At the Willows Nest learn to make your creative dreams a reality through individual and group lessons in music composition, improvisation, performance practice, sound design and spatial composition, media composition, advanced theory, and contemporary studio production techniques. Whether online or in our studio, lessons are geared toward your individual artistic or performance goals.
With more than twenty five years of teaching experience from beginner musicians through PhD and professional mentoring, join us at the Willows Nest to grow your practice.
New!! Group Classes ONLINE through The Willows Nest
Take a deep dive into your artistic practice without leaving home, by joining an online intensive workshop through The Willows Nest. Every workshop will introduce you to accessible resources you can use to create right in the workshop. You’ll compose right in the workshop and share so you receive instant feedback, while connecting with other artists from around the globe doing the same.
All workshops incorporate Deep Listening™ practices into the design. I am a Certified Deep Listening Instructor through the Center for Deep Listening.
Workshops topics include:
♦Immersive composition and media creation with free resources
♦Creative composition with field recordings
♦Deep Listening for Composers
♦Sound design for Composers
♦Improvisation and collaboration in digital spaces
instruction from concept through Post production
experiment and gain feedback
full studio for lessons, stage sound and post production


