Dr. Ayala Music Studio 

is all about coming alongside students to help them gain the musical skills needed to make music and have fun while playing their instruments. Fostering an atmosphere where students feel safe and free to explore at their own speed, while still being pushed to discover and explore new challenges. Students learn the fundamental building blocks of music and their instruments through practice and repetition of uniquely crafted activities, games, exercises, and songs.

Lessons in-person or online:

Lessons in Oboe, English horn, Reed-making

Flute, Recorder, Clarinet, Saxophone

Bassoon, Piano, Music Theory, Guitar and Ukulele.

Switching over to Oboe/Bassoon 

can sometimes be a bumpy road! Having previous knowledge and skill on another instrument (woodwind/brass) students often create poor embouchure, air, and postural habits that will take a long time to break. I help students understand what is required to play the oboe/bassoon, such as proper posture/finger position and embouchure/air/reed balance. This balance between the embouchure/air/reed is the foundation of oboe/bassoon playing, without it there will be many struggles.

Advanced Student Oboe / Bassoon Reeds: warm, responsive, stable, and flexible in all registers

My reeds are slowly scrapped, crafted to perfection and thoroughly tested to ensure the highest possible quality. This process takes several hours over a period of days and sometimes weeks, depending on how many orders I am working on at a time. From amateurs to professionals in major orchestras all over the world, my clients value my reeds because of the time and attention that I invest into each individual reed, to ensure them of superior quality and consistency.

*I also make and sell professional reeds, which are made from more expensive materials, but the scrape, time and work that goes into all my reeds is the same.