I started general music lessons at the age of 2 and piano lessons at age 4. Upon starting middle school, I joined the band and played flute and oboe, and I continued playing flute in school band through 9th grade. My 10th grade year was spent at Performing Arts High School in Fort Worth, where I focused half of every day exclusively on Dance, Art, Drama, and Music. When I graduated from high school, I was awarded a music scholarship to Texas Woman's University where I took private piano and voice lessons, as well as group guitar lessons and brass/percussion and woodwind classes. I graduated Cum Laude with a B.S. in Music with All-Level Teacher Certification. I have been involved in the Austin-based Violet Crown Orchestra playing various instruments and singing for the Violet Crown Radio Players. I am currently a member of the Tulstin Troubadours, who have played at numerous Renaissance Festivals around the country as well as demonstrating various instruments to groups of young children. We have recorded and released a CD, titled "Rennies of Unusual Sound".

Darrell has worked at the primary, secondary/preparatory, and tertiary levels at some of the top-rated private schools in New York; conducting and directing since 1986.  He has been a professional producer, performer and private instructor/mentor in Austin, Texas since 2009.

I have been living, teaching, and performing music in Austin for the last 8 years. I sing and play guitar with Sara Shansky and the Titanic Dance Band.  I grew up in Rhode Island, went to Tufts University for my bachelors degree, and spent a few years on the west coast playing music and falling in love. My husband and I just had our first baby in August of 2012 and I'm sure he will be a music lover too!

I have been playing saxophone since age 14. After getting my degree from Norfolk State University, I became a bandsman in the United States Army for twenty years. In 2002, I retired from the military and began teaching private lessons. I have been with Musika since 2007.

Zack has been playing saxophone for over 16 years and has been teaching and performing professionally since 2005.  His experience ranges from orchestral and chamber music to rock, jazz and everything in bewteen.  He is experienced on the stage as a performer as well as in the classroom as an educator, and also in the recording studio.  He has toured the United States with rock and jazz groups, playing in cities from coast to coast, and has performed with Latin Jazz groups in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.  Originally based out of Atlanta, Zack moved to Champaign, Illinois in 2010 to complete a Master's degree at the University of Illinois.  He now resides in Austin, Texas, working as a freelance artist and studying at the University of Texas, with a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Progress.