Santiago is a current student at Berklee College of Music Online as a Guitar Performance Major where he is studying to be a well rounded musician with an emphasis on blues and jazz. He is very experienced teaching music to kids as young as 6 as well as adults of all ages including students with special needs. Santiago is able to simplify or help you embellish your favorite songs to make them playable or challenging and unique to you. He has a strong foundation of music theory and is great at helping his students understand the language of music step by step. Santiago believes that by studying your favorite musicians you are able to learn, understand, and reinterpret their music in your own unique way, so come learn your favorite songs and solos with him! 

 Andrew Beals received his Bachelor of Arts Music degree at Livingston College, Rutgers University, and has a Master of Arts Music degree from New York University. Beals became the latest in a long line of Jazz Saxophone greats to work with Jack McDuff. Andrew Beals’ fourteen-year tenure in this band included lengthy tours of North America and Europe. He began his recording career as a leader with his compact disc “Gravy Train” on NASMusic. Andrew’s latest recording, with guitarist Chris Morrison entitled “Maybe Someday”, is on the Centaur record label. Mr. Beals has appeared as a leader of his own band at many renowned jazz clubs and festivals. Beals was a semifinalist at the 1993 Thelonious Monk Jazz Saxophone Competition; and in 1998 he was awarded the prestigious NYU Jazz Orchestra Scholarship for graduate studies in jazz performance and composition.