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Lucy Rodriguez is a highly talented musician with extensive experience in entertaining live audiences in concert halls, musical theaters, and public schools.  With a deep background in playing and conducting for live audiences and private teaching. She has been performing on the violin, piano, and cello for over ten years and also teaches the viola. Lucy continues her coaching and studies at the University of St. Thomas.

Lucy Rodriguez holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music and a Master of Arts in Instrumental Performance with a concentration in Orchestral Conducting from the University of St. Thomas. Ms. Rodriguez is currently enrolled in the Doctoral program at the University of St. Thomas. Her research includes philosophies pertaining to gender and women in the arts, the social construction of gender theory as it pertains to musical conducting, and gender issues surrounding the musical profession of conducting.

Lucy has had the honor of studying with Dr. Ingrid Gerling, violinist for The Axiom Quartet, Dr. Glenn Garrido, Music Director of the Houston Philharmonic, and world renowned violinist Ning Hsu. Lucy is currently the Assistant Conductor for the University of St. Thomas, and has been the orchestra’s concert master for the last five years.

Willie Guy’s music career has spanned the last 20 years. His education includes two degrees in theory and performance for guitar from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, as well as an audio engineer degree from the Media Tech Institute of Austin, TX.

Willie Guy has spent the last 16 years working in different fields of the music industry. From 1998 through 2005, he based his home in Austin, and played in a variety of bands that performed all over the state. He moved to Nashville at the end of 2005, and spent the last eight years working in studios as an audio engineer and a session musician. Mr. Guy Arnot also toured the country playing with different live acts.

Willie Guy is a multi-instrumentalist who also plays the ukulele and mandolin amongst other instruments. He is also a published songwriter and producer. Mr. Arnot has taught lessons throughout his entire career. Ms. Danelle Leverett of the JaneDear Girls is one of his former students.

Born in San Antonio, Texas, David Richards has been surrounded by music his whole life. Both of his parents are musically gifted–his father is a professional guitar and producer, and his mother a singer–and, together with the church in which he was raised, they instilled in him a passion for music. When he was 11, his father began teaching him guitar, and throughout High School he played percussion in band, sang in the choir, and taught himself how to play the piano. His first piano composition, written when he was 14, was awarded second place in a National Competition at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

At 17, he became a published songwriter when his song “Lost” was featured on the Latin Christian album Days of Elijah (sung by Adrian Brian). After High School, David performed in various High School, College, and Professional musicals, playing bass, drums, guitar, and keyboards.

Among the musicals he has played in are Godspell (Cy Falls High School), Love is a Disability (Dionysus Theatre), and Rock Nativity (A.D. Players). He went on to play keyboard in the rock band Zentropy, performing at such venues as Last Concert Cafe in Houston and Float Bar in Galveston, and has also played with singer-songwriter Charles Bryant.

He is excited to be part of the Sessions team and sharing his knowledge based on years of experience.