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.
- 2023 Musically Creative starts a Grand Re-Opening of in-person classes!
Directors
Brian Hubler
Owner, Guitar Instructor |
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.
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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.
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Courtney Fetchko
Piano Instructor |
Courtney Fetchko is a piano teacher who also teaches preschool/ music and movement classes at St. Matthew’s Day School in Woodbridge, VA. She has been teaching piano for over ten years out of her home. At age seven, she began taking piano lessons and discovered her love of the instrument. As a teenager, she accompanied numerous choirs in her church. She attended Miami University where she studied music education. In 1998, she spent a year traveling with Up With People, a service-
oriented performing group, where she toured internationally playing keyboards with their band. As an adult, she served as the pianist for Woodbridge Bible Church for five years and spent thirteen years playing keyboard and piano with the Manassas Baptist Church Contemporary praise band. One of her greatest joys is helping others learn to play a musical instrument and develop their love of music. |