JEROME COUTURE M.S.T. San Francisco Conservatory of Music, University of Michigan, University of Washington, Portland State University Maestro Jerome Couture is President and founder of The Music School, Inc. and a master teacher and performer on 25 instruments. His early teachers were from Julliard Music School and Russia. He won scholarships to study conducting at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, teacher training at the University of Michigan with Robert Culver, and orchestral studies at the University of Washington with James DePriest, Murry Sidlin and Rafael Druian. Jerome earned his B.A. and M.S.T. from Portland State University, and earned acclaim as musical director and conductor for Portland Civic Theatre, and as string specialist in the West Linn and Lake Oswego school districts. Mr. Couture is a prolific composer, performer and arranger, and released his debut album “Too Haute To Handle” in 1988 followed by a tour with the Jerome Couture Fusion Quintet ( jeromecouture.com ) . He has performed as soloist at blues, rock, country and jazz venues for decades, and appeared as classical soloist under the baton of James DePriest and with the Marylhurst Symphony. Jerome spent the last 40 years writing, arranging, performing and recording with Corinne Couture as the “Haute Couture Duo”, and creating “The Music School” (which required him to become a computer technician, web designer, videographer, construction manager and carpenter). He is currently developing a unified theory about how people learn based upon the 200,000 lessons taught at The Music School and research done throughout the scientific world, and filming a series of teaching videos based upon that theory. An avid athlete, Jerome competed in the 1979 Portland Marathon.