Epitelo Music Academy

If you are curious about our staff members, please read below about each one's background and what they teach here.  Select your own teacher if you choose!

Kate (owner) -- violin, viola, clarinet, saxophone, piano, music theory, general music

Jaime -- percussion/drums, saxophone, general music, piano

Lainey -- voice, piano, guitar

Epitelo Music Academy opened in Columbus in summer 2006, and is growing quickly.
 

Previously, Kate taught in Medina, Ohio, for five years, giving lessons out of her home and also teaching at Royalton Music in Brunswick.  Her teaching experience includes private students on violin, viola, clarinet, saxophone, and oboe, ranging in age from 4 to adult.  She has also taught in many high schools and middle schools in Ohio during her undergraduate years, conducting sectionals and large group rehearsals.  Kate performs on clarinet regularly.  She has attended Bowling Green State University, Kent State University (under Dr. Dennis Nygren), and earned her bachelor’s degree in music education (BME) from Otterbein College (under Dr. Anthony Costa) in 2007.  She has also studied viola with Professor Csaba Erdelyi of BGSU.

Kate also has experience in working with kids with autism.  She is a certified ABA/therapy provider in Franklin County on the I/O and Level 1 waivers.  She has been working with kids with autism and music for four years, and approximately half of her students are on the spectrum.  References are available on request.

Kate teaches violin, viola, clarinet, saxophone, music theory, and general music.

Email Kate: kate@katesmusicschool.com.

Born in Monterrey, Mexico, Jaime began to play guitar at an early age before moving to drum set.

Jaime studied percussion and saxophone at the “Escuela Superior de Musica y Danza de Monterrey” under the guidance of Bryan Rouse (USA), Abercio Benitez (Mexico) and Noel Savon (Cuba) where he received a full-tuition scholarship. Due to this mixture of influences, Jaime performs in many different styles of music such as: Jazz, Classical, Contemporary, Rock and Latin. His group experience comes from playing with anywhere from orchestras to pop groups. Jaime began his solo career playing the “Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra” by Ney Rosauro, as a soloist accompanied by the “Orquesta del Tecnológico de Monterrey”, where he also studied Mechatronics (Engineer). Jaime was also recently invited to record with the “Orquesta de la Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon,” the State’s Orchestra.

Jaime has participated in many percussion festivals where he has had the opportunity to learn and share from today’s percussion masters such as Nebojsa Zivkovic, Ted Piltzecker, and Horacio Hernandez. He has appeared in musicals such as Anything Goes and Evita and has opened for piano virtuoso, Danilo Perez. Jaime began teaching music 2 years ago for both, public and private schools and is now serving for Kate’s Music School.

Jaime teaches: Saxophone, Percussion, Piano, Guitar, and General Music.  He also speaks fluent Spanish, for any students for whom that is a primary language.

Email Jaime: Jaime@katesmusicschool.com.

Soprano Lainey Prendeville joined the Epitelo Music Academy in October of 2008 as private voice, piano and guitar instructor.  She earned her Bachelor's degree in Music Performance from the University of Dayton in May 2007, and has since continued vocal studies while teaching voice privately. 

While pursuing her undergraduate degree, Lainey participated in the University of Dayton's Opera Workshop, performing numerous roles in opera scenes productions, including Carmen in Bizet's Carmen, Cenerentola in Rossini's La Cenerentola, The Countess in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Miss Wingrave in Britten's Owen Wingrave, and Susannah Polk in Floyd's Susannah.  She was also a member of the Dayton Opera chorus, performing among world renowned artists in such masterpieces as Saint Saens' Samson et Dalila, Bizet's Carmen, Strauss' Die Fledermaus, and Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.  As a member of the University of Dayton Chorale, Prendeville toured Eastern Europe, performing in cathedrals throughout Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. 

Lainey has also competed in a vast array of voice competitions, winning top prizes each year in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) regionals.  In January of 2006 she received 2^nd place in the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs competition, and was a UD Honor's Recital Finalist in 2007. 

Following her graduation in May of 2007, Prendeville moved to the Eastern Shore of Maryland to study with tenor John Wesley Wright and further her education in voice performance.  While there, she performed in Salisbury University's production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas as Belinda.  Lainey performed with the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra as the Soprano soloist for Mendelssohn's oratorio, Elijah, and was well received in numerous recitals, art shows and masterclasses throughout Salisbury.  As a soprano soloist in the Celebration of the African American Spiritual, Prendeville also had the privilege of working with members of the American Spiritual Ensemble, which is known throughout the world for their passionate and compelling renditions of spirituals. During her years with the Fort Hayes Metropolitan Singers in Columbus OH, she was honored to perform at Carnegie Hall in the feature choir of the Ohio Youth Chorale performance in 2001, which gave her the opportunity to work with and under the direction of the great composer/arranger/director of African American spirituals, the late Moses Hogan.  All of these experiences have nurtured and inspired her deep passion for spirituals and opera, although Lainey has also enjoyed performing in musicals such as Simon's The Secret Garden and Menken's Little Shop of Horrors.  With such a diverse repertoire of art songs, opera, oratorio, and musical theater, she also enjoys combining all of these influences into a folk/blues genre to write her own music for the voice, guitar and piano.  Perhaps the most satisfying feeling of all for Lainey is to have the privilege of passing on this knowledge and passion for music to others who share her love of this incredible art form. 

Epitelo Music Academy.  4620 Dolomite Ct., Columbus OH 43230.  (614) 625-1064.  Kate@katesmusicschool.com.