Ukelele Lessons

Ukelele is becoming insanely popular with the kids and young adults these days. It's a great instrument to start on because it only has 4 strings and they are nylon, which means it won't hurt your fingers. The chords are simple and easy to learn. It's a portable, affordable instrument that you can take with you anywhere you go, and you can play all the songs you love on a uke. We recommend starting in the Group Ukelele class to learn the fundamentals, and then adding on private uke lessons if you want to delve deeper into different styles of uke playing.

Ukelele 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.

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.

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.