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June Cannon

Flute/Piano Instructor

June started music training and piano at age four and was attracted to classical music since she was very young. With a BA in flute performance, June has been teaching piano and flute, as well as playing solos, ensembles, and in orchestras in Southeastern Idaho for 20 years. She has served as adjudicator for many music events and is a director of flute choirs in Blackfoot and Idaho Falls.

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Craig Green

Guitar Instructor

New Orleans native Craig Green has been immersed in composing, playing and teaching the guitar for 25 years. Craig has studied guitar in Europe and has toured in the US. His playing has been influenced by music research stays in India, Africa and Europe. Craig continues his recording and touring which helps him develop new techniques for his guitar students at Chesbro Music Co.

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Cammy Harris

Piano/Oboe/Voice Instructor

Cammy has had twenty plus years of teaching experience, teaching both in the private and classroom settings.  Along with teaching private lessons for piano and voice, she was also a band teacher for five years in Mesa Arizona. Cammy holds her Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Idaho State University.  She has also had many performing opportunities in Arizona and the South-eastern Idaho region.

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Abby Schwarzenbart

Piano Instructor

From small town San Juan Island, Abby was born singing and started playing piano when the keys were still above her head.  When she was about 4-years-old, her mom pulled out her childhood copy of John Thompson’s Piano Course and there’s been no looking back.  Abby earned her B.A. at Seattle Pacific University where she studied composition, voice and piano and a M.A. from Lee University in Church Music.  She first started teaching piano around the greater Seattle area in 2015 and has enjoyed teaching beginning and intermediate piano and voice to children and adults ever since.

Freddy Gildersleeve

Guitar Instructor

Born here in Idaho, I have been playing guitar since 1984. I began playing live on my 21st birthday in 1991 and have never stopped. I've played everything from Beatles pop to country and bluegrass to funk, rock-n-roll to my current Jazz band: The Dewdroppers  

The only thing I love as much as playing music live is teaching music. When the light comes on and a student "gets it", I get as much joy as they do. 

Elizabeth

Cello/Voice/Piano Instructor

Elizabeth Browne has studied and performed with some of the finest musicians in the world, under the auspices of prominent arts organizations, such as the Aspen Music Festival, the Grand Teton Music Festival, and Interlochen Center for the Arts. Browne’s teachers include Andrés Díaz, Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Michael Reynolds, Stephen Geber, and Jean Dexter, who introduced a three-year- old Elizabeth to the cello. Elizabeth is a substitute cellist with the Nashville Symphony, playing with them from time to time. She played with the Tennessee Philharmonic (formerly the Murfreesboro Symphony) for five years, four years as principal cellist. In the popular music realm, she can be heard on the Evanescence album Synthesis, as well as several video game, movie, and TV soundtracks, ranging from Call of Duty: WW2 to My Little Pony: The Movie. She obtained her master of music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, as well as her bachelor of music degree in cello performance and voice performance from Boston University, where she graduated summa cum laude. An enthusiastic music educator, Elizabeth began teaching at age fourteen. She spent seven years as an adjunct professor, teaching cello at Lipscomb University in Nashville. Elizabeth currently teaches cello, as well as voice and piano, and is a sought-after private instructor in the Idaho Falls area.

Madara Seegmiller

Violin Instructor

 I come from a small, beautiful country in Europe called Latvia.  Music has always been a huge part of my life. I am a professional violinist with a 4 year of college degree in Classical music performance. Besides music, I enjoy spending time in nature, reading a good book, going on hikes, and attending live concerts, musicals, opera and theater.

I have taught violin lessons for over 10 years, teaching young students ages 6-18, both as private lessons, group lessons, and ensembles. I teach beginner, intermediate and advanced players. I’m also a certified music therapist with a few years of experience. I absolutely enjoy teaching and working with people, seeing their excitement and love grow through their hard work and progress.

Colleen M. Story

French Horn/Piano Instructor
(Also beginning-intermediate trumpet and trombone)

Colleen plays French horn in the Idaho Falls Symphony and various other local music groups in the area, and had been teaching private music lessons for over 30 years. She earned her bachelor's degree in music education from Western Colorado University in 1991, where she focused on French horn and piano, earning the prestigious Damson Scholarship for Musical Performance.

Colleen graduated summa cum laude and though she switched careers to focus on writing (she is a published author and full-time freelancer), she continues to enjoy teaching music privately. Many of her students have gone on to earn scholarships for their musical ability at the college level. She expects her students to work hard, and she goes the extra mile for them in return, striving to instill within them a love of music, an ability to focus and accomplish their goals, and a sense of inner confidence and pride that will serve them throughout their lives.

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