Dawn Walters Music Academy
Phone: 805-796-2281
Email: dawnwaltersmusic@gmail.com
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Piano Teachers at Dawn Walters Music Academy
At Dawn Walters Music Academy, our piano teachers have played with Symphonys from Riverside to Canada
Chris Plasencia
(323) 683-4565​
A graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, Vera has been teaching and performing music for over 20 years. She is an active solo, chamber, studio and orchestral freelance musician who has been playing piano since the age of eleven. Performances with various symphonic and various chamber music groups include concerts with the Asia America Symphony, Fresno Philharmonic, Monterey Symphony, Riverside Philharmonic and many other local groups.

Vera is a teacher committed to bringing out the best in a student’s ability and focuses on technique, as well as, exposing her students to a variety of music genres and styles. She also regularly attends music symposiums and concerts and is interested in expanding musical boundaries and sounds.

Vera also teaches violin.


 Vera Dragicevich

(805) 766-5916
christine.m.plasencia@gmail.com

Christine M. Plasencia took her Bachelors of Applied Arts from Central Michigan University in Violin Performance. She continued her studies in music education and violin performance under Michael Barta at Southern Illinois University. During this time she was an in-demand performer, playing with the Springfield Symphony, Saginaw Symphony, and Memphis Symphony, amongst others. Having taught privately for over twenty years, she uses various methods, including Suzuki, Mark O’Connor and traditional methods, to meet the needs of each particular student. She currently teaches violin, viola, cello, and piano out of studios in Thousand Oaks and Oxnard. 

Mrs. Plasencia currently teaches violin and music to incarcerated youth at Providence School in Oxnard; Mrs. Plasencia is the Orchestra Director at St. John’s Lutheran Church School, in Oxnard. Mrs. Plasencia continues to perform classically, playing with the Windsong Quartet. She is the band leader of Segue, a jazz quintet which features Christine on jazz violin.