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About Us

Musespeak™ supplies music education services, solo and collaborative piano performance, freelance writing and custom-designed giftware. Educationally, we offer private piano lessons and music theory lessons. Performance-wise, we offer background music services for weddings, private functions; as well as performing in collaborative music projects. Freelance writing services are offered to print and online publications. Music-themed gifts, photocards and witty giftware are offered at Designs by Musespeak™.

The name Musespeak™ is inspired by the Nine Muses of Greek Mythology. They were the goddesses of art and inspiration. The muses "speak" through art, music and the written word at Musespeak™.

About Rhona-Mae Arca

Rhona-Mae is a music educator with experience in arts administration, corporate communications and special events. She also performs as a solo and collaborative pianist at weddings, private functions, choirs and small ensembles.

She holds an ARCT in Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music and Level 7 Contemporary Idioms Certificate from Conservatory Canada. Rhona-Mae attended the University of Lethbridge, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Bachelor of Management. She has furthered her artistic development through singing lessons with Sherry Kennedy and jazz piano lessons with Derek Stoll.

Rhona-Mae is a member of the Alberta Registered Music Teachers' Association (ARMTA), the Alberta Piano Teachers' Association (APTA) and Canadian Federation of Music Teachers' Assoications (CFMTA). She is currently serving as the Past President for ARMTA Calgary.

As a freelance writer, Rhona-Mae has published articles in over six publications, including Synchronicity, Music Alberta Magazine and The Iaido Journal. She's a Contributing Writer for Suite101.com, a comprehensive webzine and has earned two Editor's Choice Awards for her articles Distance Learning Degrees in Music Education and Pets Can Recycle Too!

About Maestro

Maestro is Musespeak™'s four-legged Studio Assistant. Upon your arrival, Maestro will make sure that you are settled and ready for your lesson. He provides comic relief, calms everyone's nerves, cuddles with students and parents. Maestro especially loves to accompany students at group classes by singing or playing on the bongos and often asks students to bring out the percussion instruments.

Like many Lakeland Terriers, Maestro takes his assigned roles seriously - from inspecting all the student prizes to "instructing" a student to start playing a song. Maestro can tell whether a student has practiced regularly at home and has been known to walk out of lessons if he isn't satisfied with what he's hearing.

Maestro launched his own Youtube Channel at the urging of some of "his" students. Maestro showcases his musical talents in his videos.

“The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.”
Stephen Nachmanovitch

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