About Lorilee

Lorilee Bajema is a performer and music educator with more than thirty years of teaching behind her — in British schools, on international stages, and at the piano with one student at a time. Her students range from four-year-olds at their first lesson to adults returning to music after decades away, and her proudest work has always been meeting each student exactly where they are.

• Performed at Carnegie Hall with Sir Karl JenkinsOne of the world's most-performed living composers.
• Her students have gone on to win America's Got TalentAnother sang through to the next round on Britain's Got Talent, and others perform on stages from Britain to Paris.
• Master's in Music Education, Trinity College LondonWith music qualifications from the University of Puget Sound.
• Tours with the Angel City ChoraleThe Los Angeles choir that won a golden buzzer on America's Got Talent. Lorilee has toured to Italy to sing with them.
• A performer's résuméShe has also sung with the Bach Ensemble, the Hallé Orchestra and the Naples Philharmonic, at Hereford Cathedral in England with Sing Out Strong, and at the Verbier Festival.
• A career classroom educatorLong tenure teaching music at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls in the UK.
• Leading musicians todayCurrently conducts the Canyon Lake Choraleers and The Colony Chorus, and founded Voce Virtuo, an international virtual choir — proof that music taught over a screen can still soar.
• At home with students from anywhereIn Britain she taught families who had come there from all over the world, and she now teaches across time zones. Many of her students' families speak English as a second language; she is used to that, and works at whatever pace suits the student. Lessons are taught in English.
• Disney songs to opera, and everything betweenExam pieces, pop, musicals, opera, and the folk and traditional music of many countries. Students bring what they love, and she teaches from there.
• Adaptive teaching, every ageSpecialized, patient instruction for students with disabilities — one of very few credentialed adaptive music teachers in the region, at the same tuition as any other lesson.