Pre-School

John King has been teaching music in the Bay Area for over ten years. He has worked at Crowden School, College Preparatory School, and Acme Music, among other institutions. He currently offers private lessons to kids and adults of all ages in piano practice and performance, music theory, and music composition. He holds a B.A. in Music from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in Music Composition from the University of Manchester in England. When he's not teaching, John performs locally as well as internationally as a jazz and classical pianist. For more information, please visit his website at:

She sees music as a gigantic field of study, and wants her students to feel prepared to move in any direction they wish with their musical interests.

As an instructor Vicky worked for many summer programs including conducting the Woodside Elementary School Summer Orchestra 1990-1993, being the band leader at Grace Lutheran Church summer session 2004-2007, and the band assistant at Explore Middle School 2007-2008. Vicky has been teaching private lessons on the violin and bass since 1998. Vicky loves to organize concerts and recitals so her students become confident performers.

Angie has been teaching piano lessons since she was in college. She was a piano instructor at ABC Music in Scottsdale, Arizona, for several years. She moved to Oakland in June of 2007 and is excited to be a part of Musically Minded piano studio.Her strengths as a teacher include her ability to adapt lessons to the students' areas of interest and her versatile knowledge of many styles of music including classical, jazz, and popular music. She brings with her the unique perspective of someone who grew up reading music and later learned to improvise.

I am a professional pianist, teacher, and counselor who moved to the East Bay to pursue my master's degree in Expressive Arts Therapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. For the over fifteen years, I have been earning my income as a performing artist, accompanist, and teacher.

Anna has an extensive background working as a teacher and an entrepreneur in the arts since 1989. She is the founder and director of Musically Minded Studio. She also ran Funk Works Urban and Ethnic Dance Studio, with live musicians accompanying each ethnic dance class, and East Bay Presents, and non-profit organization that presented concerts in intimate sized spaces in the East Bay.

Ilana is a freelance violist and teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a Master’s degree in viola performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a B.A. in music from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. She is the assistant principal violist of the Berkeley Symphony, and a member of both the Sacramento Philharmonic and the West Bay Opera Orchestra. She appears frequently with other Bay Area ensembles, including the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Oakland, Marin, Modesto, Merced, and Silicon Valley Symphonies.