Guitar Lessons at Boulder's Harmony Music House
Harmony Music House is Boulder's home for private guitar lessons.
Take a minute to read about our teachers. Each teacher is highly qualified in teaching private guitar lessons. They also specialize in different genres of music. You can learn to play pretty much any style from our eclectic group of teachers.
Taylor Sims - Bluegrass & Country Guitar
Taylor Sims is the guitarist and lead singer for the Colorado based bluegrass band, Spring Creek. He has toured nationally over the last four years and has garnered a reputation as a hard working, on call musician and teacher on the Front Range. His band has been a featured artist at many of the top bluegrass festivals in the country and won both the Rockygrass and the Telluride bluegrass band competitions in 2007, no other band has won both in one year. Taylor teaches all levels of bluegrass and flatpicking styles of acoustic guitar as well as ensemble and vocal classes. He graduated from South Plains College in Levelland, Texas with a commercial music degree with an emphasis in guitar studies. He studied under Alan Munde and Joe Carr, two of the most influential and seasoned veterans in Texas music today. He now makes his home in Boulder County where he continues to play over 150 shows a year as well as teach the art of the G-run.
Steve Itterly - Delta Blues & Ragtime Guitar
Steve Itterly is a local old-time picker in the likeness of: Mississippi John Hurt, Robert Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Blake, Blind Willy Johnson, Corey Harris, etc. While living in Boston he studied delta/country blues, ragtime, and folk blues with a student of the acclaimed Paul Rishell and Annie Raines. After moving out to Boulder, Steve has continued his studies and began playing with his band, Borrowed Time. Having learned mostly by ear and through watching his heroes, Steve hopes to help his students do the same. If you are interested in learning some down home finger-pickin' blues, then Steve is the guy who can teach it to you.
David Goodheim - Electric & Classical Guitar
David Goodheim is a performer and composer currently living inBoulder, Colorado. Music and playing musical instruments have been a
major pursuit since his youth beginning with piano, to flute,
saxophone and clarinet, and then finally guitar. David has been a
guitar player for 13 years now and has studied and performs in
multiple styles important in the versatility of the instrument
including classical, rock, blues, and American folk/fingerstyle. He
has performed guitar in venues from the Boulder Theater to well known
venues in Los Angeles like REDCAT and the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
It is in Los Angeles that David received his BFA in music from
California Institute of the Arts in 2008. He also holds a BA in
Biological Sciences from University of Colorado, Boulder.
Teaching has been a focus for David for a number of years now and he
favors a balanced and customized method tailored to developing each
student's stylistic interests, goals, and technical and theoretical
strengths, and weaknesses. He has taught for CalArts Community Arts
Partnership, a Los Angeles based educational outreach organization,
Oakwood School in North Hollywood, and more recently, private and
studio based guitar lessons in the Boulder area.
Currently, David is studying and practicing classical guitar with
Masakazu Ito, guitar performance faculty at University of Denver's
Lamont School of Music. He also is composing new classical music for
local and California based chamber music ensembles, and for
documentary film. David is playing rock music with two local bands,
Carry Me Ohio and Caribou Ranch, and is the sole member of an
experimental soundscape project called Timbre Wolves.
Lauren Stovall
Born in Mississippi to a band of barbershop singers, I was raised around great music and amazing harmonies. My mom says I've been singing since before I could walk and I haven't stopped since. I began performing for audiences when I was 7 years old and attained my first guitar at age 13. I studied music through grade school and furthered my education at the University of MS on a vocal scholarship.