After hearing Bobby McFerrin sing on National Public Radio, Jan went looking for a place to study music improvisation. That journey first led her to David Darling and Music for People. After graduating from Music …
Jahna Calandrelli Moncrief
Jahna invites you to explore the musical arts by remember that the sound came first! Her teaching is dedicated to creating a life-long love of music, while accommodating individual learning styles, goals, and interests. She …
Henrik Stubbe Teglbjaerg
Life is a beautiful adventure. It is unfolding around me, without my doing anything, and I choose to partake in it. It fills me with joy, beauty and bliss. It is a constant challenge to …
Heidi Champney
Heidi’s workshops, “Sounding, Centering, Soaring” provide a joyous playful and welcoming atmosphere for discovering and expressing our creative, musical voices and exploring the pleasure of musical co-creation. Her teaching reflects her passion for music, her appreciation for each individual, and her …
Heather Keller
Heather Keller is a multi-instrumentalist and group facilitator whose work is infused with a sense of spiritual depth, contagious rhythm, and soulful play. Heather’s teaching style incorporates a learn-by-doing approach with MfP basic skills and …
Frances Miller
Frances is a multi-instrumental performer, composer, teacher and facilitator. Her classical background includes rigorous training in violin and piano with the Royal School of Music, Pennsylvania Academy of Music and the Oberlin Conservatory with violin. During her early years …
Eric Reinhardt
Musician, Integrative Music Practitioner and Advocate for Recovery Eric Reinhardt is a professional musician, singer-songwriter, and integrative music practitioner based in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Blending his passion for music with a deep commitment to healing, Eric …
Eric Edberg
Thoroughly trained as classical cellist at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Juilliard School, SUNY Stony Brook, and Florida State University, Eric Edberg’s cello teachers included Gary Hoffman, Marion Davies, Denis Brott, Stephen Kates, Leonard …
Emily Metcalf
(1957-2008) Was the first professional cellist to study improvisation with David Darling. She was among the pioneer group of musicians whose collaborative experiences shaped Music for People’s training programs in the 1980s. She is remembered as a powerful and sensitive …
Elizabeth Byrd Webster
Concert and recording artist, teacher, and concert producer, cellist Liz Byrd leads Free-Improvisation workshops, “Improvising Chamber Music”, for classically trained and novice musicians. Founder and member of the performing improvisation group Beyond the Wood, Liz …