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 they start to establish a Fairfax County guitar studio in Vienna.  Musically Creative adds mini-musical theatre for our vocal classes.


Directors

Brian Hubler
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 Fauquier Counties but also to all of Northern Virginia.
Ken Hall
Guitar Instructor
Ken Hall received a bachelor's from Westfield State University in Mass. in 1981 and a master's from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1986.  He studied classical guitar with Tim Olbrych and William Feasley and jazz guitar with Mick Goodrick, Barry Galbraith and Ted Dunbar.
Ken is an in-demand freelance guitarist playing engagements for the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, the Kennedy Center’s Opera House, Signature and Olney Theatres, Blues Alley and the Smithsonian. He toured the former Soviet Union with a 16-piece big band as a guest of the Soviet State Department and has performed with jazz greats Max Roach and Slide Hampton, country rocker Charlie Daniels, gospel great Andrae Crouch, comedienne Joan Rivers, and Italian crooner Al Martino.
Ken taught guitar as an adjunct faculty member at Amherst College, Westfield State University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Va.  He recently retired from Fairfax County Public Schools after teaching 33 years between both Massachusetts and Virginia.   He was a guitar director for the past 13 years at Westfield High School, eight years as an AP music theory instructor and nine years as the department chair.  He has also had experience teaching elementary general music, band, orchestra, guitar and chorus along with middle school and high school experience.  He is currently an adjunct professor at Northern Virginia Community College along with frequent performances across the area.  He has also had experience teaching elementary general music, band, guitar and chorus.
He brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and excitement to build our guitar classes for Musically Creative.
Nita van der Walt
Piano & Vocal Instructor
Nita van der Walt was born in South Africa and received her degree in Opera performance with Piano as a second instrument from the Technikon of Pretoria with honors in 1999.  She passed her Piano and Vocal Performance licentiate exams with honors at the University of South Africa.   She has sung several roles in student and professional productions including:
Blondchen, Entfuhrung aus dem Serail; Sophie, Rosenkavalier; Despina, Cosi fan Tutti; Monica, The Medium; Adele, Fledermaus; Kathie, Student Prince and Christine, Phantom of the Opera.
She has performed as soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Faure’s Requiem and several Christmas and Easter Cantatas with orchestra.
​Nita released her first CD "New Songs to Sing"; in the fall of 2009; An album of Classical Christian songs she has written and composed herself.  She professionally performs a wide range of repertoire from Show Tunes, Broadway, Pop, Celtic and light Opera and frequently sings for local outreach events.

Nita has been teaching piano, voice and drama extensively over the past 17 years.  She has also written and directed multiple “Mini- Musicals” to assist, challenge and grow young singers in the art of musical and stage performance. She has trained hundreds of students in discovering their own unique sound and growing their Musical gifts and talents for the purpose of making a difference in the lives of their community.  Many of her students went on to pursue careers in Musical Performance and Teaching.
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.  This is her first year as a public school teacher, but she has taught private lesson in the area for several years.  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. 
Ashland Murphy
Guitar Instructor
Ashland has a true passion for teaching string instruments. She is motivated to revive and reconstruct the approach to teaching music to make the experience more positive and personal for all students.  Part of reviving music teaching is providing more opportunities for students to learn the guitar. The guitar is the easiest way that we can reach out to children (and adults) and get them involved in music because of its cultural relevance.

Ashland majored in music education at James Madison University where she received high marks in all classes for the bachelor of music education degree and the Joy Holler- Endowed Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to only one student in the music education program per year.  After teaching grades six through eight string orchestra and guitar in Stafford, VA for three years, she moved to Prince William County where she currently teaches fifth grade strings at Alvey, Haymarket, and Tyler Elementary School. During the summer of these years teaching she took classes at Florida State University and obtained a Master’s degree in Music Education where she also received the FSU Study Abroad Achievement Scholarship and studied guitar with Edward Prasse, a popular guitar method book writer and educator.
She continues to be involved in developing her skills as a professional musician by playing the guitar at weddings and other formal events.