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 pandemic, we went 100% online 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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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. |
Janalyn Miklas
Office Assistant |
Janalyn is a Ph.D. student at George Mason University studying linguistics. Besides her love of languages, she is also passionate about music. Both of Janalyn’s parents are professional musicians; her mother is a singer and her father is a classical instrumentalist (tuba, euphonium, and harmonica). From a young age, she traveled with her parents for gigs and quickly became part of their family musical act. In high school, she sang in the various choir ensembles, played piccolo in the marching band and oboe in concert band and chamber ensemble. She is also an accomplished harmonica player, having been inducted in the National Traditional Country Music Hall of Fame in 2014 and performing at international harmonica festivals in the USA, Germany, and Taiwan.
Since her father started his own harmonica retail and repair business, Janalyn has worked alongside him by managing his website, advertising, and correspondence with customers. She is excited to work alongside the Musically Creative community using her experience with small, family-oriented businesses and marketing. |
Michelle Rupert
Band 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 Dale City, Virginia where she currently teaches band. Previously, she has taught at Herndon High School, Benton Middle School, Dogwood Elementary and Lake Anne Elementary in both FCPS and PWCS. 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 Saunders, 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. 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 coming back to Musically Creative this Fall!
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