We have a number of professional instructors.
We personally choose the RIGHT instructor
for your needs.

Our qualifications for teaching in our school are not your normal “must have a degree in this and that”. While we do feel a degree is great, it does not mean the person can teach another.

All our staff wants to teach, take great pleasure in teaching, some have fancy degrees, and they all teach very well and properly and get incredible raving results by our students of ALL ages and all abilities.

Cassidy Turbin, Director

Drums, Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute

Cassidy has been teaching his own students of all ages, since the age of 14. At a very early age he was accepted to the renowned New York Drummers Collective, studied at Jeff Berlin’s Player’s School of Music as well as studied at the Musician’s Institute, Los Angeles.

With a well rounded education and all the while teaching students, he was exposed and played with all varieties of gigs, shows, recordings  and acts  from Manhattan’s Jazz styles to the rock group Canon, as well as  performing orchestral percussion and woodwinds.

Cassidy is always one to hook up with some of the finest. He’s played/recorded with jazz Guitarist Greg Smith, Demo Team, Skip Spiro’s Little Big Band, The Subdudes’ John Magnieas well as many others including his own jazz quartet, consisting of Tracy Wannomae and Dave Price on horns and Justin DiCenzo on bass.

He has continued to expand his abilities with lessons from Woody Herman’s Chuck Flores, John Scofield’s Steve Haas, Miles Davis’ Alfonze Mouson and Tom Brechtlein (Chic Corea, Leonard Cohen.)

Cassidy teaches all genres and thoroughly enjoys helping his students reach their personal goals. The age range he teaches is unlimited.

From an early age, music has been his passion. He teachs students of all ages on a variety of instruments and genres. He loves both playing and seeing his students reach their goals.

Jason Turbin

Strings, Flute, Brass, Keyboard, Music Theory

 Jason’s goal as an artist is to continue to master different instruments to his growing repertoire of what he plays. These include violin, viola, guitar, recorder, flute, trumpet, ukulele, banjo, piano, harmonica, and mandolin. His goal also applies to writing different styles of music. He write reggae, rock n’ roll, folk, country, classical, renaissance, baroque, jazz, Celtic and other styles. 

Recent achievements include playing with The Traction Avenue Chamber Orchestra as well as being a band member and musical director for the progressive-rock band, Canon. Jason has also been in many stage musicals such as the Off-Broadway, “Les Misérables”. 

He is a graduate of the prestigious Los Angeles Recording Workshop in the North Hollywood Arts District was trained under a variety of music professionals. He has trained under many top vocalists including Seth Riggs (other students include Prince, Stevie Wonder, and Michael Jackson). He also learn choir, composing, 16th and 18th century counterpoint by Francis Wells and others.

He teaches music to many talented artists and enjoys instilling knowledge into their lives.