Emily Ranttila is a classically trained pianist, voice teacher, and music educator. She has been teaching piano and general elementary music for 5 years in the Northern Virginia Area. Ms. Ranttila has also worked with numerous high school marching bands as an assistant director, visual and music technician, …

Chandler Rasmussen, originally from Lafayette, Indiana, is a lifelong musician living in the Atlanta area. She’s currently a performer, vocal coach, and educator. Chandler received her Bachelor’s of Music in Music Theatre from Anderson University in 2022. She has been a student of music her whole life, in…

Matt Rathkey is a saxophonist and composer who received his M.Mus. in Jazz Studies from the University of Northern Colorado in 2019, where he studied performance, composition, improvisation, history, and pedagogy under the tutelage of Kenyon Brenner, Jim White, Steve Kovalcheck, Drew Zaremba, Erik Applegate, …

Patience and encouragement are two qualities that Melissa hopes to share with her students. Her desire to introduce others to the love of music makes being a guitar teacher her dream job. She is a great fit for children and students who are new to the instrument. Music education is important to her because…

Benjamin Ray, trombonist and brass pedagogue, received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from Kennesaw State University in 2010. An active section coach, he currently works with Lost Mountain and Palmer Middle Schools, as well as Kell High School.

Formerly, Benjamin worked as the Assistant Band Di…

Plato once said, “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” For Michael Ray, being the son of local Pacific Northwest composer, Deborah Anderson, meant that music has been an integral part of his life since he was born. His first instrument …

Bill Rea is a composer, bassist, guitarist and cellist. His musical background and training is unusual and varied. At an early age, he studied the theory and counterpoint methods of Palestrina, Walter Piston, and Paul Hindemith. Primarily self-taught as a composer, his only formal compositional studies were f…

Kane Recardo is a multi-instrumentalist, composer/songwriter, and private piano and guitar instructor from Seattle, WA. Kane began playing music at age 5, receiving lessons from his grandmother who taught regular private piano lessons in her home, where Kane lived. This constant proximity to music instilled a…

Laura Reed is a Violinist and Violin Teacher in Seattle, Washington. She grew up in a musical family and began taking violin lessons at the age of 7. After attending a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker in the 5th grade, she realized that music is what she loved and she began practicing her instrument!…

Growing up Arianna was always surrounded by music. Her family played a variety of instruments, so it was all she really knew. When she was old enough she asked her parents if she could start taking piano lessons, but she quickly gave up on that after a few months. She then decided to try playing the flute, an…