Our Teachers

Learning to Play,

Playing to Learn

Director
Connie Wible

Piano, Adaptive Piano

Connie Wible is the Owner of Musical Mind Piano Studio and the Founder of MI Music Technology Camp located on Mercer Island, Washington between Seattle and Bellevue. She has worked with young musicians for over 35 years, teaching, accompanying and performing and composing. Connie started lessons at age 4 and began accompanying soloists and choirs and church services starting at age 10. Undergraduate studies were at Boise State University and Seattle Pacific University majoring in Piano Performance and Piano Pedagogy, with an emphasis in Abnormal Psychology.

She is a public speaker on the topics of Adaptive Piano for Special Needs, Single Parenting, and Music Wellness. She also is a performer and composer. You can find her CD on iTunes: “Journey of the Heart”, original piano music.

Connie began changing her teaching methodology in the late 1980’s by observing the mannerisms of her students. As a single parent with four children, three were diagnosed with forms of learning challenges. As she learned how to help her own children, she decided to open up her student to include some of the students that did not do well in other studios due to ADD and behavioral issues, and later Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome.

She now teaches according to the student’s learning style and has developed adapted piano and keyboard instruction for children with Autism Spectrum and Asperger’s Syndrome along with ADD, dyslexia and behavior disorders. She also specializes in teaching pianists who need accompanying skills, composing and improvisation and mentors music teachers in starting their own studios.

Katrina Kope

Piano, Voice, Singer/Songwriting,

Music Production, Vocal Recording

Katrina Kope is a Seattle based performing artist, composer and innovator in the Seattle music scene.With her different projects spanning many genres, from electronica, to funk, reggae, trip-hop, R&B, or vocal improvisation; She found her mentors while studying at Cornish and gigging around the Pacific Northwest. After performing live and recording for well over a decade, Katrina’s resume could read as a long list of name dropping. But, she hardly needs it. She’s graced some of the largest stages in the Northwest, has eight albums under her belt, and has garnered massive respect among peers for her voice and approach to songwriting. She certainly has no fear exploring new genres and material, but seems to always find a home back with her piano and voice. Even if it’s just for a moment to breathe between her other projects.

Some of Katrina’s performances and compositions can be heard with: Purr Gato, BowieVision, Good Co, Universal Peoples, Seattle Rock Orchestra, Levels of Movement, Klozd Sirkut, ELYXR, Jazz Underground, Soul Kata, The Blood Moon Orchestra, Solo using Ableton and of course, any of her jazz ensembles.

She has over 20 years teaching piano, voice, songwriting, and coaching bands. She is proficient in Ableton software, various voice and looping devices and recording production.

Richard Rodseth

Jazz Piano, Beginning Piano, Music Technology

After a long career in. software development, Richard. resumed music studies through Berklee College of Music Online, completing a Professional Certificate in Music Theory and Composition in 2019. He followed that up with additional courses in Orchestration and Counterpoint.

The son of a piano and voice teacher in Pretoria (still active in her 90s!), Richard had Classical piano lessons as a child, then studied Jazz privately as an adult. In addition to basic keyboard skills and music literacy, he loves introducing students of all backgrounds to the joys of composition and improvisation.

Richard also enjoys music technology in many forms, including modular synthesis, MIDI and digital audio production.

Matt Badger

Adaptive Piano, Guitar, Drums, Songwriting

Matt Badger is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Seattle, WA. He's known as a session
player and recording musician around the Seattle area, drumming for numerous prominent Seattle
bands (Ravenna Woods, Hannah Ramone, Benjamin Verdoes, Seattle Rock Orchestra).

Matt has released several original albums as an artist and songwriter over the years, showcasing a wide range of instrumental and lyrical ability. He has a Masters in Special Education with a focus on applied behavior analysis (ABA) and aspires to apply knowledge from his education and musical background towards helping learners of all backgrounds engage with and express themselves through instruments like the piano, drums/percussion, and guitar.

David James

David James offers beginner to advanced lessons for guitar and ukulele and beginner to intermediate lessons for electric bass.

David is a performing artist, composer, songwriter, and producer of 25 years. He studied jazz composition at Cornish College of the Arts before earning a bachelor’s in psychology at the University of Washington.

David creates lesson plans on a student-by-student basis, tailored around his students’ musical goals and with the foundational aims of enrichment and having fun. David believes music is a language everyone speaks in their own way, and his instructional style is geared towards developing his students’ unique artistic expressions.

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👆The website at the bottom has my performance videos. Let me know if that looks good or if you have any edits in mind!