Our Team of Instructors

Elizabeth Furan

Director Elizabeth Furan is a Christian singer/songwriter who sings and plays guitar, flute, piano, and mandolin. She serves as a worship leader at Washington Crossing United Methodist Church in PA and at numerous other worship gatherings in NJ, PA, MD, and abroad. She is passionate about using music for the glory of God.

Although she began flute and piano at an early age, Elizabeth came to the guitar as an adult, and so is able to relate well to the adult student; but, she has a special gift for encouraging the best from even the youngest beginners. Dedicated to teaching people of all ages with compassion and patience, her motto is: "It's never too late (or too early) to learn to make music!"

Elizabeth teaches beginner to intermediate guitar, beginner mandolin, all levels of flute, and beginner piano.

Keith Rounds

Keith Rounds is a singer/songwriter who performs both solo and with his own band, the Keith Rounds Band. He plays guitar, piano, drums, bass, and ukulele. He has toured with the American Boy Choir and has traveled to Japan, Taiwan, and across the United States. He also performed with American Music Abroad and the William Tennent Madrigal Singers. He has an Associate's degree in music from Bucks County Community College, and likes playing classic rock, acoustic rock, and many other styles of music. All of us at Spirit Wind Music Studios, teachers and students alike, benefit from Keith's audiographic memory - if he can hear it, he can play it!

Keith teaches beginner to intermediate guitar, electric guitar, and drums.

Chip Mergott

Master guitarist Chip Mergott has been a performing singer/songwriter for most of his adult life. In the mid-seventies, he was a member of the popular Central Jersey soft rock group “Bittersweet”, who went on to have several hits on RCA RECORDS as “Baillie and the Boys”. By 1978, he was signed as a solo artist to London Records and as a writer to their publishing branch, Burlington Music. He was also discovered by Bonnie Raitt, who described him as “one of my favorite songwriters.”

Recently, he has recorded and produced a number of CDs, all of which are available at Spirit Wind Music Studios. With the successes of both "In a Quiet Moment" and "Hymns", he is currently working on a second, all acoustic guitar instrumental collection of classic hymns.

Chip teaches intermediate to advanced guitar, plus beginner to intermediate banjo, mandolin, and ukulele. In addition, he offers songwriting classes.

Marty Furan

Bassist/Cellist Marty Furan brings many years of musical experience to Spirit Wind Music Studios. Starting as a cellist at age eleven, he soon added the double bass, and then the bass guitar. His musical tastes span a wide variety of styles from classical to rock, reggae to jazz; he even sang with Virginia Opera for two seasons while in college. But, it is his love for worship music that led him to play bass for many well known Christian artists, including Chuck Girard, Scott Wesley Brown, Lindell Cooley, Robert Stearns, Steve Swanson, Kelley Warren Augi, and Gary Shelton.

Marty currently plays bass guitar and cello for the Washington Crossing United Methodist Church. His positive, encouraging teaching style provides his students with a well-rounded musical learning experience.

Lindsey Grande

Temple University graduate Lindsey Grande has been playing and teaching piano and drums for a number of years, and has studied piano with George Laks. Lindsey teaches all levels of piano, drums, and percussion.

Tim Shay

Professional musician, teacher, communicator, lecturer and entrepreneur, Tim Shay teaches saxophone, clarinet, flute, didgeridoo, and piano. He currently studies Music Education at Bucks County Community College and Temple University. Playing since age 8, Tim has made his living as a professional musician from the age of 18. He has performed in private and public performances all over the tri-state area. He can be heard on the following CDs: 2008 Better Way (Jazz) and 2008 Que Pasa? (Flamenco).

Hope Osborn

Soprano Hope Osborn recently made her professional operatic debut with the Delaware Valley Opera Company, singing the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. This past spring, Hope graduated with a Master's Degree in Vocal Performance and Vocal Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College of Rider University. A student of Laura Brooks Rice, Hope has also participated in the prestigious Cooperative Program for two years and the Florence Voice Seminar in Fiorenza, Italy. Her solo concert experience includes Mahler's 2nd Symphony, Mozart's Requiem, Vivaldi's Gloria, Rachmaninoff's Vespers, Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore, and the NJ/DE/PA premier of the Jenkin's Stabat Mater. She has been featured at such prestigious venues as Lincoln Center, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and the New Jersey State Theatre. Among her many honors, Hope has twice been awarded the Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Hope's discography includes credits as featured soloist on Angels and Architechture: The Voices of Anam Cara and Teaching Music through Performing in Choir. Hope teaches Voice and Piano.