Charlie Lightsey was born and raised in Louisiana where improvisational music can be heard around the community at all hours of the day. Walking through New Orleans as a child, it was not uncommon for him to stop outside a bar where blues and jazz was being played, just absorbing it in awe of the sound and en…

Daniel is an active trumpet player with experience with multiple instruments and musical styles based in Seattle, WA. He graduated from Western Washington University in 2017 with a bachelor’s in trumpet performance. He studied both traditional music theory and jazz theory.

Since graduating, Daniel has bee…

Since Leanne was 3 years old she had a passion and a knack for music and rhythm. She took classical violin lessons at 4, piano at 5 and decided piano was her instrument from then on. As a young piano student, Leanne learned to sight read quickly and she naturally excelled at transposing the piano repertoire b…

Blake Madden is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who has been performing and making his own music since he was 13 years old. His primary instruments are bass and guitar.

Blake grew up in Miami, Florida, but has also lived in South Africa, Japan, and New York. He began his music career with six months o…

Enrico Mariuzzo is an Italian born rock guitarist, composer, teacher, session player, recording artist and touring musician based in Seattle, WA. In 2012 He graduated at RGA music Academy in Milan, Italy under the instruction of Donato Begotti. After his diploma, He shot the video performing Yngwie Malmsteen…

Seattle Guitar Teacher Abby Markson is a musician who graduated from the critically acclaimed Musician’s Institute, MI, in Hollywood, California. At MI, Abby was trained in all types of guitar styles, such as rock, jazz, blues, metal, funk, folk, acoustic,etc. Abby’s introduction to music was in elementary sc…

Melissa McQueen started off reading music on her grandmother’s organ at early age of 6 and also played the cello in the 3rd grade. She still very much admires and respects the cello instrument. She started to play guitar at the age of 13 because her mom realized how much she liked imitating guitar players an…

Riley Merlino is a guitarist, bassist, drummer, songwriter, producer and engineer born in Tacoma, WA and raised in Woodinville, WA. He started playing drums at age 10 after his dad showed him Led Zeppelin and he saw the movie School of Rock. He then began playing guitar at the age of 14, to be able to write r…

Ben Merrill is a college graduate from Pacific Lutheran University with degrees in Business and Music. He is a professional and academic musician with over a decade of musical experience. Ben has performed across the board from jazz, to classical music, from musical theater to operatic music. Ben has sang wi…

Seattle Guitar Teacher Jesse Miller started playing guitar when he was eight years old, and began writing music soon thereafter. He has studied jazz and classical guitar under Fred Hamilton at the University of North Texas and spent a summer in the Volta region of Ghana studying West African drumming and rhyt…