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Brenna Beeson Piano, Trumpet, Voice

Brenna offers lessons in piano, trumpet, and voice. At the age of 6, she discovered her connection to the piano. From there, she began her studies, eventually expanding them at Wichita State University. She started teaching privately her first year of college, 8 years ago, and has taken on students of all ages & learning abilities ever since. Outside of teaching, she has been writing, recording, and performing.

“With music, we paint upon the blank canvas that is silence. When I look at the keys of the piano, I see a playground of unlimited possibilities~ A vast universe to explore what hits us deep in the core and creates a unique essence I have yet to experience outside of the world of music and sound. Within this space, as we learn the fundamentals, we joyfully explore and decide what colours and shapes to form.
I absolutely LOVE working with individuals to discover what brings them that spark of pure joy, awe, and wonder. Music is not a chore, but a seemingly vital tool for therapeutic expansion. I look forward to embarking on this journey with you!”

~Brenna Beeson

Charisse Tierney Clarinet, Piano

Charisse has 15 years of experience as a piano and clarinet teacher. A native of Kansas, she participated in many of the local music ensembles and events that are still active today, including the Wichita Youth Symphony and the KMEA All State Orchestra. An Anderson Concerto Competition winner on two separate occasions, Charisse has also appeared as a soloist with the Hutchinson Symphony on both piano and clarinet.

Charisse holds a bachelor of clarinet performance degree from Wichita State University, and a master of clarinet performance degree from the prestigious New England Conservatory in Boston.

Charisse has attended many of the world’s foremost summer music festivals, including Interlochen Arts Camp, Aspen Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, National Repertory Orchestra, and Tanglewood Music Center, where she performed alongside and studied with members of the Boston Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Colorado Symphony and other major symphony orchestras.

Charisse has extensive experience in orchestral, chamber music, and solo performance. Other honors include being a prize winner at the International Clarinet Association solo competition, being named a Yamaha Young Performing Artist, and performing with the New World Symphony in Miami, Florida, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.

In more recent years, Charisse has enjoyed running piano and clarinet studios of various sizes, successfully guiding students through auditions and competitions, and holding studio recitals so all of her students can perform in a welcome and safe setting. She has had numerous students receive outstanding ratings at regional and state level solo contests, earn a seat in the district and all state ensembles, and win such honors as first prize in the Hutchinson Symphony’s Anderson Concerto Competition.

When she isn’t teaching or accompanying, Charisse stays busy at home in West Wichita with her husband and seven children, who have all provided her with great insight into how to teach different personalities and temperaments and how to fit studying a musical instrument into the daily rigors of family life.

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Dawn Moore Piano, Voice

Dawn Moore is a professional piano and voice teacher with over 15 years’ experience teaching students of all ages. Currently, she is the music teacher at a private school in Wichita, Kansas. She has been a professional musician for a variety of local churches as well as a musical coordinator for a national non-profit organization.

Originally from New York, she received her B.A. and her Master’s Degree in Music from Syracuse University. As a professional vocalist, Dawn was on tour as a vocalist with national recording artist Luther Vandross.

She teaches a vast range of music genres from classical to contemporary, performance vocals, and fundamentals of music.

When Dawn is not teaching, she enjoys camping and fishing and one day, she would really love to catch “the big one that got away!”

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Doug Ragon Piano, Trombone

Doug Ragon is a Wichita based pianist, trombonist, and composer. He earned his Master of Music in Composition from Wichita State University where he studied with Dr. David MacDonald, and his Bachelor of Music in Composition from Kansas State University where he studied with Dr. Wayne Goins, Dr. Paul Hunt, and Dr. Craig Weston.

Doug is an active performer on both piano and trombone, and plays jazz frequently around Wichita at a variety of venues. He has shared the stage with such luminaries as Melissa Aldana, Terell Stafford, Matt Wilson, Bobby Watson, Lisa Hittle, and Wayne Goins. As a composer, Doug’s work spans a wide variety of instrumentations and styles, from solo piano pieces to jazz big band. Most recently, he premiered his suite Confronting Fate with his 18 piece big band, the Ragin’ Swing Machine, to a sold out crowd at Walker’s Jazz Lounge.

Joel Cachero Guitar, Piano

Joel studied Jazz guitar and received his B.M. M.M. from Wichita State University in 2012 and became certified to teach Pre-K – 12 music education at Black Traditional Magnet Elementary. He plays in a variety of styles including classical, jazz, rock and pop music. Joel specializes in teaching music theory, music technology; including production and and home recording. Joel has been teaching since 2006 and has experience working with students of all ages and development levels. He also specializes in teaching students with disabilities and has several students with exceptionalities. His passion for music and teaching inspire his students to develop into sensitive, inspired musicians.

Justin Meyer Piano, Trumpet, Voice

Justin Meyer is a pianist, music teacher, singer songwriter, and film score composer from Wichita. He received his BA in Music from Friends University in 2015. While at Friends, he participated in a number of ensembles including Singing Quakers, and a select Jazz Vocal Ensemble under the direction of Craig Curry. During that time, he also played keys for the local band, Commonfolk, and worked on their debut album called “Warm Like the Treetops, Cold Like the River” (2015). Justin has been writing and teaching music in various capacities since then, stepping in to conduct high school choirs, teaching private lessons, and leading workshops on the art of songwriting.

Justin released an album of improvisational piano pieces in 2020 titled “How The Hummingbird Flies”.

In 2022, Justin graduated with a Masters of Music in Film Score Composition from the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program. He received direct instruction from Hummie Mann, an Emmy award-winning film score composer, alongside a number of other industry professionals. For his final project in the program he composed, orchestrated, and conducted music for a 52 piece orchestra.

He was recently credited for his musical contributions to the TV movie, Christmas in Scotland (2023).

Justin is passionate about equipping his students with the tools they need to make the music they want to hear. His teaching style focuses on building confidence and creativity alongside the fundamental skills that all music students can attain.

Kurt Aiken Banjo, Bass, Guitar, Mandolin, Piano, Ukulele

Kurt teaches guitar, banjo, bass, mandolin, ukulele, and piano lessons. Coming from a family of talented musicians, he grew up with a love for music and especially music performance. He wrote his first tune on the piano at eight years old and that sparked a creative drive that never left. Although piano was his first love, the guitar seemed to be calling him and he dedicated himself to the instrument. Practicing for hours each day in his dorm room as a Kansas University engineering student and track and field athlete, Kurt began learning all the styles of American music. Engineering wasn’t his future. He knew that his true calling was to be a musician, so he began playing gigs around Lawrence, Kansas. In those days he played mostly for little or no money, but the early gigs were the beginning of his career as a professional musician that has lasted over two decades and counting.

Kurt had always known that his passion in music was to express himself through improvisation but mostly in the rock and blues tradition up to that point. Then one fateful day he walked into a little pizza joint in Lawrence, Kansas not expecting his life to change. The music playing on the sound system was unlike anything he’d ever heard. That was the very first time he heard John McLaughhelin, Al DiMeola, and Paco de Lucia. They were playing some sort of flamenco jazz guitar fusion and Kurt was mesmerized with the sound. The album was “A Friday Night in San Fransisco”, which he promptly purchased and set out to learn every note the three masters had played. This was the start of his love affair with jazz music. The complex harmonies and rhythms and the freedom to be creative were a perfect fit for his musical capabilities. Kurt went on to study jazz guitar performance at Wichita State University under the guidance of the great Craig Owens who would become his mentor and a major influence on Kurt’s music. To this day the two guitarists can be seen playing in Craig’s avant-garde jazz group, Bodo Ensemble, along with other heavy hitters in the jazz arena. Dale Black, one of the nation’s premier bass players, is the arguably the most famous band member, but there are so many others. Brian Mueller, Andrew Bishop, Jeff Stidham, and many other accomplished musicians trace their roots back to Bodo Ensemble. The band is a breeding ground for great jazz players. Kurt has also performed with funk legend Rudy Love, Steve McClure of Garth Brooks fame, and the well known actress/singer Cindy Summers to name a few. Showing his versatility, Kurt can also be heard playing some nice keyboard in the R&B, soul group Blue Eyed Soul, and regularly works as a session guitarist in Wichita Kansas.

Even though performing and recording music for a living is a dream come true for Kurt, he wouldn’t be complete without sharing the joy with others. He is experienced teaching piano, guitar, bass, and ukulele lessons. He seems to get more joy helping his students attain their musical goals than even working on his own, and it shows. Kurt has been at it so long that these days he is teaching many of his former student’s children, and he keeps himself busy teaching a studio of about 50 students per week. He is very excited about getting the students up in front of an audience, when they are ready, and he frequently organizes recitals for them to get their feet wet. In fact, many of Kurt’s students have gone on to become pro musicians themselves. A true musician’s musician, Kurt Aiken loves to share his talents with the world through both performance and education.

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Marial Isaac Piano, Strings, Voice

Marial Mortimer Isaac holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music with a Vocal Performance emphasis from Friends University. Music is an essential part of her life, faith and connection to the world.
Her inspiration is drawn from a variety of experiences. At Friends University she performed vocally as a member of the Singing Quakers, the Vocal Jazz Ensemble and was involved in Musical Theatre and Opera. She also performed as a violinist in the Chamber and Community orchestras. She has traveled to Germany for opera chorus work and was also able to tour to Costa Rica and Europe with the Singing Quakers. She has sung locally at various events including roles with Opera Kansas and as a member of the Wichita Chamber Chorale. She loves connecting with people and helping them learn and grow as artists. She focuses on healthy technique and confidence.

Mary-Michael Gomez Piano, Voice

Mary-Michael Gomez has been a diligent student of voice for around a decade.

Mary-Michael studied vocal performance and musical theatre at Wichita State University. And the summer of 2019, she traveled overseas to Italy where she studied Italian opera through the Canta In Italia program alongside her voice professor Dr. Pina Mozzani, whom she studied under for four years in college. Mary-Michael has participated in a handful of professional theatre productions, and you may have seen her as Heather Chandler Heathers The Musical at Roxy’s Downtown.

Mary-Michael has a wide array of musical inspiration from pop to classic rock to classical. She is fascinated with the future of music, and encourages others to step outside the box when it comes to genre and style.

Mary-Michael believes that a strong foundation of classical voice training will take a singer anywhere they wish to go, and broaden their artistic horizons greatly in the process. Through the mindful use of posture, breath-work and technique, Mary-Michael hopes to help students approach safe, proper singing in a joyful, creative way. She would like to emphasize that above all else, the making of music should always be an act of celebration, and that joy shall never be lost!

Miguel Santana Morales Bass, Guitar, Piano

Miguel has performed, toured and recorded bass, percussion, and piano for many artists from Puerto Rico, Cuba and the USA, including Okan, Evan Mcintosh, Rudy Love & the Encore, Charlie Cruz, Frankie Negron, etc. He has
also played/directed in local Wichita churches like Saint Mark UMC, Heart of Christ UMC and Newspring Church. Miguel plays a diverse range of music from Jazz, Blues, Rock, Hip & Hop, R&B, and Gospel, to Contemporary Jazz,Fusion, Afro-Latin Music, Salsa, and many other styles of Latin Music.

Miguel has his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance in Jazz Studies from Friends University and his Master’s Degree in Music Performance in Bass Studies from Wichita State University. He is currently teaching bass, guitar, piano and percussion at Air House Music, in addition to his career as a professional performing musician.

Paul Fowler Guitar, Piano, Ukulele, Voice

Paul Fowler is has a diverse skill set, offering guitar, piano, ukulele, and voice lessons. Paul was born and raised in Wichita, KS and has spent the last 15 years writing, performing, recording, and teaching.

He has a passion for showing students what is possible if they focus and fall in love with their music. He has an unorthodox way of teaching with incredibly fast results for those who LOVE music.

“There is a better way to explore an instrument than the way our parents learned… and quit. Learning should always be engaging and always focus on exactly what the student wants to learn. We didn’t learn the alphabet before we began to speak, so why would we learn notes before we play. It’s time to have fun!

Finding your voice or expression through an instrument is one of the most rewarding areas of growth in a persons life. It is so integral to finding your true voice and being able to sing and play with the your greatest dynamic range. Music is about joy, and integrating that joy into your life!”

– Paul Fowler

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Rachel Telleen Piano

Rachel is a piano teacher & accompanist in the Wichita area. She has been playing the piano since five years old and earned her bachelors degree from Central Christian College of Kansas where she studied piano and worship arts.

Rachel offers both chord and traditional piano lessons to students of all ages. In addition to lessons she provides opportunities throughout the year for students to participate in recitals and practice performing in front of others.

Seth Carrithers Bass, Guitar, Piano

Seth offers lessons in electric bass, double bass, guitar, ukulele, piano and music theory. He has been an active musician and music educator in Wichita, Kansas for over 20 years. As a double bassist working in various jazz ensembles, Seth has had the pleasure of playing with many notable musicians ranging from well-known locals such as Craig Owens and Sterling Grey, to internationally recognized recording artists such as Benny Golson and Jerry Hahn. Outside of the jazz world, Seth has worked in the studio with Grammy Award winning country music star Lynn Anderson.

While the double bass remains Seth’s primary instrument, he excels at the electric bass as well, and has utilized this skill as a staff musician at the Book of Acts Tabernacle of Praise Church for the past 15 years, and East Heights United Methodist church for the past 4 years. In addition to Seth’s various experiences both playing and teaching music, he holds a Master of Music Degree from Wichita State University.

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