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

Guitar teacher Keith Rounds is a singer/songwriter who performs both solo and with 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

likes playing classic rock, acoustic rock, and many other styles of music. He is

majoring in music at Bucks County Community College, where he was recently honored

with a full scholarship to continue his studies there. 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 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.”

“Bridges", the album he recorded for London Records in 1978/79, was produced by David Spinozza, who also produced James Taylor. The stellar cast of musicians included the late Richard Tee, Rick Marotta, Michael Brecker, Elliot Randall, Hugh McCracken, John Tropea, and Spinozza himself. Chip's own company, Notebook Records, is planning to have it remastered for CD in the near future.

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 allowed him to play with many well known Christian artists, including Chuck Girard, Scott Wesley Brown, Gary Shelton, Robert Stearns, and Lindell Cooley.

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.

Ed Wiley, Jr.

Saxman Ed Wiley, Jr. has more than 50 years as a bandleader and recording artist, and is recognized as one of the most influential tenor saxophonists of his generation. True to his "Texas Tenor" tradition, Ed is soulful and swinging, and his sound is rich and steeped in history.

Born in Houston, he later moved to Baltimore, where he attended the Baltimore Institute for the Musical Arts, and eventually settled in Philadelphia. Ed recorded scores of records for a variety of labels, including Atlantic, Chess, Mercury, King, and DeLuxe. He has performed and recorded with hundreds of renowned musicians, such as Amos Milburn, Big Joe Turner, Dinah Washington, Milt Hinton, Keter Betts, Piney Brown, Brook Benton, Shirley Scott, Big Mama Thorton, and Earl Hooker.

Ed currently is signed to Swing Records, for which he has recorded five CD's; two of those, "Sassy" and "In Remembrance", earned him critical acclaim. His most recent CD is "About The Soul".

Ed teaches saxophone.

Lindsey Grande

Lindsey Grande studies music at the prestigious University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and has been playing and teaching piano and drums for a number of years. She currently studies piano privately with George Laks, who plays keyboards on tour for Lenny Kravitz.

Lindsey teaches all levels of piano, drums, and percussion.

Julie Pacheco

Returning to Bucks County after a stint as a musician with Royal Carribean Cruise Lines, Julie is musically well rounded and brings experience teaching band and orchestra to a wide variety of age ranges in Pennsylvania public schools. In addition, she has technical proficiency with reed making for double reed instruments.

Julie plays and teaches just about everything, but she specializes in piano, woodwinds, brass, violin, and viola.