Choose Your Ukulele Teacher

As ALL of my students know, I am from Ohio and began teaching there in 2009. My love for music started in the 2nd grade, when I began to take formal piano lessons. In middle school I added guitar to my arsenal of instruments and my passions for organized sound grew even more. I studied Architecture and completed my Bachelors of Arts degree in Jazz Composition in guitar at THE Ohio State University, GO BUCKS! I have been teaching in public, private, and charter schools since 2009, including private lessons. I thoroughly enjoy composing and arranging privately and for my school's bands.

Emily is a graduate of Eastern University, earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in general music with a concentration in voice. While there, she also studied piano under the chair of the music department Ronald Matthews, as well as 10+ years of private piano lessons prior. Emily has sung in several touring choirs and has toured up and down the east coast as well as internationally in places like Canada, France, and Germany. She has led worship in her church for 10+ years and was worship coordinator for 2. She was in several musical theater productions both in and out of college. Emily has taught privately for 5 years both in-person and remotely. She was the music director for a theater company in New Jersey called Sojourn Theater Arts Academy for 3 years, teaching the music for shows like Annie and The Little Mermaid to a cast of close to 100 students ranging from 6 to 18 years old. Emily has experience and training in the instruction of voice, piano, guitar, and ukulele. She loves to teach many topics and genres, including musical theater, classical, pop, Disney, music theory, singing while playing, improvisation, jazz chords, note/sight-reading, worship leading, and technique.

From Los Angeles, CA, Oscar has experienced music from all around the world. Primarily a clarinet player, he studied at the University of Michigan and Long Beach State. He also enjoys playing woodwinds such as saxophone and flute. He also has plenty of experience with brass, guitar and piano. Aside from music, he enjoys watching and playing soccer, cooking, and spending time with his family.