Our teachers

Our instructors represent a broad spectrum of Bay Area music professionals, and reflect the diversity of the region through both their personal backgrounds and their musical interests. They bring to YPI a passionate understanding of the role of music in our lives, and a desire to pass along the joy of making music to a new generation.

Be sure to check out YPI instructors' up-coming performances.

San Francisco instructors

• Allen Biggs
  • The Bucket Brigade Percussion Ensemble: Marin
• Ami Molinelli
• Arwen Lawrence de Castellanos
  • World Beat! chorus, percussion, and dance
  • Individual instruction in Voice and Guitar
• Bryan Dyer
• Eric Hamilton
  • International Chorus
• James Upp
• Joey Blake
  • Oakland Advanced Chorus
• John LoGiudici
  • Jazz/Rock Band
• Leela Pratt
  • International Chorus
• Joshi Marshall
• Patti Cobb
  • Jazz/Rock Band
• Sunshine Becker
  • International Chorus
• Tom Schwabenlender
• Unity Nguyen