About Amy

Amy is a music teacher in Temecula, CA.  She began taking piano lessons at age six and guitar lessons at age nine.  She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Masters Degree in Music from California State University, Fullerton.  She taught at Riverside City College as an Associate Professor of Music and has been performing and teaching music lessons since 2005. 

Amy has performed at hundreds of events as a soloist and with various chamber groups.  She was a member of the Fullerton Guitar Orchestra from 2006-2010, during which they performed throughout California and on a three-week tour of Bulgaria, which culminated with a concert at the U.S. Embassy in Sofia.  She is an award-winning author, has published arrangements and original compositions, and recorded three albums.  Her Music Theory for Guitar workbook series was the winner of the Winter 2024 Pencraft Book Award. 

Amy is a founding committee member of the Orange County Guitar Orchestra and served as the chair of the guitar syllabus committee during the development of the Certificate of Merit program with the Music Teacher's Association of California.  With the guidance of MTAC, she helped build a complete guitar curriculum for the state, which included graded elements of technique, theory, sight reading, and performance.  She now teaches from the Royal Conservatory of Music curriculum for those students who wish to participate in the RCM graded certificate program for guitar.  

Amy is also a certified yoga and Alexander Technique teacher.  During her Alexander Technique training, Amy interned at the Meadowmount School of Music in New York, where she had the opportunity to work with pianists, violinists, violists, and cellists from all over the world.

Amy believes in the importance of health and wellness for musicians.  She has a holistic approach to teaching music and enjoys teaching aspects of Alexander Technique to her students.