A true Florida native, Sharon recently moved to Acworth, GA and is enjoying continuing to instill her love of music with people of all ages in this area. At a very early age, Sharon’s parents realized that she had an incredible gift for playing the piano and enrolled her in formal lessons where she thrived…

Jenna Black uses music education as an opportunity to teach healthy coping skills, passion, goal achievement, non-judgmental thinking and confidence building as well as the fundamentals! She embraces the student’s journey to finding the artistic style that speaks to each individual. “I believe everyone is a…

Jocelyn Hund Turner is a renowned teacher of strings and piano has been teaching private lessons in the Frisco-Plano area for over 20 years. A professional violinist, violist, and pianist, she plays with Las Colinas Symphony, Garland Symphony, Symphony Arlington and McKinney Philharmonic. Turner holds a Bache…

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…

Mari-Liis Uibo started playing violin at the age of six with Dots Ivi Tivik at the Tallinn Music High School in Estonia. At the age of 15 she moved to Austria, Vienna, where she completed the Bachelor of Music program at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. She was in the violin-class of Prof…

LINDA M. UPSHAW, M.I.T.

A native of Seattle, Linda began piano study at the age of 6 at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. She has performed in numerous social events and talent shows throughout Washington state, and was a frequent performer in her high school choir, which traveled and performed…

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…

Abraham played different kinds of instruments when he was a child but fell in love playing the piano the most. He played the piano, violin, drums, and guitar. At the age of 7 he started taking violin to begin with but became more interested taking piano lessons when he reached 11 years of age. He took private…

Jose Valle is a trumpet player and composer from Central Florida. Growing up- Jose was influenced by seeing his father and sister play drums in the local church and band respectively. Being fascinated by music from an early age, Jose began playing trumpet as soon as he could during middle school jazz band. T…

Xavier Valles studied classical music and piano from the age of 8 to 18 years old. He obtained a degree of music at the Conservatory of Music of Girona. In that time he learned; theory of music, harmony, piano, composition, writing and musical reading .

By the age of 18, Xavier joined his first band whic…