Powell Ohio Music Store, Music Lessons, Instrument Rental
Instruments Taught: Piano, Woodwinds, Bass, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone
Abbey Bechtol is a music instructor and composer with experience teaching piano, saxophone, bass guitar, and clarinet. Abbey strives to help students improve their technique and develop an understanding of music theory by analyzing the music they play. She believes it is important to foster an appreciation for music as an art form and the depth of emotion it can convey.
Instruments Taught: Piano, Strings, Violin
Music has always been Aster’s life passion, and they love to share and help cultivate that passion with their students in music lessons.
Instruments Taught: Piano
Caleb Hutslar, native of Worthington, Ohio, graduated from the Fort Hayes School of Music with the State Board of Education Award of Distinction for musical excellence, and obtained a Bachelor of Music degree from OSU in piano performance in 1993, under scholarship.
Instruments Taught: Piano, Strings, Violin
Instruments Taught: Piano
Instruments Taught: Guitar, Banjo
Dean is an experienced musician who has been playing guitar for over thirty five years. When Dean isn’t in the teaching studio, he can be found at Rome Recording where he has been an engineer and studio musician for over seventeen years.
Instruments Taught: Guitar, Voice, Ukulele
Deanna Sweeney has been a widely recognized name in the Central Ohio music community by both musicians and music fans alike for over 20 years.
Instruments Taught: Piano, Woodwinds, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone
Evan’s passion for music education drives him to teach clarinetists of all ages. Recent teaching experience includes a clarinet sabbatical replacement at The Ohio State University, and he is currently also teaching clarinet at Otterbein University. He has taught clarinet sectionals for many high school and middle school wind ensembles and band camps throughout Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio. He is also frequently requested to adjudicate high school solo and ensemble festivals, regional orchestra auditions, and honor band auditions.
Instruments Taught: Piano, Woodwinds, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone
Dr. Gaby Valladares is a native of Santa Clarita, California. After earning her Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance from the University of California, Santa Barbara, she made her way to Ohio, where she has established herself as a clarinetist and teacher around the city of Columbus.
Instruments Taught: Guitar, Ukulele
Dylan attended the Recording Workshop in Massieville, Ohio. Once he completed the CORE program he moved to Los Angeles to attend The Musicians Institute to study Guitar Performance and Audio Engineering.
Instruments Taught: Voice
Eryn Reynolds is a voice music lessons instructor specializing in Rock, Pop, Country and Musical Theatre styles.
Instruments Taught: Guitar, Ukulele, Banjo
Greg Sharp has been playing guitar for over 30 years, and has been a teacher of guitar and ukulele for more than 20 years. He has a wealth of live performance experience spanning many styles – rockabilly, surf, country, funk, blues, reggae, and metal are all a part of his live performance resume.
Instruments Taught: Guitar, Piano
Jackson began his teaching career for guitar and piano in 2014 at various studios around the Columbus area. Jackson studied under multiple guitar instructors, including Andrew Hartman at Music Royale.
Instruments Taught: Guitar, Ukulele, Bass
Jesse has played hundreds of gigs with many successful bands including 13 O’clock, X-Ray Specs, The Digs and The Moonbats as well as writing and recording music for nationally released video games and independent movies.
Instruments Taught: Voice
Instruments Taught: Drums
A seasoned drummer for over 30 years, Josh specializes in teaching all skill-levels, with students ranging in age from 4 to 74.
Instruments Taught: Piano, Voice
Originally from Defiance, Ohio, Kelly McLennan holds a Bachelor of Arts – music education degree from Bowling Green State University. She has been professionally singing for 30+ years.
Instruments Taught: Drums
Larz is a graduate of Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California, where he specialized in drums and percussion, with continued education at Berklee College of Music and Capital University
Instruments Taught: Drums
Maxwell Button was born in Tenafly, a suburb of New York City in the northeastern corner of New Jersey. He began piano lessons at the age of six but switched to drum lessons before long.
Instruments Taught: Piano, Strings, Violin, Viola
Classically trained and musically motivated, Megan teaches complete musicianship techniques applicable to classical, pop, rock, hip hop, R&B, fiddling, and improvisation.
Instruments Taught: Woodwinds, Flute
Miranda loves helping flute students of all ages build and improve foundational techniques that they can carry with them throughout their musical journey.
Instruments Taught: Piano
Nick studied jazz piano at Capital University under the late and great Mark Flugge and graduated with a B.M. in Music Industry/Media. He is currently the bass and keyboard player for the Dirty Money Live Karaoke Band.
Instruments Taught: Guitar, Piano, Strings, Ukulele, Bass, Double Bass
Primarily a bassist, Paul graduated from Otterbein University in Spring 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music – Jazz Studies Concentration.
Instruments Taught: Guitar, Piano, Ukulele, Bass
Instruments Taught: Guitar, Piano, Strings, Ukulele, Bass, Banjo, Violin
Race Lerma has been playing violin since the age of four and has grown up in the string music scene of Northwest Ohio. His background and training include 12 years of private instruction from various teachers in Fostoria and Findlay, OH., 2 years of private lessons at Ohio Northern University under Professor Sunny Zank, And the past 4 years at Capital University’s Conservatory of Music studying violin performance and music business, as well as two years of parallel training in piano. Race has been teaching private lessons in Findlay and Columbus off and on for the past 6 years.
Instruments Taught: Piano
Rob Cave has been playing classical piano since the age of four, and studied piano performance under Juilliard graduate W. Eugene Hudson at Jacksonville University.
Instruments Taught: Guitar, Ukulele
Instruments Taught: Guitar, Ukulele
Teaching is something that came very natural for Sara. Sharing her passion for music and inspiring students to find their voice through an instrument is something she relates to on a very personal level. Her teaching style is all about helping each student reach their musical goals and having fun while doing it.
Instruments Taught: Guitar, Piano, Drums, Ukulele, Bass, Sound Engineering
Scott has been playing guitar for over 40 years. A bit of a mad scientist– he also builds his own guitars and amps, has a background in pipe organ building, and is a recording engineer at Musicol Recording Studio.
Instruments Taught: Drums
Seth Daily has been playing percussion since he was five years when he played snare drum with a community orchestra. Seth also studied percussion at Music Royale and participated in Music Royale’s very first Rock School session.
Instruments Taught: Piano, Voice
Instruments Taught: Guitar, Piano, Voice, Ukulele, Bass
Thane Leshner is a Columbus-born guitarist and vocalist who began playing in 2005. He graduated from Capital University in 2019 with a Bachelor of Music where he participated in choir and the school rock ensemble.
Instruments Taught: Brass, Trombone, Trumpet, Baritone/Euphonium, French Horn
Tim Perdue received his Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from the Conservatory of Music at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio in 1991, and has since been teaching privately in the Columbus area.
Instruments Taught: Piano, Drums
Troy began playing percussion in middle school band. He went on to study music at Ohio University, where he studied classical percussion with Roger Braun and Joseph VanHassel and drum set with Guy Remonko.
Instruments Taught: Strings, Cello
Tulia Spurgeon is a recent graduate of Otterbein University, earning a Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance with a minor in Education.
Monday - Thursday: 12pm - 8pm
Friday: 12pm - 6pm
Saturday: 10am - 5pm
Sunday: 12pm - 5pm