INTERNATIONAL TALENT ACADEMY

Board of directors

TATYANA KOMAROVA - Executive Director, Program Designer. 

Tatyana is an Executive Director and a founder of the International Talent Academy.  She holds a Bachelor’s degree (BA) in Theater and Music Education and a Master’s degree (MA) in Executive Development for Public Services from Ball State University.  Tatyana has extensive, 18-years of international experience in education working as a music teacher, theater director, and a manager of extra-curricular activities and special events.  While working in Russia, she developed and implemented educational programs for local teachers and college students for she which has been honored with a number of awards from the School district and the City Government.

For the past several years she has conducted her own research on early brain development and developed a number of programs for the preschool/school-age children, and parents/educators.  These programs were successfully realized at the International School of Indiana, the New American School in Indianapolis, IUPUI, and Gorin’s Piano Studio in Carmel, Indiana. 

In 2006, she established the ITA as a non-profit organization and introduced it to the City of Carmel.  Currently, she is working on the ITA's programs that are now taught at the Carmel Monon Center and other locations, as well as teaching piano and theory lessons at the Gorin's Piano Studio.  At the same time, she develops educational programs for infants and toddlers, which she plans to implement in the near future.  It is her priority to continue her education in order to gain the most current information within the field of early child development, so that she can contribute to her work more successfully. 

Tatyana is a member of the Carmel Rotary club and the Chamber of Commerce, and is actively involved in community events.  Along with her music and theater programs,  she teaches Russian language, music and logic classes to Russian-speaking children.  Twice a year she produces plays and organizes special events and celebrations for the Russian community.  It is Tatyana’s present goal to enrich her talents as an educator and administrator, continuing to work with children and adults in a successful partnership.  Tatyana is dedicated to the idea of the International Talent Academy and will bring it to the successful outcome. 

IRINA GORIN - Director of Gorin's Music Academy, Joint-Venture partner

Mrs. Irina Gorin has a far-reaching impact on music in the State of Indiana. Every year, her piano students win prizes in local, state, national, and international competitions, including fifteen prizes at the 2004-2006 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Graduating from music college in 1983, and the Conservatory of Kharkov in 1989, she worked extensively as a teacher in children’s music school in the Ukraine, developing her own teaching method, before immigrating to the United States in 1993, and establishing herself as a private piano teacher in Indianapolis, Indiana.  Mrs. Gorin holds Masters Degrees in Piano Performance, Piano Pedagogy, Music Theory, Music History, and Accompaniment.

Mrs. Gorin currently has 30 students of her own and 70 that are taught by her faculty of advanced students, graduates, and professional piano teachers. She also offers group theory classes for all ages, teaching lessons, and master classes for advanced students. Former students are currently pursuing majors in Performance and Pedagogy at Butler University, Ohio University, Hillsdale, and Pensacola University.

With her colleagues, she has written a theory book for use in teaching all levels, and has started to work on a piano method book of her own.

RICH TAYLOR - Branch Manager
National Bank of Indianapolis, Carmel, Indiana

ALEX KEDDIE – Director of Engineering, EOC & FCC Officer
Entercom Communications Corporation                               
(WNTR-FM, WZPL-FM, WXNT-AM) Indianapolis, IN

JEANNE BOOK - Board member

Carmel Symphony League

BRYAN STEFFEN - CPA

Katz, Sapper & Miller, LLP

MICHELLE CEDENO

Secretary to Board of Directors

MANDIE LITTLE

Marketing and Event Coordinator