Piano Lessons

Children 7 and under will benefit most from starting in our My First Music Lessons Class where they can learn fundamentals and basic skills before progressing to private lessons. Piano Lessons vary from classical formal instruction to modern chord and song playing. From Suzuki and Bach to One Republic and Coldplay, you will find the type of piano lessons you are looking for. Popular areas of study include classical piano, ragtime piano, blues piano, boogie-woogie piano, jazz piano, gospel piano, country and western piano, and pop/rock piano.

Piano Teachers

Liz is a dedicated, passionate musician and vocalist from Denton, Texas. She often spends her free time weaving new little tunes on her favorite instruments and imagining lyrics to match.

She enjoys performing anything from Chopin’s nocturnes to old hymns, movie soundtracks and Adele. She believes music has no rules and is never meant to be a chore - practice and perfection follows passion. Her goal as a teacher and artist is to encourage other music lovers to sing and play simply because it is their love and joy to do so.

Liz is one of our group instructors and pairs perfectly with younger kids and beginners, she is able to convey the fundamental piano techniques through the classical method while keeping the young students engaged with fun pop and movie melodies and songs they might know.

Jacob Hammonds is a multi-instrumentalist, and graduate of the University of North Texas. He has studied classical guitar with Paul LeBlanc, and jazz guitar with Richard McClure and Fred Hamilton. Jacob has also studied jazz and classical piano at UNT . Jacob has taught private and group lessons for 3 years in the DFW area. While at UNT, he has studied baroque and 16th century counterpoint, orchestral arranging, jazz theory, and contemporary music composition.

Jacob performs often in the DFW metroplex and has performed at House of Blues, The Door, and Trees in Dallas and at Sundance Square in Fort Worth.

In addition to performing, Jacob is also proficient with Avid Sibelius music notation software and PropellerHead's Reason Music Production Software.

Angie's technique is skillful and flawless, and she moves through genres like jazz, R&B and pop easily and masterfully. Her beautiful and powerful tone soars through ballads, and her phrasing invites the audience into thoughtful interpretations. Angie has a dynamic approach that carries hints of jazz greats Shirley Horn and Sarah Vaughan blending with the R&B sounds of Whitney Houston and Lauren Hill.

Angie's musical background is deep and varied. She got an early start studying private voice for many years in her native home of South Korea. She went on to receive multiple awards in her youth and gained entrance into one of Korea’s most renowned and competitive colleges, Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts.

Her studies then led her to New York City, where she received a scholarship to attend City College of New York and was mentored by jazz vocalists Suzanne Pittson, Charenee Wade, Julie Hardy, Jay Clayton, and briefly with National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Sheila Jordan.

She finished her Bachelor’s degree at City College and decided to follow her passion for jazz and pursue a Master’s degree at the University of North Texas, an internationally acclaimed jazz institution. At UNT, she was a thriving member of the vocal jazz community, eventually singing lead soprano in the school’s premier jazz choir, the UNT Jazz Singers.

She sang with and/or was mentored by many exciting guest artists, including 10-time Grammy Award-winner, Bobby McFerrin, Lauren Kinhan (member of Grammy-winning group New York Voices), Janis Siegal (member of Grammy-winning group Manhattan Transfer), and legendary vocalists Bonnie Herman and Don Shelton (members of the Grammy Award-winning Singers Unlimited).

At UNT, she honed her skills in composition, arranging, improvisation and lyric delivery, working with renowned vocalist/educators Jennifer Barnes and Rosana Eckert.

Alex Kishiyama has played piano since the age of four. He has experience playing saxophone in various ensembles and singing in choir. He has a Bachelor's degree in Jazz Studies from the University of North Texas. He has played in multiple of UNT's nine big bands, as well as in the rhythm section of UNT's premiere Jazz Trombone Ensemble (winners of the International Trombone Festival in 2014, allowing them to play a concert in Valencia, Spain). Additionally, he regularly gigs in the DFW area. He has shared the stage with musicians such as Leonard Patton, Young Heo, Jamil Byrom, Steve Barnes, Lynn Seaton, Howie Dietz, and many others. Alex plays a variety of styles, and has passions in music and education.

Owner Jason Nolen has been teaching guitar, piano and singing (voice) lessons in Fort Worth, Keller, Southlake, Watauga, Roanoke, Trophy Club, and the surrounding area for 8 years. He founded Stomp Music Studios and Music School in Keller, TX in 2008. Stomp Music School Keller, TX offers private guitar lessons, piano lessons, voice lessons, drum lessons, bass lesson, pro tools lessons, pro tools certifications, songwriting lessons, violin, viola, cello, music theory lessons, music production lessons, and electronic music lessons. Jason Nolen, founder of Stomp Music Studios Keller, TX, began piano lessons at the age of 5 in North Richland Hills, saxophone lessons at Southlake Carroll at the age of 12, guitar lessons in Keller at the age of 13, was a member of band, choir, and theater at Southlake Carroll High School. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Music from The University of Texas at Austin and also studied and performed at the University of Paris, France. Jason's senior thesis was a study involving artificial intelligence and music composition. Jason worked with internationally renouned sound engineer and composer Russel Pinkston at the University of Texas. He was written/cowritten over 300 songs and has recorded with more than 200 artists.

A graduate of the prestigious GSTEP teaching excellence program at UNT, Patricia has many years of experience with students of all skill levels and musical styles. Awarded a full three year Teaching Fellowship she taught a private studio of 12-16 students per semester at UNT, the equivalent of a full-time faculty teaching load. In the larger DFW community she presently teaches vocal students at the Junior High and High School levels in Keller ISD. Her students have won spots in All-Region and TMEA All-State Choirs, top ratings at solo and ensemble contests, been admitted to music performance, music education and music therapy degree programs at TWU, UNT and TCU as well as performing in local bands and musical theater productions.

Patricia holds three degrees: Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance (UT Austin), Master of Music in Voice Performance (UT Austin) and Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance (UNT).
Her professional association memberships include: the Texas Music Educators Association, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the College Music Society and the National Opera Association.
Patricia is a polished professional singer who has performed in a variety of venues in the United States and Europe. She has studied with mezzo-soprano Inci Bashar (Turkish National Opera), helden-tenor William Lewis (Metropolitan Opera, La Scala), bass Nikita Storojev (Bolshoi Opera, La Scala) and sung under the baton of conductors such as Graeme Jenkins (Dallas Opera, Vienna State Opera), Stephen Dubberly (UNT Opera), Keith Clark (Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Symphony Orchestra) and Clinton Smith (Santa Fe Opera, Minnesota Opera).
Recent solo performances have included: concert performances of “I Dreamed a Dream” and Éponine’s death scene from Les Misérables (Schönberg and Boublil), Stabat Mater (Pergolesi), Four Sacred Songs (Dvorak), the title roles in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) and Alcina (Handel) and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (Mozart). Recent engagements include the Casalmaggiore International Music Festival in Italy and the Sankt Goar International Music Festival in Germany.

Urszula will be accepting new students ages 6 - 16 on Saturdays only.

Urszula is a dedicated teacher with an individual approach to all her students from preschoolers to college students. She studied at The Arthur Rubinstein School of Music in Bydgoszcz, Poland, working with Dr. Ludmila Kasjanenko from National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kiev. At age 17, she moved to the Frederic Chopin School of Music in Warsaw, Poland, where she studied under Dr. Joanna Maklakiewicz and at Oklahoma City University from where she graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Music degree, She was the piano instructor and piano accompanist at Oklahoma Conservatory of Music in Oklahoma City. Currently, she is a Master of Music student at University of North Texas.

Urszula has participated in multiple master classes with great Polish and foreign musicians like prof. Edward Wolanin, and prof. Krzysztof Jablonski, as well as world-famous harpists Isabelle Moretti (Italy) and Anneleen Lenaertes (Belgium). She has performed solo and ensemble recitals in great concert halls in Poland like the Witold Lutoslawski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio, and philharmonic halls in Szczecin and Bydgoszcz. She also performed in the Concert Studio of the Czech Radio in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Urszula has won prizes at Duo Competition in Cieszyn, National competition for Young Instrumentalist in Bydgoszcz, and Concourse Musical de France in Cracow, as well as concerto competitions in Bydgoszcz, Warsaw, and Oklahoma City.

Easel is one of the rare musicians with perfect pitch. She is a gifted vocalist, pianist and violinist with extensive experience accompanying and preparing middle and high school choirs and bands at concerts, region and state UIL solo contests.

Trained in the classical voice and piano method from a very early age, she has a deep understanding of traditional methods of teaching including theory and sight reading and the Suzuki Method for violin.

Her extensive background teaching pre-K, elementary, and middle school students has allowed her to implement classical training with the younger students while still engaging them with more modern pop songs.

Easel is also currently a Praise and Worship Team keyboardist at Holy City Church, Carrollton, TX and has a diverse background in traditional Gospel and Contemporary Praise and Worship Music.

She is currently a Music Education Major at The University of North Texas, Denton, TX and a Tau Sigma National Society Member.