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Joia Wood is a multifaceted artist, educator, and creative facilitator who delights in helping people of all ages connect with their inherent musical and creative selves through improvisational sound and movement. Joia has over 30 years of experience working with children and families, and is dedicated to fostering creativity, connection, and learning through music, nature, and…

As a pianist, arranger, and music producer with vast teaching experience, I help students and artists develop not only technical skill, but also musical understanding, confidence, and creativity My musical education includes studies Orchestration at Juilliard School, Film Scoring at Mannes College of Music, along with private coaching by Dr. Rudolph Palmer in New York.

Jason Nitsch’s music is equally at home on the concert stage, in outdoor venues, and streaming online, reaching the broadest audience of musicians, performers, and music enthusiasts possible. As a composer dedicated to the exploration of new ideas, his music has evolved over a 25-year career to incorporate more and more non-traditional elements, such as effect tracks, sound drops,…

Hello! I have been teaching violin, viola, ukulele, and piano for over 6 years. I have been playing violin for over 20 years and am currently in two bands. I was trained classically through private lessons and graduated from Pinellas County Center for the Arts for violin. I also studied Music at Southeastern University, specializing in violin.

Johnny Calamari (August 9th, 1975) is an American musician and songwriter, best known for playing the bass in various bluegrass, roots, and rock bands. Johnny was born and raised in Waynesboro Pennsylvania, a small Appalachia town near Gettysburg Pennsylvania, the site of the famous Civil War battle.

Hi! I am a piano teacher and pianist from Thessaloniki, Greece. I got my MMus in piano performance at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, UK (2014) and my BMus in piano performance at the University of Macedonia, Greece (2006). I have been teaching in private since 2002 and at music schools and corsevatories from 2008.

Juan Dahik – Guitarist, Improviser & Musical Guide Hi, I’m Juan Dahik, a guitarist with over 30 years of experience working with electric and acoustic guitar. My musical path explores technique, improvisation, recording, and teaching, using music as a tool for expression, creativity, and connection.

Mitch Hood is a guitarist, songwriter, and producer whose career spans punk clubs to national tours. He broke out in the late ’90s with East Coast indie punk band Grandview, opening for The Click Five, The Ataris, MxPx, and Ghoti Hook.

Hi I'm Max and I'm a guitarist, singer-songwriter, and teacher based in Brooklyn, NY. For the last ten years I have been touring across the US and abroad with rock and pop artists, fronting my own band on many a New York City stage, playing guitar for several Broadway musicals, and sharing my passion and knowledge with students all along the way.

5-time Grammy Award Winner, Vince Cherico, is the drummer for featured artists in today’s Jazz and World music venues. From 1995 - 2006 he was the drummer with Ray Barretto & The New World Spirit, later The Ray Barretto Sextet, and developed his reputation in Latin Jazz while touring the world, recording 6 CD’s with 2 Grammy nominations for the albums Contact & Time Was, Time Is.