Our Staff

Zak Sandler has played piano on Broadway for Wicked, Mean Girls, Motown, and The Color Purple. He has music-directed and conducted at The Kennedy Center, Goodspeed Opera House, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma,

Anna Brashears holds a BM in clarinet performance and an MA in musicology. She is currently hard at work on her dissertation as a PhD candidate in musicology at The Catholic University

Micah Walker is a college trained musician who plays drum-set and percussion. He has 11 years of performance experience and several years of teaching experience. His styles include jazz, rock, r&b, country,

Anh Nguyen is active as the leader in music education and performance. Being the Founder of Neo Academy, the online institution that provides knowledge and information in classical music through coaching, courses,

Eddie was born in Upper Marlboro, MD. and began his musical journey with the violin.  Growing up playing music with his father became a favorite mutual pastime.  While studying music performance at

Available Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday Gjinovefa Sako is both a distinguished pianist and experienced piano teacher. She has over 30 years of experience as a piano instructor, working with

Potter has had a passion for the fiddle since a young age. He started playing Bluegrass fiddle at 8, jamming with his father and uncle, attending jam circles with them, and performing

Available Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, & Friday Nathaniel is a percussion teacher and performer, born and raised in Maryland. He was classically trained in Percussion and earned his Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance

  Available Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, & Saturday Brock Holmes has performed and taught in the D.C. area for more than 30 years. In 2008, he was Music Director of the

Available Sunday & Thursday Joan Cushing, a former elementary school teacher and cabaret performer, is best known for her political satirical revue Mrs. Foggybottom & Friends, which opened in 1986 at New

Saturdays, Tuesdays Hayley Gayne began playing music at the age of eight, starting with classical violin, which gave her the opportunity to play with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra during her teenage years.

Available Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays Tom Kitchen has been straddling musical genres ever since he picked up the guitar. While playing in the Virginia Tech Jazz Big Band, conducted by the

Available Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays Nick has worked for years as a multi-instrumentalist and singer in the Washington, D.C., area. He has played music around the world and at such

Available Mon. & Wed. Michael Bard is an active musician, composer, and teacher who has performed as a soloist and with various musical ensembles throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, North Africa,

Available Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays Frederik Spiro has 35 years experience playing and teaching violin and cello. As a member of the Albanian Radio Television Symphonic Orchestra and the Albanian National Opera and

Available Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays Joe Gallo is a guitarist and composer from Baltimore, Maryland. Having studied classical, jazz, rock and blues in depth, Joe provides his students with a diverse

Available Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday Esther Haynes is a versatile vocalist and rhythm guitarist residing in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Her styles range from vintage jazz to swing, blues, bossas,

Available Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, & Saturday Nelson Dougherty is a multi-instrumentalist, improviser and composer. He studied Jazz and classical guitar at Brevard College where earned a Bachelor of Arts with

Available Wednesday Mark Noone is a founding member and lead singer of the legendary band The Slickee Boys. He has been inducted into to Washington Area Music Association’s Wammie Hall of Fame

Available Sunday, Wednesday, & Saturday Alicia Kopfstein, Ph.D. is a master teacher (her students call her the “technique queen!”), classical guitarist, folk singer, ukulele player, and classical singer as well as award-winning

Available Monday, Thursday, & Friday John Linn is a performing singer and songwriter in Washington, D.C., with 20-plus years of experience playing guitar. Having grown up singing harmony and listening to folk

Available Mondays John graduated from Youngstown State University with a B.M. in Percussion Performance. I believe in an approach that emphasizes technical exercise and musicality. Students are successful when they are given

Available Wednesdays, Saturdays (Call for more availability) Gabriel Wallace, a native of Southwest Florida, received his musical education as a saxophonist and woodwind player in the small but vibrant art scene of

Available Sundays and Mondays Jack is a native of Richmond, Virginia. At age 11, Jack picked up the saxophone for his middle school band and has not put it down since. He

Available Tues. & Sat. (Call for more availability) Doug is a longtime teacher and band director in the Washington, DC, and Maryland school systems, leading concert, stage, and marching bands to numerous

Available Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday “Ken Peplowski is arguably the greatest living jazz clarinetist!” — RUSSELL DAVIES, BBC2 AUGUST 2013 “When you grow up in Cleveland, Ohio, playing in a Polish polka

Hailing from Washington, D.C., Hank Upton had been playing bass and guitar for more than 25 years. He has toured internationally, playing more than 1,500 live shows in 20 countries with former

Felipe first picked up a guitar to escape summer boredom when he was 12 years old at the bequest of his father. Initially, Felipe taught himself but quickly grew serious in his