Box Office: 540.345.2550|info@jeffcenter.org Facebook Twitter YouTube Events COVID-19 Education Facilities Support About Box Office Lessons at Music Lab SIGN UP FOR LESSONS (online) SIGN UP FOR PRIVATE LESSONS (pdf) PAY FOR LESSONS Music Lab offers private instruction to any age on a variety of instruments. Private lessons through our Music Lab are a program of the Harry and Lavon Webb Youth Enrichment and Arts Education Center. If you or your child are interested in setting up a lesson schedule at Music Lab with one of our instructors please email jharman@jeffcenter.org or call 540.685.2309. We are happy to meet and discuss what works best for you and/or your child. Meet our instructors: LEAH HOWARD – Violin Leah Howard has been fascinated with the violin ever since she picked it up for the first time when she was ten, and played Jingle Bells. A few months later, she performed the song solo for her elementary school, and joined her first youth orchestra. Leah started formal, private Suzuki training the following year, when she moved from Oregon to California, and continued to study violin in school and privately, throughout her high school years. Some of her early musical experience includes playing in her high school orchestra, professional strolling violinist, violinist in a professional youth quartet, and playing violin in a community philharmonic orchestra. Soon after moving to Roanoke in 2002, Leah joined the Valley Chamber Orchestra as a violinist, publicist and board member for two and a half years, while she pursued her degree in Commercial Design and the Arts, at Hollins University. Leah was very active in the Music Department at Hollins, where she studied music theory, Latin American Music, and Bach, as well as taking private voice and violin lessons. She is proud to have been awarded a surprise scholarship by the head of the Music Department. Using the Suzuki Method, which emphasizes listening to music, as well as technique and theory, Leah’s students can learn the fundamental foundational tools that will make it possible to play any kind of music they enjoy. Now a Hollins University Alumna and professional Violin Instructor, Performer and Graphic Designer, Leah enjoys sharing music, which she considers to be one of the most beautiful gifts in her life, with others. WILLIS GREENSTREET – Saxophone, guitar, clarinet Willis Greenstreet grew up playing all sorts of instruments at his fathers’ church in Roanoke, Virginia. At age eight, he began learning how to play the guitar. He studied with Cyrus Pace over the course of approximately two years. Willis played guitar with Judi Jackson, the French Jazz band Djangabond, and several other various bands over the years. Annually, he is contacted to play with the Cave Spring High School branch of the Jazz Café. He began playing saxophone when he was eleven years old (finishing his education under the under the guidance of Linda Pasquarell), played with his middle and high school bands, and has significant exposure in the Roanoke Valley. Willis works with bands such as The Color J, Hoppie Vaughan and the Ministers of Soul, and Runaway Jones, and with musicians such as Ben Trout, Jonathan Barker and Elmer Coles. When he began playing the saxophone, Willis also took up other woodwind instruments like the clarinet and the flute. He has performed in productions for Roanoke College, Ferrum College, and Attic Productions. Willis enjoys teaching guitar and woodwinds at the Jefferson Center. GIVE NOW CONTACT US Box Office: 540.345.2550 | Office: 540.343.2624 Toll Free: 866.345.2550 E-mail: info@jeffcenter.org 541 Luck Avenue, Suite 221 Roanoke, VA 24016 JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST Copyright © 2021 Jefferson Center Foundation. All rights reserved.