Middle School

Ben Welch Snellings

BEN WELCH SNELLINGS - cellist and conductor, has been performing and teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 30 years. Ben's credits as a cellist include tenured positions in numerous regional orchestras of the San Francisco Bay Area, performances at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, performances with Different Strokes (a jazz strings duo) and the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra. He was also the Music Director of "Funky Fitness", a TV show produced in San Francisco.

Nanette McGuinness

Award-winning soprano and voice teacher Nanette McGuinness welcomes students of all levels and styles in her studio. Lessons focus on bel canto technique, working with the breath and body to free your voice and enable you to sound like yourself ― at your very best. Member NATS and MTAC.

Concert Choir

Concert Choir (Intermediate/Advanced level) is for boys ages 7-12 with previous choir experience and/or instrumental lessons, boys match pitch and are ready for 2-part music of choral standards including classical and contemporary works, continued sight-reading experience, more advanced tone building. Meets once weekly, 120 minutes plus small group Musicianship Class.

Overture Choir

Overture Choir (Beginning level), is for boys ages 6 and up with limited skills. Skills covered: matching pitch, steady rhythm, vocal tone building, beginning sight-reading, repertoire: unison classical and folk music plus rounds. Meets once a week, 90 minutes plus small group Musicianship Class.

Tamara Miller

Tamara Miller is a professional musician and actor with a home studio in Oakland where she teaches piano and music theory to children and voice to adults. For children she focuses on the whole musician, incorporating sight reading, rhythm, scales and chords, theory and storytelling through music. For adults she focuses on technique and artistry. Her method involves easy vowel, alignment, breath support and clear communication. She worked as a music educator at the Cabrillo Youth Chorus and has been teaching privately for over five years.

Polyphony Chamber Orchestra

PCO was founded in 1998 by Stanley Lee and Anne Lee. The mission of PCO is to provide an after school music education for students of all ages. The young musicians will learn not only how to play together in an orchestra, but to learn different music styles from different eras (Baroque, Classic, Romantic, 20th Century and Contemporary) as well.

John King

John King has been teaching music in the Bay Area for over ten years. He has worked at Crowden School, College Preparatory School, and Acme Music, among other institutions. He currently offers private lessons to kids and adults of all ages in piano practice and performance, music theory, and music composition. He holds a B.A. in Music from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in Music Composition from the University of Manchester in England. When he's not teaching, John performs locally as well as internationally as a jazz and classical pianist. For more information, please visit his website at:

Terrence Brewer

Guitarist Terrence Brewer has an extensive experience as a guitar instructor. Brewer has been a private lesson instructor for the past 13 years teaching all styles (Jazz, Rock, Blues, Funk-R&B, Classical) to all ages and skill levels.

Vicky Grossi

She sees music as a gigantic field of study, and wants her students to feel prepared to move in any direction they wish with their musical interests.

As an instructor Vicky worked for many summer programs including conducting the Woodside Elementary School Summer Orchestra 1990-1993, being the band leader at Grace Lutheran Church summer session 2004-2007, and the band assistant at Explore Middle School 2007-2008. Vicky has been teaching private lessons on the violin and bass since 1998. Vicky loves to organize concerts and recitals so her students become confident performers.