Get to Know Us

The SPERO Co-Directors, Peter Sulski and Michael Dabroski, teach and perform music together built upon a 40-year musical bond and experience, and friendship, that began for many years at the renowned Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music in the mountains of New Hampshire. At Apple Hill they participated as students, director, faculty, and Mr. Sulski, also as a core chamber player.

A distinguished alumni of Manhattan School of Music, Michael, a violinist, founded the year round chamber music non-profit Adirondack Ensemble in 1995 in northern New York State for 10 seasons, later the Vermont Mozart Festival with its fellowship program in Vermont for 5 seasons, the Music Department at Burlington College, and lead 8 annual editions of La Ruta de Mozart in Latin America of WA Mozart’s complete string quartets in practice and performance with multiple string quartets.

Peter, viola and violin, is a former U.S. Cultural Envoy to Jerusalem. He is Visiting Artist-in-Residence to the Al Kamandjati Music School and has been teaching Palestinian refugees for over 25 years. Upon graduation from Royal Academy of Music in London, Peter won a prestigious London Symphony Orchestra audition as violist, and later served as Head of Strings of the Edward Said National Palestinian Conservatory. Peter joined the Cyprus Chamber Orchestra as Principal Violist and was also the Turkish and Greek Cypriot Chamber Music Coordinator for the Fulbright Commission in Nicosia.

Combined their exceptional skill sets as artists and administrators qualify them among the most capable in the world to reach and serve musical communities with meaningful experiences and sustainable outcomes.

Peter and Michael prioritize their short and long term project efforts toward at teaching lessons and string quartets, establishing new string quartet groups; leading an orchestra; helping students learn instrument and ensemble playing techniques; building goodwill with communities via education and concert experiences; reaching 100-250 violinists per residency with large-scale group rehearsal and concerts; and supporting and highlighting local music teachers and music organizations.