Private Lesson Staff
Chris Cox
Flute
Chris Cox is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina. Chris performs frequently with the Texarkana Symphony Orchestra, Sulphur Springs Symphony and South Arkansas Symphony. As a winner for various masterclass competitions, he has performed for William Bennett, Carl Hall, Seth Morris and Sergio Pallottelli, and under the baton of Dr. Douglas Bakenhus.
Chris has been on faculty for the FlootFire Camps and has also been involved with the Texas Flute society, serving both as volunteer coordinator and president. Chris is currently in his first year of a performers diploma at SMU. He received his Masters from Northwestern State University and his Bachelors from Western Carolina University.
During his free time, Chris enjoys spending time with his three dogs Alfie, LouLou and Penny and gardening with his spouse.
Christine Cleary
Flute
Christine Cleary is a freelance flutist and private flute teacher in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. She has taught flute in Texas since 1997. Christine earned a BM and MM in flute performance from Kent State University and Ohio University. Her teachers have included Julie Sarver, Diane McCloskey, Janet VanGraas and Terri Sundberg. Christine is a past President and festival co-chair of the Texas Flute Society. She also served the National Flute Association as the flute clubs coordinator for five years. She is married to saxophonist Mark Dooly and helped him in the development of the Win-D-Fender and the Picc Pocket. They have two children, Angela and Nathan.
Ha Eun
Oboe
Victoria Donaldson
Bassoon
Victoria Donaldson is a bassoonist, educator, and avid chamber musician. A DFW transplant from Charleston, South Carolina, Victoria is excited about growing her teaching studio while she completes her Masters of Music in Performance at the University of North Texas. As a chamber musician, she has served as a guest artist at the Saarburg International Chamber Festival in Saarburg, Germany, and has advanced with the UNT Center Woodwind Quintet to the finals of the Music Teachers National Association Chamber Music Competition. When she is not making reeds, Victoria enjoys spending time with her cat, Raymond.
Dr. Karen Andreas Bronson is adjunct clarinet professor at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. She is the host of the podcast “The Clarinet Pedagogue.” In 2019, she founded The Avenue C Project, a collaborative platform for wind musicians and composers, and has commissioned five pieces for reed trio and one for bass clarinet. She is the founder/co-educator of Virtual Clarinet Camp, online group learning for middle/high school clarinetists.
Dr. Bronson has lectured at National Association of College Wind & Percussion Instructors Conference, Texas A&M Clarinet Colloquium, and ClarinetFest. She's earned a Doctor of Musical Arts from UNT with a related degree in Wind Band Conducting, a Master of Music from University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a Bachelor of Music degree from University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Dr. Karen Bronson
Dr. Karen Andreas Bronson is adjunct clarinet professor at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. She is the host of the podcast “The Clarinet Pedagogue.” In 2019, she founded The Avenue C Project, a collaborative platform for wind musicians and composers, and has commissioned five pieces for reed trio and one for bass clarinet. She is the founder/co-educator of Virtual Clarinet Camp, online group learning for middle/high school clarinetists.
Dr. Bronson has lectured at National Association of College Wind & Percussion Instructors Conference, Texas A&M Clarinet Colloquium, and ClarinetFest. She's earned a Doctor of Musical Arts from UNT with a related degree in Wind Band Conducting, a Master of Music from University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a Bachelor of Music degree from University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Clarinet
Kristen Boulet
Clarinet
Kristen Boulet is a 1990 graduate of Texas Tech University in music education. Kristen currently has a studio with over 70 students in Carroll, Northwest, and Lewisville. Her clarinet choirs have gone on to perform at the Music for All festival in Indianapolis and the International Clarinet Festival.
Kristen is an Artist Clinician for Vandoren and Selmer-Paris. She is in her 17th season as a founding member with the Lone Star Wind Orchestra. Kristen founded the North Texas Clarinet Academy and has worked the Tech Band & Orchestra camp for 40 years.
She lives in Roanoke, Texas with her husband and their two children Grace and Michael.
Patrick Walsh
Saxophone
Mike Oien
Trumpet
Dr. Chris Heldt
Trumpet
Dr. Christopher A. Heldt resides in Fort Worth, Texas, where he is a freelance musician and brass teacher. Heldt teaches at the MediaTech Institute of Dallas and trumpet in the Southlake Carroll Independent School District. He has served on the music faculty at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
Heldt also publishes interviews and reviews in the International Trumpet Guild Journal. His music degrees are from the University of Georgia, University of Texas at Austin, and North Dakota State University.
Trumpet
Daniel Matthews
Trumpet
Daniel Matthews is a Grammy-nominated trumpet player and seasoned teacher. Daniel is the trumpet player for A.R. Rahman, a well-known artist and composer in India, where he travels frequently. Daniel has been fortunate enough to tour the world performing.
He holds a BM in jazz studies from San Jose State University and a MM in jazz studies at The University of North Texas, where he played as a featured soloist in The One O’ Clock Lab Band, and hired as an adjunct faculty after graduating. He teachers for Carroll ISD, Plano ISD, and Collin College in Plano, TX.
William Foss
Horn
Joel Grizzelle
Trombone
Mark Scott
Trombone
Mark Scott earned Bachelor of Music degrees in performance and composition at the UNT, and a Master of Music in conducting at the University of New Mexico.
Mark’s broad musical background forms the foundation of a well-rounded curriculum. Lessons balance fundamentals with repertoire to instill a lifelong enthusiasm for music, and include elements of composition, music history, and theory to deepen students’ connections to their music. Mark conducts a trombone choir to supplement lessons, and provides extra performance opportunities for a complete studio experience.Born in Houston, Mark lives in Trophy Club. He spends his free time watching sports, running, and traveling with his wife Sara.
Sophia Rivera
Euphonium
Dr. Brett Copeland
Tuba
Brett Copeland is a tuba player, educator, composer, and music technologist living in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. Brett also teaches guitar, bass, music production, and composition lessons. Brett is the founding member of Flower City Brass, a brass quintet at the Eastman School of Music. He is regularly playing with Symphoria (Syracuse, NY), the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and previously performed with the Venice Symphony (FL), Ash Lawn Opera (VA), and the South Shore Symphony Orchestra (FL). Brett earned a DMA in Tuba Performance and Literature with a Certificate in Arts Leadership from the Eastman School of Music where he was a Teaching Assistant for both the Tuba Studio and the Eastman Audio Research Studio.
Nick McConnaughey
Percussion
Travis Boren
Percussion