Grace is an intuitive and compassionate teacher with 17 years of experience growing musical journeys. She deeply connects with students, especially those with unique ways of seeing the world or styles of learning, and holds a clear and strategic vision for their musical path. She has found her way into the hearts of many families and is very grateful for the long-lasting relationships she’s cultivated. Grace has a degree in Jazz Studies from the University of North Texas. She's spent over half a decade in NYC songwriting with the Gen Z and Gen Alpha students of Brooklyn and Manhattan, coaching teen bands through songwriting their first album, creating songwriting summer camps and growing private lesson students songwriting skills over 4, 5 and 7+ year long learning trajectories.
Grace is a talented, passionate and inspiring teacher. She has changed our daughter’s life in so many ways. She has helped foster confidence and creativity and an incredible amount of fun as our daughter learns to sing and play the ukulele. Grace has deep respect for students and their process in learning and this shines through in every lesson. We absolutely adore Grace.
- Emily L, Brooklyn, Boreum Hill
For 4 years, Grace taught our daughter guitar and voice. Our daughter’s strumming skills and singing are getting quite good but the real genius of Grace is the confidence, creativity and joy that she inspires. Our daughter is proud of her talent and eager to work hard. That motivation is sustained by a teacher as skilled, patient and kind a teacher as Grace. Our daughter will forever be shaped by Grace’s tutelage and friendship.
- Dev T, Manhattan, Financial District
I had a wonderful experience working with Grace. I am an adult learner with rudimentary guitar skills and singing-in-the-shower level voice skills. From our first lesson, Grace dove into helping me write songs. Since I was learning the technical concepts through making music, I felt much more inspired to practice. As a Montessori teacher myself, I found her method of teaching so inspiring and I think about it routinely in my work with children. Any learner, from a child to an adult, could gain a lot from working with Grace. I cannot recommend her highly enough.
- Sara B, The Woodlands TX
I approached Grace with the goal to make positive associations with my voice through singing and songwriting as an adult learning something new. Together, we surpassed that goal and her work has equipped me with tools I utilize in my career and communities. Grace intentionally created safe spaces and structured our lessons with exercises I have brought with me in all of my creative work since. She is a curious, kind, gentle, and firm teacher that helped me push past the places I would get stuck in my comfort zone. I have worked through her Listening Journal on two separate iterations and found the journeys to be tremendously transformative in how I approach making art and life.
- Mirinda R, Houston TX
The 2026 Third Edition is available by request only.
The 2027 Fourth Edition will be more widely available.