Mission
Vision
![Layne Beamer](https://www.ouramb.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Layne-Beamer-5.jpg)
Layne Beamer
Chairman of the Board
Pastor First Christian Church Whittier. B.S. in Communication and Theatre. Actor, Singer
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Maurice Meysenburg
Public Relations
![Gary Breaux](https://www.ouramb.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Gary-Breaux-Headshot-12-14-20.jpg)
Gary Breaux
Treasurer
![David Pinto](https://www.ouramb.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/DavidHeadshot-2.jpg)
David Pinto
Member
Founder/Executive Director AMB: Pianist/Conductor, Composer/Arranger, Teacher/Author. Lives in Monrovia, Ca with Gayle Pinto, wife and co-founder AMB
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Tracey Riddle
Social Media
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David Pinto
Executive Director
![Gayle Pinto](https://www.ouramb.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/gayleprofilepic.jpg)
Gayle Pinto
Office Manager
OUR WORLD-CLASS TEACHERS
AMB teachers are chosen based on the following qualifications:
- Currently active as a publicly-performing musician
- Can improvise and play by ear
- Have a Music Degree
- Creative teacher
- Love teaching children
Our current faculty includes teachers in piano, percussion, guitar, winds, voice, dance, drama, literary & music Braille, composing and computer recording. All of our teachers are professional performing musicians with college degrees: many of them being graduates of prestigious institutions like Berklee College of Music, Cal Arts, and USC. They are all trained to provide specialized and adaptive instructions to blind students.
- Piano, Arranging, Chorus, Computer Recording, Dance, Song Writing: David Pinto
- Piano & Theory: Andy Boyle
- Piano & Song Writing: Santiago Vidal
- Voice, Dance, & Drama: Eliza Gerontakis
- Voice: Anastasia Charakidou
- Voice, Guitar, Bass, Drums: Apostolos Papapostolou
- Guitar: Sam Borello
- Guitar, Song Writing: Gene Micofsky
- Guitar, Piano, Braille Music: Hector Ibarra
- Drums, Ross Hodgkinson
- Drums, Latin Percussion: Lorena Perez Batista
- Drums & Latin Percussion: Oscar Barcelli
- Winds: Andrew Shousha
- Winds, Piano, Guitar & Song Writing: Eddie Salcido
- Braille Music, Drums, Latin Percussion: Tony Del Castillo
- Braille Music, Drums: Lawrence Brown
- Braille Music, Piano Accompanist: Katie Zodrow
- Braille Literary, Living Skills & Computers: Gayle Pinto
- Dance & Movement: Carmary Rivera