Born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, collaborative piano faculty member Jonathan Feldman says music was "in the air" when he was growing up: his sister played the piano, and his brother, Ronald, played cello. Music is still in the air at his house today. Feldman's wife of 27 years is
Judith LeClair, who's been on the Juilliard bassoon faculty since 1983 and has been the principal bassoon of the New York Philharmonic since 1981, a year before she and Jonathan met through Philharmonic friends. And their son, Gabriel, 13, studies jazz piano. The director of the collaborative piano program at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, Jonathan also teaches at the New England Conservatory and has been on the Juilliard faculty since 1989.
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