Chinook Music Lessons
Learn to Play
We offer in-store private lessons on piano, guitar, bass guitar, voice, trumpet, percussion, and more. You can contact the store for more information, or find each instructor’s contact information below and find out more about each individual.
Mike Conrad
Drums/Percussion
wenatcheedrums.musicteachershelper.com
[email protected]
Mike has 30 years of teaching and performing experience. He has played with various jazz ensembles in North Central Washington, such as Easy Money and The Jazz Journey. He has played with the Wenatchee and Yakima Symphonies, the Wenatchee British Brass Band and has toured with the University of Calgary Wind Ensemble.
Mike has maintained a percussion studio of between 40 and 60 students for the past 30 years. Several of his students have won state championships or placed in the top 3 in Snare Drum, Marimba, Timpani and Multiple Percussion divisions at the Washington State Solo and Ensemble Competition. He has been a coach with the Icicle Creek Youth Symphony, as well as with several area marching band drum lines, and has judged at Washington and Oregon state solo competitions.
Mike has his Bachelor of Music degree in Percussion Performance at Central Washington University.
Tony Morgan
Trumpet
Tony Morgan has been playing trumpet since 1993 and teaching private trumpet lessons at Chinook Music since 2008. He plays many instruments, but his specialty is the trumpet. Directly out of high school, he joined two local music groups: Wenatchee Valley Symphony Orchestra, and Wenatchee Big Band. He performed with the Symphony for 6 years, and is currently still playing with the Big Band. He took two years of college level Music Theory studying under Juel Iwaasa at Wenatchee Valley College. Tony has also performed with several groups and churches including Grace Lutheran Church, Free Methodist Church, Columbia Chorale, Appleaires and Confluence Vocal Octet. He was also Principal Trumpet for Leavenworth Summer Theater’s “The Music Man”, and Principal Trumpet for Wenatchee High School production of “Phantom of the Opera”.
Shane Scheib
Guitar
https://www.getgood.academy/about
I began piano lessons at age 6. At age 9 my mom allowed me to take guitar lessons provided I continued with piano. By 12 it was just me and the six-string. The first time I learned how to play guitar with one hand was from a hippie guitarist who sewed colored patches into his leather pants. One week’s lesson when I was 13 consisted of going into the teaching room, pressing play on the VCR and watching a video of Stevie Ray Vaughn live. That changed everything for me. I founded various bands in my hometown and started teaching guitar lessons when I was 17. I taught all styles, ages, and levels.
After high school I received training in jazz guitar theory and performance at the Player’s School of Music in Clearwater, Florida and later studied guitar theory under a jazz guitar guru in Portland, OR. After acquiring a business degree from Central Washington University and working a few years in global logistics I left the United States for missionary work and held several odd jobs including being a chauffeur, milking cows, and of course; teaching guitar lessons. While overseas I started a Guitar Club in the Maori village of Waharoa, NZ, performed for troops at Yokota U.S. Air Force Base in Fussa, Japan, and recorded music in Auckland, NZ for a YWAM compilation album.
Carrie Grosch
Voice
https://www.carriegroschmusic.com/
Carrie is a professional singer, voice teacher, and recording artist. She has a powerful and versatile voice and has the incredible ability to sing with equal skill in every genre.
Carrie has been performing for 30+ years and has traveled extensively all over the U.S. and abroad. She has been a serious and committed student of the voice for all of those years, which makes her an excellent and highly qualified voice teacher. She studied vocal performance and received her degree from Florida State University School of Music.
Carrie has had the pleasure of teaching voice for over 13 years, beginning at Harris School of Music in Redding, CA and then for a season as an adjunct professor at Simpson University. She has also had her own studio for years.
Carrie has recently moved to Wenatchee, WA and teaches private and small group voice lessons, in person and online.
Diego Mejia
Violin/Viola
(509) 393-2132
Diego began playing the viola at the age of nine where he quickly developed his love for classical music.
Diego Mejia is currently a Junior at Wenatchee High School and studies privately under Rebekah Poulson.
Tirzah Burnett
Piano
(509) 699-9729
Bio coming soon!