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letsdothis2 ago

Award-Winning Photographer, Tamara Engoron Veneruso was born into an incredibly artistic family in New York City on the Lower East Side. Her mother, Dorothy won numerous medals for playing violin in the Bell Symphony Orchestra in NYC and for her amazingly delicate opera voice. Tamara’s father was an accomplished painter. Tamara’s work was recently in a group show with her daughter and nephew Lisandro Perez Engoron.

Considering the music background I'm wondering if retired professor of music David Kappy is a relative. Here's a bit about him: http://www.acousticlevitation.org/kappy.html

https://alaskaclassics.org/artist/david-kappy/

According to his CV he taught at Univeristy of Washington and also at Wisconsin. His PhD dissertation was done at Yale.

https://alaskaclassics.org/artist/david-kappy/

M.M. and B.M., University of Wisconsin; D.M.A. in progress, Yale University. Member of Soni Ventorum and chamber music groups; numerous recordings on Crystal, Musical Heritage, Delos, Telarc, and American Gramophone labels, and with the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet; recordings with Mannheim Steamroller; taught on the faculty of the Interlochen Arts Academy, and received a Fulbright Award to teach at the Federal University of Minas in Brazil (1985); Solo Horn with the Omaha and Lincoln (Nebraska) Symphonies, and the Omaha Opera; veteran of Grand Teton and Claremont Music Festivals, and the Festival de Inverno in Campos de Jordao, Brazil; extra Horn with the Seattle Symphony and the St. Louis Symphony.

https://soniventorum.com/soniventorum_history.html

Following the 1972 International Instrumental Ensembles Competition (Festival Villa-Lobos) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and winning the Silver Medal, the Soni Ventorum, through the auspices of the U.S. Department of State tours South America on its first of six U.S.D.S. international tours as a wind quartet .

With the resignation of Leuba, David Kappy, an experienced and enthusiastic wind quintet hornist who was teaching at the University of Montana was recommended by respected musical colleagues (including Bonnevie) and was invited to join the quintet and the University of Washington faculty.

McColl and Skowronek begin building instruments, Grossman opens several local businesses specializing in gourmet cuisine, Storch tours China and writes an article about her experiences during Beijing's Tiananmen Square demonstrations of 1989.