Welcome John Brake to the TIA team!

John first held a guitar and learned some chords at 2 years old. He started taking lessons at a young age, and by the time he was 13 he was playing guitar semi-professionally in local bands. In 2015 he first began taking on guitar students and found a deep passion for education. Since he began teaching, John has had multiple students accepted into the top music performance programs in North America including Berklee College of Music and Belmont University.

John attended Berklee (the number one school for contemporary music) on a scholarship and graduated with a degree in Guitar Performance. Jenna and I are very excited about that as this is where we went, and our approach to music at TIA has been shaped deeply by that experience and education for good reasons. John will be the most formally educated guitar instructor we have ever had at TIA, so we are very excited about bringing him on the team. John has crafted a system of creating comprehensive, personalized curriculum for every student. Alongside his teaching, John has performed professionally throughout the Midwest, New England, and Pacific Northwest playing genres including jazz, pop, rock, fusion, blues, R&B, hip-hop, country, gospel, metal, and folk. He also serves as the music director for his church.

John is taking over for one of our teachers who is moving out of state, so will already be pretty busy, but, he has openings at 3:30 and 5:30 Mondays, and Tuesdays at 3!