Artist Educator

Leanna has taught privately since 2012. Their flute studio is filled with students of all ages, who all share one thing in common: a love of playing the flute and a curiosity about music.

She has developed a unique teaching style that allows each student to learn at their own pace, as a collaborative process to learn the fundamentals of flute playing. Her program includes music from many cultures, time periods, improvisation, composition, and extended techniques. Her students have become music majors, placed in honor bands and All-State, and won Solo and Ensemble awards.

Leanna has taught flute at Cornish College of the Arts since 2018, where she also teaches the Taiko Drumming Ensemble. In the summers, she teaches the Music Foundations program at Cornish +. She currently also works as a Teaching Artist for The 5th Avenue Theatre. 

Previously, Leanna has taught at JazzEd, a music education non-profit with a focus on accessibility and the quintessential Black American art form. She was a teaching artist with the Seattle Symphony, where she taught orchestral exploration, recorder and vocal skills, and musical confidence. She has taught masterclasses and workshops at the University of South Dakota, Denver University, the University of Washington, the Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention, the National Flute Convention, and the North American Taiko Conference on a variety of subjects including: flute technique and tone development, extended techniques, composer collaboration, electronics and music creation, improvisation, and world flutes. She was also a featured instructor at the Omaha Under the Radar SOUNDRY young composers camp. Leanna has previously served as the flute and piccolo specialist for the Omaha, NE location of the Schmitt Music Company, where she taught  elementary school children, middle school and high school students, as well as adults.