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 is majoring in music at 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 has enabled him to play bass for many well known Christian artists, including Chuck Girard, Scott Wesley Brown, Lindell Cooley, Robert Stearns, Steve Lampson, and Gary Shelton.

Marty currently plays bass guitar and cello for the Washington Crossing United Methodist Church, and can be heard as bassist with Christian jazz trio, "Men With Beards". His positive, encouraging teaching style provides his students with a well-rounded musical learning experience.

Lindsey Grande

Lindsey Grande has been playing and teaching piano and drums for a number of years, and currently studies piano with George Laks, who tours with Lenny Kravitz.

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. Practicing music since 8 years old, Tim has made his living as a professional musician since the age of 18. He has performed in private and public performances all over the tri-state area. Most recently, Tim performed as a woodwind doubler in the pit orchestra of the Arizona Theater Company's 2007 Tour of The Pajama Game . He can be heard on the following CDs: 2008 Better Way (Jazz) and 2008 Que Pasa? (Flamenco).

Gary Garzetta

Gary teaches all brass instruments.

Nathan Wadley

Nathan teaches voice and guitar.

Born in Gorky City, Russia, piano teacher Peter Isaev began studying piano at age 5, and enrolled in the Gorky School of Music at age 7. In 2000, he was admitted to the Balakirev Music College in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, majoring in piano performance. His intensive instruction there included piano education, ensemble, accompaniment, and music theory. During his senior year, he placed third in international piano competition, and graduated in 2004 receiving a Diploma with Honors.

He also immigrated to the USA in 2004 and was admitted to Temple University, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree. His experience and studies in piano pedagogy have allowed him to develop both as a performer and a fine teacher. Peter is currently continuing his education in the piano performance Master's degree program at Temple.