Private Lessons

Instructors

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  Hannah Stachel

  Piano

  [email protected]

  My name is Hannah Stachel and I have been teaching private piano lessons for the past couple of years. I graduated from Augsburg College with a degree in Piano Studies with an emphasis on classical studies. I have been playing piano for about twenty years and I teach students starting at age four up to adulthood. I am working on expanding my piano business and looking for more opportunities to be able to teach students. There are several benefits to learning the piano such as improving your hand-eye coordination, increasing the dexterity in your fingers and arms, helps improve focus and concentration among many other benefits. I have always enjoyed playing the piano and love to be able to share my love of music with others as well. I teach in-home lessons, as well as lessons at TCHA on Wednesdays.
  

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  Lisa Bernard

  Voice

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  Lisa Bernard has sung professionally for over 25 years. Her voice has appeared on numerous radio/TV commercials and she’s recorded background vocals for many major Pop and Christian recording artists. She scored a top ten hit with her song “Better Than You” as Lisa Keith in 1993. Her favorite memory from that time was performing on the Jay Leno Show. Before her professional career, Lisa studied classical voice, enjoyed high school and college choirs, and was selected for All State choir.

  Lisa has devoted herself to the music ministry at church, as well as leading choirs and music classes for the homeschool community. She also enjoys performing locally with her husband, Spencer Bernard (also a tutor at TCHA). Being a homeschool mom, Lisa is excited to be part of TCHA and all it offers homeschoolers. She enjoys helping her students learn about music, experience the joy of singing, and glorify the Lord with their voices.

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  Michelle Whalen

  Voice, Piano

  Michelle has been a seeker of creativity & wonderment since childhood. Raised in Madagascar and Minnesota, as a young girl Michelle fell in love with the internal landscape of books and story, and the external narrative of nature and the outdoors, with music woven throughout both worlds. As a teenager she filled her days with theater, choir, speech, and music and found in those spaces both her strengths and gifting, as well as her people and belonging.

  Michelle received a BA in Music Performance with a vocal emphasis from Colorado Christian University, and spent the following years touring with various groups and working as a studio musician and vocalist for commercial and corporate events. Michelle has also led worship for over 25 years, recorded on various worship albums featuring her original music, and released two solo albums as a singer-songwriter.

  Teaching voice and piano from her home studio, Michelle has also taught and mentored songwriting for several summers at The Junior Composer’s Institute, and directed four years of Christmas choir and orchestra performances of Handel’s Messiah.

  In 2013 Michelle joined the founding board of Twin Cities Homeschoolers for the Arts and is passionate about providing faith-based quality performing arts opportunities to the homeschooling community. Michelle has a special love for working with teens, enjoying the role of music director for TCHA musical productions since 2018, and is now thrilled to be directing the TCHA teen mixed choirs and female select ensemble. She has two college-age children, Kenoy and Paris, and lives in Eagan, MN.

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  Nicole Davis

  Flute

  [email protected]

  (406) 370-6893

  Nicole M. Davis teaches private flute lessons to students of all ages. She has a Bachelor of Music Degree in Flute Performance from Concordia College and a Master of Music Degree in Flute Performance from The University of Northern Iowa. She taught flute lessons to non-music majors at The University of Northern Iowa during her graduate school program as part of her teaching-assistantship. She has maintained her private studio in the Twin Cities since the Fall of 2009. Many of her students have been very successful and have accomplished things such as participating in All State, Honors Bands and Orchestras. Several have received music scholarships and have continued in music at the college level.

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  Spencer Bernard

  Guitar, Ukukele, Bass

  https://spencerbernardlessons.wordpress.com

  Spencer Bernard has been playing guitar and bass professionally for over twenty five years, and ukulele for five years. Before becoming a pastor, Spencer was a full-time musician. He still plays guitar at his church (Evergreen Church in Bloomington). Spencer is experienced in many styles, and has taught guitar part-time since 1998. He teaches a well-rounded approach that includes strumming, single note picking, and music reading. He can also design a lesson plan around a student’s specific goals and ambitions.
  

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  Spencer Shoeneman

  Drums

  https://www.inthekeyofrhythm.com/lessons

  Being a home school alum myself, I am excited to re-engage with the home school community; this time as an educator. I graduated in 2014 from McNally Smith College of Music with a Bachelor’s of Music in Percussion Performance.

  I play regularly in church worship bands, I have been a member of pit bands for many local theaters, and I have performed with multiple cover bands and original artists. I am constantly learning and performing new material in a wide range of styles: rock ‘n’ roll, classic and modern rock, doo-wop, swing, blue grass, country, R&B, funk, pop, and more.

  As an educator, I have had great success helping students of all ages and abilities reach their goals behind the drum set. A typical lesson will incorporate the study of reading, coordination, and vocabulary; time keeping is emphasized regardless of the subject at hand. Eventually the student will be introduced to different styles of drumming and will also learn to play along with their favorite songs.