Grace Easley - | Violin Lessons | Viola Lessons | - S. Nevada and Gleneagle Location

Grace Easley’s musical experience began at the age of 6 when she began taking private piano lessons. “My teacher would have me close my eyes as she played a simple melody then had me repeat the pattern myself with a starting pitch. I loved the piano and my new found knowledge, but I quickly moved on to violin after about a year of piano lessons”. From that point on, she enjoyed weekly private violin lessons accompanied by group lessons, youth symphonies, and public school orchestra programs. Grace took private violin lessons from age 7 through age 16, at which point she began taking viola lessons. From then on, viola became her mainly studied instrument. Though viola is her most recently studied instrument, she still holds the most expertise in violin. She involved herself in extracurricular symphonies until the end of her secondary education, moving from the Eden Prairie String Academy in Minneapolis, MN, to Webster University Community Music School Symphony in Saint Louis, MO, and finally to the apex of Symphony experience, the Saint Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra. She then took the Assistant Principle Viola chair of the Missouri State University Symphony in Springfield, MO, where she performed and rehearsed with this group until moving from Springfield, MO in April of 2011.

Throughout her musical career, Grace performed not only with classical chamber orchestras, string quartets, duets and trios, but also with other non-classical bands and groups. One of her first and favorite groups of these was Moonhoney Gypsy Cabaret, which has of late transferred to the Colorado Springs area. She performed with this group for more than two years, playing in such venues as restaurants, community arts festivals, and gallery openings, performing original material as a trio. Some of her other endeavors in Springfield included performing with folk singer/songwriter Cindy Woolf, performing/recording with vocalist Abby Webster, recording for folk artist Sam McKinstry. Her current performance endeavor is the Gypsy swing/world jazz duet, Roma Ransom. Roma Ransom is composed of two Shin’s instructors, herself playing violin, and guitarist, Gordon Lewis. The duo got their start performing in Springfield, MO, regularly at restaurants and other events and venues such as gallery openings, wine tastings, private parties, and weddings. They have most recently performed in Santa Fe, New Mexico and have been performing all over the mid-west as they have been travelling. The duet now performs regularly in Colorado Springs and Denver. Grace’s most recent work as a violin soloist has been recording tracks for Colorado Springs local country singer Sandy Wells at Soterio Studios this July in Colorado Springs, CO. Her expertise bridges the gap between classical repertoire and popular style.