The Harry and Lavon Webb Education Center offers private lessons with several talented and experienced musicians. Here you can learn some about our instructors, sign-up, and pay for lessons. If you have any questions you can contact the Music Lab at 540-685-2309 or musiclab@jeffcenter.org.
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Asherah Capellaro – VOCALS
Asherah Capellaro is a soprano, conductor, and teacher who believes that music breaks down social barriers and empowers people to speak their truths. In her lessons, singers find the tools needed to access their authentic voices, establish a strong technical foundation, and incorporate mind-body awareness practices. Asherah completed her M.M. in vocal performance from Westminster Choir College, and a B.M. in piano. She has also studied musicology at the University of Arizona and conducting at Temple University. In addition to an active performance career, Asherah is a choir director at a number of schools and places of worship. In conducting and in private lessons, she is committed to an emphasis on vocal health, believing that a healthy, happy singer is more than just their instrument, and giving equal time for personalized attention to life experiences, personality, beliefs, and self-reflection. Asherah is a certified YogaVoice® teacher, which is an integrative method combining yogic principles and vocal science.
ADAM CLARK – GUITAR, PIANO, BASS, DRUMS
Adam Clark has been teaching guitar, piano, bass and drums/percussion for close to 20 years and has recently moved back to the Roanoke area from Boston, MA. He is currently teaching at Virginia Tech as Adjunct Faculty of Percussion specializing in drumsets, and regularly performs with Master Guitarist Redd Volkaert.
Growing up in a family of musicians, Adam had his first musical training on piano, guitar, and bass. In grade school, he gravitated towards drumming and spent the next 15 years diving deeply into the rhythm universe. This culminated in a degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in Contemporary Improvisation in 2005.
Adam co-founded Ostinato Sound Works and developed an iOS music education app called ProJammer. He currently spends his free time “woodshedding” electric guitar and studying the history and language of the early electric bluesmen including Freddie King, Slim Harpo, Magic Sam, T-Bone Walker, B.B. King and Jimi Hendrix.
JAMIEL ALLEN – Piano, KeYBOARD
Born on the island of Key West and raised in various cities in Ecuador, Jamiel Allen had a multi-cultural childhood. His father (a guitarist, bassist, and singer) and his mother (a boutique clothing and textile designer) always encouraged him to follow his artistic passions, which helped him venture out in many directions, artistically and spiritually. He began gigging on a regular basis around Key West’s local venues, private parties, and some bars at the young age of 15. His first group was formed with high school friends under the guidance and encouragement of their school band director and they began to get booked as a jazz/funk quartet (sometimes quintet) known as The Southernmost Jazz Revue. He has toured nationally and internationally with varying artist such as The Welch Ledbetter Connection, Ana Popovic, Hoppie Vaughan & The Ministers of Soul, ALLiENS, and many more. He began producing albums with his own projects and eventually became a mixing engineer for his and others work. He's fluent in Ableton in studio and on stage, and plays many different instruments, but piano/keyboard instruments and singing are his main focus alongside songwriting and producing.
P.J. GEORGE – Piano, Drums/Percussion, Guitar, Bass, Banjo, Mandolin, Fiddle
P. J. George is a multi instrumentalist/singer/producer/engineer based in Nashville, TN. Since relocating to Nashville after college, he has toured nationally and internationally with various artists and bands including Lindsay Lou, Billy Strings, May Erlewine, The Wooks, The Sweetback Sisters, The Stray Birds, Nora Jane Struthers, Bearfoot and many others. He has performed at music festivals including Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Blissfest, Wheatland Music Festival, Stagecoach, Delfest, Merlefest, and Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, as well as international festivals in Mexico, France, Australia and New Zealand.
In addition to touring, George works in the studios in Nashville, frequently hosting sessions on upright and electric bass, piano and organ, drums/percussion and whatever else is needed. He has played on well over 100 songs for various artists and appeared in many videos performing over the years.
During the pandemic, George started spending time learning to tune pianos and he continues to pursue that skill. Nonmusical activities and interests include golf, juggling, motorcycling, and ice hockey. George is well versed in many styles of music, plays multiple instruments proficiently, and carries a degree in Music Education from Radford University in Radford, VA.
WILLIS GREENSTREET – Saxophone, guitar, clarinet
Willis Greenstreet grew up playing all sorts of instruments at his father's church in Roanoke, Virginia. At age eight, he began learning how to play the guitar. He studied with Cyrus Pace over the course of approximately two years. Willis played guitar with Judi Jackson, the French Jazz band Djangabond, and several other various bands over the years. Annually, he is contacted to play with the Cave Spring High School branch of the Jazz Café. He began playing saxophone when he was eleven years old (finishing his education under the guidance of Linda Pasquarell), played with his middle and high school bands, and has significant exposure in the Roanoke Valley. Willis works with bands such as The Color J, Hoppie Vaughan and the Ministers of Soul, and Runaway Jones, and with musicians such as Ben Trout, Jonathan Barker and Elmer Coles. When he began playing the saxophone, Willis also took up other woodwind instruments like the clarinet and the flute. He has performed in productions for Roanoke College, Ferrum College, and Attic Productions. Willis enjoys teaching guitar and woodwinds at the Jefferson Center.
RYAN RATLIFF – Saxophone, guitar
A native of the Alleghany Highlands, Ryan developed an affinity for music at an early age. After learning saxophone he began learning guitar by ear and later with a teacher. Ryan was active in school music programs and played with bands, at church, and community events. At 16 Ryan began teaching guitar at Music Unlimited in Covington, Virginia. While earning his associate's degree he led the house band at the Golden Arrow Plaza in Wrightsville, Virginia with the help and expert advice of proprietor and mentor Dr. Calvin McClinton. He passed his audition and was accepted by the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music into the Music Production and Recording Technology program. Immersed in a nurturing and talented musical community that inspired him to play more than ever, Ryan decided to switch his major to Jazz Studies with an emphasis on saxophone performance and graduated with a Bachelor of Music in spring 2012. While at the conservatory Ryan played with several bands, most notably Ambrose and Jumptown. Ambrose consisted of music majors from Shenandoah and played regularly in Fairfax, Virginia. Jumptown where a rock and blues revue a la the Blues Brothers and still play and record in Hamilton, Virginia. About a year after graduation, Shenandoah invited Ryan back to play as an alumni guest for the Jazz Ensemble tour of the Republic of Ireland. Ryan taught saxophone lessons briefly at the Shenandoah Conservatory Arts Academy in Winchester, Virginia. Ryan can be seen (and heard) on stage and in the studio with area bands that include Mountain Walrus, the Ben Trout Band, Music Road Co., Appalachian Space Train, Charissa Joy and the High Frequency, and many more.
