Gabrielle Tyler is a recent graduate of Houston Christian University with a B.M in Vocal Performance. She is a two-time recipient of the St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church Artist Residency Scholarship, and was awarded as the inaugural recipient of the John Kueger “Joy of Singing Scholarship” funded by the H…

From an early age, pianist Payam Vakili has been surrounded by and involved with music. At age 7, he began his musical journey learning the saxophone, and a few years later went on to perform in the Beckendorff Junior High Honor Band. After middle school, however, he decided to switch to the piano to pursue a…

Axel Vallejos, a Chilean cellist, began his musical studies at age 11. He has performed chamber music and solos with orchestras throughout North, Central and South America, Europe, and East Asia. Axel has made frequent national and international appearances as a chamber and orchestra musician, participating i…

Reef started their musical career at the early age of 4. They played through grade school and regularly traveled to Ottawa, Kansas to train at the Suzuki Strings institute over the summer. They started playing many styles of music ranging from musical theatre, classical and jazz, to rock, pop , and hip-hop. R…

Liga Vildere is a certified violin teacher with over 25 years of experience teaching children and adults of all proficiency levels.

Liga grew up in Latvia, a small country located in the Baltic region of Europe. She began her violin journey when she was 5 years old, trained as a classical violinist for man…

Sam Villano is a classically trained pianist, baritone singer and composer. He is experienced in teaching classical voice, piano and music composition, as well as musical theater/broadway and art song, and opera repertoire. He has been teaching music since 2020 and is a member of the Houston Symphony Chorus a…

Kenneth is a music teacher, composer, and audio engineer from Baton Rouge, LA. Kenneth has an extensive musical background that continues to be honed to this day.

He has worked with students from early childhood to adult in all aspects of music. Whether it’s teaching a beginner how to play an instrumen…

From a very young age, Talon was passionate about music. He has many memories in riding in the back of his moms car while she played her favorite music, from Michael Jackson to Willie Nelson to Def Leppard. Being exposed to a wide variety of music at a young age instilled a deep passion and love for music. He…

Kalenn Welch, a native Houstonian, started playing piano at age 7. After 8 years of piano, Kalenn decided to move onto to flute and singing in the church choir. High school is where Kalenn fell in love with choir and using her voice to express her inner most feelings. Kalenn began taking voice lessons as a fr…

Oct. 2017 The first place winner of American Protege International Concerto competition, New York. June 2016 The third prize of the Concert Artist International Virtuoso Competition, New York. July 2009 The first place winner of Schumann International Piano Competition(Asian-Pacific Region), Beijing

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