Al Bautista

Available for lessons on Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday

Al has performed with the Berkeley Symphony, San Francisco Concerto Orchestra and The Peninsula Symphony. He holds a Music Degree from the San Francisco State University. He is comfortable with classical music as well as contemporary, bluegrass and other fiddle styles. His 25 years of teaching experience allows him to approach each one of his students with great care and dedication, therefore helping them reach their full potential.

Al also teaches violin and viola.

Richard Frazier

Available for lessons on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday

Richard Frazier is acknowledged as a master teacher of all of the instruments of the orchestral string family and enjoys making music and teaching the violin, viola, cello, double bass, trumpet, and tuba. Richard Frazier was on the faculty of the School of Music at the University of Oregon. Before accepting a position as a special resource for the Visual and Performing Arts with the San Francisco Unified School District, he created an award-winning music program at Roosevelt Middle School in San Francisco. His string pedagogy textbook “Starting Without the Books” has received a general round of applause from string teachers everywhere.

He has appeared throughout the country as a conductor/composer, adjudicator, clinician, coach, and performer. His former students number in the thousands and enjoy vital, music-filled lives performing in community orchestras and bands, chamber music groups, military ensembles, and professional orchestras, including the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

In 1978, Mr. Frazier founded a brass quintet, Chicago Chamber Brass, with which he performed throughout the country and abroad for fifteen years, and produced recordings that are still prized by brass players worldwide.