Meet Alison! We are so excited to welcome this accomplished voice, piano and early childhood music education dynamo to our teaching ranks at Americana Music Academy. Alison has experience both in the public education classroom and teaching private, one-on-one lessons...
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Aleia Gonzalez
Aleia González holds a Master of Music degree in guitar performance from UMKC. As a performance artist, she is constantly seeking for opportunities to collaborate with singers and instrumentalists of the Kansas City area. Part of this personal initiative include...
Vineel Mahal
Vineel is an award winning actor, singer and professional performer with appearances at opera houses and theaters from Hong Kong to New York to Cincinatti to the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Trained at NYU and with experience teaching at that prestigious university in New...
Justin Harbaugh
Justin Harbaugh is a professional musician and instructor of clarinet in Lawrence, Kansas. He has taught on faculty at Emporia State University. He earned his Doctor of Musical Arts in Clarinet Performance from the University of Kansas in 2019. Justin holds a Master...
Rachel Cross
Rachel Cross is a midwest-based singer, actor, harpist, voice teacher, and music director. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice Pedagogy and Performance and a partial Masters in Fine Arts in Voice Pedagogy and Speech Science. During her multi-year residency in the...
Kendra Switzer
Kendra Switzer is a coloratura soprano from Joplin, MO. New to the Lawrence area, she is pursuing her second masters degree in Musicology at the University of Kansas. She graduated with her first masters degree in Vocal Music Performance from Pittsburg State...
Dylan Bassett
Biography Dylan Bassett is a composer, percussionist, and teacher. Dylan holds at BA in Music and an MA in Global and International Studies. Over the past 30 years Dylan has performed throughout the U.S, Guinea, Ghana, & Senegal with a score of talented musicians...
Steven Bergdall
A lifelong musician, Steven grew up in Huntington, IN and has been teaching piano and horn since 2000. Since then he has had the opportunity to work with students of all ages in individual and group settings. He studied composition at Oberlin Conservatory, jazz piano...
Dave Ludwick
David has played music professionally since junior high school in various groups and styles. His most recent ventures include the Lawrence City Band, Ottawa Symphony, several rock and country dance bands, and a ballroom dance band called the Prairie Dogs. After...
Ariel Morris
Ariel Morris is a Lawrence-based coloratura soprano. She earned her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance in 2011 from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she studied with Soprano Alice Hopper. Ariel performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra...
Avery Parkhurst
Avery has been learning to make noise professionally since he was given his first violin at age four. As a recent graduate in Violin Performance from the University of Kansas School of Music, he has devoted himself to a wide array of musical traditions and...
Michael Paull
Michael Paull was born and raised in Ft. Collins, Colorado at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. He moved to Lawrence in 1993 ("I thought I'd go see what the horizon looked like.") where he has lived ever since. In January of 2003 he became a staff teacher at the...
Annie Schneller
Annie Schneller began studying the violin at the age of 4 under the private instruction of Ruth Sadasivan. In theyears since, Annie has accumulated honors including winning first place at the MTNA Kansas Young ArtistStrings Competition, an honorable mention at the...
Jenn Thomas
Multi-instrumentalist Jenn Thomas has spent the last two decades performing and teaching in classrooms, concert halls, bars, and street corners on three continents. Equally comfortable in the classical world and beyond, Jenn teaches violin, viola, cello, and string...