Mateo McConnell has over twenty years of educational experience and has worked as a pianist and French hornist with many different classical music groups in both New York City and Atlanta. He believes that the study of music can help us not just learn an instrument but also to develop skills and habits that c…

As a more seasoned music teacher, Mr. McCool knows it’s essential to tailor music lessons to each family’s individual goals. And no matter what the family’s goals may be, life is too short for a music teacher to ever stress out a student or the parents. For this reason, he tries to impart as many smil…

Dallas McCorkendale was born and raised outside of Savannah, Georgia. At the age of 9, he began studying guitar and saxophone. Shortly thereafter, he began bassoon and marimba studies. Dallas participated in a number of state and national level music honors programs throughout his childhood including the Geor…

Born in Oregon to a music teacher father, Brianna McGeehan began her musical journey as a child, starting out on piano, then violin and voice. Classically trained on piano and voice as a child she also was involved in musical theater and picked up the guitar in her teens and started learning pop songs.

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A dedicated bassist with years of experience in ensembles, recording studios, and bands, Stephen Meisel has put his passion for music and the arts into action at multiple levels. He has discovered outlets either through advanced studies of music and poetry at Cornell University, where he graduated from in 201…

With her unique background Maya Mikimoto has a specialty in various piano-teaching methods for all ages. Her background includes psychology, human science and visual arts as well as piano and drums.

From an early age in Tokyo, she was classically trained in both art (under Keiko Negishi), and in piano (und…

Classically trained in both voice and piano, Samantha has been teaching lessons for over five years. Landing a job as Music Director for community theaters in 2009, she started her career and never looked back. Samantha is also Theater Director of Academy Theatre at Compass and was also a resident director fo…

Thayer Naples was born and raised in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1990. Picking up the guitar ate age seven, Thayer has presently been playing for twenty five years. Honing his craft, practicing hard and diligently through adolescence, up to ten hours a day, Thayer played in his schools Jazz band and studied Cla…

Simon Needle is a multimedia composer, sound designer, music theorist, and instrumentalist from Atlanta, GA. Since his enrollment at Kennesaw State University in 2014, he has taken it upon himself to build a diverse repertoire of talents for use in the musical world. Entering college as one of the first Music…

Yammy was born in Hong Kong with fluency in Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, and English. Her music life was inspired by her grandpa who self-learned many instruments and always played piano in her childhood. Thanks to heavy encouragement and support from her grandpa, Yammy began self-learning the piano and a han…