Oxmoor Center
7900 Shelbyville Road
Louisville, KY 40222
(502)426-1818
Manager: Mike McAfee
Store Hours: 10:00AM to 9:00PM Daily
Sunday Hours: 12:00PM to 6:00PM.
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Oxmoor Teacher Bios
Brian White - Guitar
Brian White is a guitar fanatic. A 25 year player, Brian is not only an instructor at the Willis Music Oxmoor store and our Louisville School of Rock, but is also a producer of The Player's Spot, a television show designed to showcase and promote musicians, songwriters and entertainers from the Louisville, KY area. He can be seen playing solo and along with the house band Tingo, every  Thursday night at a live taping of the show and Tuesday nights on channel 24 broadcast and 138 Insight Cable. Brian's sound and playing is somewhere between John Mayer and Dave Matthews, but uniquely his own. He has a solid foundation in music theory and is an inspiring teacher. Brian moved to Los Angeles after graduating college, to take his songs and act to a wider market. He performed regularly as a solo artist at many of the clubs in and around the Los Angeles area, and is still featured as a performer at parties, celebrations and corporate events. He produced and recorded his CD Renaissance Blue with notable Los Angeles musicians: Brian Pothier and Kelly Fitzgerald (guitars, songwriters and vocals for Vesica Pieces), Bob Malone (Piano with The Neville Brothers), Doug Lunn (bass for Andy Summers Band and Mark Isham), Sara Behar (Long Beach Symphony Orchestra) and Cristopher Pellani (drums with Soundscape Pyramids, Angels of Venice and Air Supply). He's currently in the process of writing and recording his second CD.
Contact Brian at 502-749-8291.
Todd Ihrig – Piano
Todd Ihrig has been teaching private piano at the Willis Music store at Oxmoor for six years. Originally from the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area, he graduated from NKU with a B.A. in Music. While at Northern, Todd participated with the Kentucky Institute for European Studies summer program in Bregenz, Austria in 1988 and 1990. He also studied Music History at the graduate level for two years at the University of Louisville's School of Music. Mr. Ihrig is a member of U of L's Preparatory Department at the Oldham County Arts Center in Crestwood and plays for Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in La Grange. He is a member of the Greater Louisville Music Teachers Association, the Kentucky Music Teachers Association and the Music Teachers National Association. His approach is traditional with an emphasis on theory, technique and an appreciation for the classics. Todd accepts students of all ages (6 and up) and levels and offers two annual student recitals. Email: toddling67@earthlink.net
Contact Todd at 502-635-0691
Hannah Hall –Piano & Violin
 Dr. Hannah Sorota Hall began her studies in piano and violin at the age of five, in the Suzuki Program. She is now a doctor of Chiropractic, also holding bachelor’s degrees in piano performance and biology from Bellarmine University in Kentucky. She has studied music in Austria at the Salzburg International School and has served as pianist for the Bellarmine Choral Touring Ensemble, the Spurlock Violin Studio, the Sorota Trio and various churches in Kentucky. In June 2001 she performed violin in the Manhattan School for Strings Festival concert held in Carnegie Hall. Dr. Hall has been giving private instruction in piano and violin since 2000 and welcomes students of all ages and levels.
Contact Hannah at 502-415-5122
Neil Lucas – Drums & Hand Percussion
Neil began playing drums in church in 6 th grade and was in his high school drum line every year. He also participated in Pep Band during high school as well as studying music theory; even composing a percussion piece performed during his Spring Choir concert. After graduation Neil attended Western Kentucky University as an Education major and performed with WKU’s orchestra, symphonic band, wind ensemble and the acclaimed WKU Basketball Bands. He’s supplemented enrolled study with more than 5 years of private percussion lessons and was a performing member of the Living Hope Baptist Church Praise Team for 2 years. He has taught drum lines for school counties including Franklin, Simpson, Breckenridge and Butler and has given private lessons for 5 years. He has also taught music at Greenwood High School and composed all the music performed 3 of his 5 years there. Neil currently drums for original music group Soul Shindig.
Contact Neil at 502-410-9555
Glenn Miller – Banjo
Born in September, 1962 in Louisville, Kentucky, Glenn Miller started playing the banjo at age eleven. Once he was sixteen and could drive, he began jamming and playing at local clubs and festivals like the Lincoln Jamboree, the Shepherdsville Country Music Park, the Pine Wood Jamboree, and the Squire Boone Caverns. As soon as he graduated from high school, he became the banjo player with the Kentucky Ramblers and spent the next three years on the road, opening and headlining countless bluegrass festivals. Every weekend brought the band a new concert lineup as they appeared with the biggest names in bluegrass: Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Larry Sparks, Dave Evans, the Osborne  Brothers, and J.D. Crowe were just a few of these. In 1986, Miller left the Kentucky Ramblers and moved to Nashville to work for the Opryland Corporation. He spent the next 10 years as the staff banjo player for the Opryland Talent Agency, a job that gave him the opportunity to perform on stage at the Opry with stars like Roy Acuff, Del Reese, Gene Johnson, and The Reno Brothers. On more than 20 occasions, Miller appeared on stage with Bill Monroe at the Station Inn, Nashville’s most famous bluegrass club. In 1996, he left Nashville to return to Louisville to teach banjo and establish KentuckyBanjo.com, the world’s first web site that includes a virtual college devoted entirely to Bluegrass Banjo-ology www.BanjoAcademy.org . He also records and produces performance CDs for various bluegrass artists at www.KentuckyBanjo.com’s recording studio, and is in the process of developing, producing, and marketing a series of practice CDs for students of the bluegrass banjo to use to develop playing speed and technique. Professor Miller welcomes inquiries from anyone with an interest in the banjo. He can be reached at Willis Music in Louisville, Kentucky , or at www.KentuckyBanjo.com.
Contact Glenn at 502-777-4274
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