Teachers

Micah Jacob --  Guitar (Acoustic, Electric, Jazz)

Micah is our guitar instructor at MMC.  He has been playing guitar for over 14 years and has been teaching guitar for 9 years.  Micah has experience playing with jazz bands as lead guitarist and backup acoustic guitar for performances across the state.  He is currently a college student at the University of Utah.  Micah specializes in fingerpicking and tablature guitar as well as acoustic strumming or creating improv in Jazz.  He teaches on acoustic, electric, or jazz guitar.  

Micah teaches students of all ages from 9-99.  He goes through guitar method books to learn note reading, but also teaches chords, strumming, and tabs.  Students can request the songs or style of music that they want to learn.  Micah is very patient and loves to sing along with students who are wanting to play guitar to accompany themselves.  

Caleb Thomas - Piano, Keyboard, Music Theory

Caleb is our piano and keyboard instructor and also a great tutor for students taking AP Music Theory or College Theory.  He is a piano performance major at the University of Utah and has been playing piano for over 17 years.  Caleb has been performing in public from the age of 6 years old and has won numerous awards in piano performance and music composition and arrangement both nationally and internationally.  He has performed several times with live orchestra, acts as musical director of the Children's Missoula Theatre, often accompanies the choir department at Murray High School, and has been teaching piano lessons for the last 9 years.  

Caleb is great at teaching all ages teaches through method books, scales, technique books, theory, and performance books.  He tries to find what music interests each student and takes requests for specific pieces they want to learn.  Or if there is a song on the radio or from a movie or video game, he will find an arrangement of it, or create one himself that is at the level of the student.  

Jewelia Mary - Violin and Fiddle

Jewelia is our violin instructor.  She has been playing violin for over 14 years.  She is a violin performance major at the University of Utah and member of their Philharmonia Orchestra.  Jewelia was a member of the Utah Youth Philharmonic and concert Mistress/1st Chair of the Murray High Concert Orchestra.  She has won awards both locally and internationally in violin performance and has experience playing in numerous ensembles and stringed orchestras.  

Jewelia teaches through violin method and scale books, but also uses the Suzuki violin method and fiddle music for her students to learn.  She is great at teaching students brand new to violin or helping students in school orchestra programs to get the more hands on help they need to succeed.  She lets students request songs or music they are interested in or would like to play.  Jewelia is great to play alongside students so they can hear and connect how music should sound.  She is very patient with her students and encouraging and loves to see her students develop their skills.  She has been teaching violin for the last 5 years. 

Beckalynn - Ukulele, Beginning Piano, Pre-Music, Pre-Piano, Mommy and Me,  Studio Manager

Becca is our ukulele, pre-music, mommy and me, and pre-piano/beginning piano teacher.  She has been involved in music her whole life, and was an elementary music specialist for over 6 years in Murray School District.  She has been on the Murray Arts Advisory Board and involved with many other music programs around the area.  Becca has taught after school ukulele classes to elementary students and ukulele classes at the Murray Library and Utah Virtual Academy.  She loves teaching kids and has a blast creating silly songs or finding music they can sing along with. 

Becca teaches ukulele sing and strum to kids and adults.  She teaches chord reading and strumming patterns and how to sing along with songs on ukulele.  

Becca teaches the pre-school to kindergarten kids Pre-Music lessons which involve fun songs and games to get the littlest learners excited to learn music.  She also helps teaching some of our youngest piano students until they are advanced enough to be learning notes on the staff or are learning to read.  

Troy Phillip - Technical/Operations/Equipment Manager, Pre-K Music Aide

Troy is our all around Studio Operations Manager.  He ensures that equipment is in working order and running smoothly.  Troy helps out with anything computer related and audio technical.  He is an awesome stage manager during recitals and when we use online platforms for lessons or recordings.  He is also lovingly know as "Mr. S" by our preschool students who love it when he aides with classroom instruments, dancing and crafts.  

Troy grew up loving music and singing.  He has been involved in several choirs and singing groups and was one of the lead singers in the band Deadline Effect for a few years in the early 2000's  Troy is always encouraging and here to help whenever needed, and no job is too small, even if it is just being an extra listening ear or a clapping fan.  

Macey Rose -  Pre-K Music Aide, Beginning Violin, Orchestra Tutoring, Beginning Ballet

Macey is our aspiring teacher.  She is great with our youngest students and helps out with our Pre-K group classes and individual pre-music lessons.  

Macey is great with many instruments.  She is able to play violin, piano, guitar and ukulele.   She also sings and dances ballet.  Macey is currently involved in school orchestra and choir.  She hopes one day to incorporate her love of music and dance with her dream of becoming a ballet teacher.  

Macey is great helping our pre-K group classes with musical numbers, games and crafts.  She also is great at encouraging younger students with shorter attention spans to learn music and try new things.  

Tails - Student Greeter/ Studio Mascot

Tails is our student greeter and studio mascot.  She is an 11 year old chihuahua who loves to see each student come in and often sits and listens to students during lessons.  She is very friendly yet gentle and is very well behaved.  She doesn't lick or bark.  

She is considerate of our students who are not comfortable around pets or have allergies, so she stays away when instructed in her room or outside in the back yard.  Tails also allows her humans to vacuum daily and she is good about not being allowed on any furniture.  She knows when she is not invited during a lesson, and uses that time to rest upstairs and still enjoy the music coming from other studio rooms.