About Us
WholeTone Music Academy is a nurturing and rad place to Grow in Self & Sound! Our teachers will help you to develop into a joyful, soulful, skillful musician.
Now accepting new students of all ages, abilities, types, & stripes.
We feel strongly about community involvement. Our school offers our students frequent performances in retirement centers, nursing homes, and other community venues. We are always working on making people of all types and stripes welcome, and consider ourselves an LGBTQA safe space.
Nora has been developing her dynamic teaching style since 2009, while simultaneously gaining stage experience around the Boston area and abroad. She received her MM in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from Longy School of Music.
Von specializes in giving his piano students a direct connection to music theory through inventive exercises and repertoire. He assists his voice students in creating a healthy vocal framework for emotive and powerful singing. Von has been teaching music since the age of 16. He graduated from Longy School of Music with a M.M. in Vocal Performance in May 2012.
Samm has been teaching guitar in many styles including rock, blues, pop, folk, soul, reggae, and country since 2004. His father, an orchestral trumpet player around Cape Cod, started teaching him piano, trumpet, and music theory from the age of three. As a teen he transitioned to guitar as his primary instrument. Samm has studied guitar with Berklee's Lyle Brewer and jazz piano with Jazz theorist Bruce Abbott.
Alex performs locally and around the northeast with psychedelic/soul group, Atlas Lab, as well as many other creative projects. His joyful sense of humor brightens the classroom and allows his students to relax into a groove. He has a degree in music education and performance from the University of NH.
Mariia is a compassionate and inspiring teacher, kind yet always urging her students to hold themselves to the highest standards. She is a violinist as well as bowmaker. Mariia is currently apprenticing in David Hawthorne's bow shop in Harvard Sq. She has her MM in Violin Performance from Longy School of Music, as well as a Masters Diploma of Music from the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine.
