Music Teachers that Combine Passion and Progress
Zera Music Company has been providing music lessons to students since 2017. We have helped many of our students become the complete musicians they want to be – playing their instruments effortlessly and also being able to explain the theory behind it. Learn all about the team that makes our lessons possible.
Top-Notch Music Education from Your Home
Our in-home and online lessons for various instruments allow your children to learn from the comfort of their homes. Our team has served many students across the Dallas-Fort Worth area. With our online lessons, your child can get quality music education wherever they are.
Introducing: Zera Music Company
Founded in 2017, Zera Music Company was created with one mission in mind: providing top-notch music education to children in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Our team currently offers lessons for piano, guitar, drums, and voice.
Since we started, we’ve served hundreds of students across DFW. Want to know why our clients continue to trust our services?
Expert Instructors
You can always expect quality lessons from our team. First, we administer a very intentional hiring process to ensure previous teaching experience, communication skills, knowledgeability pertaining to teachable instruments and music theory, and a heart for teaching. We require the passing of a Background Check and Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Training. Next, we train up our instructors to prepare them to serve each of their families “the Zera Music Company way”. No matter which instructor serves your family, we provide unmatched service. Each month we meet to grow in our teaching and to ensure we’re improving in our abilities to serve each of our families.
Self-Service Solutions & Resources
We have meticulously tested a plethora of teaching curriculum pertaining to the instruments we teach to ensure that our students develop not only a love of music, but also a complete understanding of it. We also provide students and parents additional resources that encourage optimal learning and practice techniques to catapult progress forward. Each of our resources are accessed in our Student Portal that also allows you to sync your lesson calendar with your phone, make easy online payments, save instructor contact information, and reschedule lessons in advance.
Excellent Customer Service
With us, you don’t have to worry about messy paperwork, because there isn’t any. We don’t require any contract to get started on helping your child get quality music education. We also offer a flexible four-hour cancellation policy. You even get to try out our service before you commit, as we offer a 100% risk-free trial lesson for your family.
Music Lessons You can Trust
We’ve served hundreds of students with our in-home and online music lessons. Our team currently covers piano, guitar, voice, and drums. Head to our services page to learn how our instructors conduct expert lessons for your kid.
Expert Instructors
You can always expect quality lessons from our team. First, we administer a very intentional hiring process to ensure previous teaching experience, communication skills, knowledgeadbility pertaining to teachable instruments and music theory, and a heart for teaching. We require the passing of a Background Check and Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Training. Next, we train up our instructors to preprare them to serve of their familie “he Zera Music Company way”. No matter which instructor serves your family, we provide unmatched service. Each month we meet to grow in our teaching and to ensure we’re improving in our abilities to serve each of our families.
Alex B. - Guitar, Bass, Ukulele, Voice
Alex first picked up a guitar at the age of eight and since then learning, creating, and teaching music has been a love and passion of his. Alex grew up in Northeast Ohio and as a kid, fell in love with Classic Rock, Blues and Jazz. He was blessed enough to have two creative and dedicated guitar teachers who helped instill a drive and love of learning new things musically. He began teaching guitar lessons in high school, and borrowed heavily from what his teachers modeled: music theory taught through songs that he wanted to learn and music that he loved listening to. While in college at TCU studying Education, Alex started writing songs and playing shows in the Texas Country/ Red Dirt scene around North Texas. For the past several years he has been blessed enough to play music professionally, in his own original country band, leading worship at church and as a sideman playing pedal steel, guitar, banjo and dobro in various groups live and in studio. He has been fortunate enough to open for Ricky Skaggs, Stoney Larue, and Steve Wariner, among other musical heroes of his. Two of his favorite things are writing songs and coming up with original parts in the studio for other artists’ original songs. His goal is to continue inspiring and growing the next generation of musicians.
Ralph S. - Voice, Piano, Percussion
Ralph earned his Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and Percussion from West Texas A&M University in 1988. As a Choral Director for 16 years, he conducted many of his award-winning choirs in the US, France, England, and across Italy, where his chamber choir sang mass for the Pope, John Paul II.Ralph has an extensive background in musical theatre and opera, with roles in shows such as Matilda, Mamma Mia, Newsies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Phantom of the Opera. Ralph was the Music Director and played the role of the Wolf in Sondheim’s, Into the Woods, and was nominated for Best Musical Director and Best Supporting Actor by “Best of Broadway World” in 2018.
As a private voice, piano, and percussion instructor for over 20 years, Ralph has placed many students in such prestigious schools as, The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, NYU, Curtis Institute and various other colleges and universities. He has also had students excel at the TMEA All-State level, and has had the privilege to see almost all of his students receive Superior 1 ratings at Solo and Ensemble. Two prior students have made it to the top 30 of American Idol and on NBC’s The Voice. He looks forward to sharing his tenured success with all of his students!
Teresa L. - Piano, Strings
Teresa has experimented with various musical instruments including, violin, piano, and recorder at an advanced level. With 15 years of piano experience she is currently working on a double major in Piano Performance and String Education at the University of North Texas in Denton. The proud recipient of the Isabel Scontipiano performance scholarship, Teresa’s teaching encompasses technique as well as comprehension - fine-tuning her teaching methods to each students’ strengths and weaknesses ensuring the student achieves extensive knowledge of the instrument.
Austin S. - Piano, Guitar, Ukulele, Voice
Austin is a graduate from Texas Woman’s University with a Bachelor of Science in Music Therapy. Austin has worked with an abundance of client populations including geriatric rehabilitation, juvenile detention, medical rehabilitation, end of life care, typically functioning children, and a wide array of clients with Autism Spectrum Disorder and intellectual disabilities during his degree program. Austin has also been a part of several musical events such as live gigs, musicals, all-state choir, church choruses, and music therapy sessions. He dreams of one day allowing music to spread joy to others as it has brought him, and by doing so, creating a warm and loving environment to make and create music. Austin’s primary focus is voice and vocal technique, but also teaches guitar, piano, and ukulele. For Austin, it does not matter what skill level you are at, as long as you are passionate about making music, he is more than willing to help you on your journey. Whether it is something as simple as learning how to sing songs around a campfire, or trying to audition for musicals or solos, he is always up for the challenge! Austin’s future goals are to become a licensed music therapist, and then continue his education towards a master’s degree in vocal pedagogy. In his free time, Austin enjoys reading, writing, watching TV and playing video games.
Aidan B. - Electric & Acoustic Guitar, Piano
Aidan is a musician and teacher who currently resides in Carrollton, Texas. His first exposure to music was via the guitar at age 8. He studied music education at the University of North Texas where he performed in Jazz Ensembles, Wind Bands and world music ensembles. He is a multi-instrumentalist who composes and performs music from electronic dance music to Americana folk. His primary instruments are Guitar, Bass, Piano, Trumpet and French Horn. Aidan has been teaching since 2018, and in his spare time he enjoys reading and riding his bicycle.
Ricky R. - Guitar, Piano, Voice
Ricardo is a multi-talented music lover from Dallas, Texas. He has been a student of music for over 10 years, and has been involved in a plethora of school ensembles, taken private music lessons, and studied music at the University of North Texas. His musical influences include bands like The Beatles, Mana, Young The Giant, Bacillos, Queen and many more. He also has a background in classical music as well so he also enjoys the music of artists like Villa Lobos, Andrew York, and Francisco Tarrega. His passion for music and love of teaching shine through in his lessons and his teaching philosophy can best be described by saying that he knows each student learns in their own way so he incorporates the teaching styles and methods that best compliment each student’s learning style. His approach as a teacher is to have fun and practice hard.
Sam F. - Percussion, Guitar, Piano
Sam has been a music educator since 2014 when he began teaching drumline and private percussion/keyboard lessons throughout the DFW area. He was exposed to music at a young age, learning guitar and drums, and continued his musical journey by marching Winterguard International and Drum Corps International, playing snare for the Fred Sanford award winning Santa Clara Vanguard 2017 percussion section. Sam is currently the frontman of Denton-based band, “Have Near”, and enjoys performing, playing guitar, and singing with them. He is currently a music educator at Lake Highlands High School in Richardson, as well as Colleyville Heritage High School in Colleyville. He is excited to bring his teaching talents to Zera Music Company.
Audrey S. - Piano, Voice, Guitar
Audrey has been involved with music ever since performing with her father during Church services around the age of four. Since then, she has wanted music to be a large part of her life. After receiving her Bachelor's degree in Vocal Performance with Emphasis in Opera from The University of Texas at Austin in 2009, Audrey went on to attain her Master's in Music Therapy from Texas Woman's University in 2012. In 2012, Audrey began teaching piano lessons, and started teaching guitar and voice lessons in 2015. Since then, she has continued to learn the myriad joys of teaching music to young children in San Diego, New York City, and now Dallas. While in New York City, she also had the opportunity to develop and implement a keyboard-based curriculum for young, aspiring pianists between the ages of three and five. In the Fall of 2019, Audrey, her husband, their infant twin daughters and dog, Hobie moved back to Texas to be closer to family (and have a bit more space!).
Caden M. - Guitar, Piano
Caden is a talented, hardworking musician from Houston Texas. He graduated from Dallas Baptist University in 2017 with a Degree in Music Business with emphasis in Songwriting and Worship Leadership. Caden started learning the guitar in 2007 and also has 10 years of piano experience. With this experience, he also hasn’t shied away from applying these skills to a plethora of other instruments. Caden is a singer/songwriter, releasing music under the name Water & Bone. He has a passion for music and people, in hopes of spreading his love and understanding of the language of music.
Matthew P. - Guitar, Piano
Matthew started playing the guitar in 2007. Since then, he has experimented with various musical styles including rock, classical, flamenco, psychedelic blues and jazz. He is pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in Classical Guitar Performance at The University of North Texas in Denton, where he came in second place at the Mountain View College guitar competition in May of 2018. His teaching encompasses not only technique but comprehension as well. He fine-tunes his teaching method to each students’ strengths and weaknesses, ensuring they gain extensive knowledge of the instrument.
Stephanie H. - Piano, Voice, Guitar
Stephanie has been with us since the summer of 2019. Music is an integral part of her life and nothing makes her happier than to share her love and passion with eager students. She received her B.A. in Music Performance from Lubbock Christian University, and has been using her degree to teach privately and publicly since 1991. She is currently the Choir Director at Lake Dallas Middle School and is celebrating her 20th year teaching music with Lake Dallas ISD. She has two grown children and one beautiful granddaughter who are also musically inclined!
Bryce C. - Guitar, Piano, Brass
Bryce graduated from SMU with a Bachelor’s of Music in Music Education and obtained his certification from TEA. Bryce has a wide array of music experience from playing in full orchestras to teaching privately. Since graduating in 2017, he has started teaching with Zera Music Company, started to grow in record production, and perform with local bands. He also works as a substitute teacher with Plano ISD & Richardson ISD.
Elyssa E. - Piano, Guitar, Voice
Elyssa was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah and graduated from Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia where she received a minor in music pedagogy, and now lives in Frisco, Texas. She has studied piano since 2000, and has grown in her understanding of guitar, voice, and other instruments since 2008. She started teaching with Zera Music Company in October of 2018 and enjoys trying new food, traveling, and spending time with her family.
Kyle S. - Piano, Voice, Guitar
Kyle is a native of Pennsylvania and grew up surrounded by a plethora of music opportunities. He moved to Texas in 2013 to pursue his degree in Music Education at the University of North Texas which he completed in 2017. Upon graduating, Kyle founded Zera Music Company with a desire to provide families an unequivocal customer experience and an unparalleled quality of music education. His affections for Christ are stirred through serving in worship and youth ministry at The Village Church, Home Group, and through softball, volleyball, and the occasional triathlon. He lives in Lewisville with his wife Paige and daughters, Jubilee and Maisie.
