George Pettis (guitar, piano) is a PhD candidate in musicology, songwriter, performer, and touring musician with over a decade of experience playing in various indie rock and folk bands. His current project, 100 Watt Horse, recently released an album through Philly-based Sleeper Records. George is passionate about teaching and believes everyone is musical and capable of making music. He has taught children as both private piano teacher and afterschool counselor, and he enjoys inspiring creativity and a love of music in students of all ages. As a teacher, his focus is on fundamentals combined with improvisation and experimentation, and he strongly encourages students to explore writing melodies and songs. George has experience in diverse genres; during the course of his doctoral work at Florida State University, he taught world music, folk and indigenous musics, western classical music, and American popular music. He was also the founder and director of Omnimusica, an experimental and improvisational music ensemble / collective