Our Instructors

Evan Fiehrer received his Bachelor’s degree from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and his Master’s degree from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. An accomplished classical guitarist, Evan has played solo and ensemble concerts throughout Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, as well as along the East Coast as part of the Blue Guitar Quartet.

Joe Getts has been involved in music most of his life. His primary instruments are bass guitar and keyboards. He started playing the bass guitar at age 11. After a brief set of formal lessons he developed his own skills on the bass guitar and started playing with several local bands, including the Dayton Christian School Gospel Ensemble known as “The Spirit of Praise” during the mid 1970s. He traveled professionally for three years playing bass guitar with the Gospel Mariners, a regionally known Gospel quartet of that era. During his college years he played in several recording studios in southwest Ohio, specializing as a back-up studio musician on bass guitar. Joe currently owns and plays several bass guitars regularly, including various 4-5-6 and 8 string models. Throughout adulthood he has played bass guitar and keyboards in several praise and worship bands in the churches he attended. For the last two years he has played keyboards with “Vellowcity”, a local jazz-rock instrumental band. Today Joe continues to play the bass guitar at Trinity Church in Miamisburg, where he is the lead pastor. Joe’s educational background placed him at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio where he studied history extensively. He is a graduate of the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in History from Concordia College in Wilmington, Delaware and a Master of Arts in Philosophy and Apologetics from Trinity Theological Seminary in Newburgh, Indiana. He earned his Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from the St. Luke School of Biblical Studies in Hephzibah, Georgia. He also holds certifications in Biblical Counseling and Life Coaching from the Light University of Forest, Virginia. In addition to his pastoral responsibilities, Joe is currently an adjunct instructor at the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science and a continuing education seminar presenter for the Central Institute for Educational Advancement in Dayton, Ohio. He and his wife Jeri have been married for over 35 years and reside in Miamisburg, Ohio.

Brittany Hausman is a junior at Wright State University studying Violin Performance under Mr. Tom Sobieski. She started playing the violin at the age of five and continued studying abroad in a Russian Music School where she had the opportunity to study with several instructors that enhanced her musical knowledge. After moving to Cincinnati, Ohio in 2007, she studied with Mrs. Sandra Collins for six years, and was a member of the Cincinnati Community Orchestra conducted by Dr. Doan. At Wright State, she performs in the University Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra. She enjoys playing in ensembles, and regularly performs for gigs and other special occasions. Music has been an integral part of her life and she loves the opportunity of conveying her love for music by teaching violin.

Debbie Johnson is a junior at Wright State University pursuing her Bachelor’s in Music degree in Cello Performance.

Growing up with six siblings, Debbie taught herself piano at age twelve. When she was fifteen, she started taking piano lessons in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with Dan Taylor. In addition to piano, she learned music theory, singing, and guitar. The summer before she matriculated at Wright State, Debbie took piano lesson with Barbara Leeds, also from Yellow Springs.

As a piano major, Debbie also had a passion for cello, and began to take cello lessons while at Wright State. In her sophomore year, after playing cello for only a year, she changed her concentration to cello performance.

Debbie has sung and performed piano and guitar at the Friends Care Community in Yellow Springs for the past three years. During her time at Wright State she has sung in numerous choirs and playing solo piano at Arts Gala and at the Troy Hayner Cultural Center in Troy, Ohio. She is a member of the University Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra, and is a member of the student trio “Trio Con Brio.” In the summer of 2016 she performed in the A.C. Strings Community Orchestra in Fairborn, Ohio, and will continue to perform with the orchestra during the 2017 season. In 2017 she joined the Giving Strings Orchestra.

Moira Levant has 26 years experience as a music teacher, teaching students as young as five and as old as 70. Moira has training in the Suzuki method and the Montesorri method of early childhood education. She specializes in Irish Traditional Music. She is a founding member of Blackthorn and Laurel, a Dayton based Irish music band, and is co-founder of COCOA, a living composers group dedicated to providing composers a place to have their music heard and recorded. As a composer she took 2nd prize in the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs senior competition for 2017. She has degrees in music from Wright State University, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Limerick, Limerick Ireland.