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Our Teachers
Izabela Adams - Piano, Voice, Keyboard,
Theory, Kindermusik®, and Recording. Member of MUSIC TEACHERS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
Izabela Adams was born and raised in Poland. Her music education began
when she was 7 years old, when she attended her first year of elementary
musical school. That was the beginning of what became years of study in
piano and music theory. In musical high school Izabela took four years
of classical voice training (her major) as she pursued her musical education
and career.
Earning the title, "Musician-Vocalist", she began her professional experience. First stop was teaching general music in a Polish public school. Izabela also conducted large vocal-dance groups, ages five to sixteen years old, which were nationally recognized in Poland. She also managed to conduct a children's choir, keyboard classes, and private piano & voice lessons. Her band experience took her to other countries where she played original music, as well as, cover tunes! In the States she increased her musical education and began teaching private: piano, classical voice and theory classes. Today she is the proud owner and operator of Adams Music Conservatory LLC and making her dreams come true!
Tom Adams - School of Rock, Drums
Donald Stevens - Electric Bass Guitar
Tom Cavanagh - Guitar |
Tom has been playing drums and singing for over 25 years in a variety of
different bands: Rock, Standards, Original Rock & Progressive, Light Jazz,
Blues, Elvis, Rockabilly, and virtually every Pop Music style from the last
fifty years.
Donald Stevens started playing bass in bands at the age of 13. Since then he has played on several gospel recordings with The Edwin Hawkins Tri State Mass Choir, Teddy
Johnson, Gabriel Hardeman Delegation, Randall Cunningham and C.A.U.S.E., and recently Michelle Bonilla.
He also played bass on "Who Is Jill Scott". That's him groovin' the bass line on" Long Walk" and "Show Me". He also played bass on "Fanatic" from Vivian Green's "Love
Story" CD. He got to play and sing on Miles Jaye's CD "Odyssey".
Tom Cavanagh earned his BA from Michigan State University. He studied classical and
jazz guitar at Joe Fava Studio in Detroit and jazz guitar with Dennis Sandole in
Philadelphia. He has over 20 years experience teaching classical, blues, jazz
and all styles of rock guitar. Tom has over 25 years experience performing as a
jazz, blues, rock and R & B guitarist in both his hometown of Detroit,
MI as well as in Philadelphia and South Jersey, where he has lived since 1991.
James Schneider began studying guitar with private teachers in 1962. Later he studied guitar, theory, harmony, arranging and composition with Albert Maene, a 25-year student and associate of Dennis Sandole, the well-known jazz theorist and teacher. In the 1980's James studied advanced guitar techniques with Joseph Sgro, a prominent Philadelphia guitar virtuoso.
Christopher Michael Stevens, is a native of Camden, New Jersey. He is the younger of two sons born into a family of well-known musicians and singers.
At the age of eight years old, Chris started out playing the trumpet with a passion. His playing makes you laugh, cry, scream and holler!
Chris attended the Berklee College Of Music in Boston, MA and has studied with great trumpeters such as Tiger Okoshi, Lin Biviano and Darren Barrett. However, when he plays, he has a sound of his own and a command of the atmosphere that can’t be learned in a classroom. 
Dr. Balewa began his musical studies at the age of 14. The Manhattan School of Music in New York exposed him to talented and gifted maestros, the likes of Altieri and Burnogorio who challenged and molded their students, consistently impressing the rudimentary principles and fundamentals of music theory, harmony and classical performance.