Music Exchange

Karen Cuneo Ramirez has been teaching piano, keyboard and organ lessons for 35 years. She started taking piano lessons at the age of 7 and eventually made the organ her main instrument.

Karen started playing in church at age 13 and was teaching young students while still in high school. In college, karen studied classical music, but decided that it was a lot more satisfying to teach popular music to adults who just want to have fun

After college, karen was trained to teach group classes while working in the piano retail business. She was one of the first professionally trained group teachers on the west coast and now travels around the country, training teachers to make playing music both fun and easy.

She now works here at Music Exchange and teaches many students a week in group classes. 

Karen says, "Most people think music is complicated and they are too old to learn, so they never try it." However, Karen has proved this to be untrue. Witness the many students who have learned to play with great satisfaction over the years and continue to take group lessons at Music Exchange.

She has written several books on short cuts to playing music, and her fun, energetic approach using humor and entertainment will make everyone's desire to play a musical instrument become a reality.

 Gregg Isett has been playing the organ since the age of 7.

His extensive repetoire continues to delight audiences wherever he plays. He has performed at Disneyland in Anaheim, California and has played numerous public and private concerts, theatres, organ extravaganzas as well as on cruise ships.  His love of silent films is evident when he performs one of his silent film concerts.  He brings musical life to an almost forgotten era.  Gregg also scores his own music for the silent comedies he performs. 

When he's not performing, he teaches organ privately and is Director of Music Education at Music Exchange in Newcastle California, where 150 adults are enrolled in organ classes .

He just completed his fourth CD, scheduled for release in the summer of '09.

When he is not leading workshops, giving concerts or teaching music, Gregg always makes time for causes that he believes will further music appreciation.