PRIVATE LESSONS
STAFF
Hilary Janysek
Flute
Dr. Hilary Janysek is an active flutist and educator specializing in chamber music, entrepreneurship, and positive psychology. As a full-time teacher, Dr. Janysek serves as the Adjunct Instructor of Flute at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Assistant Professor of Music at Southwestern University, and has built a successful private studio of over 30 students in the Austin area. Dr. Janysek holds a DA and MM in Flute Performance from Ball State University and a BM in Music Education from Texas State University.
Sarah McMillian
Clarinet
Sarah Elisabeth McMillian is an Austin-based clarinetist and teacher. She began her musical studies at the age of 9, and has been playing the clarinet for 15 years. Ms. McMillian attended the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, a prestigious residential high school with pre-professional training in the arts.
She received her Bachelor of Music Performance degree from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 2020, where she studied under James Campbell and Luis Rossi. While attending, she performed in many ensembles and was the principal clarinetist of the Concert Band. She continued her studies at the University of South Carolina, earning a Masters in Performance in 2022 under Joe Eller. There, she held principal positions with the USC Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. McMillian has performed with many groups throughout the United States, including the Aiken Symphony Orchestra, Southern Indiana Wind Ensemble, and the Atlanta Pops Orchestra.
Apart from the clarinet, Ms. McMillian stays immersed in the arts through music production, field recording, and photography.
Dr. Marc Sutton
Trumpet
Dr. Marc Lynn Sutton, originally from Duncan, Oklahoma, has been a teacher and performer in the Austin, Texas area since 2019 maintaining a studio of 70 trumpet students within Leander ISD. His students have competed at the National Trumpet Competition and International Trumpet Guild Conference, been selected as members of the 5A and 6A TMEA All State Bands, and have been a part of bands selected as TMEA Honor Bands and Midwest Clinic Performing Ensembles. They frequently advance in High School and Middle School district, region, area, and state auditions with some continuing music into college and have been accepted into college studios such as the UNT College of Music. As a performer, Dr. Sutton’s performances have taken him to Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the International Trumpet Guild conferences, the Macy’s Day Thanksgiving Parade, Severance Music Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland opening ceremony, and the Blossom Music Center, as well as numerous NCAA tournament and bowl games across the country. As a soloist, Marc was named a finalist at the 2016 Ellsworth Smith International Trumpet Solo Competition and was invited to study and perform at The Center for Advanced Musical Studies at Chosen Vale in 2017. Starting in high school and throughout his college studies, he competed in the National Trumpet Competition solo and ensemble divisions, being named a finalist in 2011. Other highlights as a trumpet soloist include performing The Star-Spangled Banner at the opening game of the 2011 NCAA Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City and competing in the Grand Valley State University International Trumpet Seminar Solo Competition (1st place 2010, 2nd place 2011) and Orchestral Excerpt Competition(1st place 2011). Dr. Sutton’s education includes a DMA in Trumpet Performance from Texas Tech University, MM in Trumpet Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and a BM in Trumpet Performance, with distinction, from the University of Oklahoma. Awards he received while pursuing his degrees are the TTU Horn Professors Graduate Achievement Award and Joshua D. Britt Memorial Graduate Fellowship; the Bernard Adelstein Prize in Trumpet at CIM and the Student Advisory Council Outstanding Senior Award from the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts. His primary teachers include, Dr. Andrew Stetson, Michael Sachs, Dr. Karl Sievers, and John Moots.
Joey Tkach
Trumpet
Manny Arredondo
Trombone
Caitlynn Sandberg
Horn
Caitlynn Sandberg is a freelance educator and performer currently based in Austin, Texas. A Los Angeles native, she has taught students from the beginner to collegiate level and absolutely adores seeing her students grow as players and human beings throughout their time with her. As an active performer, she holds the Principal Horn position with the Sierra Vista Symphony Orchestra and subs with the Tucson Symphony and Tucson Pops orchestras. Her performances with various symphonies and chamber groups have taken her around the United States in the cities of Austin, Tucson, Sierra Vista, Los Angeles, and San Diego as well as around Central Europe performing in the countries of France, Czech Republic, Austria, and Italy. Stepping into the jazz scene, she has also performed in jazz recitals and performed the entirety of Miles Davis’s Birth of the Cool album with The New Nine in Long Beach, California.
She holds degrees from California State University, Northridge (B.M) and The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music (M.M) where she was a graduate teaching assistant for the Horn Studio and a member of the Fred Fox Graduate Wind Quintet. Her primary teachers are Annie Bosler, Dylan Hart, and Johanna Lundy. Outside of music she loves to travel (searching for the best coffee in a new city) and spending time with her tiny dog, Dakota.