Learn from Great Strings Teachers

As a professional musician and educator with 30 years of performance experience, my mission is to help students unlock their full rhythmic and artistic potential through a holistic approach to music. Today, my strengths as an instructor lie in my ability to bridge the gap between rigorous classical discipline and the dynamic adaptability required in modern commercial music.

A musical trailblazer with an insatiable passion for teaching and learning, Benjamin Wu has taught internationally in the United States and Afghanistan and has performed in music festivals and recital halls around the world including in the United States, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Taiwan, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, and in Australia at the world renown Sydney Opera House.

I have played classical music since three years old. I have taken over 500 lessons myself. I started on violin but switched to viola in high school. I now have many years experience with both. I have found that many violinists tend to stick to classical or fiddle. I am very different. I have experience with many different types of music.

Tom Arbaugh is an established musician and teacher who has been playing guitar, bass guitar, and double bass for over 20 years. He has played double bass in concert halls, including Benaroya Hall (home of the Seattle Symphony) for the 2006 and 2007 seasons of the hybrid student/professional Symphony Orchestra, toured Europe with jazz ensembles and wind ensembles over the summer of…

Taylor Sapanara has been teaching privately for 8 years. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Viola Performance from Arizona State University and is currently pursuing a Master's in Viola Performance from University of Colorado, Boulder. She has studied with viola pedagogues Susan Dubois, Jeffery Irvine, Carol Rodland, Nancy Buck, and Erika Eckert.

Udeshi Hargett is an award-winning, acclaimed violinist. She is a certified violin teacher with 19 years of teaching experience. She has been playing the violin for the past 31 years. She started her violin education in Sri Lanka at the young age of 6 years. She was appointed Concert Master of the National Youth Orchestra, and was a member of the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka.

I am a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music (BM, MM) with over two decades of experience teaching cello, beginning piano, and music theory. Member of the American String Teachers Association. Ages 4+ and beginners welcome! I specialize in teaching adults of all levels.

Accomplished bassist, composer and producer from Montreal, Canada, Eric Auclair has built a solid 30 year career performing live and in studios with some of the most acclaimed artists of the French Canadian and European musical community.

What started as a childhood fascination with the guitar grew into a lifelong pursuit of music. I picked up the bass in middle school and high school, but it wasn't until I found myself living in New York City that I began seriously studying and performing on the instrument — diving deep into jazz, blues, and funk and never looking back.

Matt, the owner of Whammo Music Studios, has been studying and playing music for more than 30 years including more than 20 years as a professional bassist. He majored in bass guitar and music composition at Berklee College of Music and has played for Carnival Cruise Lines, The Boulder Dinner Theater, and The Jessie Cotton Stone Blues Band.