Dana Thynes

Since getting my degree in Music Education years ago from Seattle Pacific University, I have taught private piano off and on. Mostly off, while our daughters were small, but now pretty much year-round and with a full schedule, since moving back "home" to Alaska. While I started out just teaching private piano, I gradually became comfortable teaching voice, and then beginning guitar, and most recently, violin (or fiddle, really). Our home is filled with books, music, our favorite movies (still The Lord of the Rings, Pride and Prejudice, Braveheart, etc.), a wood cook stove, two cats, and a Labrador. There is no music store within a hundred miles...true, though not as the crow flies, perhaps. We are surrounded by mountains and water, and flying or boating is the only way to reach the closest towns to us! But still this is a beautiful place to live. I feel very blessed to live here, and share music with those I can.