Concert Choir
Concert Choir (Intermediate/Advanced level) is for boys ages 7-12 with previous choir experience and/or instrumental lessons, boys match pitch and are ready for 2-part music of choral standards including classical and contemporary works, continued sight-reading experience, more advanced tone building. Meets once weekly, 120 minutes plus small group Musicianship Class.
Overture Choir
Overture Choir (Beginning level), is for boys ages 6 and up with limited skills. Skills covered: matching pitch, steady rhythm, vocal tone building, beginning sight-reading, repertoire: unison classical and folk music plus rounds. Meets once a week, 90 minutes plus small group Musicianship Class.
Polyphony Chamber Orchestra
PCO was founded in 1998 by Stanley Lee and Anne Lee. The mission of PCO is to provide an after school music education for students of all ages. The young musicians will learn not only how to play together in an orchestra, but to learn different music styles from different eras (Baroque, Classic, Romantic, 20th Century and Contemporary) as well.
John King
John King has been teaching music in the Bay Area for over ten years. He has worked at Crowden School, College Preparatory School, and Acme Music, among other institutions. He currently offers private lessons to kids and adults of all ages in piano practice and performance, music theory, and music composition. He holds a B.A. in Music from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in Music Composition from the University of Manchester in England. When he's not teaching, John performs locally as well as internationally as a jazz and classical pianist. For more information, please visit his website at:
Vicky Grossi
She sees music as a gigantic field of study, and wants her students to feel prepared to move in any direction they wish with their musical interests.
As an instructor Vicky worked for many summer programs including conducting the Woodside Elementary School Summer Orchestra 1990-1993, being the band leader at Grace Lutheran Church summer session 2004-2007, and the band assistant at Explore Middle School 2007-2008. Vicky has been teaching private lessons on the violin and bass since 1998. Vicky loves to organize concerts and recitals so her students become confident performers.
Angie Spinelli
Angie has been teaching piano lessons since she was in college. She was a piano instructor at ABC Music in Scottsdale, Arizona, for several years. She moved to Oakland in June of 2007 and is excited to be a part of Musically Minded piano studio.Her strengths as a teacher include her ability to adapt lessons to the students' areas of interest and her versatile knowledge of many styles of music including classical, jazz, and popular music. She brings with her the unique perspective of someone who grew up reading music and later learned to improvise.
Sarah Cappelli
I am a professional pianist, teacher, and counselor who moved to the East Bay to pursue my master's degree in Expressive Arts Therapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. For the over fifteen years, I have been earning my income as a performing artist, accompanist, and teacher.
Anna Orias
Anna has an extensive background working as a teacher and an entrepreneur in the arts since 1989. She is the founder and director of Musically Minded Studio. She also ran Funk Works Urban and Ethnic Dance Studio, with live musicians accompanying each ethnic dance class, and East Bay Presents, and non-profit organization that presented concerts in intimate sized spaces in the East Bay.