Congratulations to our wonderful student, 12-year-old Simon Joos (pictured on the far left) for his success at the 2024 Pensacola State College Guitar Competition. Simon is a student of Music Lessons Express’ North Florida Suzuki School where he studies with guitar program director, Dr. Ben Lougheed. Simon will be featured at the Pensacola Guitar Ensemble Spring…
North Florida Suzuki violin students Ethan Cannon (11th grade) and Pavit Patel (8th grade) represented their school, Florida State University Schools, at the 2024 Florida All-State orchestras in Tampa this past weekend. The 2024 Florida Music Educators Conference which hosts the All-State ensembles is one of the largest music education professional development events in the…
Last weekend’s Florida Guitar Festival drew competitors andclinicians from all around the country to Tallahassee. Prominently featured in the opening concert and masterclasses were our advanced guitar students from MLE’s North Florida Suzuki School. Students Antonia Nowels, Kabeer Aggarwal, Simon Joos, Jemmy Qin, Donald Hinchman, Terry Lin, and Himank Chhaya performed in masterclasses for…
Congratulations to our five guitar students who participated in the 2022 North Florida Strings Festival. This annual festival, sponsored by the American Strings Teachers Association, is an opportunity for young string students to perform for and receive feedback from an adjudicator. All five guitar students from MLE received Level 1 ratings and three…
MLE’s Rock Band Class performed at the Bradfordville Blues Club on Sunday, March 6th. Performers included Connor Ferguson on bass, Eric Zhu on keyboard, and Seth Kendrick on drums. Their performance featured the talents of guest artists Michael Brown on guitar and Jim Clark and Michael Lynch on vocals. The MLE Rock Band is taught…
7th grade violin student, Karan Komuroji, has won a position in the Indo-European Youth Orchestra, scheduled to perform in Budapest, Hungary in August 2022. Karan has been part of the Suzuki violin program at MLE since 2015, where he studies with Natasha Marsalli. He is also a member of the Tallahassee Youth Orchestras and plays…
MLE violin students Sreyas Narayan and Chinonso Okoli performed in the 2022 FMEA Honors Orchestras Florida Music Educator Conference, held in Tampa, Florida. The FMEA Honors Orchestras consist of the top middle and high school orchestra students in the state of Florida. Students are selected for the ensembles based on the nominations of their school orchestra…
Fifteen-year-old guitar student, Donald Hinchman, placed third in the high school division of the 2021 Florida Guitar Festival and Competition, held October 15-17th in Tallahassee, FL. Donald currently studies with MLE program director Dr. Ben Lougheed and has been part of the MLE Suzuki guitar program for the last three years. The Florida Guitar…
We are excited to announce that two of our Suzuki violin students, Karan Komuroji and Luxmi Narayan have been invited to participate as first violinists in the 2021 Indo-European Youth Orchestra. Luxmi Narayan, 15, has been a Suzuki student at Music Lessons Express for the past eight years. A sophomore at Florida State University School, Luxmi…
Music Lessons Express is thrilled to announce that guitar student Himank Chhaya won first prize in the intermediate division of the 8th Annual Latino Arts International Guitar Festival Competition. Himank is a student of MLE program director Dr. Ben Lougheed and has been part of the Suzuki guitar program for more than five years. A…