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Piano
Wendi Kirby
Wendi’s passion for piano began at age five and she began teaching at age fifteen. She is a classically trained pianist who has received national recognition for her contributions in music education. Wendi has served as President of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers, Examiner for the Certificate of Merit Program, member of the State Presidents Advisory Council Chair for Music Teachers Association of California, and holds several accolades and roles with the Royal Conservatory of Music including acting as a center representative, advanced specialist, founding teacher, and holds the ARCT degree in piano performance.
Wendi turned her attention to her own compositions in 2020 and performs on stages throughout the US and Europe. Her music is known to be lyrical and cinematic with classical and jazz undertones. Wendi is passionate about helping others find joy in playing the piano while finding their own creative voice through mindset work and creative exploration.
Private Lessons and Group Classes Available
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Piano and Violin
Justice Post
A Monterey area native, Justice Post is a pianist and music educator with more than 10 years experience teaching both piano and strings in a variety of programs. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Music, Justice began working as the staff pianist for Monterey Peninsula College, where he accompanied the college's choir and voice classes for nearly a decade. Today he serves as the college theater's music director for various musical theater productions. Elsewhere in the school system, Justice accompanies the Pacific Grove Middle School choir and teaches piano at Santa Catalina School here in Monterey. In the performance world, he works as the accompanist and assistant director for Choral Artists of Carmel, as well as directing his own choir, the Carmel Valley Singers. On the weekends Justice can be found working as the organist and music director of St. Philip's Lutheran Church in Carmel valley.
Justice has maintained a studio of private lessons in the area throughout all of this and is happy to be teaching at Wendi Kirby Music.
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Voice
Julie Capili
Julie began singing and performing with her twin sister in church at a very young age. She participated in choirs and bands throughout high school and college, graduating from the University of Oklahoma in 1997.
In 1998 she moved to the Bay Area and studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Jazz legend Faith Winthrop and in 2000 worked with Professor Roger Letson at De Anza College.
She has performed throughout the Bay Area and Monterey Peninsula for 20 years, including with The Monterey Symphony and the Lodge at Pebble Beach.
In 2008 she recorded her first album “Passing Fancies” and toured throughout Europe. Her second album “ Round Midnight” was released in 2014.
She has taught voice for 5 years and is dedicated to helping people find and strengthen their voices and build their repertoires.
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Beginning Guitar, Voice, Songwriting
Anne Sibley
Singer-songwriter and songwriting coach Anne Sibley has been playing acoustic guitar and writing for over twenty years. Classically trained in New England, Anne grew up singing in choirs then fell in love with Americana music and acoustic guitar while living in Wyoming.
She is a mother and an experienced educator of elementary and middle school-aged children. Anne runs online songwriting groups with Adults and she has performed across the U.S in concerts and at festivals and released albums with her husband as the duo “Anne & Pete Sibley”. She loves to nurture a lifelong relationship in others with their creativity by uplifting their natural abilities, building confidence, and growing their musical skills.
Anne teaches Group Guitar Lessons for Beginner Youth and Adults, Voice Lessons, and Songwriting Groups.
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