Deluca Music Lessons

• We offer private instruction at all levels for piano, bass, drums, guitar, violin, cello, saxophone, clarinet, flute, and voice. We also offer beginner guitar group lessons. Our teaching staff is composed of professional teachers and performers, most of whom have a degree in music performance and/or education.

• The private lesson rate is $96 per month for a half hour lesson once per week. This rate includes 5 week months and the first month is prorated at $24 per lesson. There is a one time $15 registration fee for signing a student up for private lessons.

• The group beginner guitar class is offered at $79 for a six week course consisting of 1 hour class per week.

• Click here for a printout of the DeLuca private lesson agreement.

• Call 215-674-1401 to get your student started today!

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Roy Altemus
Instruments: bass, guitar
Roy attended Coomb's Music College in Philadelphia, PA studying electric bass, music theory and piano. He has been playing guitar and bass for over 20 years. Most of his playing career was spent in the Philadelphia, PA area. Witness and The Chatterband were the most well known bands with which he played. He has played many different venues and gigs from outside rock concerts with a crowd of 10,000 to private, in home parties with an accompanying guitarist. He’s also done Weddings, broadway type musicals, and Vegas type shows. He had private study sessions with bass player greats such as Jaco Pastorius, Jerry Jemmott, Andy West, Percy Jones, Gerald Veasley and Dave La Rue.

Visit www.royaltemus.com


Madeline Bell
Instruments: violin
Madeline Bell has been playing the violin for approximately 10 years. She is currently a student at Temple University's Esther Boyer College of Music. She studies with Barbara Sonies, a former student of the late, famed Ivan Galamian, and concertmaster of the Opera Company of Philadelphia. Madeline has participated in numerous music festivals, camps, and competitions including PMEA district, regional, and state orchestra festivals, Music in the Mountains Pennsylvania, and Tri-County Youth Competitions of Southeastern Pennsylvania. She especially likes teaching beginners, but welcomes all ages.

Katie Eagleson
Instruments: voice
Katie Eagleson studied music and voice at Temple University, Neupauer Conservatory and privately. She has been performing and teaching voice in the Philadelphia area since the 1980’s. Katie has been, and continues to be the featured vocalist with Big Bands and several smaller ensembles. Along the way she has done recording work, singing background vocals, jingles, and demo versions for local songwriters. She recently released her first CD.
Katie teaches proper singing technique and diction. The repertoire she teaches varies somewhat, depending on the age, capability, and taste of the student. She teaches anyone over six years old, including adults. Beginners are welcome.

Visit www.katieeagleson.com

Eric Henkels
Instruments: piano, guitar
Eric has been playing piano for over 18 years, and guitar for over 10 years. He trained for years in jazz, classical, pop/rock, and composition with fellow DeLuca teacher and Philadelphia piano extraordinaire Jim Holton. In high school, Eric was a member of the All-State Jazz band, the All-Region Chorus, and received a partial scholarship to the University of the Arts summer program in 2006. Eric currently plays guitar, piano, and sings full-time in an original indie rock band, Kafei, which has played / is playing venues all over the country, and teaches students of all ages when he's not playing shows with his band or playing cocktail hours, italian restaurants, or wherever else music is needed. He believes that music should be shared with everyone, and that the more people playing music means more people understanding music, which will in turn mean more people understanding each other. Eric listens to everything: Coldplay, The Beatles, Death Cab for Cutie, and Copeland are some of his favorites though.

Jill Gallagher
Instruments: piano
Jill has been teaching private piano lessons for nine years. She specializes in teaching classical music to beginners young and old. Jill's students have ranged in age from six to eighty-five. She began her piano education at the young age of seven and continues her studies presently under David Ancker. In 2001, Jill received her Bachelor of Arts in Music (piano performance) from Millersville University studying under the direction of Dr. Anita Renfroe. At Millersville, her interest in 20th Century piano music grew. She presented a lecture recital in 2001 titled, "An American Triangle: 20th Century American Piano Music of Barber, Copland and Gershwin". Her education includes study in Piano Pedagogy, Music Theory, Solfeggio, Music History, Art Music, Conducting, Symphonic Music, Popular Music, and Eurhythmics. She performed in the Millersville University Jazz Ensemble, Orchestra, and Mixed Chorus. Jill's goal is to inspire her love of music in her students. Her favorite musical activity is watching the Philadelphia Orchestra perform at the Mann Music Center during the summer months.

Ken Harmer
Instruments: guitar
At the age of 10, Ken took up the clarinet in Roslyn Elementary School. Music then became his passion, hobby, and career. After high school, he had two years of college experience as a music education major, first at Bucks County Community College and then at West Chester University. In the fall 2001, he began teaching guitar at Deluca Music and returned to school at Temple University. He completed his bachelor degree in January 2006. Afterward he became a substitute music teacher in the Abington, Hatboro-Horsham, and North Penn School Districts, during which he was a long-term substitute teaching general music and conducting weekly chorus rehearsals. He then was the orchestra director at two North Penn middle schools where he conducted their spring 2007 concerts. For two consecutive summers he was a teacher at a local rock day camp instructing young musicians in writing and performing music. He also worked a summer program at a special needs private school instructing students in music and movement. Currently Ken is a full time music teacher in the Cheltenham School District, a freelance classical guitarist, and a guitarist in a local steel drum band. His favorite color is pink.

Brian Klock
Instruments: guitar, saxophone
Brian Klock has been a multi-instrumentalist, and music teacher for 8 years. Originally from Philadelphia, his various musical talents include playing and teaching guitar, bass, sax and clarinet. Klock has studied with such world-renown musicians as Pat Martino, Larry McKenna, Joe Smith and Wendell Hobbs and continues to perform on the East and West coasts.


Mark Lauer
Instruments: guitar, bass
Mark started classical guitar at the age of 7. He studied for over 5 years with his uncle who had studied under Segovia in Spain. With this background he went on to master electric guitar and bass. Mark believes lessons should be a fun educational process. For over twenty years Mark has enjoyed songwriting as well as playing some of the Philadelphia areas largest venues. Mark has always loved the Beatles and his biggest thrill was meeting Paul McCartney during his 1999 tour.

Visit the Mark Lauer website


Scott McAvoy
Instruments: violin
A Suzuki violin student for ten years at the Academy of Children’s Music (Fort Washington, PA), Scott trained under Mrs. Keitha Herron, Ms. Michelle LeFebrere and Mr. Richard Casimir, as well as Mr. Robert DePasquale, Founder and Director of the Academy of Community Music (Fort Washington, PA) and emeritus member of the Philadelphia Orchestra, also with which Scott has performed at the Academy of Music (Philadelphia, PA). Several methods of teaching, tailored to each student’s goals, strengths and needs, may be used at our discretion. For example, students oriented toward orchestral/chamber performance undergo a more rigorous sight-reading focus, whereas those seeking solo and memorized performances require more ear training. Scott is a recent graduate of James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA), where while earning his degree he also taught violin for four years at Music Gallery (Harrisonburg, VA). An Upper Dublin High School (Fort Washington, PA) Class of 2000 graduate, he grew up in Willow Grove, PA and currently resides in his first home, located in Saw Mill Valley in Horsham, PA.


J.R. McCarthy
Instruments: guitar
J.R. McCarthy has extensive experience teaching all styles of guitar to children and adults. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Music from the Guitar Institute of Technology, Hollywood, Caifornia. He has performed in a variety of bands with genres ranging from Jazz to Country to Rock. He is currently performing in Atlantic City with the trio Pop Life.

Ron Rosenberger
Instruments: guitar
Ron teaches guitar and bass and is our group music teacher. He studied with the late Dennis Sandole, who taught sax legend John Coltrane and guitar legend Pat Martino. He especially enjoys teaching beginners.


Justin Sekelewski
Instruments: upright and electric bass
Justin Sekelewski started playing the acoustic bass at age nine. He began playing the electric bass at the age of 12. Throughout high school Mr. Sekelewski played in the Orchestra and jazz band as well as many musicals such as "Little Shop of Horrors". He also played in many bands while in high school that traversed many musical genres from rock to punk to hip hop to free improv. Mr. Sekelewski pursued classical bass studies with Joanne Bates, who is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and is currently the principal bassist in the Princeton Symphony and Princeton Opera Company. Mr. Sekelewski is currently working on his bachelors of music degree in jazz performance from Temple University's Boyer College of Music. Recent performances have been with Branford Marsalis and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. He is scheduled to perform with Nicholas Payton in New York City and Benny Golson in Detroit this summer.

Jordan Strauss
Instruments: Guitar
Jordan Strauss has been playing guitar for 14 years and teaching for 7. After being self taught for the first 4 years Jordan began lessons with Jim McCarthy at DeLuca Music in 1999 After studying music theory in High School and College, Jordan also studied lead guitar with guitar virtuoso Mike Gallagher. In addition to his studies with McCarthy and Gallagher Jordan also studied Jazz for a brief time with Temple graduate Rob Sbar. Jordan began teaching at Deluca Music in 2002 and a few years later decided to make teaching guitar his full-time job.
Jordan specializes in Rock and Metal lead guitar. Many of Jordan's current students have sought him out specifically to improve their lead guitar playing skills and music theory knowledge. Jordan likes for his students to guide their own learning and simply helps them along on their path to reaching their individual musical goals. For students that do not specifically seek him out for his knowledge of lead guitar, Jordan helps them to learn by teaching them their favorite songs. While learning their favorite songs, Jordan's students learn to read music and all of the essential technique that goes into playing guitar. In addition to becoming self-sufficient guitarists, it is most important to Jordan that his students have fun and enjoy coming to their lesson every week.

www.myspace.com/jordanstrauss

Jeff Ormsby
Instruments: Drums
Jeff Ormsby is equally at home with all realms of drums and percussion. Currently studying classical percussion at Temple University, Jeff’s knowledge and experience covers jazz and rock drumming, marching percussion, and traditional Ghanaian drumming. Teachers have included Alan Abel and Phil O’Banion of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Glenn Steele of the Philly Pops Orchestra, and Dr. Matt McClung of the Honolulu and Houston Symphonies, as well has several jazz and rock drummers such as Dr. Chris Hanning at West Chester University and Dan Monaghan at Temple University. Jeff has performed with the Temple University Orchestra, Wind Symphony, and Percussion Ensemble (TU Perc Ens), Wilmington Symphony, Hot Springs Festival Orchestra and Opera Orchestra, Dickinson College Symphony Orchestra, United Percussion, and the Reading Buccaneers Drum & Bugle Corps, and has recorded on the Naxos label with the Hot Springs Festival Orchestra under Richard Rosenberg. Jeff has taught over 40 students of all ages since 2005, and currently teaches the Upper Darby High School Drumline and the Pennsbury High School Percussion. Jeff has taught at Deluca since 2007. 


Jason Paul
Instruments: Guitar
I teach acoustic/electric guitar, and my specialty would definitely be rock and metal, although I love jazz as well.
My favorites, eh? I would go with the prog rock that was pumped out of Italy and Britain during the 70's. And when it comes to metal, Im a big fan of the European melodic metal scene. If I had to pick a few of my favorite guitarists, I'd go with the prodigy Jason Becker, Yngwie Malmsteen for his ability to melt your face with his neoclassical sweeps, and Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth, because he's just that metal.

Feel free to contact me through my Facebook, Id be more than happy to answer any of your questions.


Other Teachers Who Have Not Submitted a Bio:

Alex Maio- Drums
Don McCormick- Drums
Paul Gehman- Bass
Allison Castle- Woodwinds/Brass
Gene Hahn- Guitar
Jim Holton- Piano/Cello
Dan Nissenbaum- Piano/Trumpet
Grayson Zuber- Guitar