St. Paul

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.

Danielle has taught violin lessons to students of all ages, from 8 years old to nearly 80, for the past ten years! She loves the creativity of planning violin lessons that align with each student’s needs and interests. Her passion for teaching violin stems from my experiences with her own violin teacher, from whom she took lessons for 15 years, with the Suzuki method and picking up several fiddle styles such as Irish, Old Time, and Bluegrass, as well, which led to improvising with a few local bands in South Dakota. During her years at Grinnell College and studying abroad, she was able to play with different orchestras at the college and internationally. Danielle is also a certified K-12 teacher. Today, she enjoys playing with the Saint Paul Civic Symphony and improvising with friends in many different styles.  Through lessons she hopes to bring each student a sense of joy in learning and purpose later on whether the student brings their skills to make music with friends, in an orchestra, as a soloist, or beyond.

New to the Twin Cities, Emily is thrilled to share her musical knowledge with you. She began private lessons on the flute at 8 years old and practiced avidly while growing up in Idaho. While studying art in college, she constantly drew from the combination of discipline and expression she learned from her musical education. Emily finds a uniquely transportive experience whether playing the flute or piano which shapes her experience of the world. Her love of teaching comes from the opportunity to enable others to cultivate this experience. When she’s not teaching, Emily is making ceramics, listening or watching jazz performances, and enjoying the outdoors.