At Kathy’s Music, we are incredibly fortunate to have an exceptional team of staff. Our Kindermusik instructors, Group Music teachers & Music Artistry teachers all have extensive training and performing experience which makes them the marvelous educators they are.
Here are just a few of our wonderful teachers that are performing regularly out in the community.
Juli Wright
Juli currently has a handful of singles released and is working on a larger project to be released next year.
Most of her songs have been self-recorded and self-produced.
One or two releases have been collaborative projects with other musicians or producers as co-writing has been a recent goal.
Collaborations:
https://open.spotify.com/track/45cDrXvpwcB1sGRwP35JfS?si=1kPDna9TToiHkiLcry2tfQ
Of all of Juli’s releases, “angel (watching over me)” is the one that springboarded her back into songwriting. After not writing songs in many years, focusing instead on songs for her students and children, as Juli was sitting in her dorm room at the recording workshop, this song fell from the sky and reminded her that she is a songwriter.
Angel:
https://open.spotify.com/track/6frTsjxxtKX7Z6il2p6Z4x?si=vfQAj_yKSaeqMkyZDIEUiQ
Juli’s latest release is a song that she wrote with sync licensing in mind – picturing a holiday episode of any given TV show, where the cast is celebrating New Year’s Eve. Ironically though, this song has become Juli’s most requested live song, and she has started closing her sets with it because people seem to like the message.
Let’s all be wonderful:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1aCszMSb57CWrrBaIgxjT6?si=sP0DTJzRRWGgePzn4YDXgw
Learn more at http://julisongs.com/home
Rob Sheffer
Rob mainly focuses on 2 different styles of music: Contemporary Christian and Worship Music, and Classical/Instrumental Music featuring the guitar. Rob recently released his first single, a Contemporary Christian song called “Runaway” under the artist name “Rob Sheffer.” Rob is a worship leader at his church and he originally wrote “Runaway” to complement a sermon on the parable of the Prodigal Son. The song is about our own arrogance and God’s patience, persistence, and mercy. Rob is singing and playing guitar on the track, his wife Maggie Sheffer is singing harmony, and his uncle, John Cimino, recorded the bass.
Next month Rob will be releasing a full-length Christmas album of classical guitar arrangements. Rob has some tracks that are simple guitar versions of songs as you would usually hear them: like “Silent Night” and “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear;” and some tracks that are reimagined: like a flamenco “We Three Kings.” The album will be mostly solos, with a few duets. Rob will be releasing this album, as well as other instrumentals, under the artist name “Sheffer Music.”
You can find links to “Runaway,” demos from Rob’s Christmas album, and the Kickstarter page for his Christmas album (which has a cool video explaining the project) with this link:
Sheffermusic.com
Bryce Rabideau
Bryce is a graduate of Duquesne University’s jazz guitar program and a devoted music educator and performer. Since moving to Pittsburgh from the Boston area to attend school, he has studied piano, guitar, mandolin, and voice professionally. As a member of Pittsburgh-based folk bands Buffalo Rose and Ferdinand the Bull, he has played shows across the country and recorded three full-length albums. He has also performed with a number of nationally renowned acts including Joy Ike, The Skyliners, and Bindley Hardware Co. He strives to pass along the joy of performing and studying music to his students by encouraging persistence and experimentation in the practice room and confidence on stage.
Here is a link to the Buffalo Rose bio page: https://www.buffalorosemusic.com/about-pittsburgh-best-folk-music-band
And here is a link to our latest album via Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1KunNry69AtVaSELcdBejy?si=ROW46k5lR8Gr-81ZDhuMeA
Buffalo Rose will be releasing an EP on Misra Records on November 23rd, and in the next few months, they’ll be playing in New York City, Chicago, Cleveland, and New Orleans, among other places. To Bryce, the band is family. Four of the six of the band are music teachers in some capacity, and all of them consider the study and performance of music to be their lifelong passions.
Cecilia Caughman
Cecilia is one of our cello teachers and performs in two different groups while teaching a sold-out studio at Kathy’s Music.
The first group is Cello Fury, a chamber music rock group based here in Pittsburgh.. https://www.cellofury.com
The second one is Kamraton, an all-female group performing New Music. https://www.kamraton.org
Cecilia is also leading a Cello Ensemble made up of our students. They will be performing at Fall Recital this year.