Our History
  • 2013  Musically Creative (Creative Music, LLC) was formed to offer affordable and professional music to all ages.  Beginning Band and Worship Guitar were offered.
  • 2014  Second and third year band were added to the courses offered.
  • 2015  Young Guitar classes were added, targeting 7-10 year olds.
  • 2016  Beginning Strings were added in the Summer and Classical and Worship Keyboard were added in the Fall.  Creative Music brought on three new directors.  
  • 2017  Musically Creative expanded and offers classes in Prince William, Fauquier and Fairfax Counties.  Musically Creative increased to seven active directors.   
  • 2018  Enrollment continues to grow as we start to establish a Fairfax County guitar studio in Vienna.  Musically Creative adds mini-musical theatre for our vocal classes.
  • 2020  Due to the CoVid - 19 crisis, we went 100% online during this time and in the summer started a large band program in small groups with three directors.


Owner
Brian Hubler
Guitar and Band  Instructor
​Owner
Brian is the owner and original director for Musically Creative (Creative Music LLC).  He has a passion for teaching students and directing.  He is a Northern Virginia native that grew up in Fairfax County and graduated from Chantilly High School where he participated in District and All-State Bands as a French Horn player.   He went on to study Music Education at Arizona State, and then graduated from James Madison University with a Music Education degree and holds a VA Teaching License for K-12 Music.  He learned guitar in college and soon after volunteered to lead a high school praise team at a local church.   After graduating he taught 5th-12th band and strings at a private school in Manassas, and additionally worked as a part time Minister of Music.  He then taught, primarily in Elementary Band, for more than eight years in Fairfax County Public Schools in the Vienna area.   In addition to teaching band, as a conductor he taught several years with the Vienna Band Camp, and taught private and group brass and guitar lessons.   For five years he was on staff as a Music and Communications Director at a local church, and is now employed as a Technology Support Specialist for Fairfax County Public Schools.  He has enjoyed launching this new business providing additional opportunities for group instrumental instruction to students and adults primarily in Prince William and Fairfax but also to all of Northern Virginia.
Directors
Andrew Bannan
Band (Percussion) Instructor
Growing up in Haymarket, Virginia, Andrew Bannan started his musical journey playing the chicken dance on the drums for his second grade talent show with his little sister. Throughout high school Andrew played as a percussionist in the symphonic band, wind ensemble, percussion ensemble, orchestra, and marching band. Much of Andrew’s senior year of high school was spent auditioning for the Madison Scouts drum and bugle corps where he would spend two years touring the country playing drumset in the front ensemble. It was through band and drum corps that Andrew was inspired to become a band director.

​Andrew graduated with a  degree in music education from Belmont University and played in the university’s premier jazz band and wind ensemble. While in Nashville, Andrew worked as a percussionist for musical theatre productions at local theaters and schools. He also teaches the front ensembles for the marching band and indoor drumline at Battlefield High School in Haymarket, Virginia and Brentwood High School in Brentwood, Tennessee. 
Patrick Gillespie
Band (Brass) Instructor
Patrick Gillespie has been performing and teaching in the Washington D.C. area for over 20 years.  He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance from West Virginia University and a Master’s Degree in Music Performance from the University of North Texas.  Former teachers include Michael Wheeler, Dr. Keith Jackson and Tony Baker.  Mr. Gillespie has performed with the West Virginia Symphony, San Angelo Symphony, Jimmy Dorsey Band, Denton Public Theatre, Virginia Grand Military Band, Annandale Brass, The White House Quintet, and Manassas Chorale.  He is an established private teacher in the northern Virginia area for over 15 years. Yearly, his students are selected for the Virginia All-State Band and many past students hold full time performing and teaching jobs throughout the USA. ​
Liz Pereyra
Piano & Voice Instructor
Elisabeth Pereyra fell in love with music in the wonders of middle school. She has been singing and playing her instruments (Piano and flute) since then! Singing in high school and playing her flute led her to join the Green Machine pep band of George Mason University as well as be a founding member of the Mason Drum and fifes. She has her Bachelors of music in Vocal performance and education from George Mason University. Mrs. Pereyra has been teaching students of all ages in Prince William county for ten years and has been teaching in the public school She has her Bachelors of music in Vocal performance and education from George Mason University.
Mrs. Pereyra has been teaching students privately for over 12 years and has been a teacher in Prince William County public schools for nearly 8. Currently she is the Choir director at Saunders Middle School in Manassas. Seasonally Mrs. Pereyra is also the front ensemble coach for the Forest Park high school Marching Bruin Band. Teaching publicly and privately has been a true joy for Mrs. “P.”
Michelle Rupert
Band (Woodwind) Instructor
Michelle Rupert fell in love with band when she began playing the saxophone at age 10.  She told her parents that one day she was going to be a band director!  Ms. Rupert has now been working with young band students for the past 23 years with the same passion for music that she had when she was a young girl.
Ms. Rupert’s love for teaching and “music making” recently brought her to Saunders Middle School in Manassas, Virginia where she currently all their bands.   Previously, she has taught at Herndon High School, Dogwood Elementary and Lake Anne Elementary in Fairfax County, Virginia.  In 2017, Ms. Rupert received the "Elementary Band Director of the Year" award by the Fairfax County Band Directors Association.
 
As a bassoonist, Ms. Rupert has enjoyed performing with the Shenandoah Valley Philharmonic, Roanoke Symphony, Rockbridge Symphony, Riverside Wind Symphony, Capital Wind Symphony and Brevard Music Center Orchestra. She has performed under the direction of Keith Lockhart, director of the Boston Pops, toured California with Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse and the New England Symphonic Ensemble, and was a regular performer at Carnegie Hall for several years.

Ms. Rupert was the guest conductor for the Prince William County Middle School All District Band in 2007, the Prince William County Eighth Grade All County Band in 2011, was the Assistant Conductor of the Manassas Symphony Orchestra from 2009 – 2012, and has taught at the Bocal Majority Double Reed Camps in Virginia since 2013.  In addition to her position at Benton, Ms. Rupert serves as the Assistant Director of Marching Band at Battlefield High School.  She also performs with the Manassas Chorale and teaches private lessons.
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Ms. Rupert is proud to be a product of Virginia schools.  She attended Chantilly High School before receiving a Bachelor of Music in Education degree from James Madison University and a Master of Arts in Conducting degree from George Mason University, under the tutelage of Professor Anthony Maiello.
She resides in Haymarket with her husband, Greg, and their three sons.
Carrie Sullivan
Guitar Instructor
Carrie Sullivan is the guitar teacher at George Hampton Middle School in Prince William County Virginia. She is a graduate from West Virginia University where she obtained her degree in music education in 2017. She has taught general music, secondary band/orchestra, and guitar in Maryland and Virginia. While she specializes in low brass instruments she has loved playing  guitar since high school and studied with Scott Elliott at West Virginia University. She is very excited to be joining the musically creative team this summer!
Alyson Wyckoff
Strings Instructor
Alyson Wyckoff is a Strings specialist in Prince William County  where she instructs fifth grade students on the violin, viola, cello, and bass.  She has taught several years as a public school teacher, but she has taught private lesson in the area for even longer.  Alyson received her undergraduate degree from James Madison University in music education and a minor in family studies.  In addition to teaching privately and in the public schools Alyson has worked at several summer camps where she taught different age groups in orchestra.  Alyson believes that music should be apart of everyone’s lives and would like to be apart of the process of bringing music to everyone.