Learn from Great Music Teachers

Subhashini is the artistic director of Ragamala Music Academy located in Santa Clara, CA. She began her music journey with her mother Shyamala’s guidance at the age of five and was fine tuned by Guru Vidwan Ramachandra Rao. Concurrently, her Veena training began under the guidance of her Grand Father, Vidwan Gopinatha Das (founder of Prabhah Kalavidaru in Bangalore) and continued…

Heartfelt, melancholy, exuberant and aggressive contribute to the all-around uniqueness of New Jersey based indie/alternative singer/songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist Matt Cook. Since 2005 and the release of his folk-rock debut record Coast to Coast, Cook has continued to solidify a body of work that includes five full-length albums, most recently 2020’s…

Mariko Anraku has been a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 1995 and is a faculty member at The Manhattan School of Music and The Pacific Music Festival. She is an experienced soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player and teacher, and has recorded 3 solo CDs and a flute&harp CD with eminent flutist Emmanuel Pahud, exclusively for EMI Classics. As a recitalist, Ms.

I’m a conservatory educated musician with over 30 years of experience playing and writing, from folky fingerpicking to rock/metal, classical composition and film scoring to professional home studio recording. I have 7 years of private tutoring experience at a music store and now from home in Amherst, Massachusetts.

I'm a certified music teacher in my 18th year of teaching, and have taught band, jazz band, choir, jazz choir, music composition, group piano, as well as many private voice and piano lessons throughout the years. At age 5, I started intensively studying classical piano, and with determination and hard work, won many local and national piano competitions.

Hello! My name is Peter Wight, and I am an experienced music tutor. I have played piano and trumpet professionally for the past 7 years, and I have been teaching music for 3 years. I went to school at Jacksonville State University in Alabama to study music education, and I took lessons the entire time that I was there.

Hello! I’m a professional vocalist, musician, songwriter, and vocal coach holding a Master’s degree from New York University, with formal training in Classical Vocal Performance. My artistic journey has been shaped by advanced studies with distinguished professors from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Berklee College of Music, where I developed a strong foundation in vocal…

With over 30 years of playing and performing experience, and nearly 25 years of teaching and mentoring to nearly 1,000 students of all ages and skill levels in a variety of styles, Roger is a truly versatile player and teacher. Roger’s formal education includes a Master’s Degree in Classical Guitar Performance from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, as well as…

Rena Urso enjoys a flourishing career as a freelance orchestral and chamber musician all over California. In addition to being on the faculty at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University Long Beach and California State University Stanislaus, she is the Second Flutist of the Oakland Symphony and the Oregon Coast Music Festival Orchestra.

Chad Smith has spent the last 25 years performing in prestigious orchestras, Broadway shows and recording sessions. Enjoying a bicoastal career in New York and Los Angeles Chad has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic as a saxophonist and major motion pictures, Family Guy and American Dad as a bassoon doubler.