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Elizabeth F. Smith, Board-Certified Music Therapist and Certified Child Life Specialist, has been passionate about music ever since her first solo at age 5 in her Kindergarten program. She continued…

Erik Mikkelsen

Piano, Guitar, Percussion, Ukulele

Erik Mikkelsen grew up in the Raleigh area in a family of musicians. His music-teacher mother started him on violin at a very early age. From there he took up…

Rachel Pazur

Piano, Voice, Guitar, Ukulele, Flute

Rachel Pazur is an accomplished Opera Singer in her undergraduate career, having sustained four mainstage roles, despite being an education student. She has enthusiastically sought out more than what the Choral…

Bella Vanderhoof has been singing since she was a child. When she was 12, she started training to be an opera singer, and got her bachelors and masters of music…

Eliya Watson

Voice, Flute, Ukulele, Piano

Eliya Watson, mezzo-soprano and flutist, is a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, completing a Bachelor of Arts in Music under Dr. Nancy Walker, Dr. Jim…

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