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48 Centennial Road, Orangeville, Ontario L9W 3T4, Canada
About Us
Music Lessons in Orangeville
We offer one-on-one lessons with qualified , professional teachers who love their jobs!
Lessons are offered in many styles and disciplines in voice, piano, guitar, drums, ukulele, theory and RCM. Lessons are available in 30 or 60 minutes blocks.
Music Education For Success
There is more to music than just listening and recreating your favourite song. Let us help you understand the ins and outs of music theory and composition too!
Studio Recitals
We host two recitals per year, every year! Performing is the perfect way to feel good about your progress and share your love of music with your family and friends!
Covid-19 Policies
Welcome Back
We are very excited to be able to reopen our doors and see all of our student’s smiling faces again. We have all waited patiently for the opportunity to regain some normalcy in our lives. TriTone Music Studios is working hard to ensure that we can provide our students with the music lessons they enjoy while keeping everyone’s safety and well being as our highest priority. We are following the Wellington Dufferin Guelph Public Health guidelines to offer music education in a safe and healthy environment. With that being said, if you are feeling ill or have come into contact with anyone who is sick or has tested positive for Covid-19, please do not come in to the studio. We will do our best to keep everyone safe but we require the support of all of our students and teachers to be successful.
Although we have been fortunate in Dufferin County to have a relatively low number of of COVID-19 cases, there is still a significant risk of transmission of the virus both to teachers and students during one-on-one music lessons. In order to reduce these risks and keep everyone as safe as possible, TriTone has implemented the following policies, which will remain in place for as long as necessary. If there are any updates to these policies, they will be posted in the studio, on social media and on our website.
Alternatives to in-person lessons
Below are the policies that must be followed for every in-person lesson. If you wish to begin or continue lessons, but are not comfortable with the in-person lesson policies, please contact us about options for taking virtual lessons instead.
Policies for in-person lessons
· All students/parents are required to complete and return the attached screening form prior to returning to lessons. We ask that you look these questions over before every lesson and self-assess. If you answer “yes” to any question on the screening form, please contact the studio to arrange for virtual lessons during this time.
· If you or anyone in your family is not feeling well, please contact the studio to arrange for virtual lessons during this time.
· If you or anyone in your household has travelled outside of Ontario, please follow all guidelines given by Public Health.
Information for students
· When arriving for your lesson, please leave any unnecessary belongings in the car. All students should bring their own method books, notebooks and writing materials, as we will be limiting exposure to shared items.
· Once students have entered the studio for their lessons, we ask that all shoes be left at the front door like always. This will help us keep things as clean as possible.
· All ukulele and guitar students should bring their own instruments, picks and cables.
· All drum students should bring their own drumsticks.
· All vocal students will be required to stand behind the impermeable barriers located in each vocal room. Vocalists may remove their masks while singing behind the barriers as per the WDG Public Health guidelines state.
· Students are asked to use the hand-sanitizer provided upon arriving at their lesson and before leaving.
Payments
Our office staff will remain available for payments to be made monthly. If you have a payment to make, please notify the student’s teacher before the lesson. We will have one person at a time in the office to maintain social distancing. All surfaces will be disinfected after each transaction.
We're in this together
We ask for your patience and understanding as we navigate this new way of music education. We want to offer a safe environment but that requires safety and cleaning measures to take place between lessons. We will do our best to be diligent and effective in a timely manner.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email Heather at heather@tritonemusicstudios.com or call the studio 519-940-9082
We thank you for your continued support and for choosing TriTone Music Studios. We are excited for another year of music!
Covid-19 Screening Tool
Please refer to this tool before each lesson. Please help us keep our students and teachers safe.
If you answer yes to any of the questions, contact the studio to set up a virtual lesson during this time.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Meet Our Teachers
Heather Holmes
Heather Holmes
Heather Holmes
Heather Holmes (Hons B.F.A. Jazz Performance/ Hons A.A Music) has been singing since before she could talk! Her first memory of a Christmas gift was a pink and purple microphone and she used it every day singing La Bamba!
Heather began taking vocal lessons at 5 years old and started piano at 18 when she started university.
After attending City University Of New York in New York City as a Vocal Performance Major, Heather returned to Ontario and began teaching in the Orangeville and Caledon areas. In May 2012 Heather opened TriTone Music Studios in Orangeville and has been loving every minute of it!
As a classical and jazz trained singer Heather has a broad range of abilities to share with her students. She teaches all vocal styles as well as classical and contemporary piano, ukulele and theory.
Heather is very involved in Orangeville's theatre scene. She currently sits on the board of Orangeville Music Theatre, a non-profit community theatre group, as President since September 2019 and has been the music director for many OMT productions since 2013.
In her spare time, Heather enjoys singing in choirs and writing and recording her own music. Check out some of the videos below for original songs that the students and teachers of TriTone have performed with Heather.
Tyler Reed
Heather Holmes
Heather Holmes
Tyler Reed has been teaching Guitar, Bass and Drums at TriTone Music Studios since 2012. He has been playing music for over 20 years and teaching since 2010. Tyler began studying music at a young age with several different teachers in the Orangeville area, and more recently completed a 2-year program at Metalworks Institute. There, he studied Music Performance and Technology with some of Canada's best instructors. Tyler's musical interest ranges from rock, blues, and pop to more obscure hard rock, funk and jazz, he loves to share new music with his students. Tyler currently plays bass for the local rock band Delaney, and he has performed and recorded with dozens of other artists. When Tyler is not teaching or playing, he likes to spend his time in record stores or relaxing with family, friends, and his cats.
Eden Spiteri
Heather Holmes
Shanelle Brown
Eden is a dedicated and passionate pianist, vocalist and music educator who has taught the art of music for over 20 years. Eden has taught at studios all over the Greater Toronto Area in addition to Dufferin county. She has achieved various music awards and received certificates for teaching programs.
Eden's students have also achieved numerous honours and scholarships from annual music festivals. With guidance, her students have auditioned for musical theatre, art focused schools and programs with successful results. Along with instructing piano, vocal and music theory she has also been a mentor to new teachers.
As a devoted and enthusiastic music instructor, Eden’s passion and drive is projected in the achievements and successes of her students. Her patience and fun teaching style along with her commitment to education and performance, guides her students to find a love and appreciation for music!
Eden is devoted to inspire students of all ages and levels to experience the unbridled joy of music by allowing them to find their own voice, build fundamentals and most importantly, have fun!
Shanelle Brown
Shanelle Brown
Shanelle Brown
Shanelle is thrilled to be back at Tritone Music Studios teaching voice, theory, monologue and scene studies and audition preparation. She began taking vocal lessons herself at Tritone Music Studios at the age of 13. Little did she know that this would turn her own love of performing into teaching. Shanelle joined the teaching team and taught voice lessons at TriTone between 2012-2014. She then decided to further her education in the arts and was accepted into the Randolph Academy in Toronto which is known for its prestigious triple threat program. Shanelle received her diploma in Music Theatre Performance at Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts in Toronto in 2016. In her spare time, Shanelle is actively involved in the theatre world. She has recently finished Beauty and the Beast (Babette) with Wavestage Theatre in Newmarket. She has also been an active member of Orangeville Music Theatre. Some of her favourite credits include; Wizard of Oz (Dorothy), Grease (Sandy), and All Shook Up (Lorraine). Shanelle is excited to be back at TriTone Music Studios and is looking forward to sharing her love of music with her students!
Sarah Martin
Shanelle Brown
Sarah Martin
Sarah began teaching Voice and Piano at TriTone Music Studios in 2017. She has always had a passion for singing and began pursuing this interest by taking part in school productions such as Annie and Willy Wonka Jr. These experiences gave her the confidence to audition for musicals within the community, and helped earn her the role of Nan in Erin’s production of Homechild the musical.
In 2015 Sarah took part in her very first Orangeville Music Theatre Production where she played Margot in Legally Blonde. Since then she has been in several mainstage shows with OMT, playing Ariel in The Little Mermaid, Natalie in All Shook Up, Anne in Anne of Green Gables and most recently, Sarah has been cast as Sandy in Grease.
At the age of 13, Sarah began piano lessons, and in 2013 she started her journey with TriTone Music Studios, taking piano and voice with Heather Holmes. Sarah continues her lessons with Heather and is working on her Royal Conservatory of Music in order to enhance her understanding of piano theory and performance. Sarah is an avid songwriter and continues to travel through that journey with piano, voice and guitar. She enjoys lots of musical genres, from R&B to Indie to Folk, and hopes to share all that she has learned and continues to learn with her students
Meet Our Teachers
Patrick Dwyer
Patrick Dwyer
Patrick Dwyer
Patrick has had a passion for playing guitar for well over 10 years now. He received his first guitar as a Christmas present while in high school. From there, Patrick began teaching himself how to play and has been in love with it ever since!Patrick started playing a wide range of styles and techniques from Rock and Alternative to Classical but quickly fell in love with Blues. With his love for Blues, Patrick has thoroughly enjoyed his opportunities performing at the Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival and looks forward to doing that again.Patrick's musical interests range greatly and change constantly! His favourite guitarists change everyday but the list always includes B.B King, David Gilmour and Eric Clapton somewhere near the top. Patrick is thrilled to be joining the teaching staff at TriTone Music Studios and he hopes his students are as excited to learn guitar as he is teach it!
Mari Kato
Patrick Dwyer
Patrick Dwyer
Mari has been partaking in music and music lessons for most of her life. She began piano lessons at the age of six and has since grown to love all aspects of music. Mari then began to take vocal lessons to broaden her strengths and fell in love with singing as well. She joined Tritone Music Studios for lessons with Heather Holmes in 2019 and has been loving it ever since. Mari loves many different genres of music such as classical and pop but musical theatre has always been her favourite. She attends Mayfield Secondary School’s Regional Arts Program in the drama department as another way to grow and improve her passion for musical theatre. Mari has been involved in theatre since she was in the fifth grade and loves being in productions. A few examples of roles she played would be Matilda in Matilda and Mr. Greenway in ELf Jr. Mari continues to expand her knowledge of music by learning to play guitar and ukulele as another way to accompany herself when singing. She is also continuing to increase her knowledge of vocals and piano. Mari loves sharing and expanding her love for music and is excited to see where this road takes her. She cannot wait to meet all of the students at Tritone Music Studios!