Lessons by Bach

04/19/2026

Thank you to all my students and their families for a wonderful recital today. What a wonderful job I have in teaching all of you what I love to do!

04/01/2026

I’m opening up a few more time slots for lessons. I teach voice lessons to girls 7th grade and up and I teach beginning to early advanced piano lessons to anyone age 8 and up. I also do vocal coaching for audition prep for those auditioning for college and community theatre shows. Lessons are a half hour long.

I have the following times available:
Monday at 12:30pm
Tuesday at 2:30pm
Wednesday at 1:30pm
Wednesday at 5:00pm
Thursday at 3:00pm
Thursday at 3:30pm
Thursday at 5:00pm
Friday at 1:00pm

Please share if you know of anyone looking for voice or piano lessons.

02/22/2026

📆SAVE THE DATE 📆
Below is a full list of when auditions will be held for our Tent Main Stage Series!

Don't forget to attend Auditioning for the Main Stage Tent Series Presented by the Education Committee February 28th at 2p to hear from some of the directors below!
More Info: https://www.facebook.com/share/1AY7TYe7Gj/

WEST SIDE STORY
Directed by Deric Kimler
Auditions: Friday, March 13th 6p-8p & Saturday, March 14th 1p-4p
Callbacks: Sunday, March 15th
Sign Up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050B4BA4AA2CA1FF2-61966118-west

THE ODD COUPLE
Directed by Susan Hazzard
Auditions: Friday, April 3rd & Saturday, April 4th
More Info: https://www.facebook.com/share/1CJhRnN3d3/

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Directed by Pam Orear
Auditions: Friday, April 24 - Sunday, April 26th
Callbacks: Tuesday, April 28th
More Info: https://www.facebook.com/share/172YrqK7wn/

MATILDA
Directed by Amy Glass
Auditions: Friday, May 15th & Saturday, May 16th
Callbacks: Sunday, May 17th
More Info: https://www.facebook.com/share/1Q29YwMdr9/

INTO THE WOODS
Directed by Chip Joyce
Auditions: Monday, May 18th & Tuesday, May 19th
Callbacks: Wednesday, May 20th
More Info: https://www.facebook.com/share/1FKYkXpYCw/

10/20/2025

09/13/2025

Piano Exercise
C Major Five Finger Pattern
For intermediate students only, can be 2/4 or 4/4 time signature
Credits to the sharer

08/09/2025

Please come see us today. Get a good meal, enter to win a raffle prize or silent auction item and hear my kids and I perform. Odie’s 4-7pm

08/07/2025

My son will be spending next semester studying theatre in London. We are having a fundraiser to help him cover the extra costs this semester will entail. Please come and hear my son, my daughter and myself perform. The event is this Saturday August 9, from 4-7pm at Odie’s in downtown Chillicothe. Lots of raffle baskets, silent auction items, and more. Grab a meal while you’re there, too!!!

08/03/2025

06/21/2025

So proud of some of my voice and piano students today as they performed in Dare to Dream, Jr.

03/21/2025

In 1829, a 20-year-old Felix Mendelssohn stood before a packed audience in Berlin, about to conduct a piece of music that had not been heard in nearly a century. The air was thick with anticipation. As the first notes of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion filled the hall, a wave of emotion swept over the listeners. Many had never heard anything like it before. By the time the final chorus faded into silence, the audience sat in awe—Bach’s genius had been rediscovered.

Just a few years earlier, Bach’s music was largely forgotten, considered old-fashioned and irrelevant in the fast-changing world of early 19th-century Europe. But Mendelssohn, a prodigy with an insatiable curiosity for the past, had stumbled upon a manuscript of the St. Matthew Passion and was captivated by its beauty and complexity. Determined to bring it back to life, he painstakingly studied the score, convinced his friend Eduard Devrient to help organize a performance, and fought against skeptics who doubted that audiences would care about this “ancient” music.

His persistence paid off. That performance in 1829 didn’t just revive St. Matthew Passion—it reignited interest in Bach’s entire body of work, leading to the worldwide recognition he enjoys today. Without Mendelssohn’s passion and vision, Bach’s music might have remained buried in the archives for many more years.

03/13/2025