Voice and Piano Lessons

Voice and Piano is a combination lesson for kids who really want to learn how to play piano and sing. In Voice and Piano lessons, students will learn the piano skills necessary to play popular music that they want to sing. That includes chord theory, reading music, and piano technique. This is a modern style class and is a different approach to teaching piano than traditional piano lessons. The focus is more on learning to play and sing the songs you love, and learning the chords and theory behind those songs.

Voice and 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.

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.

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.

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.