This is Ms. Zydae. She is a professional music educator who earned her MA in Music Education from New York University after earning her BM in Music Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Ms. Zydae currently teaches piano, cello, and violin, however she has also served as a brass private instructor, has taught bands, orchestras, choirs, and was Assistant Music Director for her college acapella group. She has been involved in music since the age of 8. Although she teaches just three instruments, she plays many more! She enjoys practicing piano, cello, oboe, voice, violin, trumpet, flute, clarinet, and the Eb Alto Horn. She has taught students between the age of 3 years old and 81 years young! She truly loves teaching music and aims to encourage each of her students to be their own best musicians and their best selves!

This is Ms. Camille (H). She is a professional music educator and freelance percussionist. She has earned her Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ms. Camille will be starting a Ph.D in Music at the University of Auckland, NZ in February. Specifically, Ms. Camille is driven to dissolve barriers of access to music for all learners, irrespective of their cognitive or physical variance. Ms. Camille currently teaches percussion and piano for Music in Z Major. Additionally, she teaches advanced music theory at Cabrillo Community College and serves as the Music Director for the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula. Ms. Camille has studied piano since the age of 5, percussion since the age 10, and several other instruments over the years. One of Ms. Camille’s favorite hobbies includes playing found objects (cups, bicycles, flower pots, coke bottles, etc.) and creating cool music. She eagerly awaits music exploration with you soon!

This is Ariana Vega, or Vega. She is a freshman at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is studying to become a music director for North Carolina and Florida, currently in school for her BM in Music Education. Vega has played violin for 10 years and enjoys both teaching and performing music from all different genres. Vega also proficiently plays ukulele, acoustic and electric guitar, and has performed more than 3 times in the All State and All County program. Along with music, Vega enjoys boxing and pro-wrestling, video games and cars, and hopes to open her own puerto rican based pastry shop! She looks forward to meeting more musicians like her in North Carolina!