Piano Lessons in Aurora, CO

Mark’s scholarly articles and reviews have been published in Reformed Liturgy and Music, The American Organist, and The Hymn. An avid collector of hymnals, he is a Life Member of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada and has been a featured performer and/or workshop presenter at four national conferences.

As a performer of classical music, my goal is to find the humanistic message that lies at the heart of each work, and present the music in a context that can be related to a person living in today’s society and culture. Too often classical music is given a social or cultural context that displaces the message, and makes it unrelatable to people living in the world today.

Kressin is also an active teacher and has taught group piano and applied piano at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Oklahoma and taught elementary, middle school, and high school students as a Tower School piano instructor at Wartburg College.

Kalia Bethany has been a teacher of music since 1999. Educated at the University of Minnesota, MacPhail School of Music, and many years of private lessons, she led with her vocal and violin skills during her years of performing for churches, weddings, conferences, and clubs.

Rita has accompanied many choirs on flute parts and been an active music minister in parishes in all the communities where she lived. Rita trained at the Kennedy Center, with the National Symphony Orchestra’s Education Program and then managed the Northern Virginia Youth Symphony Association (now called American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras (AYPO).

Sunny Wen studied flute and piano at Alethera University in Taiwan, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Applicable Music. While at Alethera University, she performed with a woodwind ensemble, culminating in a performance for the president of Taiwan in 2009.

Originally from Ocala, Florida, Austin holds a B.A in Music and Certificate in Jazz Studies from Missouri Southern State University. Currently, he is pursuing an M.M. in Music Performance from the University of Denver with trumpet as his main instrument, though he continues to play piano in ensembles as he can.

He has played in the Colorado scene for 10 years and has performed at many concert halls, Jazz clubs and toured the country with the band Salem. During his time in New York he has played at Jazz clubs such as Birdland, Smalls, and Smoke. As well as Avery Fisher Hall. Ian premiered Pete Malinverni’s The Good Shepherd Suite with the Purchase Jazz Orchestra.

Lauren Podjun is a 22-year-old Singer-songwriter, composer, and vocalist. She has earned two associate degrees in Vocal Performance and Music Education from Casper College located in Casper, Wyoming. She is now pursuing a Singer-songwriter bachelor’s degree at the University of Colorado, Denver.

Sarah began studying the piano at the age of five and studying the oboe at age nine. She made her solo oboe orchestral debut at age thirteen while also competing at the Indiana state level of the National Federation of Music Clubs’ annual piano festival for four consecutive years.

With premiers in the United States and Europe, his experience and diversity have strengthened his understanding of what drives the human spirit and what impacts it most effectively. As an undergraduate he studied jazz guitar and composition at the Metropolitan State University of Denver and received his Master’s in music composition from the University of Denver.