Our Instructors

Meet the team at Harmony.

Working musicians and trained educators — every instructor at Harmony brings professional experience into the lesson room, not just a teaching certificate.

Piano & Music Theory

Sarah Kim

Teaching piano is teaching how music works.

Sarah Kim trained at Berklee College of Music with a focus on contemporary piano performance and music education. After graduating, she spent three years teaching at a Boston music school before relocating to Raleigh in 2011, where she founded Harmony Music Academy.

She teaches students from age 5 through adult, adapting fluidly between classical foundational work, contemporary pop repertoire, jazz harmony, and music theory for students who want to understand how music is constructed. Sarah believes strongly that theory should serve the music a student wants to make — not the other way around.

In 12 years of teaching, Sarah has seen students go on to study music in college, perform original compositions at local venues, and — perhaps most importantly — develop a genuine lifelong relationship with the piano that began in a 30-minute lesson at age six.

PianoMusic TheoryKeyboard

Berklee College of Music · 12 years teaching · Ages 5–adult

Guitar (Classical & Electric)

Marcus Webb

The best guitar lessons are the ones that make you practice.

Marcus Webb is a working guitarist who splits his time between gigging locally — currently with two bands in the Raleigh / Durham area — and teaching private lessons at Harmony. That dual role is intentional: Marcus believes the best guitar teachers are the ones who never stopped being guitar players.

He teaches acoustic, classical, and electric guitar and is genuinely fluent across styles: jazz chord melody, classical fingerstyle, country flatpicking, rock, and blues. Students who want to learn a specific genre get instruction rooted in that tradition, not a generic approach that tries to be everything at once.

Marcus has been teaching for 8 years and has a particular talent for adult beginners who come in convinced they can't learn music — he has a way of showing students that they're further along than they think within the first two lessons.

Acoustic GuitarElectric GuitarClassical GuitarDrum Curriculum

Active performing musician · 8 years teaching · Ages 7–adult

Marcus Webb, guitar instructor at Harmony Music Academy

Violin & Voice

Priya Patel

Every student has music in them. The job is to help it out.

Priya Patel is a Suzuki method certified violin teacher with 10 years of teaching experience and a strong background in classical performance. She studied at UNC School of the Arts before pursuing additional Suzuki teacher training, and has developed a teaching philosophy that combines the ear-first Suzuki approach with the music theory literacy that students need to advance beyond beginner repertoire.

In addition to violin, Priya teaches voice across pop, classical, and musical theatre styles. Her approach to voice is technique-first without being clinical — students learn breath support, resonance, and range expansion through repertoire they actually want to sing, not just technical exercises in isolation.

Priya works especially well with anxious or perfectionistic students who struggle with the vulnerability of performing in lessons. She has a calm, patient teaching style that lets students take musical risks without fear of judgment.

ViolinVoiceEar Training

UNC School of the Arts · Suzuki certified · 10 years teaching · Ages 5–adult

What Students Say

Real results from real students.

From 7-year-old beginners to adult learners returning to music after decades away. Here’s what they say.

★★★★★

“My daughter started piano with Sarah at age 7 and is now 12, performing in recitals and writing her own songs. The patience and structure Sarah brings to lessons is something we never found at other studios. Harmony is worth the drive from Cary.”

Jennifer L.

Parent · Piano student, age 12

★★★★★

“Marcus taught me to play guitar as an adult beginner at 38. He never made me feel self-conscious about starting late. Within six months I was playing songs I actually wanted to play. Now I practice every morning before work.”

David T.

Adult student · Guitar

★★★★★

“Priya has been teaching my son violin for two years using the Suzuki method. His ear is remarkable now — he can pick out chord progressions by ear that I can't hear. The method is patient but the results are genuinely impressive.”

Anita M.

Parent · Violin student, age 9

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