





Exceptional Instructors,
Flexible Scheduling,
Simple Pricing.
Wilson Poffenberger – Saxophone
Blake Kitayama- Cello
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Frequently Asked Questions
Absolutely! Several of our teachers have degrees in pedagogy and have specifically trained in teaching children. We accept students age 5 and up, although students under 13 should have a parent in the room with them for lessons. For children who are too young to read music right away, our teachers will do rhythm games, ear training, and even improvisation in order to develop your child’s musical abilities.
Of course! We have many teachers who are great with adult students, and the scheduling flexibility that we offer is particularly helpful for many adults. In most cases, instead of using a pre-planned method book, your teacher will simply ask about your musical interests and then create a personalized plan to help you reach your goals.
They are very similar to in-person lessons, except more affordable and more convenient. You will still meet with the same teacher each lesson and interact with them in real time. You will learn technique, music theory, how to read music, and all your favorite pieces.
In order to take advantage of our 10% discount, you will want to sign up for 8 once-a-week lessons. After you have completed those lessons, you are welcome to choose any of our packages or flexible scheduling options. With these options, you can take lessons once or twice a week, or we can do custom subscriptions if you would prefer to take lessons more or less often.
Lessons are typically $30 per half hour, $42 for 45 minutes, and $55 per hour.
Yes, as long as the lessons are with the same teacher, for students in the same family, each full price lesson allows for a second lesson in the same week but discounted by $5. So if you’re taking half hour lessons twice a week or have two children taking half hour lessons, one lesson will be $30 (our usual rate), and another is $20, for a total of $55.
In that case, we will pair your child with one of our teachers who has experience with working with children with learning disabilities. Even if your child has difficulties, for example, with staying focused or learning to read music, there is still much to be gained from music lessons. The teacher will easily adapt and include rhythm games, improvisation, ear training, and other musical exercises that suit the level and capabilities of the student.
Yes. We’ll do our best to match you with the teacher who best suits your skill level and interests, and as long as you keep wanting to take lessons from that teacher, you can keep taking from that teacher. If you want to try lessons with a different teacher, just let us know, and we will pick a new teacher for you.
Larissa Jones
Voice
M.M. Manhattan School of Music
New York City, NY
B.M. Valdosta State University
Valdosta, Georgia
Outside of school, Larissa performed with a few bands and groups. She led songs on the praise team at her church, Unity Church of God. She performed with The Answer Band, a wedding and party band based in Atlanta, Georgia where she sang lead and background vocals for various genres of music including Motown, Soul and Funk classics, and party hits of today. While visiting New Orleans in January of 2020, she received the opportunity to perform at the Café Beignet in French Quarters with jazz musician Steamboat Willie and his band. Over the course of her career, she has worked giving private lessons in both individual and group settings for a variety of students from ages 10 to 50.
Larissa currently resides in New York, New York where she attends Manhattan School of Music gaining her Master of Music degree in Jazz Voice.
Dr. Amalia Rinehart
Classical Piano
D.M.A. Stony Brook University
M.M. Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, New York
Amalia Rinehart is a pianist and piano teacher with multiple years of experience teaching students of all ages and levels. Ms. Rinehart is a recent graduate with a doctorate degree in piano performance at Stony Brook University. Amalia earned her Master of Music degree from Stony Brook, and her Bachelor’s in music (theory and history) from Columbia University, from which she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Amalia has performed all over the US and Canada, at festivals such as the Beethoven Institute at Mannes School of Music (NY), Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival (WA), Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival (ME) as a Kaplan Fellow, Sarasota Music Festival (FL), Domaine Forget in Quebec, and as a fellow at the Kneisel Hall Festival in Maine.
Dr. Geraldine Anello
Jazz & Pop Piano
D.M.A. Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
M.M. Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan
With two decades of experience as a music instructor, an accomplished career as a Broadway pianist and conductor, a Doctorate in Musical Arts from Boston University, and as the author of an upcoming book on the music industry and a published poet, Geraldine is thrilled to be joining LessonWithYou.
Geraldine Anello has conducted Kinky Boots and School of Rock on Broadway, The Fantasticks off-Broadway, and played in the orchestras of Broadway’s School of Rock, Kinky Boots, Bronx Tale, Aladdin, and On the Town. She has also worked on the Broadway productions SpongeBob the Musical, An American in Paris, On Your Feet, and Matilda. Anello served as music director of We Are the Tigers off Broadway, and of Renascence for the Transport Group, Finian’s Rainbow at the Irish Repertory Theatre, etc. She was the music supervisor and conductor of the benefit concert Double Standards at Town Hall in New York City, featuring Sarah Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson, amongst others. She is the leader of Theatre Music Directors, an industry group of 8,500 members worldwide, for which she offers professional advancement classes taught by Broadway conductors.
Wilson
Poffenberger
Saxophone
D.M.A. University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign (Exp. 2022)
COP. CRR de Boulogne-Billancourt
Paris, France
M.M. Youngstown State University
Youngstown, Ohio
Boston based saxophonist WILSON POFFENBERGER is quickly establishing himself as a soloist, educator, chamber musician and improviser. Currently, Wilson is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in saxophone performance and literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he recently received ABD status.
As an avid soloist and chamber musician, Mr. Poffenberger has garnered prizes at the international and national levels. Including 1st prize at the 2020 UISO Concerto Competition, 1st prize at the 2020 NASA Collegiate Saxophone Quartet Competition, Silver Medal at the 2019 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, 1st Prize at the 2019 Krannert Debut Artist Competition and Grand Prize at the 2017 Enkor International Woodwind and Brass Competition, among others.
In addition to Mr. Poffenberger’s performing career, he is a passionate educator maintaining a small private saxophone studio and recently finishing his tenure as the split classical and jazz teaching assistant and UIUC. He has given masterclasses and lectures at Elmhurst College, Hiram College, Youngstown State University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
When Wilson’s not playing saxophone, you can find him brewing pour-over coffee, tinkering with his Sony mirrorless camera or watching copious amounts of backpack reviews on YouTube.
Blake Kitayama
Cello
M.M. University of North
Carolina School of the Arts
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
B.M. Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
Blake Kitayama is an accomplished chamber and orchestral musician. He was a founding member of de Sterke Quartet who most recently won the MTNA Southern Division Chamber Music competition. Blake is currently a member of the Winston Salem Symphony. Throughout his orchestral career he has recorded for Navano Records, and has previously held positions with the Jackson Symphony and Huntsville Symphony. As a frequent chamber collaborator, Blake has been heard on APM’s Performance Today and WDAV.
An advocate for collaboration and new music, Blake has continuously worked across genres. Providing cello and vocal harmonies, his collaboration with Anna Scholfield won first prize at the eTown Handmade Songs Competition, and he recorded cello for Vidushi Goyal’s debut EP. He also debuted about a dozen new classical works for mixed ensembles.
Blake earned a Bachelor of Music from Vanderbilt University under the instruction of Felix Wang and his Master of Music at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts with Brooks Whitehouse as a member of the Chrysalis Chamber Music Institute.
Jeff Frantom
Guitar, Bass, Ukulele
M.M. University of Southern California
B.M. University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Jeff Frantom is a guitarist, bassist, composer, and teacher based in Los Angeles. Over the years Jeff has become a go-to guitarist and bassist in the LA music scene, performing with numerous acts including Communicant, Sofia Wolfson, Talker and countless others. He has also honed his skills as cross-genre multi-instrumentalist while performing in the pit for a variety of musical theater productions.
In 2019, Jeff released his debut EP, Happy Accident, a 4-song collection of instrumental songs that explore his influences in jazz, Americana, and indie music.
After moving to Los Angeles from his hometown of Henderson, Nevada, Jeff earned a Bachelor’s of Music in Studio/Jazz Guitar from USC in 2018 and a Master’s of Music in Studio/Jazz Guitar in 2020 on full scholarship. While at USC, he taught 4 semesters of guitar classes as a Teaching Assistant. He continues to teach both privately in his home studio and at music stores around LA.
Victoria Moreira
Flute
M.M. University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
B.M. Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
Based in the Pacific Northwest, Victoria Moreira is a freelance flutist, pedagogue, and ensemble director.
As an orchestral musician, Ms. Moreira regularly performs with the Eugene Symphony Orchestra, the OrchestraNEXT chamber ensemble for the Eugene Ballet, the Eugene Concert Orchestra, the Bloomington Symphony, and the Bloomington Chamber Singers. With an avid love of new music, she has premiered several new works for the SEAMUS music festival, the New Music Gathering festival, Milwaukee-based PresentMusic, the Fresh Inc Music Festival, the Crosstown Arts Festival, and the Oregon Composers’ Forum. In addition to being a contemporary soloist, she has been the baroque flute soloist for the Louisville Chamber Singers on their Bach Cantata series.
An advocate for social change in her work, Ms. Moreira performs with and has founded multiple ensembles dedicated to promoting awareness and advocating accessibility. She is the co-founder and flutist for the Achelois Collective, which is a cross-continental women-led artists’ ensemble dedicated to promoting underrepresented artists in all communities, provoking social change through activism in musical contributions, and inspiring future generations. In addition, with performances spanning the PNW to the Midwest, she is the flutist for the Duo Brisa, a flute and piano ensemble that focuses primarily on programming pieces by women composers. She co-founded “Does Your Brain Have a Soundtrack?”, an educational program for low-income preschool children in Highwood, Illinois.
When she is not performing, Ms. Moreira is in demand as a pedagogue. She has served as flute professor at Linfield University in McMinnville since 2021. In addition, she actively maintains a private studio of all ages, both in-person in Western Oregon and virtually around the globe. As part of an Indiana University-led education partnership, she served as a virtual instructor for music students at Kenyatta University in Kenya. In addition to teaching, she directs the West Winds Flute Choir, a Eugene-based ensemble for flutists of all levels.
Under the tutelage of Molly Barth and Jacqueline Cordova-Arrington, she received her Master’s in Flute Performance from the University of Oregon in 2019. She studied at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music with Kate Lukas and earned her Bachelor’s in Flute Performance in 2016.
Ayana Terauchi
Flute
M.M. Colburn School of Music
Los Angeles, CA
B.M. University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ayana Terauchi has been an avid performer in a variety of recitals, master classes, and chamber music concerts across the country. She has appeared frequently in competitions and has won the Undergraduate University of Michigan SMTD Concerto Competition, 1st prize in the MTNA Senior Woodwind National Competition, and 2nd prize in the National Flute Association Young Artist Competition. She has been featured on the NPR show From the Top, and she was a 2016 YoungArts winner, an award presented by the National YoungArts Foundation that recognizes excellence in the arts.
Ayana has participated in several prestigious music festivals including the Music Academy of the West, Aspen Music Festival and School, and the Thy Chamber Music Festival in Denmark where she performed with a woodwind quintet consisting of Michigan students.
Terauchi has received a Bachelor in Music at the University of Michigan with a Major in Flute Performance and a Minor in Entrepreneurship. She is currently pursuing her Masters degree at the Colburn School of Music where she studies flute performance with Professor Jim Walker.
Isaac Monts is an Artist, Musician, Producer, & Music Educator based out of Hartford, Connecticut. He began playing the drums at the age of 2 with inspiration coming from music his mother would play around the house.
During Isaac’s time at Southington High School, he participated in just about every music ensemble including the marching band, concert band, and the jazz ensemble. He gives credit to his experiences in the marching band drum line for getting him where he is today as a professional drummer. His involvement in the high school Jazz ensemble sparked an interest in playing authentic jazz music and inspired him to learn more. Isaac now has a B.A. in Music Performance with a focus on Jazz Studies from Central Connecticut State University – New Britain, CT.
Isaac is currently a well-experienced music director, drummer, producer, and teacher. Isaac has worked with various groups and artists including: Color Fields, Todd Galbreth, Ricky Dillard, Dathan Thigpen, Shane Davis, Kymberli Joye, Billy Powell & 1Church, PXRRY, Brittney Crush, Ace Livingston, Klokwize, Brodie Fresh, The Noah Baerman Trio, The Larry Gareau Trio, Rich Goldstein and more. Isaac serves as the Music Director at his home church, Liberty Christian Center International in Hartford, Connecticut, and continues his pursuits to inspire and impact others through his music.
Aubrey Fineout
Violin&Viola
M.M. Texas Christian University
B.M. Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas
Aubrey Fineout is a violist and violinist from Texas and holds a B.M. (Magna Cum Laude) and a M.M. in Viola Performance from Texas Christian University, as well as a B.A. in Creative Writing. As an undergraduate, Ms. Fineout was awarded the L.A. Nordan Fine Arts Endowed full tuition scholarship for music in 2013 and was inducted into the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honors Society. As a graduate student, she served as the teaching assistant to the Chair of Strings at TCU, Dr. Misha Galaganov, coaching undergraduate ensembles and teaching private lessons.
Ms. Fineout is a founding member and violist of the classical fusion group, the Cantilena String Quartet, and is also an active performer with the Dallas String Quartet (DSQ) in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, playing a variety of styles from classical to fiddle to pop to rock, on both acoustic and electric instruments.
Ms. Fineout has performed with touring artists such as Michael Bublé and 2 Cellos and performed for high-profile clients such as Bill and Melinda Gates and the George W. Bush family. She has also served as principal violist for the TCU Symphony and the Interharmony International Music Festival Symphony in Italy, and in 2019 performed in concert with Grammy nominee Bion Tsang, Gary Levinson, and Michael Klotz at the Josef Gingold Chamber Music Festival in Miami, FL. An active teacher, as well as performer, Ms. Fineout has maintained a studio of violin and viola students since 2013. She enjoys teaching at all levels and has experience teaching students from the ages of 5-85, acting as a guide on their musical journey.