ABOUT ME
From Playing Carnegie Hall to Building a Thriving Private Music Studio — And Helping You Do the Same
Meet Becky
I've known I was going to be a teacher since 7th grade and started teaching music since I was a junior in high school.
My band director saw something in me early —he trusted me enough to put me in front of students, paying me to help flute players transition to French horn. As a teenager. That's how certain everyone was, including me, that teaching was my path.
Before I ever had a studio of my own, I was a performer. I started piano in 2nd grade and picked up French horn in 5th. By high school I was performing in the John Philip Sousa National Honors Band in Washington D.C. and the National Wind Ensemble at Carnegie Hall. I went on to earn my Bachelor of Arts in Music from Arizona State University, studying French horn with William Lane and John Ericson, and started my graduate studies in horn performance at Northern Arizona University with Nancy Sullivan.
This is my second featured solo with The Charlottesville Band at the Paramount Theater — "Sure-Fire: The Spark" by Catherine Likhuta, performed June 2, 2026. I make a couple of mistakes. I'm human. But no matter how nervous I get, I still show up — and that's exactly what I teach my students too.
Why I built this
In 1998, my high school band director saw something in me and asked me to help mentor a fellow student. That moment planted a seed. I'd started college as a music education major, but public school teaching wasn't my path — private teaching was.
When my husband and I made a cross-country move, I faced a choice: find a job I didn't love, or build my own studio from scratch. I chose the studio. I set a goal to enroll 10 students in my first three months. I hit it in two weeks. By the new year I had 20.
Over the years I've built — and rebuilt — my studio through two major relocations, reaching full capacity with a waitlist within three months each time.
In 2019 I started sharing what I'd learned. Not theories. Not generic business advice. The exact systems, templates, and strategies I use in my own studio — the one I still teach in, still grow, and still love.
What makes this different
A lot of music studio business advice comes from teachers who used to teach. I still do. Every week. With real students, real families, and real challenges.
I'm not just a business coach who once had a studio. I'm a working musician and a working teacher who has spent nearly three decades figuring out how to build something sustainable, profitable, and genuinely fulfilling — without giving up performing, without burning out, and without compromising the quality of my teaching.
That's what I want for you too.
A little more about Becky
When I'm not teaching or performing, I'm a mom of three, a gardener who finds as much peace in the garden as I do in the practice room, and the writer behind the fitness blog Connect the Dots Ginger. I currently live in Charlottesville, Virginia with my husband Matthew.
Music has taken me from a practice room in Arizona to Carnegie Hall and still performing on stage as Principal Horn. It's given me a career I've built entirely on my own terms.
That's what I want to help you build too.