Piano Teachers
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Jim Zaroulis (Piano)
Jim Zaroulis has been a professional pianist and private instructor for almost 20 years. He holds a degree in Music Industry and Performance from the University of Massachusetts/Lowell. Over the years he has studied extensively with classical pianists Anthony Mele, and Juanita Tsu, and spent 4 years under the tutelage of world renowned jazz instructor Charlie Banacos. Jim is currently the leader and keyboard player of Boston City Rhythm, a 7 piece wedding/function band performing all over New England. His other musical ventures have included being a keyboardist/pianist for Joe Piscopo, The Drifters, The Coasters, Ron Stewart (Drummer of The Joe Perry Project), BALKANASIA (an original jazz project blending Eastern European music with jazz improvisations), The Boston Horns Big Band, The Mike Valeras Group, and Som Do Atlantico (Portuguese-American band from Lowell MA that has toured the Azores Islands, Portugal). Born and raised in Tewksbury MA, Jim now calls Beverly MA home. |
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John Anthony (Voice, Guitar, Bass & Piano)
John is a native Bostonian and a multi-instrumentalist with over 20 years of performance and teaching experience. He has performed all over New England, as far west as Hawaii and as far south as the West Indies. A vocalist, bassist, guitarist, pianist and songwriter, John has worked in the capacity of a bandleader and as a sideman playing a wide range of music; Rhythm and Blues, Soul, Funk, Reggae, Soca, Calypso, Zouk, Rock and Hip Hop to name a few. He has performed and/or recorded with the likes of The Bogus Quartet, Grapevine Road, SAXATTACK, Entrain, Caribbean Roots, Daisycutter, The Andrew Clark Band, Legitimate Sun, The Biscuit Boys and many others. Nowadays John is the band leader, lead vocalist and bassist for Bad Moon Rising; a Creedence Clearwater Revival tribute act. John brings with him, a great love of music and an excitement about teaching its traditions. |
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Jen Kearney (Voice & Piano)
Jen Kearney has been playing the piano and singing since early childhood with her spirited Sicilian musical family. For the last 15 years, Jen has toured and recorded extensively with various bands in styles ranging from R&B and soul, to jazz, Latin, funk and rock. She is a singer/ songwriter native to Massachusetts. She has written and produced 3 albums thus far and has performed her original music locally and nationally creating her own style of playing and singing. Jen currently tours as a solo act and with her 7-piece band, The Lost Onion and has been teaching privately. |
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Helen Liu (Violin & Piano)
Helen Liu has a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Violin Performance (2007) from State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has studied with Pamela Frank, Philip Setzer, Ani Kavafian and had chamber music studies with the Emerson String Quartet. She has performed with National Repertory Orchestra of Breckenridge, the University of Maryland Philharmonia Ensemble, the Naumburg Baroque Ensemble and the New York Amadeus String Quartet. |
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