. She and her husband Kenneth Wentworth toured internationally and recorded their 4-hand piano repertoire.

Irwin Freundlich  

         Edward Steuermann

         James Friskin

                   Edward Dannreuther

                               Ignaz Moscheles

                                         Johann Albrechtsberger

                                          Antonio Salieri

                    Sir Charles Villiers Stanford

                               Carl Reinecke

                                          Felix Mendelssohn

                                           Robert Schumann

                                           Franz Liszt

Sarah Marks Trinkaus(1918-2009) provided one year of private lessons in Bronxville, New York. She introduced me to the exciting music of the Romantic Era. I haven't yet found any information on her teachers. Her husband Charles was a history professor at the University of Michigan (1970-82) and an expert in the Italian Renaissance. 

Raymond Lewenthal (1923-1988) was a prominent concert pianist and writer/editor. He was a pioneer in the musical Romantic Revival in the 1960s and 70s, championing and recording the compositions of little-known composers, especially Alkan. Intermittently during the 1970s, I assisted with his library research and had a few lessons on chamber music. 

Lydia Cherkassky

Olga Samaroff

                Marmontel

                                Dourlen, Halevy, Le Sueur, Alkan

                Jedliczka

                                Anton Rubinstein, Nikolai Rubinstein, Charles Klindworth

Alfred Cortot

                Diemes

                Emiles Decombes

                                Frederic Chopin

Robert Wade Boury, Ph.D. (b. 1946) graduated from the Manhattan School of Music and received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan. He is a retired Professor of Music and Resident Composer at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR), where he taught for 35 years. Dr. Boury is a well-established and highly regarded composer, having written over 100 works, including art songs, pieces for solo piano and ensembles, and operas. He has also worked in the recording industry and has composed for documentaries. Please see the following article online… 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Boury 

I've been fortunate to take private lessons with Dr. Robert Boury since April of 2013. His lessons have covered music theory, composition and history. Dr. Boury has encouraged me to teach composition and takes an interest in the progress of my students. In addition, he accompanied sopranos Sarah Hastings and Amelia Loken in performances of my songs in his Songwriter’s Showcases at UALR twice a year for several years. We performed my duet "Spanish Sensation" at the May 2015 Showcase. 

Pearl Mickey Boury, his mother

Dorothy Ackerman Zoeckler

        Robert Goldsand

                   Camella Horn, Joseph Marx, Emil von Sauer

                    Moriz Rosenthal

                              Karol Mikuli

                                       Frederic Chopin (Mikuli was also Chopin’s editor)

                                                Wilhelm Wurfel, Jozef Elsner

                              Rafael Joseffy

                                        Carl Tausig

                                        Franz Liszt

                                                   Adam Liszt, his father

                                                   Carl Czerny

                                                           Ludwig van Beethoven

                                                           Johann Hummel

                                                   Antonio Salieri

        Marcian Thalberg, Parvin Titus

David Diamond

         Bernard Rogers

                    Arthur Farwell

                     Ernest Bloch

                               Eugene Ysaye, Iwan Knorr

                     Percy Goetschius

                     Nadia Boulanger

                                Vierne, Guilmant, Raoul Pugno

                                 Gustave Faure

                                          Camille Saint-Saens

          Roger Sessions

                      Horatio Parker (taught Charles Ives)

                                G.W. Chadwisk, J. Rheinberger

                       Ernest Bloch (see above)

           Nadia Boulanger (see above)

           Igor Stravinsky

                    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

                              Mily Balakirev et al.

Mario Davidovsky

           Guillermo Graetzer

           Aaron Copland

                    Rubin Goldmark, Isidor Philipp, Paul Vidal, Nadia Boulanger, Victor Wittgenstein

Ross Lee Finney

           Nadia Boulanger (see above)

           Edward B. Hill

           Alban Berg

                    Arnold Schoenberg

                    Alexander von Zemlinsky

                    Gustav Mahler

           Roger Sessions (see above)

Leslie Bassett (won 1966 Pulitzer Prize in Music)

           Homer T. Keller

                    Howard Hanson (won 1944 Pulitzer Prize in Music)

                             Hilma Eckstrom Hanson

                             Percy Goetschius

                                        Robert E. H. Gehring

                             Peter Lutkin

                             Arne Oldberg

           Ross Lee Finney (see above)

           Arthur Honegger

           Nadia Boulanger (see above)

           Mario Davidovsky (see above)

           Roberto Gerhard

                    Enrique Granados

                    Felipe Pedrell (taught Isaac Albeniz, Enrique Granados, Manuel de Falla)

                    Arnold Schoenberg