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Viktoria Alexandrou Piano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586825773956-92S7R2X3U9HVQB61RHQQ/Kyung-Mi.jpg Faculty - Dr. Kyung-Mi Kim Piano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586825814888-DGDAPXXVANIAVVI3D1XX/Elizabeth.jpg Faculty - Elizabeth Lamberth Piano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/eb8494f7-1563-4a5e-abac-279c7d5cb8af/Lauren%2BMcCall.jpg Faculty - Lauren McCall Piano/ Clarinet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/db1a8be3-918d-4fb3-a044-1248f0018855/JohnnaJeong.jpg Faculty - Johnna Jeong Guitar/Ukulele/Beginner Piano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586825846135-8RTSQ4LQ2W2Q8YP2W4PJ/Irina.jpg Faculty - Irina Mogilevsky Piano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586825909407-BR1F8ZZLYB11RNSTXJQ0/IMG_0667.jpg Faculty - Lisa Morrison Violin/ Viola https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1588616727215-LKD8OO5SV44KSDLY9KIR/Zorica.jpg Faculty - Zorica Pavlovic Voice/ Piano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586826084893-0QGCJK2A9IFQ2ZFWMWKZ/Katie_B-3_touchup.jpg Faculty - Katie Truex Cello https://www.gaom.us/lisa-morrison daily 0.75 2023-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586821817861-KMV9H6VN8JGCL97WVGKI/IMG_0667.jpg Lisa Morrison - Lisa Morrison has been with the Georgia Academy as a teacher, department head, ensemble coach and administrator for over twenty years. She graduated magna cum laude from Boston University with a Bachelor of Music degree in violin. Further studies included training at The Aspen Music Festival, Tanglewood, The Chautauqua Festival, and the American Institute for Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. As a teacher, Lisa has had a broad range of teaching students ranging form age 6 months to senior citizens. She is currently the head of The Georgia Academy Musical Beginnings Program for infants through 5 year olds. While on the Academy string faculty, she led a Petite String Ensemble and co-directed The Academy Chamber Orchestra. Lisa received the Founders Award for teaching excellence during her tenure on the violin faculty. She has been the Assistant Director of the school since 1999. During her Atlanta residency, Lisa has also been professor of violin at Dekalb College, Kennesaw State University, and is currently the violin professor at Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia. As a performer, Lisa has been the concertmaster of The Atlanta Ballet Orchestra since 1989. Solo violin appearances with the Atlanta Ballet include the Philip Glass Concerto for violin, Chausson’s Poeme, The Vivaldi Four Seasons and performances with the Indigo Girls. She has been a member of The Atlanta Opera Orchestra for over twenty years. Lisa is currently a member of The Amati Chamber Players. She has also performed with Atlanta Chamber Players and The Georgia Lyric Theater. Committed to versatile music genres, Lisa has also performed with The Theater of the Stars Broadway productions and has played for a wide variety of popular artists from Ella Fitzgerald to Rod Stewart. A vital part of her job as an administrator is to place students with teachers and instruments through the registration process. The philosophy that each individual must be helped in a unique way based on age, level of proficiency, and ambition is important to her in giving the best counsel possible to Academy students. As a mother of three and a teacher of many, Lisa has a breath of experience to guide students and parents to find the instrument and musical genre that speaks to them. Her goal is to facilitate each student and parent to find the best teacher to nurture their musical gifts. “With the philosophy that music is a gift for everyone to experience, I strive to be a menthor and a vessel. My goal is to ignite the passion and love for music from the very young to the young at heart.” Violin/ Viola https://www.gaom.us/piano daily 0.75 2024-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586818811719-LJ0P1VHUI3N8HVQPJWVD/image-asset.jpeg Piano - Viktoria Alexandrou Piano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586818476438-19X0EYE79RTG0LQU361K/Kyung-Mi.jpg Piano - Dr. Kyung-Mi Kim Piano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586818512441-LWK69XB45ZF940MG4LLN/Elizabeth.jpg Piano - Elizabeth Lamberth Piano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1587672693932-SGJSDOCYAZYTZUNGRHVM/Lauren%2BMcCall.jpg Piano - Lauren McCall Piano/ Clarinet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586818586175-OZMGFKJFDS299EKHYSKZ/Irina.jpg Piano - Irina Mogilevsky Piano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1588616836817-T5N354R0YDTGIMDSIK3S/Zorica.jpg Piano - Zorica Pavlovic Piano/ Voice https://www.gaom.us/voice daily 0.75 2020-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1588616911366-6656G3W90RQ80X8HKR8G/Zorica.jpg Voice - Zorica Pavlovic – Piano/ Voice https://www.gaom.us/violin-viola daily 0.75 2024-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586989115594-XM8H5JZJK2WZSOUPNQ99/IMG_0667.jpg https://www.gaom.us/cello daily 0.75 2024-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1587004827317-JQR0FRDWVLHYYGEZ9005/Katie_B-3_touchup.jpg Cello - Katie Truex Cello https://www.gaom.us/guitar-bass-trombone daily 0.75 2024-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/bef7d9cf-259a-4b61-b662-c1d5f7228159/JohnnaJeong.jpg https://www.gaom.us/clarinet daily 0.75 2020-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1587672745290-FQDIEF065LK3SEIFYCCC/Lauren+McCall.PNG Clarinet - Lauren McCall Clarinet/ Piano https://www.gaom.us/viktoria-alexandrou daily 0.75 2020-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586822191828-1RZVTW1BGD1WL1P6T34I/image-asset.jpeg Viktoria Alexandrou - Viktoria Alexandrou was born in the Soviet Union and is a third generation professional musician. She received her bachelor's degree at Samarkand College of Art and her master’s degree in music at the State Conservatory in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. From 1985 to 1991, Viktoria taught piano in a state school for gifted and talented children in Tashkent. From 1991 to 2001, she had her own practice in Greece. She emigrated to the USA in 2001 and has been helping children learn piano here since then. Viktoria’s teaching philosophy is very simple: Education is a two way street. She gives her best to her students and expects the same from them. It is the only way to get a good result. She believes that lessons are about learning music, not for entertainment. Although not all her students will become professional musicians, they will become well-rounded people with her guidance. – Piano https://www.gaom.us/elizabeth-lamberth daily 0.75 2020-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586827258400-351MHKB2642G01OX7JJC/DSC_5175.jpg Elizabeth Lamberth - Elizabeth holds a Bachelors of Music in piano performance from Oberlin Conservatory and a Masters of Music in piano performance from the Mannes School of Music, a division of The New School University. Her teachers have included Francis Walker, Sanford Margolis, Haewon Song, Robert Shannon and Stephanie Brown. Early studies were with Thomas Redcay and Addison Jones, a pupil of Emil Von Sauer. While at Mannes, she studied composition and theory with Carl Schachter, David Loeb and Robert Cuckson. She has studied Jazz at the Berklee School of Music in Boston and the Oberlin Conservatory where her teachers included Jan Jarczyk, Ray Santisi, Wendell Logan and Neil Creque. She is currently studying organ with Dr. Timothy Wissler. While studying at Oberlin Conservatory, Elizabeth taught secondary piano students, aural skills pupils and maintained a large piano studio in the Oberlin and the Cleveland areas. While in New York she taught at Concordia Conservatory in Bronxville and also ran a large piano studio in Westchester and Manhattan. Ms Lamberth currently serves on the faculties of Georgia Academy of Music and The Presbyterian School for the Performing Arts. Elizabeth has performed extensively giving solo piano recitals, and playing jazz piano as well as working as a chamber musician and accompanist in Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New York and California. She has held church positions as Music Director responsible for all aspects of liturgies and services--most notably, at St. Malachy’s Church The Actors Chapel in New York but also in the Cleveland area. Her compositions have been performed in North Carolina, New York and Ohio. She has received many scholarships for her studies and a grant for work in composition on the Isle of Iona. I have been extremely graced to have studied and worked in many different fields of music. I believe that even beginners should have a working knowledge of theory, form, scales and chords, besides learning to read, improvise/compose and perform music. It is immensely important that while studying the classical body of repertoire, students must also be playing the music they hear in popular culture, as music involves first and foremost, the skill of listening. I strive to include all of these aspects of study in my teaching. I also believe deeply in an attitude of compassion and kindness. The body is our true instrument and a miraculous vehicle of song, sound and creativity. Respect and gentleness between teacher and student are of the utmost importance when training the body to do all of the immensely complex tasks required in the making of music. – Piano https://www.gaom.us/lauren-mccall daily 0.75 2020-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1587672487579-MUN0T1HCMXOFMVIJ36PX/Lauren+McCall.PNG Lauren McCall - Lauren McCall is a composer, musician and educator from Atlanta, Georgia. She studied for her master’s degree in music education at the University of Georgia and for her master’s degree in music composition at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. While at VCFA, Lauren wrote compositions for various ensembles including choruses, chamber ensembles, and electronic music groups. She has had compositions performed around North America and in Europe. This includes her piece for piano, Shake the Earth , which was performed in Morehead, Kentucky at Morehead State University’s Contemporary Piano Festival, and her graphic score composition The Fish Wife which was performed in Montreal, Canada by the ensemble Amis Orgue Montreal. In addition to composing, Lauren is the pianist for the North Atlanta Church of Christ and prior to working at the Georgia Academy of Music, Lauren taught at the Atlanta Music Project and the Lawrenceville Suwanee School of Music. Lauren is currently studying music technology at Georgia Tech where she works as a graduate research assistant developing curriculum for the websites EarSketch and TunePad. – Piano/ Clarinet https://www.gaom.us/liesl-mcwhorter daily 0.75 2021-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1593182798772-Z28Y0QD63LY72Z2TWIBJ/IMG_7956.JPG Liesl McWhorter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586827663078-I35H64G5499PJR2ROTJN/DSC_0319.jpg Liesl McWhorter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586827663148-XFZ9OIC433LS40N5TXBR/DSC_0750.jpg Liesl McWhorter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586827663866-GR3EKOP7OGVUN5LUL0SN/DSC_0748.jpg Liesl McWhorter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1593182970832-FPXEDXU4CELUR5L91EHP/IMG_7957.JPG Liesl McWhorter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1626623545414-PLXXKXP1AX2L58IVFL9M/Liesl+McWhorter.jpg Liesl McWhorter - Liesl McWhorter is an Atlanta native who has been seriously studying music for over twenty years. She first began her music studies at age six under Atlanta Symphony Orchestra retiree, Pat Vas Dias. Following her involvement in multiple youth symphonies throughout middle and high school, she continued her studies and received a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance from Agnes Scott College, a university home to Georgia’s first female Rhodes’ scholar, as well as Pulitzer prizeand Oscar winners. Currently, Liesl teaches and performs in and around the Atlanta area. She has enjoyed performing with symphonies including the Savannah Philharmonic, Augusta, Columbus, and Macon Symphony Orchestras. She has also performed and toured with acclaimed artists such as Michael Buble, Rod Stewart, Sarah McLachlan and The New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players. As a teacher, she continues to use the Suzuki Method she was brought up on, while also implementing her own personal style of teaching and training in order to help students grow in skill and musical ability. The process is twofold: having developed an appreciation of the unique ability in each child, she also plays an active role in using listening, repetition, and positive reinforcement to help each student grow. – Violin https://www.gaom.us/irina-mogilevsky daily 0.75 2020-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586828097919-XT91IU6DFQTEBYEA8DZN/DSC_0575.jpg Irina Mogilevsky - With a Bachelor of Music Education from the College of Music and a Master of Music in Music Theory and Piano from the Conservatory of Music in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Irina brings a wealth of experience to the Georgia Academy of Music. For over twenty years she has taught both privately and in the classroom and is a published author whose works for piano and music theory were incorporated into the music curriculum at the College of Music in Tashkent where she served on the faculty. Irina has also taught at the Special Music School, Tashkent, Eureke College, Eureke, IL and with the Piano Preparatory School at Bradley University, Peoria IL. – Piano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586828134584-J4G7FARWJR0RS8XLR4LU/DSC_0666.jpg Irina Mogilevsky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586828151098-LCU9LPCYA35FYU6LFB0U/DSC_1176.jpg Irina Mogilevsky https://www.gaom.us/zorica-pavlovic daily 0.75 2020-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1588616961752-ZXHJRVGSQPDPG3G6QEKD/Zorica.jpg Zorica Pavlovic - Zorica Pavlović has been part of Georgia Academy of Music since 2013. She has been teaching voice and piano to students as young as 3 years old all the way to senior adults who are interested in trying something new. Her musical training comes from Eastman School of Music where she has received her Master of Music and Georgia State University where received her Bachelor of Music degree in voice performance. She has performed with the number of organizations including the Atlanta Opera, Charlottesville Opera, Eastman Opera Theater, Harrower Opera Workshop, Atlanta Camerata, Brasstown Concert Association, New Trinity Baroque, Christ Church Schola Cantorum in Rochester, NY, Eastman Collegium Musicum, and Rochester Chamber Orchestra. With the strong interest for early music, Ms. Pavlovic was featured as a soloist at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Amherst Early Music Festival, Queens College Baroque Opera Summer Workshop, Haymarket Opera Summer Workshop and Belgrade Early Music Festival among others. Some of the roles performed include Eurilla in Handel’s Il Pastor Fido, Virtue and Poppea in Monteverdi’s Il Coronazione di Poppea, Dorinda in Orlando, Eurydice in Rossi’s Orfeo, and Diane in La Diane De Fontaineblau. She is a member of vocal ensemble Concordia based in the Atlanta area that specializes in Renaissance Polyphony. Individuality is the key quality she recognizes in each of her students and her approach is to encourage every student to express themselves in their own unique way while aiming to do their best in exploring, developing and recognizing their musical talents. – Voice/Piano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586828524557-CDEKLSKXSJ1KDV3EU0MB/DSC_0368.jpg Zorica Pavlovic https://www.gaom.us/katie-truex daily 0.75 2020-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586828723761-BAOAWYXYNU4Y7IC4M3Y0/Katie_B-3_touchup.jpg Katie Truex - "MUSIC IS THE DIVINE WAY TO TELL BEAUTIFUL, POETIC THINGS TO THE HEART" -PABLO CASALS Katie currently resides in Tucker, GA, working as a performer and teacher in the greater Atlanta area. She has a passion for teaching secure fundamentals in cello technique to students of all ages, striving to instill the joy that comes with the ability to play well. As a pursuant of cello pedagogy, she has sought teacher training across multiple philosophies including those based in folk music. She is a certified Suzuki cello teacher and member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas. She is also an active member of the American String Teachers Association. Katie has performed in orchestral settings throughout the United States and abroad. Her traveling performance career has included 3 extensive tours of China performing film music and a tour of the eastern United States with Academy Award-winning actress Shirley Jones. In Georgia, she performs with many of the regional symphonies in the state including the Macon Symphony, Savannah Philharmonic, Symphony Orchestra Augusta, Rome Symphony, and Valdosta Symphony. She holds core positions with the LaGrange Symphony and Albany Symphony, serving as acting principal for the latter of the two. Outside of the orchestral world, she performs regularly as a contract artist for churches and music projects throughout the state. Katie has a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. She studied there with the lauded teacher and performer Paul York. Additional teachers include Debbie Caruso and Natasha Farney. During her education, she attended the Sewanee Summer Music Festival in Sewanee, Tennessee, a total of 6 times, serving as section principal in the highest-level student orchestra on multiple occasions. Passionate about chamber music, Katie also performs regularly in settings such as weddings and gallery events. Katie believes that learning to use the cello as an extension of the self is a continuous and joyous process. This personal harmony is an element Katie strives to instill in her students and her audiences. – Cello https://www.gaom.us/registration daily 0.75 2020-04-23 https://www.gaom.us/about-us daily 0.75 2024-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586823917522-0MFUOO06BU9VGSYUWQOJ/DSC_0324.jpg About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586823918675-CMNN13F2AXEZ7KRVEM40/DSC_0368.jpg About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586823918878-QQ6Z0NZ99NK6BLO1YE49/DSC_0444.jpg About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586823916914-CTGJ0NMI6C1GAL5PUZBM/DSC_0511.jpg About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586823918360-KDAJZJALWZQXVL245B2C/DSC_0666.jpg About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586823919760-Y48US1EA3OJ2BJ6R3XOZ/DSC_1176.jpg About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586823261796-AC7AC9ENH7UOMRJ0MNB4/IMG_3569.jpg About Us - Our History The Georgia Academy of Music is a non profit community music school offering premiere musical instruction to metropolitan Atlanta. Founded in 1973 by Peggy Neuen and Martha Gershefski, The Georgia Academy of Music began as the Atlanta String Academy. It quickly expanded one year later to include all orchestral instruments and thus became The Georgia Academy of Music. From the outset the founders had a vision of a grass roots movement for music education that would leave a profound impact on Greater Atlanta. The Academy is committed to having the finest mentors available to nurture musicians of all levels and ages. Today the legacy and the traditions laid down by the founders are being realized all over the world. From performing artists to music educators to enthusiastic patrons, the Academy has and continues to celebrate its vision. Numerous Academy alumni now occupy major orchestras, universities, and public schools throughout the United States. The Academy currently offers private music lesson instruction by our 34 member international faculty. Included in this offering are lessons on cello, clarinet, flute, guitar, horn, trombone, tuba, piano, saxophone, trumpet, viola, violin, and voice. We also offer Suzuki Method instruction on violin and cello including a Suzuki group experience on violin. Our Musical Beginnings program for ages 6 months to 5 years has for over thirty years given children an introduction to music and has been a benchmark for all other early music programs in the region. It is a unique and dynamic program that offers children the opportunity to experience a range of musical activities. This content rich curriculum includes presenting classics to contemporary genre, musical notation, song and movement, and orchestral instrument introduction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1587673345192-UKS2KD256URZ8L72LFX8/_MG_49535%2Bmaestro%2Bj.jpg About Us - John has served as the Executive Director of the Georgia Academy of Music since 1997. He is strongly committed to music making a difference in children’s life. For the past 35 years John has been actively involved in music education at all educational levels. He firmly believes in the necessity of strong music mentors in children’s lives in today’s culture. John studied at Boston University under three principal trumpets of the Boston Symphony: Roger Voisin, Armando Ghitalla, and Rolf Smedvig. While there he received his bachelor of music in music performance. At Tanglewood John played principal trumpet under Leonard Bernstein, Andre Previn and Seiiji Ozawa in the Berkshire Music Center Orchestra. While at Tanglewood he also performed with the Boston Symphony. John continued his music education at Sandpoint as an active conductor with Gunther Schuller and the Spokane Symphony for two summers. Since coming to Atlanta he has maintained an active performing schedule performing and recording with the Atlanta Symphony, Atlanta Ballet where he is currently co-principal trumpet, and Atlanta Opera Orchestras. John served as the conductor and artistic director of the Atlanta Community Orchestra for several seasons, founded the Paramount Music Festival-a brass festival for high school students, and conducted the Atlanta Ballet at the Ferst theater. John is currently the Artistic Director of the Georgia Philharmonic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1587673736656-N3S2C689ITAZVFHCXH6I/IMG_0667.jpg About Us - Lisa Morrison has been with the Georgia Academy as a teacher, department head, ensemble coach and administrator for over twenty years. She graduated magna cum laude from Boston University with a Bachelor of Music degree in violin. Further studies included training at The Aspen Music Festival, Tanglewood, The Chautauqua Festival, and the American Institute for Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.As a teacher, Lisa has had a broad range of teaching students ranging form age 6 months to senior citizens. She is currently the head of The Georgia Academy Musical Beginnings Program for infants through 5 year olds. While on the Academy string faculty, she led a Petite String Ensemble and co-directed The Academy Chamber Orchestra. Lisa received the Founders Award for teaching excellence during her tenure on the violin faculty. She has been the Assistant Director of the school since 1999.During her Atlanta residency, Lisa has also been professor of violin at Dekalb College, Kennesaw State University, and is currently the violin professor at Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia.As a performer, Lisa has been the concertmaster of The Atlanta Ballet Orchestra since 1989. Solo violin appearances with the Atlanta Ballet include the Philip Glass Concerto for violin, Chausson’s Poeme, The Vivaldi Four Seasons and performances with the Indigo Girls. She has been a member of The Atlanta Opera Orchestra for over twenty years. Lisa is currently a member of The Amati Chamber Players. She has also performed with Atlanta Chamber Players and The Georgia Lyric Theater. Committed to versatile music genres, Lisa has also performed with The Theater of the Stars Broadway productions and has played for a wide variety of popular artists from Ella Fitzgerald to Rod Stewart.A vital part of her job as an administrator is to place students with teachers and instruments through the registration process. The philosophy that each individual must be helped in a unique way based on age, level of proficiency, and ambition is important to her in giving the best counsel possible to Academy students. As a mother of three and a teacher of many, Lisa has a breath of experience to guide students and parents to find the instrument and musical genre that speaks to them. Her goal is to facilitate each student and parent to find the best teacher to nurture their musical gifts.“With the philosophy that music is a gift for everyone to experience, I strive to be a menthor and a vessel. My goal is to ignite the passion and love for music from the very young to the young at heart.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94984933b9b4020c616540/1586823774072-3WRIDWM1GMK8AXTOBWU6/GAM.jpg About Us - Mission The Georgia Academy of Music educates and trains musicians of all ages from around metropolitan Atlanta, drawing on the considerable experience of our distinguished faculty. We are dedicated to cultivating high standards of excellence and nurturing individual expression and creative growth. Understanding that music is one of the transcendent expressions of the human spirit, the Georgia Academy of Music aspires to ensure it a central place in the lives of our students. Core Values We believe our students must have a supportive and healthy learning environment that maximizes the individual attention they receive from their teachers, and allows them to explore and develop their unique artistic personalities. We believe that we have a responsibility to reinforce and expand the position of music in society by educating the next generation of musicians, encouraging growth, and sharing our art with the widest possible audience. We believe that the study of music builds human capacity, elevates the soul, and prepares our students for musical lives that enhance the public good. https://www.gaom.us/calendar daily 0.75 2026-04-05