Ewa was born and raised in Poland where she received her art education. When she moved to New York City she stayed involved with art and her creativity bloomed when she work as an artist-designer for a commercial decorating company where she held a head designer position. After moving to Arizona she worked for the … Continue reading Ewa Kobacka-Bugala ~ Visual Arts

Stephanie is a Co-Owner of Peigné Dance Studio and has been dancing and teaching Ballroom and Latin for eight years. She is a licensed ballroom instructor and has trained with renown coaches in the dance industry. Throughout her career, she has successfully won competitions professionally with her students as well as a top teacher title. … Continue reading Stephanie Peigne ~ Ballroom Dancing

Caryn was born in the great state of Indiana, her family moved to Phoenix, Arizona when she was 3 years old. She was blessed to grow up in a musical family. Her father sang, played the trumpet, and was a worship leader in the church. Her mother, sang, played piano and worked alongside her father … Continue reading Caryn Wickersham ~ Piano & Voice

Israeli Pianist, Dani Shraibman, began studying the piano at the late age of 14 and half, but within three short years, graduated with honors from the Conservatory of Music in Ashdod, Israel under the renowned professor, Yanina Kudlik. Mr. Shraibman continued studies receiving a Bachelor of Music from the Buchmann-Mehta School at Tel-Aviv University with … Continue reading Dani Shraibman ~ piano

Helen was born and raised in the Netherlands, and in 2000, her family moved to a small town in Iowa. In 7th grade, she started to accompany her grade school choir, which sparked her interest in accompanying/collaborative piano. In high school, she became the accompanist for the Siouxland Boys Choir for 6 years, recorded 12 … Continue reading Helen Brons ~ Piano

My musical journey began when I was fairly young.  Although no one in my family was a musician, I was greatly inspired but the music my father played around the house on his old vinyl records.  I picked up the clarinet in the fifth grade and learned how to read music, count, and understand basic … Continue reading Armand Sanchez ~ Guitar

Alyssa Craft was born in Columbus, Ohio and started dancing the age of 4. She quickly fell in love with the Art and continued with a new studio when she moved to Arizona at the age of 8.  Through this new studio where Alyssa was fortunate to receive a wide range of experience including competing … Continue reading Alyssa Craft ~ Dance

Born and raised in Romania, Filip Voia-Tipei grew up in a musical environment from an early age. At the age of 7, he was enrolled into a music school and studied violin for the next few years. While there, he won several local and national competitions. This helped establish a strong musical education and performing … Continue reading Filip Voia-Tipei ~ Drums

Christina Lafferty was born and raised in Arizona. She started piano and violin lessons temporarily as a child and picked back up her music education in college at Mesa Community College, where she was studying to be a Choral Conductor. She later transferred to Grand Canyon University and began studying Vocal Performance. She graduated from GCU with … Continue reading Christina Lafferty ~ Piano & Voice

A native from Phoenix, studied music and classical guitar at the University of Southern Mississippi. Graduated with a Bachelor’s in music and a minor in audio production in 2014. After graduation, he returned back to his roots to teach music and guitar. Thankfully, Kat’s Artist Tree gave him the opportunity to do what he is … Continue reading Devin Simpson ~ Guitar & Piano

Michael was raised in southern Ohio. His hometown was fortunate to have a highly trained piano teacher whose pedagogy began with Beethoven. After high school he was accepted into and graduated from the College-Conservatory, University of Cincinnati with a BM in Music Theory and an MM in Choral Conducting. While at CCM he studied Music … Continue reading Michael Benner ~ Piano, & Voice

Ewa Medynska has been coaching internationally and locally for 21 years. She was a fencing coach in AZS Wroclaw and AZS-AWF Wroclaw team (both are academic sporting clubs) from 1990 to 1996. The fencers trained by her achieved high scores in junior’s classifications and tournament in Poland and Europe. Ewa held also duties in the … Continue reading Ewa Medynska ~ Fencing

For many years, I was an amateur musician in the truest sense of the word, pursuing music simply because I loved it, even though I often was not very good at it.  With the exception of several months of guitar lessons where I learned basic major, minor and 7th chords, I was mostly self-taught. By … Continue reading Bob Strahota ~ Piano, Guitar, Voice

Jennifer was born in Laredo, Texas and was raised in Glendale, AZ from the age of two. She was born into a musically inclined and artistic home. Music and arts have played a major part of her upbringing. Suffering from a learning disability, Jenny was unable to learn and had little interest in school other … Continue reading Jenny Bement ~ Brass & Guitar

Originally from Grove City Ohio, Brittany is a woodwind specialist and teacher in the Phoenix area. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance from Otterbein University and has a Master’s degree in Music Performance from Arizona State University. Brittany is very passionate about performance and pedagogy, and has studied a wide range of instruments; … Continue reading Brittany Johnson ~ Woodwinds & Piano

Sidni Powell is currently a music education major at Grand Canyon University studying with Dr. Katherine Shields. Her musical journey began at 5 years old when she started learning piano. At 13, she began violin and soon switched to her primary instrument. Soon after she quickly fell in love with the viola as well. At … Continue reading Sidni Powell ~ String Instruments

Mercedes was born and raised in Peoria, Arizona. From a very young age she has had a passion for music and theater arts. At the age of 11 she was introduced to a trumpet and instantly fell in love. She played throughout grade school and marching band at Peoria High School. In high school she … Continue reading Mercedes Conner ~ Administrative Assistant

Soprano Francis Valladares, an Arizona native, has been involved with music since she was 7 years old.  She was exposed to piano and cello first, and shortly thereafter began taking voice lessons with Isola Jones, a former mezzo soprano with the Metropolitan Opera. In high school she was involved with the school’s symphony orchestra, and … Continue reading Fran Valladares ~ Voice, Piano

Melissa Thompson moved to Arizona in 2016 from San Antonio, TX. She graduated from Texas A&M University – San Antonio with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a minor in Kinesiology and Exercise Science. She has been instructing in the fields of dance, cheer, & gymnastics for over 10 years. While in San Antonio, she … Continue reading Melissa Thompson ~ Administrative Assistant