In This Section:
Private Lessons
(30 minute weekly private lesson for 14 weeks)
Piano (age 6 – adult)
Beginning, intermediate and advanced instruction with theory, technique, and interpretation included.
Ms. Carolyn Blake, instructor – caroblake@bellsouth.net
Traditional Violin (age 10 – adult)
Beginning instruction develops basic playing skills and enhances fine motor skills. Includes proper hand positioning, good tone production, bowing rhythm patterns, and rote learning of simple tunes. Gradual introduction to music reading and theory. Also, intermediate & advanced levels. (Also appropriate for those particularly interested in Fiddle).
Mr. David Johnson, instructor - johnsondais@comcast.net
David Johnson has been a working violinist/fiddler since 1979. His experience includes work with orchestras, chamber music groups and, since 1986, Country singer Randy Travis's touring band.
Guitar (age 6 – adult)
Classical and/or commercial (steel-string) guitar technique and styles (including jazz, rock, blues, country, etc.). Chord shapes, location of notes on neck of guitar, scale/chord theory (especially as related to building chords), and different strum patterns.
William Fitzhugh, instructor – tigerfitz1@mac.com
William “Tiger” Fitzhugh attended Berklee College of Music for 3 years and completed Bachelor and Master Degrees in classical guitar performance at Austin Peay State University. He is the author of the Hal Leonard publication "Classical Guitar for the Steel String Guitarist". A professional musician as well as an educator, he has lived in the Nashville area for over 25 years. He teaches all styles of guitar to all ages of students
Voice (age 14 – adult)
Individual singing instruction to develop and enhance the student’s tone production, breathing technique, posture, diction, phrasing, and overall musicality. Varied repertoire per student’s needs. Audition/interview required for new students.
Ms. Ginger Newman, instructor – 1womanshow@bellsouth.net
Ginger Newman is an Adjunct Vocal Professor at Cumberland University. For the past five years she has been the Musical Director/Conductor for the University School Middle School and High School productions of their fall musicals at Ingram Hall. She works extensively with TPAC- ED as a Teaching Artist and she was the Education Director of Green Room Projects which worked with at-risk youth creating programs to empower them using the arts.
Ginger has been a professional artist for over thirty years: in that time she has toured all fifty states and been around the world in theatres, concert halls, convention centers and cruise. She has had leading roles in many shows at Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Nashville Opera, OPRYLAND and as a Guest Artist with the Nashville Symphony. She has been the Featured Entertainer for TPAC’S Gala Fest de Ville in Jackson Hall on numerous occasions.
She starred, to critical acclaim, in the Tennessee premiere of SOUVENIR-A FANTASIA BASED ON THE LIFE OF FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS which won her A BEST MUSICAL PERFORMANCE 2008 award by the NASHVILLE SCENE.
Band/Orchestral Instruments: (7th grade – adult)
Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon, Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, French Horn, Trumpet, and Trombone.
Robert Shankle currently teaches at Trevecca, Lipscomb, Cumberland University and Cumberland Arts Academy. His free-lance woodwind playing includes the Nashville Symphony, the Nashville Jazz Orchestra, Broadway shows, and recording work for Faith Hill, Matchbox 20, and The Temptations to recording in the Christian music field.
Mr, Glenn Martin, instructor - gmartin@cumberland.edu
Glenn Martin is active as a composer, arranger, jazz trombonist and clinician throughout the United States and has had compositions or arrangements performed by the United States Marine Band, The Modern Jazz Tuba Project, The Tennessee All Mid-State Jazz Band, The East Tennessee All-State Clinic Jazz Band and by school and college groups across the U.S. He has had pieces published by CPP/Belwin-Warner Brothers, R.B.C. Music, The T.U.B.A. Press and Jazz Anyone Publications. Mr. Martin taught instrumental music at the secondary level for 12 years, directing superior-rated concert, marching and jazz bands.