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Houston native Lou Ann has been performing music for 52 years since her first piano lessons at age 8, and teaching music for 40+ years. She is a multi-instrumentalist skilled at playing and teaching over 20 instruments such as: piano, flute, guitar, violin, most band instruments, violin, viola, cello, and harp. She is also an experienced vocal instructor, having previously taught with the St. Louis Symphony Music School and the St. Louis Children’s Choir.

Ms. Lou Ann holds a Master of Music Ed. degree in Kodaly, young childhood education specialist.
She has taught band, choir, orchestra, and elementary music in Texas, Indiana, and Missouri.
Ms. Lou Ann loves to work with all ages, but especially younger students. She believes in getting them a good start and making lessons fun and interesting.

Mr. Mitchell has been studying cello for the past decade and is currently in his fourth year of undergraduate studies at the Moores School of Music. He is seeking a bachelor’s degree in Cello Performance under the teaching of his late professor Vagram Saradjian and currently under Estelle Choi of the Calidore Quartet. Mitchell frequently collaborates with composers and musicians to perform new works, notably premiering Misook Kim’s ‘Danza II’ for solo cello, performing J. E. Hernandez’s SHEER in a project sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston entitled ‘In Flanders Fields’, and was a featured performer in the 2019 Contemporary Music Festival at Cy-Fair College.  

In 2020 he was awarded, with the Iris Trio, Second Prize in the ENKOR International Music Competition for performance by a chamber ensemble. He has received masterclasses and ongoing training in cello and piano and has worked with such performers as Alexander Rudin, Deborah Pae, the Formosa Quartet, the Aizuri Quartet, and the Modigliani Quartet.  

Mitchell enjoys teaching cello and piano and focuses on helping students deepen their love of music through their chosen instrument.

Mr. Mitchell teaches both in-studio and in-home lessons.  To book an in-home lesson with Mr. Mitchell please contact the Academy.

Mr. Lethridge is a Double Bass player with two undergraduate degrees from University of North Texas (Bachelor of Music in Music Education—Strings and Bachelor of Music in Double Bass Performance). As a native Houstonian, Mr. Lethridge played in the Houston Youth Symphony (2009-2011). He studied at UNT with Jeffrey Bradetich and Kate Jones. Whilst learning Double Bass, Mr. Lethridge has also taken private lessons extensively on violin, viola and cello. During his collegiate career, he played with the Monroe Symphony Orchestra, Houston Medical Center Orchestra, and the UNT Concert and Symphony Orchestras. During the school day, Mr. Lethridge teaches orchestra at Lake Olympia Middle School in Fort Bend ISD. He has been teaching private lessons since 2011 and teaching orchestra since 2017. In his free time, Mr. Lethridge composes music and gigs professionally with Dandy Strings, his premiere String Quartet wedding group.