St. Louis Park

Andrea is currently an incoming senior at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities majoring in Choral Music Education. She hopes to graduate in the Spring of 2025 and find a music teaching job in a school setting afterward. Andrea is originally from the Philippines where she finished high school and studied guitar and voice lessons. She completed one level of voice lessons at the “Center for Pop Music Philippines” which is the number one training school of performing arts in the Philippines. Aside from that, she also started joining a lot of amateur and national talent contests back in the Philippines and sometimes wins and continuously does so here in the United States like the Minnesota Amateur Talent Contest. Aside from singing in talent contests or shows, she sometimes plays with her instruments like guitar, ukulele, and piano. She also did theater productions like “Jesus Christ Superstar” and is currently doing “The Little Mermaid”. She is also advocating the Philippine Culture in Minnesota since she is the current “Cultural Chair” of the “Philippine Student Association” in her school for the school year 2024 – 2025. She is also an academic achiever by being a dean’s lister for several semesters. In her free time, when does not do any performing arts related, she loves to watch movies with her family.

Antonio is a performer, composer, music producer, and audio engineer. He has had a love for music for as long as he can remember and has been playing piano for nearly 20 years and guitar for 15 years. He spent most of his childhood and teenage years learning how to play as many instruments as he could and playing in as many bands as he could fill his time with. He earned his bachelor’s in music from Minnesota State University Moorhead where he focused on jazz performance, music production, audio engineering, and music business. During his college years he ran a house show venue called Grandpa’s House and spent the following 6 years booking shows all over the Fargo, ND/Moorhead, MN area for touring and local artists.

Antonio has performed in numerous groups, most notably indie-rock 4-piece Naivety. He currently plays guitars, keys, and lap steel in the backing band for Minneapolis solo indie project Walker Rider, alongside being Walker Rider’s primary producer. Antonio fills in for many other groups as a backing band member and does studio session work across the twin cities area. He also collaborates with other artists, helping them to write, record, and produce their own music.

Antonio believes that anyone can learn how to play, whether you want to pick up a hobby and grow your creative side or grow as a musician and take your skills and passion to the next level.

Carson has played piano since she was four years old. She grew up in Texas and participated in many music and dance extracurricular activities in school. Carson attended West Texas A&M University where she earned a Bachelor of Music Therapy degree with an instrumental emphasis in piano. She was an active member of both the university orchestra and choir and taught piano students while attending college. Carson taught Kindermusik lessons to young children for two years at Kindermusik of CS-B in Texas, and she currently provides music therapy services at an assisted living facility in Minneapolis. Carson’s favorite part of both teaching and music therapy is getting to see how music helps people change and grow throughout their lives.