Kevin

Certified Tutor

It goes without saying that I have dedicated my life to education, either pursuing it---one never stops doing this---encouraging it or supporting it. From research to concert production or writing a ballet, education is always at the foundation of me endeavors. I include the bio that is used in publication. Dr. Justus wears duel career hats, being a musician and art historian. He has his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previous to this, he received his Masters of Music and Master of Arts from The University of Arizona. A Chateaubriand scholar and French Ambassadorial Laureate, Dr. Justus specializes in and publishes on the patronage of Louis XV and Versailles. In his career, Kevin has worked and performed in a variety of musical groups and productions, from Arizona--including the Tucson Symphony and the Arizona Opera--North Carolina to Paris, France. Being a musical and theatrical impresario, Dr. Justus believes strongly in the power and necessity of live music. He has produced and performed in the acclaimed chamber concerts Brahms in His Retirement and Mozart in Vienna, and The Shape of Things to Come and An Offering of the Art Treasures of St. Philip's, for St. Philip's in the Hills 75th Anniversary. Other concerts include, Stories from the Heart, a benefit concert, Into the Breach, the third concert for St. Philip's 75th Anniversary, Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind and therefore is winged cupid painted blind: Three Early 19th-Century Composers and their pursuit of Romantic Enlightenment Beethoven, Schumann and Schubert, Once Upon a Timethe Art of Musical Storytelling, and A Mozartean Farewell to SummerWind Serenades and Overtures for the St. Andrew's Bach Society. Dr. Justus produced and created the successful benefit concert Letter from Home-Aaron Copland's America that included his work on Copland's film music. Kevin has also worked with the critically championed dance company Artifact Dance Project where his piece A Night at the Ballet was premiered. With great excitement, Kevin's next project for Artifact is his adaptation of Animal Farm, performed in October of 2016 ansd the ballet Judith in 2017. Having worked with numerous artists within the sister arts, Dr. Justus firmly believes that the future of the Fine Arts rests in imaginative collaboration and the power and importance of education.