About the Editors
Dr. Gary de Sesa and Kita de Sesa have been making beautiful music together since they met at Juilliard. Gary is a pianist, conductor, composer, teacher, medical researcher and author who, after receiving his B.M, B.S. and M.M degrees from Juilliard, went on to earn his Ph.D. in music from New York University. He is also a graduate of Music & Art High School (LaGuardia). Kita was a dance and voice major at Juilliard with Radio City, Broadway, TV and movie credits. After Juilliard, she went on to receive her Master’s degree in Guidance Counseling and authored an innovative anti-smoking high school curriculum. Kita graduated from Performing Arts High School, the sister school of Gary’s Alma Mater. Kita and Gary have been fortunate not only to have extensive solo careers, but to have been performing as a team since they met. They have played all the major concert halls of New York City and have concertized internationally in Italy, Switzerland and Russia. Together, they have produced over one hundred Broadway school musicals. Gary retired from teaching after thirty-three years of an award-winning career and continues to compose and maintain a position as organist and choir director for a church and temple, also on Long Island.
Every eleven years, Kita and Gary renew their wedding vows. In 2009, on the celebration of their thirty-third Wedding Anniversary, chose to return to Switzerland and Italy, the countries of their honeymoon. Five years after their marriage, they returned to conceive a son (who, incidentally also studied at Juilliard), and then once more with their son for his sixteenth birthday to see the land of his conception and partial heritage -- Gary being an Italian-American and Kita a Russian, born in Paris.
In addition to their musical careers, Kita and Gary have been freelance travel writers since 1997 and in 2010 created Travelwise. In this collaboration, Kita and Gary capture and transmit, through their personal experience, both the practical and idealistic side of traveling together. As travel agents they use their vast travel knowledge and experience to assist and guide their travel clients. Along with domestic travel, they have traveled extensively in Europe, especially to Italy and Switzerland, (as well as France, Germany, Austria and Russia) and to the Caribbean. They are Sandals certified agents and Couples resorts experts. They have booked vacations in the tour, destination wedding, resort, and cruise categories.
Every eleven years, Kita and Gary renew their wedding vows. In 2009, on the celebration of their thirty-third Wedding Anniversary, chose to return to Switzerland and Italy, the countries of their honeymoon. Five years after their marriage, they returned to conceive a son (who, incidentally also studied at Juilliard), and then once more with their son for his sixteenth birthday to see the land of his conception and partial heritage -- Gary being an Italian-American and Kita a Russian, born in Paris.
In addition to their musical careers, Kita and Gary have been freelance travel writers since 1997 and in 2010 created Travelwise. In this collaboration, Kita and Gary capture and transmit, through their personal experience, both the practical and idealistic side of traveling together. As travel agents they use their vast travel knowledge and experience to assist and guide their travel clients. Along with domestic travel, they have traveled extensively in Europe, especially to Italy and Switzerland, (as well as France, Germany, Austria and Russia) and to the Caribbean. They are Sandals certified agents and Couples resorts experts. They have booked vacations in the tour, destination wedding, resort, and cruise categories.
