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My name is Olga. I have started my music journey when I was 5 years old, and since then never stopped. I have 30 years of teaching experience, 16 years of Russian musical education and graduated from Saint-Petersburg conservatoire, Russia, where my major was chorus director, piano and singing.

Teacher of the Year for Songwriting - Lessonface 2025 (read my interview) New Students - Buy 5, Get 1 Lesson Free 🎁 Have you ever felt left out by conventional, intellectual approaches that focus on reading notation and copying other people’s music, rather than listening and feeling the heart of the music?

An adept disciple of Pt Tejendra Narayan Majumdar for the past six years, I have immersed myself in the rich tradition of Indian classical music, specifically focusing on the sarod. My musical journey began a decade ago with vocal training, and over the years, I have expanded my expertise by undergoing rigorous tabla training under the guidance of maestro Soumen Nandi.

Sarah Schira is known for #NeverNotGnoming but when she’s not knitting gnomes, she’s designing knitting patterns for everyday adventures. She loves to design accessories that look harder than they are, and that make you look great. She and her husband live in Manitoba, Canada, where they’ve raised their two kids to adulthood.

Education / Training I began learning martial arts in the 1990s, first studying Wing Chun with my father from 1994–1999. From 2003–2007 I trained at the Nam Yang Pugilistic Association, studying Tiger Crane Kung Fu, Shuang Yun Pei Ho, San Da, and Tong Ling Qi Gong.

Spinning and natural dyeing have been a long-standing fascination of mine. I started off dyeing with vegetable dyes found in my kitchen and have since expanded to a wide variety of natural dye sources, most of which I can find locally.

WHAT I DO Vocal Coaching • Artist Development • Public Speaking • Stage Presence • Audition Prep (Performing Arts Colleges, Broadway, Professional Theater) • TEDx Prep • Trial Attorney Coaching WHO I AM I'm not a coach who teaches from a textbook.

My name is Chelsea Fehskens, I love working with fiber in one form or another. I learned about the fiber world from farm to yarn. Starting with raising sheep, learning to shear and processing wool to a finished product by spinning yarn. I raise Finn Sheep with my family at our small homestead in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

I am a music educator, performer, and composer with a Master’s Degree in Music from New York University (2021) and a Bachelor of Arts in Music with a minor in Music & Technology from Stony Brook University (2019), where I graduated Summa Cum Laude. My training includes instrumental performance, composition, conducting, and music technology.

I am an experienced language teacher who has taught students of all backgrounds. While earning my Masters in Education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, I learned the best practices for teaching languages. As lover of language learning, I speak eight languages and I have lived and worked in the US, France, South Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, and Indonesia.