Instruments/Subjects: Piano
Styles: All Styles but am Classically trained, Theory, and Composition
Ages: All ages
Years of Experience: 24
Education: MM Piano Performance UNC-Greensboro,
BA Piano Performance Peace College
Rates: $35 for thirty minutes, $52.50 for forty-five minutes, and $70 for sixty minutes. Thirty minutes lessons only for beginners
Availability: Thursday
Tel: (919) 900-0472
Website: http://www.vivianmadams.wordpress.com
Email: vmadams829@gmail.com

Bio

Ms. Adams is a classically trained pianist, educator, and performer from Raleigh, North Carolina. She began private piano study at the age of five under her grandmother, Vivian Mooney – former Music Therapist at Dorthea Dix Hospital, pianist, and teacher. With credentials including Associate and Bachelor degrees in Music and a Master in Music Performance, Ms. Adams began her secondary education with a music scholarship at Peace College (where she studied piano under Dr. Ray Kilburn). She also began studying organ under Ms. Virginia Vance during this time. She continued graduate work at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (where she studied piano under Dr. Joseph DiPiazza) and the Universitat Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. After graduating from UNCG Ms. Adams continued her music studies under Dr. Milton Laufer from 2006-2010. In 2019, Ms. Adams resumed studying organ under Ms. Virginia Vance. Her professional life has included regional music competitions, study abroad, and master classes with world-renowned musicians, composers, and music educators. A music educator, Ms. Adams began her personal instruction of students while an undergraduate at the Raleigh Community Music School, a small, local education program dedicated to locating talent and fostering a love of music among all, regardless of socioeconomic background. From 2007-2010 she was summer music camp coordinator and instructor at The Lexington School in Lexington, Kentucky. As well, she has served as full time instructor at The Music Academy of North Carolina in Greensboro, Diamond Music Academy (an Explore Creative Learning Center), and Raleigh Community Music School. She has worked as Coordinator of the Summer Private Lessons Program at Ravenscroft School and as adjunct piano faculty at Ravenscroft School, created and Coordinated the Private Lessons Program at Trinity Academy of Raleigh, and Lower School Music Instructor at The Franciscan School. Ms. Adams also maintains a small private home studio, runs a studio in Cary, North Carolina, adjudicates for competitions and festivals, and her students participate in state wide piano festivals and competitions which include Federation, Royalty Competition, Royal Conservatory, ECU Piano and Organ Competition, and Guild. In addition to teaching she serves as accompanist and organist for Zebulon Baptist Church, Zebulon NC. Ms. Adams is also an active member of The National Guild of Music Teachers, National Federation of Music Clubs, Raleigh Piano Teachers Association, and North Carolina Music Teachers Association.

Instruments/Subjects: All sizes and flavors of Saxophones and Clarinets, and Recorder too!
Styles: Anything that makes the toe tap or the heart sing! (Includes concert band/classical, and jazz styles:)
Ages: Generally 8-108. Feel free to call to discuss younger students.
Years of Teaching Experience: 28
Education: BFA in Music, BS in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, MS in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona
Rates: $40/half-hour. FREE INTRODUCTORY LESSON!
Availability: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Tel: (520) 304-5329, (919) 244-2004
Email: justinsberry@gmail.com
Website: www.justinberryonline.com 

Bio

Introduction
Hello! I am a saxophone/clarinet/flute player. After teaching and performing while based in Tucson, AZ for over 20 years, I relocated to the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC area in August of 2015. I have performed professionally in the United States and abroad with various groups since the age of 17.

I am the regular saxophone clinician at Athens Drive High School, and have taught as a guest woodwind instructor/clinician at Ligon GT Middle, Salem Middle, Apex Middle, Bunn Middle, and Cleveland High Schools.

My Teaching Background
I have been teaching music privately since 1993, and enjoy teaching people of all ages and skill levels. I have two bachelor's degrees from the University of Arizona. One degree is a bachelor of fine arts in music (2000), and the other is in speech, language, and hearing sciences (2012). I also have a master's degree in speech-language pathology (2014). In addition to being a music teacher, I am also a licensed speech-language pathologist in North Carolina. In the period from 2007-2010, I was given the opportunity to teach several children with Asperger syndrome, developmental disabilities, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The richly rewarding experience of introducing these children to the language of music inspired me to seek a degree in speech-language pathology to complement my skills as a music teacher. I enjoy the challenge of combining my music and speech-language pathology skill sets in order to provide specialized music instruction to individuals on the autism spectrum, those with attention, or developmental deficits, as well as typically developing students of all ages. Performing and teaching music are great passions in my life and I love to share my experience with anyone who is interested to learn!

My Teaching Philosophy
I believe that the most important thing to keep in mind when learning something new is to HAVE FUN. If you are having fun, you will be much more likely to go home and practice- and ultimately that is the key to your musical success! We will design an individualized plan for you to build on your strengths so you will WANT to go home and work on your weaknesses. Anyone can benefit from private lessons! Whether you are a beginner or have been playing for years, one-on-one instruction will allow you to progress more quickly.

Instruments/Subjects: All brass instruments
Styles: classical and jazz
Ages: All ages
Years of Experience: 20
Education: Curtis Institute of Music
Rates: $35/30 minutes, $45/45 minutes, $55/60 minutes
Availability: Monday, Thursday
Tel: (919) 601-2858
Email: burntrumpet@gmail.com
Website: www.lisaburntrumpet.com

Bio

Lisa Burn began her professional career as a trumpeter while still a student at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, performing with the North Carolina Symphony. After receiving her degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, she continued her career with the Winnipeg Symphony in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. While in Winnipeg, Ms. Burn developed a successful private trumpet studio and was frequently engaged as a trumpet clinician for the area music educators. Upon returning to her native North Carolina in 2003, she accepted a position as band director at Franklin Academy in Wake Forest and developed both the concert and jazz bands to levels of distinction.

Lisa currently maintains an active schedule as a trumpeter, performing as a freelance professional and serving as principal cornet of the Triangle Brass Band, as well as a private instructor and music education consultant for the Triangle Area. As a jazz educator, Ms. Burn directs the Triangle Youth Jazz Ensemble II for the Philharmonic Association and the Ravenscroft Jazz Ensemble.

Principal Cornet, Triangle Brass Band
Director of Jazz: Ravenscroft, Triangle Youth Jazz Ensemble II
Private Instructor: Leechford Music, Ravenscroft, Wake Forest Studio
Brass Clinician: Athens Drive HS

Instruments/Subjects: Viola, violin, piano
Styles: Classical
Ages: Kindergarten through high school
Years of Teaching Experience: 9
Education: BM in Viola Performance, Appalachian State University
Rates: $35/30 minute semester lesson, $70/60 minute semester lesson, $40/30 minute single lesson
Availability: Tuesday, Thursday
Phone: (919) 589-2964
Email: kgh.mus@gmail.com

Instruments/Subjects: saxophone, clarinet, flute, oboe, bassoon
Styles: all styles
Ages: 10 and up
Years of Teaching Experience: 28
Education: BM and MM, UNC School of the Arts
Rates: $40/30 minutes
Availability: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Phone: (919) 612-4199
Email: leechfordmusic@gmail.com
Website: http://www.wayneleechford.com

Bio

Wayne Leechford is a multi-instrumental musician and music educator from Raleigh, North Carolina. As a woodwind specialist, he performs with many of the area's top musical ensembles. He maintains a busy schedule of live performances and teaching.

He brings decades of performing and teaching experience to his work as a music educator. He is committed to excellence in teaching his students the fundamentals of music while helping them master their instruments.

He has worked as an instrumental music teacher for North Carolina State University, Meredith College, Wake Technical Community College, Shaw University, and Ravenscroft School. In addition, he has taught as guest instructor/clinician for Wake County Public Schools and private schools in the area. And, he served as adjudicator for Governor’s School of North Carolina and Wake County All-County Band.

Please visit Wayne Leechford's website for more details on public performances and extensive listing of personal accomplishments in the music business.

http://www.wayneleechford.com

Testimonials

“Thank you for the great all-district results. William was quick to say he owes his success to you! He has never scored so high and your help has been tremendous. He is quite excited to be working with you! THANK YOU from some very proud parents!” - Darden and David Coe

“I cannot possibly thank you enough for all of the help and support you have provided for Matthew! He thinks very highly of you and has learned a great deal with your leadership.” - Cathy Kimble

“Thanks so much for working with Dusty.  I was amazed by Dusty's performance at the recital.  He has made substantial progress.  Much of that can be attributed to his working with you.  We appreciate it.” - Heidi Carter

"You have been a huge inspiration for Joslyn, and I appreciate all the time you've spent teaching her to play her clarinet and bassoon over the past few years. You've been a great role model for her!" - Tammy Parsons

“Thanks for all your help and guidance. I really don’t know how I would have gotten into college without it!” - Sam Carter

"You are a phenomenal musician and a patient instructor. Thanks to you my son has had much success playing tenor and bari saxophone." - JoMarie Holtshouser

Instruments/Subjects: Guitar
Styles: Rock, Blues, Metal, Pop, Jazz, Country. Basically anything played with a pick
Years of teaching experience: 35
Years as a full-time touring/recording guitarist: 30
Education: Oberlin College Conservatory
Rates: $32.50/half hour. $60/hr. INTRODUCTORY LESSON FREE
Availability: Monday, Tuesday
Tel: (919) 306-5919
Email: snakdad@aol.com
Website: www. reverbnation.com/jayrusnak for history, credentials, and recordings. You can also Google me and/or type my name in the YouTube search bar for live performances.

Bio

Originally hailing from Chicago, Illinois, Jay has been a resident of North Carolina for the past 20 years. With three decades of full-time professional musical experience including teaching, touring, recording, composing, producing, and managing Jay has a unique perspective on the guitar and all it entails. Jay attended Oberlin College where he studied advanced Classical Theory, Voice-Leading, and Jazz Improvisation along with earning a B.A. in English. Jay has been featured in publications such as Guitar World and Guitar 2001 as well as penning instructional columns for several others. Currently he is in the midst of authoring a book detailing fresh, logical, and concise theoretical and technical approaches to advanced lead guitar improvisation. Jay has recorded and performed with members of numerous million-selling artists such as KEEL, THE OUTLAWS, MARSHALL TUCKER BAND, EDDIE MONEY, .38 SPECIAL and many other artists and producers far too numerous to mention in major markets from LA to Nashville to Chicago. He has also spent decades on the road in the trenches performing an average of 100 dates a year in a wide variety of situations from original bands with record deals to corporate A-List cover bands. Jay is currently endorsed by In-Tune guitar picks, Rotosound strings and Morley pedals. He's also a valued member of the Morley team doing clinics and product demonstrations for them. As an instructor, Jay's decades of experience has allowed him to streamline his methods and utilize a wide variety of strategies to enable rapid progress, both technically and theoretically, in students of all ages and ability levels. One of Jay's top priorities is making sure you know the "why" as well as the "how" so that the guitar, and music in general, becomes something you understand intellectually as well as physically. This allows you to become self-sufficient and arms you with the tools you need to move forward and teach yourself--even as he is teaching and mentoring you. High energy, insightful, enthusiastic, and irreverently humorous....Jay's lesson are always entertaining as well as enlightening.

Instruments/Subjects: All brass instruments
Styles: classical and jazz
Ages: All ages
Years of Experience: 24
Education: University of Maryland College Park
Rates: $30/30 minutes, $45/45 minutes, $60/60 minutes
Availability: Tuesday
Tel: (919) 210-7352
Email: rttrumpet@gmail.com
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/reneetoddtrumpet/

Bio

Renee Todd is a native of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Ms. Todd holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from the University of Maryland. While there, Renee served as principal trumpet in the Wind Ensemble, Drum Major and Section Leader for the Mighty Sound of Maryland, and received the Otto Siebeneichen Award for Most Outstanding Senior Musician. Ms. Todd is currently in her fifth year as Director of Bands at Ligon GT Magnet Middle School and twenty-fourth year of teaching music. Under the direction of Ms. Todd the Ligon Band program has grown to over 250 band members, with four wind bands and a jazz ensemble achieving superior ratings at both local and national music festivals. The Ligon Band was chosen to perform for the NC Music Educators Convention in 2015 and in 2016 Ms. Todd was awarded Band Director of the Year for the NC Central District.

Before her appointment at Ligon, Renee was nominated Teacher of The Year at Dillard Drive and at Wendell Middle. Under her direction, the Wendell Band program grew to three wind bands, and two jazz ensembles, achieving superior ratings at local and national festivals. Ms. Todd has served as site host for the Central District Band Middle School MPA and for the Wake All County Middle School Band. She is a member of the National Association for Music Education, the North Carolina Music Educators Association and Tau Beta Sigma. Renee is currently on the Board of Directors for the Central District Band Association.

Ms. Todd is an active freelance trumpeter, guest clinician and conductor for concert and jazz honor bands as well as a private instructor in the Triangle area. She has a private studio in Wake Forest and Raleigh. Renee performs with area orchestras, bands and brass quintets, including the Triangle Brass Band and Resurrection Lutheran Brass. She has also performed with the Triangle Wind Ensemble, North Carolina Wind Orchestra, Raleigh Symphony Orchestra, and Tar River Symphonic Band.

Instruments/Subjects: Trumpet lessons: musical training and fundamentals on trumpet, flugelhorn and piccolo trumpet. Additional courses in The Flourishing Artist: How to Practice and Perform from the present moment while developing a healthy relationship with your instrument.
Styles: classical, (symphonic & chamber music) broadway, pops.
Ages: 9 and up. Exceptions can be made depending on your child's interest and attention span.
Years of teaching experience: 23
Education: MM, trumpet performance, UNC School of the Arts (2002); BM, trumpet performance, University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, (2000) Kenan Fellow at Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education, (2002-2003).
Rates: 30 min: $40 / 60 min: $75
Availability: Wednesday
Phone: (919) 480-6823
Email: jaiganeshom3126@gmail.com

Bio

Trumpeter Ganesh Om brings over 20 years of teaching experience and more than 30 years of performance experience to Leechford Music.

An active performer in the triangle, Ganesh has performed with the North Carolina Symphony, North Carolina Opera, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, North Carolina Theater, the Carolina Philharmonic & Orchestra 2100, the Durham Symphony Orchestra, Mallarmé Chamber Players, the Carolina Ballet, and with American Ballet Theater during their 2023 tour, at venues such as Meymandi Concert Hall, Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Theater Raleigh, Duke Chapel and the Durham Performing Arts Center.

Committed to the music of our time, Ganesh has premiered numerous newly commissioned symphonic works under the direction of Peter Askim with the Raleigh Civic Symphony Orchestra and Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra, by composers Lisa Bielawa, Anuj Bhutani, Milad Yousufi, Allison Loggins-Hull, Trevor New, Tift Merrit, and Christopher Cerrone.

As the first Kenan Fellow in music at Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education, Ganesh has led music-based workshops in LCI's philosophy of Aesthetic Education in New York and New Jersey public schools, and he also performed as a recitalist at LCI.

In New York, Ganesh was a faculty member of the Bloomingdale School of Music and was a performing arts Fellow at the 92nd Street Y. Ganesh also performed with the Chamber Orchestra of St. Luke's, Early Music New York, and the Boston Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall under the direction of John Rutter.

As a graduate assistant to Ray Mase at the UNC School of the Arts, Ganesh earned the Masters of Music degree, and the Bachelors of Music degree from the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, where he studied with Boyde Hood and Roy Poper. Ganesh completed additional studies with Vincent Penzarella and Herb Smith and he has performed in master classes with Hakan Hardenberger and John Wallace.

Ganesh has nearly 20 years of experience as both a yoga practitioner and teacher. Upon returning to practicing and performing on the trumpet during the Covid-19 pandemic, Ganesh applied the practices of mindfulness and intention, in addition to numerous breathing and meditation techniques, to his musical training. The result gave him a fresh perspective on walking an artistic path and how we can manifest increased success and understanding of our instrument while cultivating a healthy relationship with our chosen art form.

Ganesh serves as a board member of the AFM Local 500 musician's union and can be heard sharing some of his recent experiences with music and mindfulness on the podcast: Skills and Bones: the Search for Trombone Treasures, with host Matthew Driscoll.

Instruments: Flute, Clarinet and Saxophone
Styles: Classical
Ages: All ages
Years of Teaching Experience: 10
Education: BM: Music Education, The University of Utah
Rates: $30/30 minutes, $45/45 minutes, $60/60 minutes
Availability: Monday
Phone: 919-592-5442
Email: rwingclarinet@gmail.com

Bio

Ryan Wing is the Director of Bands at Lufkin Road Middle School and grew up in Holly Springs, NC. Mr. Wing earned the Bachelor of Music in Music Education from The University of Utah. While in the state of Utah, his primary clarinet teachers were Dr. Jaren Hinckley and Kathy Pope.

During his time at The University of Utah, Mr. Wing was a performing member of the Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Marching Utes, and various chamber groups. He served as Drum Major for the Marching Utes for 4 years, including 2 performances in the "Tournament of Roses" Parade and "Rose Bowl" Game in 2022 and 2023.

Before Mr. Wing's appointment at Lufkin Road, he completed his student teaching at Ligon GT Magnet Middle School in Raleigh, NC under the direction of Ms. Renee Todd. In both North Carolina and Utah, Mr. Wing has taught privately on flute, clarinet, and saxophone and served as a woodwind clinician and technician for multiple schools on both the middle and high school level.

Instruments/Subjects: Acoustic/Electric/Bass Guitar/Lap Steel/Ukelele/Dobro
Styles: Rock/Blues/Country/Metal/Hard Rock
Ages: 14 and above
Years of Experience: 35 years
Rates: $80/hour
Availability:Thursday
Tel:513-291-6336
Email:jonstankorb@gmail.com
Website:https://www.jonsguitarlounge.com/

Bio

Jon Stankorb, with over 35 years of experience, has taught more than 20,000 students of all ages. As the owner of four professional guitar schools, he is a highly respected clinician and a key figure in the guitar community. Jon is also the creator of an online course through Jon's Guitar Lounge, where he provides guitar instruction to students worldwide. In addition to his educational work, Jon hosts "The Guitar Hang Podcast," interviewing world-famous guitarists, and is the visionary behind "Signs of Life: The American Pink Floyd," an iconic tribute project.