Piano & Violin Lessons

Kathleen Raney first started dancing at the age of three and playing the piano at age five. At age nine she began her dance training in ballet, tap, jazz and lyrical at DeGrasse Dance Studio.  Kathleen participated in all of DeGrasse Dance Studio's performances in many leading roles, during the ten years she trained there.  She was also a seven year member of the DeGrasse Dance Studio competition troupe. When Kathleen was age twelve, she joined the Children's Choir at Saint Elizabeth Ann Seaton Catholic Church and became one of the piano accompanists.  Kathleen enjoyed being the choir's lead pianist during her four years of high school, and still continues to occasionally accompany the Children's Choir.  She has performed in the Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade and traveled to Paris to perform in two New Years Day parades.

Kathleen Raney first started dancing at the age of three and playing the piano at age five. At age nine she began her dance training in ballet, tap, jazz and lyrical at DeGrasse Dance Studio.  Kathleen participated in all of DeGrasse Dance Studio's performances in many leading roles, during the ten years she trained there.  She was also a seven year member of the DeGrasse Dance Studio competition troupe. When Kathleen was age twelve, she joined the Children's Choir at Saint Elizabeth Ann Seaton Catholic Church and became one of the piano accompanists.  Kathleen enjoyed being the choir's lead pianist during her four years of high school, and still continues to occasionally accompany the Children's Choir.  She has performed in the Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade and traveled to Paris to perform in two New Years Day parades.

Kathleen graduated in 2003 from Radford University with a B.A.  Double major of Dance and International Economics (magna cum laude).  As a dance major she studied modern, jazz, pilates and tap, with a degree concentration in ballet. She studied under Franco Jelincic, (former ballet master for the Pennsylvania Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet, Garden State Ballet, London Festival Ballet, Ballet of Hamburg Staatsoper and director of the Kessler (who began her career as a soloist with the Pennsylvania Ballet, became a principal for the Hamburg Ballet and then went on to the London Festival Ballet and who partnered with world renowned artists including Rudolf Nureyev, Peter Schauffuss, Edward Villella, Ted Kivit and John Gilpin.)

Kathleen taught piano from 1997 to 1999: she taught ballet, tap, and jazz classes at Center Stage Dance Studio in Pulaski, Virginia, from 2001 to 2003. During the summer of 2003, she attended a professional dance training program at Bates University in Lewiston Maine where she studied ballet and modern dance and extended her training to capoeira and site specific choreography.

• $40 per 30 minute session
• $60 per 60 minute session

Call H. Lee Brewster at 703-946-3796
or e-mail: ll.brewster@verizon.net