YOUR MUSIC CAREER
Reimagined.
Let us show you how to make a profitable, sustainable, and FUN career doing what you love.
INNOVATIVE
Teaching.
FANTASTIC
Income.
GRATIFYING
Career.
Sound too good to be true?
IT'S NOT.
Looking for ideas to spice up your teaching?
Terrified about starting a private lessons studio?
An ambitious teaching looking for ways to increase your income?
Are you a music teacher...
In a new city and need to get established?
Interested in learning more about the business side of teaching?
With a great idea but unsure how to get it off the ground?
Are you a musician...
Hi There!
My name is Katherine.
I'm a musician who has always been a teacher, and I figured out a way to make teaching private music lessons a dream job for myself and others.
While working towards my doctorate in flute performance, I built a private flute studio to "practice" my teaching skills before landing the "dream job" as a full time flute professor. This was the third new studio I had built, so I was already a seasoned professional. After countless applications and interviews for higher ed positions, guess what happened.
No glory job.
Sound familiar?
Then, I woke up.
I realized I already had everything I wanted: I was teaching flute, playing flute, making a HIGHER INCOME than I would teaching at the university level, and I was my own boss.
I taught myself all the business skills I needed to make my studio GO. I rolled up my sleeves and made the lesson experience for my students and myself unbelievable. And now, I'm here to teach you how to do it too.
If you're unhappy in your job as a private music lessons teacher or want to create your own studio, I'm here to help you!
Katherine Emeneth
Founder & Teacher Extraordinaire
Hello!
My name is Nathalie Simper and I’m a flute professor, instructor, and performer in Knoxville, TN at the foot of the Smoky Mountains. I always knew I would be a musician, and the year my brother gave me his hand-me-down flute for Christmas I knew the flute would always be a part of my voice in the world.
I did all the right things and went to all the right schools – performing arts middle and high schools, got my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music performance, opened a private music studio while taking orchestral auditions, and landed a teaching job at a local college. After struggling and trying to figure things out on my own, I finally decided to invest in myself and shift my perspective about being a classical entrepreneur during the COVID pandemic. I learned to see myself as a business owner, embraced the non-musical things about being a classical musician, and stretched my comfort zone to include my fellow musicians and teachers in my community.
Several years later I have a full private studio, continue to perform with local orchestras, and tour around with one of my best friends in a flute-piano duo (TraverSura Duo). I use my successful AND failed experiences to create a safe space for flute students to be themselves and use the structure of classical music training to grow confident human beings. I love sharing my student wins with my husband who is the best flute dad around. My fur children Chewy and Grimm are my studio’s official mascots and therapy dogs, and they’ve sat in on enough flute lessons to play around the block themselves!
Joining KE Creative is literally a dream I’ve worked toward without realizing it. As someone who always thought there were only two sides to the classical music coin, it’s refreshing to see musicians helping musicians expand the definition of classical musicianship to celebrate our differences and strengths. We’re always told we can be anything we want when we grow up, and I’m so excited to be a part of a team that helps musicians find out what “anything” means to them!
Nathalie Simper
Brainstorming & Organizational Queen
I absolutely loved my time participating in the Music Teacher’s Playbook course. It has helped me to learn so much about how to effectively run my own studio, from how to tackle marketing to ideas for how to grow community amongst my students.
I really enjoyed getting to meet with and talk to Katherine and Nathalie each week about what I was going through in my studio, and to be able to ask questions of other teachers who have been right where I am.
I learned all about singing and technique in college, but I didn’t get the chance to learn this side of things. If you are thinking about opening your own private music studio, this is an amazing course, filled with wonderful resources and even more wonderful people!
How can we help you?
Katherine and her course are AMAZING.
The topics covered are well structured and relevant. This course gave me the push I needed to complete the things I had either been putting off or had no idea how to do. Katherine went over the top to make sure I was getting what I needed out of the course. Thanks to her, I have a renewed energy for teaching and tons of new ideas on how to run my studio. I can now quickly turn casual inquiries into new students, reach out to band directors more easily, and create a community in my studio. The course exceeded my expectations, and its benefits are invaluable.
