Brent has been an active drummer/percussionist for over 40 years.  He studied the full range of percussion instruments, including drum set, throughout middle and high school at the Paul-Mueller Percussion Studio in Indianapolis with instructor Richard Paul, who had served as the principal percussionist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.  Brent has experience in multiple musical settings and instruments, including orchestral and marching percussion, musical theater, and on drum set in jazz, worship, and rock and pop groups.  As a multi-instrumentalist, Brent is passionate about the role percussion plays in supporting the music and the ensemble.  As an experienced marketing and technology leader, Brent is equally passionate about the value of music education in enabling success in life and leadership in non-musical careers.  His goal with students is to unlock their love and appreciation for music, rhythm and groove and give them tools to pursue their individual musical goals.

Katey Hardesty is a graduate of Capital University and holds a bachelor’s degree in Saxophone Performance and Jazz Studies. She grew up on Coshocton, Ohio where she learned how to play saxophone, flute, clarinet, and piano.

Her father Barry Hardesty is the current band director at Coshocton High School and encouraged her love of music and teaching. Today, Katey strives to help musicians of all ages find ways to make music.

She has played at many venues including the PomARTs Art Park with her big band the PomARTs Jazz Ensemble, Bexley Public Library, Capital University, the Jeffrey Mansion, Dick’s Den, and Carnegie Hall. In her free time she enjoys baking muffins, playing video games, and hanging out with her cat Zoe.

Emily Mulvany is an oboist with over a decade of ensemble and individual experience. She started playing the oboe right here in central Ohio. Oboe was her instrument of choice through intermediate, middle, and high schools. Her private lesson teachers during this time included George Edge (band director at Grove City High School) and Drew Keller (music professional).

Emily then earned a scholarship to play oboe at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. During this time she studied under the instruction of professor Jack Cozen Harel. In Akron she played in top, collegiate level, ensembles for five years while pursuing degrees in engineering.

While her day job may not be playing music, Emily loves the oboe! The oboe remains an important part of her life that continuous to bring her joy. She is excited to share her knowledge and passion for this instrument with students. Her aim as a teacher is to help each student reach their oboe goals in an environment that challenges them to be their best, and that emphasizes the fun of playing music.

Benny Turner’s lessons are informed by student’s interests, goals, their background in music therapy, and that people are far more creative than we are often taught to consider. Benny strives to make lessons a fun place to share knowledge, musical activities, and practice strategies. To them, creativity and musical skill aren’t about ideas like talent, rankings, or ratings. It’s about having the chance to pay attention to what you like about music, finding what works for your routine, and patience.

Benny has also taken this approach to their experimental pop & ambient music project called Confusions. They started tracking music for this project in 2015, and released their first album Grounds with independent record label Earth Libraries in 2021. In 2023, they released their second LP with E.L., exploring themes of grief called Muck of Morale. In 2024, they released Limbic Psalms, a record about feelings and experimental film-music techniques, with Columbus label Very Much Recordings. They drummed on The Fossil Record’s 2024 debut album, and produced the closing track Co-Machine. They self-released Detroit 8-track, a mostly improvised studio band project, as well as solo electro-pop singles.

Collaboration is a major theme on their album Vocoder Chorus (5/30/2025). It has been described as cohesive music for vocoder with a warmer direction in textures.

More information about their music, collaborations, and performances can be found at confusions.bandcamp.com and benturneraudio.com.