Yousef is a professional musician and drummer who was born and raised in the Washington, DC area. In 2017, scaffolded by a Civil Engineering degree and as an educator in the public school system, Yousef pursued the dream of any musician–to jump into the music industry as a full-time instructor and performer….

Laura Shapiro is a music producer and multi-instrumentalist. She grew up in the suburbs of Boston with a piano teacher as a father. Piano was her first love and after that songwriting, production and composition quickly followed along with guitar. Laura started playing piano at the age of 5 with her father as…

Margaret Shawver has been a musician since the age of five, when she begged her parents for piano lessons–and fortunately, Dr. Calvin Knapp, of PLU fame, lived five houses up the hill. Margaret played in talent shows, won awards for her elementary school music compositions, and, at age 11, deciding that the …

Martin started playing violin at age 9 and quickly found that he loved to play any stringed instrument he could get his hands on–including a sanxian (3-stringed Chinese lute) he picked up and performed on during a recent trip to China. He says, “Ever since I played my orchestra challenge piece for my grandma…

Seattle Piano and Guitar teacher Celsie Sirrine was born and raised in a small town in Utah. From a young age, Celsie had a passion for music and knew how powerful it could be. She attended Utah State University, obtaining a Bachelor’s of Science in Music Therapy with a minor in Family Consumer and Human De…

Anyone who has met Caen, will say he is an incredibly positive, energetic, patient, and friendly person. He believes in working hard and having a good time doing it. Caen loves learning, in all its forms, and teaching others about his passions seems to be effortless. Music has always been a part of him; Howe…

Katherine has completed her BA in Music at the Gettysburg College Sunderman Conservatory where she also participated in numerous piano pedagogy classes. She has significant performance and accompaniment experience at Gettysburg College, and encourages her students to perform and collaborate with others when t…

Highly-motivated and energetic Music Teacher since 2012 with years of active experience in providing music lessons to friends and family, elementary students picking up an instrument for the first time, high school students beginning to understand what music means to them, and post-college adults getting a he…

Loree Spriggs started playing classical piano at the age of four years old under the Suzuki method of learning by ear. Instructors led her to music theory, technique and performance using the James Bastian method. She is a James Bastian method teacher and has taught neighborhood family children since she was …

Anna Stephens is an accomplished pianist and pop vocalist from Indianapolis, Indiana who began taking piano lessons at the age of 3 ½. She quickly began to play anything and everything that she could learn, including playing songs by ear from the radio. Shortly after turning 8, Anna auditioned for the Indi…