Meet Brittany
Helping students understand, explore, and connect with music.
Why I teach differently.
Over my 20+ years of teaching, I watched student after student lose confidence, lose curiosity, and eventually walk away from piano altogether.
For a long time, I taught the same way I had been taught — rigid, highly methodical, and heavily focused on following instructions rather than truly understanding music. While that approach worked for some students, I began realizing how often it left students disconnected, discouraged, and creatively limited.
The more I saw students lose interest, the more I realized something needed to change.
So I stopped teaching from a one-size-fits-all method and began building lessons around the individual student instead.
I started creating my own materials, following students’ interests, encouraging questions, and helping students understand how music actually works — not just what notes to play. Lessons became more creative, more collaborative, more exploratory, and far more meaningful.
And something incredible happened:
students began thriving.
They became more confident, more engaged, more independent, and more connected to music in a genuine and lasting way.
Today, my teaching philosophy is centered around curiosity, creativity, understanding, and musical ownership. Because I believe students learn best when they feel empowered to explore, question, create, and truly connect with the music they’re making.
Teaching philosophy
I believe music is meant to be explored, questioned, understood, and created — not simply followed.
Music is more than memorization, repetition, or simply playing the correct notes.
When students truly understand music — when they recognize patterns, ask questions, explore creatively, and connect ideas together — they begin to develop confidence, independence, and genuine ownership of their musicianship.
In my studio, theory is not taught as a rigid set of rules, but as a tool for understanding, creativity, and freedom. Students are encouraged to think critically, experiment openly, and approach music with curiosity rather than fear of mistakes.
Because meaningful musical growth happens when students feel safe to explore, create, question, and discover.
There are no “wrong notes” in the learning process —
only opportunities to listen, adjust, and understand more deeply.
Beyond the Lesson
Music is woven into nearly every part of Brittany’s life — not just through teaching, but through creating, collaborating, performing, and continually exploring music herself.
Creating & Exploring
Outside of lessons, Brittany spends much of her time creating original teaching materials, exploring new ideas for students, and finding ways to make musical concepts more engaging, practical, and creative. (In between games of Settlers of Catan with her family, of course!)
Collaborative Musician
As a pianist, organist, vocalist, and worship leader, Brittany regularly collaborates with other musicians through church ministry and creative musical projects throughout the community.
Curiosity Over Perfection
Lessons are designed to encourage exploration, questions, creativity, and confidence — because meaningful growth happens when students feel safe to experiment and learn.
Creativity and understanding work best when they inform each other.
As Brittany often says:
The music is a guide, not the rule. You don’t work for the music — make the music work for you.
