Private lessons at WMA
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At WMA, we are pleased to offer private music lessons for students. We are grateful to have the opportunity to bring artist-level teachers here to Wilbraham & Monson Academy to work with our talented students
Our private lesson teachers bring passion and a wealth of experience they are thrilled to share. We really enjoy witnessing the personal attention our teachers are able to give each student, providing them with rigor and challenge, encouraging them to excel in their chosen instrument, all while setting them up to love music for life.
Pay for Private Lessons here
We ask that you pay for lessons upfront and that you commit to a trimester of lessons at a time. You can choose to pay for as little as two or as many as 10 lessons at a time. Ms. Camenga will send statements helping you track your lesson cost throughout the year.
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Meet our Private Music Lessons staff
Yoonhe Ko
An Internationally recognized, award winning Cellist, she counts the 64th Coleman Chamber Music Competition at the top of a long list of distinctions.
During her collegiate career, she was featured as a soloist, winning concerto competitions at Ewha Womans University and Boston University Orchestra. As a recipient of the Aldo Parisot Prize, Ko earned her Master of Music Degree and Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music. Her Doctorate in Cello Performance was accomplished under the tutelage of Rhonda Rider at Boston University.
Among her many celebrated performances, Dr. Ko performed under the baton of Keith Lockhart with the Boston Pops Orchestra, offering a stunning rendition of Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations.
Dr. Ko joined the faculty of Community Music School of Springfield, Massachusetts, in 2018 and currently serves as a String Coordinator of the Sonido Musica Program. Dr. Ko is a member of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Bethany Assembly of God Orchestra and cellist of the Quartetto Mosso String Quartet.
Shelby Weir
Shelby Weir is an experienced clarinetist, wind band and orchestral conductor and music education pedagogue. She formerly taught wind instruments at Presbyterian College and served as band director for various middle and high schools across South Carolina before relocating to Naples, Forida, where she is building a private clarinet studio. Her teachers include Joseph Eller of the South Carolina Philharmonic and an International Clarinet Association soloist, and Ludmilla Peterkova of Prague Conservatory.
Shelby has performed with the University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, USC Opera, USC Marching Band, Aiken Civic Orchestra, Palmetto Concert Band, Bonita Springs Concert Band, Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra and performed a solo performance in Prague in 2015 at the Domazlice Clarinet Festival.
Shelby is also an active conductor and served as the assistant graduate conductor for the USC Campus Orchestra and currently founded and directs the Ave Maria Symphony Orchestra and Ave Maria Youth Symphony Orchestra. At Ave Maria University, Professor Weir teaches applied wind lessons, music history, and is the inaugural band director for the Gyrene Marching band and Concert band programs founded in fall 2020.
In 2024 she moved to Massachusetts to continue private studio teaching and to take a sabbatical as she and her husband welcomed their first child and to finish completing a composition project for Hal Leonard publications. She eagerly looks forward to working with students at Wilbraham & Monsoon academy.
Eun Joo Lee
Eun Joo Lee, a talented pianist from South Korea, began playing at age seven, performing at City Hall and later at prestigious venues during her time at a specialized Art High School in Busan.
Mrs. Lee studied at Pusan National University, receiving a scholarship and performing annually under Jung Soon Choi. Her standout performance of Bartok’s Rhapsody Op.1 at Kyumjung's Cultural Concert Hall made headlines.
In 2002, inspired by the Piano Summer at New Paltz, N.Y., Eun Joo pursued her master’s degree in Music at SUNY Purchase with Paul Ostrovsky. She expanded her repertoire with contemporary works and participated in numerous recitals and chamber groups. Eun Joo continued her studies at the Hartt School, University of Hartford, completing her Graduate Diploma Recitals in 2012 and 2013. Her interest in sacred music led her to study organ with Anthony Newman and Patricia Snyder.
Currently, she is a collaborative pianist for the Connecticut College Choirs and has recorded Brian Field’s "Three Planets" to raise climate change awareness. Mrs. Lee is a member of the Hartford Music Teacher Alliance and the National Music Teachers Association.
Here at WMA, Mrs. Lee, serves as adjunct music piano teacher with distinction, preparing her students for recitals, competitions and college admissions.
Ava D’Agostino
Ava D’Agostino is a soprano living in the Western Massachusetts area. She holds a Master of Music degree in vocal performance from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst where she studied under Dr. Jamie-Rose Guarrine, and she holds a Bachelor of Music degree in music education with a concentration in voice from SUNY Fredonia.
She has seven years of music teaching experience as a chorus director, program manager, private voice instructor and early childhood educator. Some of her operatic credits include The Fire/Nightingale in Ravel’s "L'enfant et les sortilèges" and the Witch/Mother in Humperdinck’s "Hansel and Gretel."
Frantz Kjoniksen
Frantz enjoys a career as both a violinist and a violist. They started playing the violin at the age of 9 through their public school program, and later started learning the viola at 16. They’ve earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Violin Performance from UMass-Amherst under the guidance of Prof. Elizabeth Chang. As a freelancer, Frantz plays with ensembles and theater companies all around New England. Frantz also enjoys cooking, reading, scenic walks and relaxing with their cat, Miso.