FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
The standard fee for lessons is $60 for 60 minutes, $45 for 45 minutes or $30 for 30 minutes. Performance and composition fees generally start at $110/hour per musician, equipment is included in this price. Additional fees may be required for travel expenses, recording expenses, expedited orders, and holidays. Discounts are offered for certain scenarios (non-profits, military, seniors, teachers, off season or mid-week events, etc.), please inquire for more information.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
Listening is key. Everyone has a unique relationship with music and their own individual goals. I customize each lesson, performance, or composition to my client's particular needs and goals while paying close attention to their preferences and concerns. Specifically, in regard to lessons, I aim to grow the scope of lessons as the student's knowledge and abilities expand.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
My Grandmother and Mother were both professional singers so I began music lessons before I was in preschool. In addition to school choirs and music classes, I have studied voice with many different classically trained, professional vocalists and teachers both in America and in Scotland, including renowned soprano Patricia Bates, choir director/tenor Ken Taylor, singer/composer/pianist Dr. Arfsten, conductor/soprano Dr. Hannah Wunsch, and many more. In high school, I won numerous awards for choir and theater performances in regional and state competitions, successfully auditioned to be a soprano in the prestigious All State Choir four years in a row, and was even chosen as part of a select few to perform at Disney World for their 1990 Christmas Concert. Thanks to my mother's insistence, I begrudgingly started taking classical piano lessons in 1986 with musical prodigy & Juliard graduate, Marlene Woodward and continued to study piano pedagogy with her until 1992. I studied music, theater, and dance at FSU until 1995 when I moved to New Orleans to deeply engage in jazz studies and the New Orleans music scene. My first professional vocal performance was in 1991, and in 1995 I began working full time as a professional singer, pianist, composer, and recording artist. In 1999, I began self producing the first of 6 Aural Elixir CDs. Then in 2002, I moved to Colorado for expanded touring options as well as more performing, composing, recording, and teaching opportunities. I returned to school in 2008, first at FRCC and later immersed in the music programs at CU. I am scheduled to graduate in 2017, meanwhile I continue to perform, compose, record, produce, study, and teach music.