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| Chad Clifford- Store manager Owner. Performs with the popular local group The Crawpuppies as well as solo acoustic. Chad is a songwriter in the classic pop style (John Lennon, Pete Townshend immediately spring to mind). Michelle Clifford - Owner Store staff: Steve Termini - Guitarist and he is in charge of recycling! Jess Mateer Matt Kassner Instructors: Susan Brown- Lap dulcimer, Autoharp, Piano Drake Blinco - Bass Guitar Angelo Cicco- guitar (beginners, advanced rock & jazz guitar) Angelo has been professionally teaching guitar for nine years, performing professionally for 12 years, and playing guitar for 14 years. He is a member of popular local band The Unit as well as performing solo acoustic. Angelo lists his musical influences as including Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, & Grant Green. He enjoys jazz, rock and blues music. Joe Falck Bass - Repair Shop Manager Joe began taking lessons with us at FPM in 1995. He recently finished at Ball State with a major Social Studies Ed and a Jazz Studies minor. While at BSU he played in the symphony, the jazz band and various combos. Joe’s musical taste ranges from Classical to Rock. He has been doing freelance jazz gig regularly for the last three years. Joe is currently accepting new bass students. Welcome Joe! Mami Matsuda.- voice, guitar, piano. Mami is a classically trained singer, whose parents were opera singers. Mami worked as a recording artist for CBS-Sony (Japan) for 13 years, in a duet with her sister, as well as studio session vocal work. Mami lists her influences as including Beethoven, James Taylor, Livingston Taylor, and Darryl Hall. Beth Newman - Guitar Rich Ortiz- guitar (classical, jazz, beginners): Rich has been playing guitar for over 18 years, and has his BM in Music Composition from Valparaiso University and his MM in Music Composition from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Rich has also studied classical and jazz guitar throughout his college career. His compositions and guitar playing have received several honors, awards and scholarships. In addition to teaching he is a working composer, music engraver and gigging musician playing weddings and other special events as a solo classical guitarist or in a duet with our violin teacher Colleen Rodriguez. www.rlomusic.com my myspace is http://www.myspace.com/rlom Eric Raskopf - Guitar began lessons at FPM at an early age from both Angelo Cicco and store manager Chad Clifford and has become great lead guitarist. A Portage High School graduate, Eric enjoys all types of music but his favorite is progressive, experimental metal. He has toured as the lead guitarist with his band Send the Dawn. http://www.myspace.com/sendthedawn Colleen Rodriguez- violin Carolyn Rodea Martin Schaefer-Murray- guitar (beginners, advanced rock & blues guitar): Martin says "I've always been into music. My family had a classical background, and I learned rock & roll from my dad." Martin lists his favorite artists/ influences as Beethoven, Brahms, The Beatles, John Coltrane, Ravi Shankar, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix. He also mentions the influence of jazz, blues, ip hop and Indian classical music. The impact of discovering blues music when he was 15 put everything into perspective for Martin. He fronts the popular local group Planetary Blues. Michael Schaefer- Murray- guitar (beginners, advanced rock & blues guitar): Jane Schreiner Paul Schreiner Scott Schultz- To better accommodate our growing number of drum students we had added Scott Schultz. Scott is a great drummer who has come highly recommended by Ryan Nicoletto. He plays with the melodic rock band Suburbanite. http://www.myspace.com/suburbaniterock Bill Theis- Band instruments William Wilkie – FPM welcomes a fabulous Fiddle player by the name of William Wilkie, who has just agreed to teach banjo, mandolin and fiddle with us here at FPM. Wilkie has been playing fiddle for eight years but has had Old time music “in his blood” since long before that. Bruce Wolfe- Saxophone, flute, guitar |