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Our highly qualified vocal instructors offer a wide range of styles and genres for students of all levels. Voice lessons combined with piano, guitar, and other instruments are also available. Contact us to learn more about performance opportunities!

Meet Some of Our Talented Woodwind Teachers

Gina

Woodwind Instructor

Gina earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music from William & Mary in Virginia. While completing her education, she was a member of chamber groups along with being a member of the UVA Big Band Ensemble and a vocalist with an A Capella Group. She released a solo album title “World’s Getting Loud 2016” and is currently working on her sophomore album which will be a live-composed funk collective called “Choose Your Adventure”. She teaches Voice, Flute, Sax, Piano, Bass Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Guitar, Ukulele, and Song Writing.

Karen

Woodwind Instructor

Karen graduated from Oberlin Conservatory and went on to earn her Master of Arts in Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music. She held positions with Radio Breman Hafenkonzert. Kurochester Wildbad in Schwarzwald, Deutsche Tanzkompanie, and Brandenburgisches Konzert Orchester Eberwalkd. She taught at Musickschule in Neustrelitz and Neubrandenburg in Germany. She has performed many concerts and was the winner of the Clarinet International Music Performance Competition in Ancona. She earned an Honorary Scholarship to Julliard prior to entering college. Karen teaches clarinet, saxophone, flute, bass clarinet, and oboe.

Paola

Woodwind Instructor

Paola earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music with the Emphasis in Music Education from Mount Saint Mary’s University. She holds a Single Subject Music Credential. She attended University of Shiga Prefectrue in Hikone, Japan. She is currently the Music Educator for VAPA Education Project San Diego Unified School District. She is a full-time teacher and substitute for various levels and subjects. She performed with various orchestras, concerts, and festivals. She teaches flute, piano, and ukulele.

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"Where words fail, music speaks."

-Hans Christian Andersen

“Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.”

— Billy Joel

“Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.”

— Eddie Van Halen

“Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.”

— Eddie Van Halen

“People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.”

— Taylor Swift

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”

― Tom Waits

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

— Leopold Stokowsk

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Music is my religion.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“Music should be an essential part of every analysis.”

— Carl Jung

You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”

― Dave Grohl

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

— Albert Einstein

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