Learn from Great Strings Teachers

I have been teaching guitar for over 15 years. I started teaching when I was in college, teaching my friends around the dorms. I grew up playing in bands as soon as I picked up the guitar. That's why I love teaching. I remember how good it felt to learn an instrument when I was a teenager.

I got involved with music at young age in Cyprus by having lessons under the guidance of the well respected bassist Omiros Andreou (Zilla Project) and guitarist Manolis Vourakis (Blues Wire). I am now working in London as a professional musician and a freelance bassist, after graduating from the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance.

I am a professionally trained violinist with a classical foundation and deep experience in improvisation, world music, and contemporary styles. I studied in England at Dartington College of Arts and completed postgraduate jazz studies at the Guildhall School of Music in London.

Hello! I am Dr. Felipe Luzuriaga. With over 20 years of teaching experience, I am a devoted teacher and passionate performer. I completed both my Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at the University of Toronto and a Graduate Performance Diploma at the Boston Conservatory in Massachusetts.

Hello! My name is Samuele Sapienza, I'm a classical musician with years of experience both as performer and teacher. I've been playing in several professional Orchestras in Italy (my motherland), and I also have had the chance to stage chamber music concerts. Besides that, I'm a very open minded person.

Mark Helias is a renowned bassist and composer who has performed throughout the world for more than four decades. After his studies at Rutgers University (B.A. 1974) and The Yale School of Music (M.M. 1976), he began his international career in the Anthony Braxton Quartet.

I am a passionate cellist with strong creativity. I have solid experience in the concert and operatic fields and am also dedicated to teaching, continually deepening my understanding of various teaching methodologies. If I had to choose three distinctive traits that define me: determination, positive energy, and rationality!

Jonathan Kuehn originates from the Puget Sound region near Seattle WA. As an avid chamber musician, he was a founding member of the UW Baroque Ensemble and the SOL Chamber Orchestra. Alongside his collaborations on violin, Jonathan also plays viola and has received coaching from Brooklyn Rider, and from the St. Lawrence and Brentano string quartets.

Olga Shishkina is an internationally active gusli artist and educator, pianist, organist and composer with over 20 years of professional experience. She has performed in the USA, Japan and Europe and gave solo concerts in California, Paris on some of the world's best venues.

Hello, my name is Mika! I myself began playing the cello during lockdown in 2021 and have seen how much joy and personal growth it has brought me, and would love to share it with other people, guiding them on their own journeys with music!