PRIVATE LESSON FACULTY: WINDS

  DEBORAH MORRIS (piano, flute) has a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance from Catholic University and a Bachelor of Music Degree from Bowling Green State University as a Piano Major/Flute Minor.  She has been teaching at Music Spectrum School since 2019. She studied with William Masselos (Juilliard), Nelita True (Maryland/Eastman), Bela Nagy (Catholic University/Boston Conservatory), Dr. Thomas Mastrioanni (Catholic University), and Virginia Marks (Bowling Green State). Faculty positions include Piano Instructor and Accompanist at The Madeira School in McLean, VA for 21 years (flute instructor for five of those years) and Piano Instructor at the Wolf Trap Foundation. Additionally, Mrs. Morris served as flute choir conductor at Bishop O'Connell High School, Piano Instructor at Bowling Green State University Creative Arts Program and the Arlington Class Piano Association. She has performed extensively throughout the Washington metropolitan area as soloist and accompanist in concert including Wolf Trap for the Performing Arts, the Corcoran Arts Gallery, The Lyceum, Kennedy Center Foyer Concerts, George Washington University and George Mason University. She was also accompanist for the Navy and Air Force Chamber Players for several years. Membership in professional music organizations include The Friday Morning Music Club of Washington, Music Teachers National Association, and Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.  A native of Alexandria, VA, she currently resides in Reston, Virginia with her husband and daughter.

  Ms. Morris teaches Wednesdays & Fridays

Senior Teaching Artist rate:

(instructors with advanced degrees

and/or extensive teaching experience)

$56/30-minutes; $81/45-minutes; $104/hour 

PRISCILLA YANG (piano, flute) has nearly thirty years of experience teaching piano and flute to students of all ages including at Music Spectrum School since 2018. She received her Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from the Brooklyn College CUNY after receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in her native Taiwan. She also holds a Certificate of Graduate Studies from Dallas Theological Seminary. Also, for the past thirty years, Ms. Yang has served as a professional pianist, music director and choir director at large churches in both Taiwan prior to 1993 and throughout the U.S. since 1993, specifically in New York City; Lafayette, Indiana and Cary, North Carolina.

Ms. Yang teaches on Mondays

Private Lesson rate:

$49/30-minutes; $71/45-minutes; $90/hour