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  Susan C. Gallo  

Quality Music Instruction with Experienced Professionals.

Susan C. Gallo, Director - Instructor

Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Piano, Recorder

     A professional musician and educator for over 30 years, Mrs. Gallo created South Island Music, Inc. of Wantagh in 1997 when she saw a need for quality private music instruction in Nassau County.  Mrs. Gallo is a New York State Certified Teacher who has been a resident of south Bellmore and south Wantagh for over 20 years.  She holds a Master’s Degree in Music Education through Long Island University, CW Post, where she studied flute under Dr. Susan Deaver, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance from the State University of New York at Stony Brook where she studied clarinet under David Glazer of The New York Woodwind Quintet.  

     Mrs. Gallo has taught in the Comsewogue, Half-Hollow Hills and Rockville Centre School Districts and at The Greenvale School in Upper Brookville, prior to creating South Island Music, Inc. of Wantagh.  Mrs. Gallo’s love for and commitment to teaching has enabled her to become a popular and widely known instructor and business owner throughout Nassau and Suffolk Counties for many years.  A professional musician and instructor on clarinet, flute and saxophone, Mrs. Gallo also teaches piano and recorder through South Island Music, Inc.  where she teaches an average of 40 students, adults, teens and children alike, weekly, year round. Mrs. Gallo is also the Director of South Island Music, Inc. where she oversees the full-time operation of the Studio, including hiring of instructors, accounting and bookkeeping staff, facilitation of Studio Policies and Procedures and other Studio information  to the general public, advertising, organization of recitals and overall Studio financial operations. Mrs. Gallo manages the operation of the South Island Music Entertainment Office, which contracts small classical and jazz ensembles for weddings and parties throughout the New York tri-state area. 

 

Bob Gallo, Guitar and Bass

     For the past 25 years, Guitarist/Composer Bob Gallo’s playing could be heard world-wide on the incidental and theme song music in episodes of the popular and now syndicated number one television show of the late 80's and early 90's "The Cosby Show" and "It's A Different World." For 5 years, Bob Gallo was the featured acoustic guitarist who accompanied popular recording legend Aretha Franklin on the theme song of "It's A Different World" weeknights on NBC. Following his work for NBC, he could be heard weekly on the popular Fox 5 Network series "Living Single." Currently, he can be heard world-wide on syndicated episodes of all three shows for which he composed, performed and acted as Assistant to the Musical Director. In 2000 Bob Gallo began working on the popular animated Cosby series for Nickelodeon and CBS entitled "Little Bill," also released on Paramount Home Video and DVD, for which he currently composes, arranges and performs. The soundtrack features Bob playing jazz guitar in a quartet setting behind voice-overs of such well-know actors as Phylicia Rashad, the late Madeline Kahn and Gregory Hines, Rosie Perez and Bill Cosby.

 

     An active studio musician, Gallo has recorded with singer Denise Williams on her Grammy Award-winning  Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album "This Is My Song". Bob Gallo is considered by many to be one of today's foremost accomplished, guitarist/composers. He is known to have played along side of such talents as Michael and Randy Brecker, Gerald Albright, Grover Washington, Jr., John Lewis, Clark Terry, Dave Valentin, Jon Faddis, and Bill Cosby. In May 2005, Bob Gallo released an original jazz CD entitled "Wake-Up Call."  In 2010 Bob Gallo’s current jazz group The New York Alliance released their CD “The New York Alliance Band” and continues to be featured throughout a number of New York City jazz clubs.  Bob Gallo teaches all styles of music from rock to jazz to classical to students of all ages and levels and endorses Gibson Guitars. 

 

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