About Our Instructors
Jimmy Broche - Guitar and Piano
Scarlett Forsman - Piano and Voice
Kim Fox - Piano
Ivy Haga - Piano and Basson
David Kim - Piano and Composition
Ilona Rectenwald - Piano and Voice
Sallie Turner - Violin, Piano and Organ
Jimmy Broache - Guitar and Piano (Return to Top of Page)
Jim has been a professional musician for 28 years, leading 3 successful bands performing in venues across the United States, owed and opperated his own recording studio and won five American Song Festival awards. He has been a music director for several high-impact contemporary churches and regularly performs on many instruments in the community and surrounding areas, and is currently Music Director of Family Life Baptist Church in Ashland Va.
Jim teaches all styles and levels of guitar, including jazz, contemporary, and classical. In addition to guitar, Jim is also an adept piano instructor, teaching beginning to intermediate levels in classical piano, with advanced instruction in jazz, pop, and music theory. He also has the ability to customize a course of study for those seeking chord theories, improv, and ear training. Jim is an experienced teacher and welcomes students of all ages and all skill levels of playing. Jim’s approach to teaching is informal, relaxed, yet motivating!
Scarlett Forsman - Piano (Return to Top of Page)
Scarlett has had the pleasure of providing music education to students of all experience levels and ages for the past ten years. She graduated from Boston University with her Bachelor of Fine Arts and moved to Chicago where she then provided accompaniment for a variety of musical and theatre acts as wells as entertainment in numerous nightclub venues. A new resident of Richmond, VA she is excited to welcome all piano and vocal students with an interest for exploring their talents. She is passionate about music and wishes to inspire the same passion and fire within her students as well.
Kim Fox - Piano (Return to Top of Page)
Kim received a Bachelor of Music Degree from Appalachian State University and is an accomplished soloist and accompanist. She has been a performance pianist for churches and private events, and works as musical director and pianist for many local theatres, including Barksdale Theatre, Cadence Theatre Company, Firehouse Theatre Project, and Richmond Triangle Players. She currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Piano and Staff Accompanist at Randolph-Macon College, and has over fifteen years of teaching experience at various music studios. Kim teaches many styles and levels of piano including classical, contemporary, and jazz. Her passion for music is something she strives to cultivate in all of her students.
Ivy Haga - Piano (Return to Top of Page)
Before recently relocating to Richmond, Ivy performed with ensembles in the NJ/NY/PA area, including Tripleplay Winds, Riverside Symphonia, Chelsea Opera, New Jersey Arts Collective, South Jersey Bassoon Ensemble, and Princeton Symphony’s outreach program, BRAVO!. As a member of National Chamber Players, she performed on several albums recorded in Richmond, Va. surveying large woodwind ensemble literature. Ivy taught at Westminster Conservatory, Lawrenceville School, Rutgers Community Music Program, Academy of Music on Main St., and Raritan Music Center, and was the woodwind conductor for Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey. She holds a Master of Music from Rutgers University and a Bachelor of Music from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she played with the BassMasters Bassoon Ensemble.
David Kim - Piano and Composition(Return to Top of Page)
David Kim graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music with a Bachelor degree in Composition. During his high school years he attended the International Institute of Young Musicians first as a student and later as a counselor to help young pianists from all over the world develop a higher musicianship. David participated in master-classes and studied with such acclaimed artists as Dr. David Kreider, Judith Ferencz (McDaniel College), Judith Schultz, Awadagin Pratt (Cincinatti- College Conservatory), Dr. Jack Winerock (Kansas University), Gabriel Kwok (Hong Kong Academy of Music), and Gustavo Romero. David also studied composition with acclaimed composers such as Dr. Keith Fitch (Cleveland Institute of Music), Tania Leon, Joan Tower, Robert Beasley (Juilliard School of Music) as well as conducting with Michael Adelson (Cover conductor of New York Philharmonic).
David’s passion for music led him to share his knowledge in piano music with his students, and some of his past students are now attending music institutions such as the Juilliard School of Music, Curtis Institute of Music and Yale School of Music.
Ilona Rectenwald - Piano and Voice (Return to Top of Page)
Ilona has a Masters Degree in Music from Catholic University in Lublin, Poland. She has experience playing and studying the piano, organ, musical theory and history, liturgical music, singing and conducting. She has served as an organist, conductor, and voice instructor at churches, performing masses, weddings and funerals. She has also taught at music schools and through private lessons. She enjoys teaching, and finds it exciting to bring out the hidden talents within her students, and help them to believe in themselves.
Sallie Turner - Violin, Piano and Organ (Return to Top of Page)
Sallie has ten years experience teaching private piano and violin lessons. She is currently a junior at Virginia Commonwealth University pursuing a bachelor’s degree in violin performance. She currently studies violin under Susanna Klein, former principal second of the Richmond Symphony. Sallie grew up in Richmond, VA where she was exposed to music and music education from a very early age. Her continuing love and passion for music was first instilled in her by her mother who introduced her to the piano as soon as she could pull herself up to touch the keys. But when Sallie picked up the violin she knew she had found the instrument she wanted to pursue. When she had reached the age of thirteen she began her own teaching studio. Her hard work has given her many performing opportunities and she has been a member of many orchestras including the Bob Jones University Orchestra and Collegium Musicum chamber orchestra in Greenville, SC as well as the Masterworks Philharmonic Orchestra and the Masterworks Festival Orchestra in Winona Lake, Indiana. She currently serves as member of VCU’s Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Daniel Myssyk. She also studies the organ under Dr. Ardyth Lohuis. She is a very motivated performer and hold high standards for preparation and excellence. Her desire is to instill her same passion and love for music in all her students.
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