Our Teachers - Superpowers Music Academy

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Meet Our Teachers

Our Teacher’s Methods of Teaching

Bob Boulding is our founder and instructs guitar, ukulele, bass, and mandolin. Bob started playing guitar at age 9, and never stopped. While studying music at Saddleback College, Bob taught his first guitar group lesson at a local music school. His methods of teaching have developed since he began private instruction in 1999. All the while, Bob has also been a professional musician. For 18 years he was the lead guitarist in the Celtic rock band Young Dubliners, with whom he made 6 albums and played thousands of shows throughout the US and Europe. In addition to guitar playing, Bob also has experience performing on and teaching bass, mandolin, and ukulele. His passion and enthusiasm to give people of all ages the ability to play music is inspired by 25 years of teaching and performing experience.

Bob is a trained Suzuki guitar method instructor. Call today to schedule a lesson!

Bob Boulding

Guitar, Bass, Ukulele, Mandolin

Boston native Deirdre Moncy studied classical Suzuki violin and piano as a child, and as a young adult she attended The American Academy of Dramatic Arts as well as The Musicians Institute College of Music in Hollywood. She holds a Bachelor’s degree of Music from California State University of Los Angeles in Commercial Music, and is a graduate of The Herb Alpert Music Centre at Los Angeles City College in vocal performance. Moncy’s intention is to share her passionate love of music and knowledge with others through education, composition, community out-reach programs and performance. Always playing, singing and finding the joy in the next note, Deirdre is an ever evolving artist ready to create magic teaching music.

Deirdre Moncy

Piano, Voice

Dave Goldstein is a Los Angeles based keyboardist, producer and composer who has performed and recorded with a wide variety of musical artists during the course of his career. A graduate of the Berklee College Of Music, he has also studied at the Eastman School Of Music and at UCLA. Dave is the keyboardist for Cannibal And The Headhunters (“Land Of 1000 Dances”) and has recently toured with the group Redbone as well as with former Wings and Moody Blues member Denny Laine. His TV and film credits include feature films and national TV spots.

Dave enjoys teaching players of every age and distills his fantastic experience for his students to grow their own unique talent on piano.

Learn more about Dave’s current music activity at DaveGoldsteinMusic.com.

Dave Goldstein

Piano, All Levels

Phoebe Silva is a freelance music teacher, specializing in vocal technique, violin, and ukulele.

A third generation teacher, Phoebe takes care to tailor her teaching methods to suit the individual learning styles and interests of her students. She specializes in teaching children as young as 3, and up to advanced orchestra-level students. She also teaches music theory and performance coaching.

Phoebe holds a BFA in musical theater from the University of the Arts and brings to the table more than 15 years of teaching experience both privately and in classroom settings, as well as more than 30 years experience performing as a classically trained violinist from the age of 3 and singer from the age of 11.

Call today for voice, violin, or ukulele lessons in Pasadena and Los Feliz!

Phoebe Silva

Voice, Violin, Ukulele

Sebastián Jimenez is a versatile professional guitarist based in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of the Bachelor of Music Program in Guitar Performance at Los Angeles College of Music. His methods of teaching are rock guitar, as well as blues, folk, country, funk, jazz…

Originally from Mexico, Sebastian moved to LA in 2015. He started playing guitar at the age of 13 and strongly influenced himself with blues and classic rock. In 2017, he performed at the Latin American Music Awards with Gloria Trevi and Alejandra Guzman—as the lead guitarist of the show! In 2019, he shared the stage as a special guest with the popular Mexican band Maná at The Forum.

Sebastian can be heard playing on Kairvina’s EP “Beautiful Blue” and High Society Homeless’ EP “Eat the World”, and has recorded with HGroove on the singles “Que pasa” and “Amazing Life”.

Sebastian Jimenez

Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar

Christina Galisatus is an established pianist, educator, and composer based in Los Angeles. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area in a musical family, Christina graduated with honors and distinction from Stanford University with a degree in Jazz Piano Performance. She has a wide range of teaching experience in classical and jazz piano, composition, and music theory. She has taught privately, at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, and as a Teaching Assistant in the Stanford University Department of Music. Christina has worked extensively with students of all ages and skill levels. As a versatile pianist, Christina performs regularly as an accompanist in settings such as chamber music, ballet, choral programs, and musical theater, with a variety of jazz and pop artists, and with her own groups performing her compositions. Her experiences inform her lessons and she can teach you or your child to play the easier, faster way.

Christina Galisatus

Piano

Musical Superpowers -- What are they?

You can entertain yourself without devices, media, or even power.

You can attract positive attention.

You can create good feeling and happiness out of thin air. You can make a whole room of strangers feel happy.

You can move air molecules with your fingertips.

You can play a part in changing the world. “Music can change the world because it can change people.” – Bono