Lessons

Lessons are available for all brass and woodwind instruments. Our teachers are qualified to instruct all players from beginners to professionals. Lesson instruction is one on one and all lessons are given at the store in our recently built studios. Below are profiles and qualifications on our various teachers.

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Diana Loeb has a B.S. from Bradley University where she studied with Nancy Neidlinger while majoring in Music Business. She has studied with Linda Eagleson a local teacher, nationally renowned teachers Robin Fellows, Bonita Boyd, Robert Dick and Vanita Jones. In the summer Diana is the master Class teacher for the Mid-Atlantic Band Camp in Lynchburg, Virginia. She currently performs with the Montgomery Philharmonic Orchestra, The Musical Offering Flute Ensemble and past performances with the Montgomery College Orchestra. Diana also co-owns L & L Music · Wind Shop, Inc. with her husband Steve.

Jackie Miller has been playing flute and piccolo for 37 years. She has a B.S. in Music Education from Frostburg State University. Masters Level Studies under Julius Baker of the New York Philharmonic and is currently studying under Vanita Jones of Montgomery College. Jackie is a former instrumental Music teacher for Montgomery County Public Schools. She plays with the Montgomery Philharmonic Orchestra, Montgomery College Symphony Orchestra , “Silver Winds” Flute Ensemble, Victorian Lyric Opera Company, and the Trinity Orchestra. Jackie also enjoys freelance performing with many local community theatre orchestras and small chamber groups. She is a member of the local Musicians Union, Washington Flute Society, and the National Flute Association.

Jim Bensinger has played clarinet professionally for over 30 years. He retired after 20 years with the U.S. Navy Band in Washington, D.C. He studied with Dr. Jim Badolato of Montgomery College, Ed Walters at the University of Maryland, Frank Cohen of the Cleveland Symphony, and Al Asercion a retired navy musician and a Selmer Clinician. He works as a freelance performing musician in the Washington area, as well as performing with the Montgomery Philharmonic Orchestra Montgomery College Orchestra, Victorian Lyric Opera, Swing Time Big Band, and the Virginia Grand Military Band.

Jason Ledney has played clarinet and saxophone professionally for over 17 years. He has also played trumpet for 12 years. Jason has a B.A. in Secondary Music Education from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College). He studied with Glenn Caldwell, Don Horneff and David Duree. He has performed in Washington D.C., New York, Philadelphia and Boston on many occasions. Jason currently performs with bands out of New York and Washington, D.C. He teaches both brass and woodwinds.

Susan Jacobs Churchill, a Bethesda native, attended Woodward High School, and has been teaching clarinet for 15 years. She received her B.A. in music from Saint Mary’s College of Maryland, and her Masters degree in Music Performance from Catholic University. As a freelance musician, she has played at the Kennedy Center, and with the Catholic University Summer Opera, as well as with many other orchestras, and chamber groups in the Washington area. She studied with Charles Stier a professional local solo clarinetist, and Paul Eberly in Silver Spring. She is a member of the International Clarinet Association and of MTNA (Music Teachers National Association).

Mark Allred has played and taught trumpet professionally for over 26 years. He has a B. M. degree in Music Theory from the University of North Texas (1980) followed by studies in Music Education at the University of Arizona. Major teachers Mark has studied with include John Haynie, Leonard Candelaria, Robert Ottman and John Worley. He also has been very active as a music arranger for many years. He has been teaching privately and playing in the DC area since 1998 after relocating from San Francisco.

Ron Isaacson is a freelance Trombonist and Educator. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree in music education from the Crane School of Music, SUNY-Potsdam, in 1983. He also earned a Masters degree from GWU in 1998. He studied Trombone with Gary Shaw, Richard Cryder, John Hahn, and he studied Euphonium with Peter Popiel. As a music educator, Ron has taught at schools in Maryland, Washington, DC, and New Hampshire. He is currently a substitute teacher in Montgomery and Frederick County Public Schools. Through the years, he has fully directed and/or musically directed some school productions. He served as music specialist and camp show director at Discover Day Camp. Ron is the choir director and serves as one of the rotating cantorial soloists at Congregation Or Chadash in Damascus, MD.

Adjunct Teachers

Tim Friedlander studied flute with Wallace Mann of the National Symphony Orchestra and more recently with Michel Debost and Kathleen Chastain of the Oberlin Flute Institute. He teaches beginning to advanced flute students of all ages. Tim is principal flutist in the Trinity Chamber Orchestra of Washington, DC and directs the Gaithersburg Flute Camp and the flute choir “Flutitude.” He is the musical director of the flute ensemble “Flutes On The Brink” and plays regularly with them and with “The Musical Offering” directed by Vanita Jones. Tim is a Life Member of the Flute Society of Washington and a frequent soloist in the DC metropolitan area.

Virginia Nanzetta has a Masters of Music form the University of Illinois and a Bachelors of Music from Converse College School of Music. She has studied with Charles DeLaney, Samuel Baron of the Bach Aria Group, and Maurice Sharpe the principal flutist for the Cleveland Orchestra. Virginia has attended many workshops and master classes given by Robert Dick, Carol Wincenc, Trevor Wye, and Geoffrey Gilbert. She currently teaches at Washington Conservatory of Music and has taught at University of Illinois, Stockton State College, St. Mary’s College, Tidewater Music Festival, and Illini Summer Youth Music. Virginia is an active free-lance flutist having performed with numerous chamber groups like Kapelle woodwind Trio, Nanzetta Trio, Granby Trio, Leicha Trio and Designer Sounds. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Round House Theater, Phillips Collection, the White House Office Building, and concerts for children at schools in New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. Virginia has been twice nominated in the first round Grammy Awards for recordings featuring flute called American Camerata for New Music and has collaborated with composers like Haskell Small, Alec Wilder, John Stephens, and Russell Woollen.

Perry Conticchio has been playing saxophone professionally for over 30 years. His formal studies were at Miami University of Ohio and Berklee College of Music in Boston where he studied with Joe Viola, John LaPorta, and Charley Mariano. Moving to the Washington D.C. area in 1976, Perry had the opportunity to perform with and learn from Don Cherry, Anthony Braxton, and Sam Rivers of the Avant Guard. He performs regularly through out the D.C. Baltimore area. His teaching specialty is Jazz theory, interpretation, and improvisation. His most recent CD, “Speak Your Truth” has received extremely positive critical acclaim both nationally and internationally. Perry has a B.S. and is a member of the I.A.J.E. (International Association of Jazz Educators) as well as ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers). To learn more, visit his website at www.perryconticchio.com.

Steve Churchill graduated summa cum laud from The Catholic University of America and received his Masters degree in Oboe in 1993. He has played oboe, saxophone, clarinet, and flute in the Kennedy Center Opera House and Show Orchestras, The National Theater Orchestra, national tours of Broadway musicals, and network television shows, performing with artists as diverse as Ray Charles, Nat Adderly, Loretta Lynn, Steve Lawrence, Jerry Lewis, Johnny Mathis, Sam Moore, Kenny Rogers, and the Bolshoi Ballet. He has played principal oboe in the Maryland Symphony and at Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee. In addition, he has taught at Catholic University and Howard County Community College and is on the faculty at Montgomery College.

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Adjunct Teachers do not follow L & L pricing schedule.

Lesson Policy

• Lessons are $45 per lesson and scheduled for 45 minutes once a week.
• Payment is required by the first lesson of the month
• We will require a valid credit card on file. If lessons are not paid in full by the end of the month, we will charge the credit card for any unpaid lesson charges.
• Lessons cancelled on a timely basis (minimum twenty-four (24) hours before lesson time), can be made up or re-scheduled at the teachers’ convenience. This is offered as a courtesy and not an obligation on the teachers’ part.
• If the lesson is cancelled on a timely basis and can not be made up or rescheduled, that lesson payment will be credited towards next month’s lessons.
• Lessons cancelled late, or no call, cannot be re-scheduled. Payment is required.
• Lessons will be held as scheduled when there is no school and the store is open.

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