Music Equipment Office
MB 1525Tianyuhao Nie
Equipment Technician
510-885-3115
tianyuhao.nie@csueastbay.edu Music Equipment Office
MB 2047
Justin T. Plank
Instructional Support Coordinator
510-885-3167
mrc@csueastbay.edu
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Director of East Bay Youth Orchestra
Rachael Denny (MAME) began serving as a fieldwork supervisor in 2023. Ms. Denny is a 30+ year veteran teacher with a specialty in Music Education, particularly General Music and Early Childhood Music. She holds certifications in Orff Schulwerk from the Orff Institut in Salzburg, Austria, CSU Los Angeles, and the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. She also has experience with Kodaly pedagogy from the University of Wisconsin La Crosse.. In addition to her work with CSU East Bay, Ms. Denny is the Department Chair for Young Musicians at Pasadena Conservatory of Music, the course director for the Los Angeles Orff Teacher Education Course, and a musicianship teacher for the Los Angeles Children's Chorus.
Zack Pitt-Smith studied woodwind and jazz performance at Eastman School of Music, Berklee College of Music. He earned a B.A in Ethnomusicology from Brown University and a M.A. in Music Education from San Francisco State University. Zack has been the director of bands at Edna Brewer Middle School in Oakland for fifteen years. He directs the Oakland Eastside All-Star Ensemble (OEASE) and serves on the local and state boards of directors for California Music Educators Association (CMEA) as Multicultural Representative and Urban Schools Programs Representative. He was recognized as the Oakland Teacher of the Year in 2013 and is a semifinalist for the 2022 Music Educator Grammy Award. Zack is an active performer throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, most frequently with his Brazilian instrumental choro ensemble and Oakland Samba Revue.