About Us

Ashley is a musician, artist, and all-things-spooky aficionado with a deep passion for music and education. A true multi-instrumentalist, Ashley plays violin, viola, cello, piano, guitar, ukulele, and also brings vocals into the mix. With years of experience performing and teaching, Ashley has dedicated the past five years to directing a music schools, where she loves helping students discover their own musical voices and fostering a creative, supportive community.

Dana Hsu is a violinist and pianist from Indianapolis. She is a 2020 graduate of DePauw University's School of Music, where she earned her Bachelor's in Musical Arts with an Emphasis in Business. Dana believes playing an instrument is as much about learning practical life skills like time management, as it is developing one's creativity. She really enjoys the wonderful community at Twelve Tone Music School and hopes you will too!

Expressing yourself is the ultimate goal of music and my job is to help you get your point across! After completing my Bachelor's degree in guitar performance in 2013, I toured internationally with the indie rock artist Greg Woods as well as Gramps the Vamp, a horror inspired instrumental jazz group.

Shahzeb has had a deep fascination with music since he could remember. Living in a household where music was always playing, Shahzeb's ears developed a hunger for not just listening to music but creating it. He would start by taking a band class in middle school where he would blast out plenty of horrid sour sounding notes because it was funny. It wouldn’t be until he discovered the guitar years later and then began to take music a lot more seriously.After deciding that music was the path to carry his future with, Shahzeb took courses at Oakton Community College to learn the basic fundamentals of music and later graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Music from Columbia College of Chicago.

Matt Gordon is a multi-instrumentalist from the suburbs of Chicago. As a professional guitarist, bassist, vocalist, and drummer, he has taken on many different roles with many different projects over the span of his career.With Chicago as home base, Matt works as both in the studio and on the road.

Heather Mall is a musician and singer-songwriter from the Chicagoland area. She has been singing ever since she could talk, but she officially started studying voice at the age of 7. She has trained in several styles, including classical, jazz, pop, country, musical theatre and acapella. After discovering that she couldn’t imagine having a career outside of music or the arts, she continued pursuing her passion all the way to college where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of Illinois at Chicago. After graduating, Heather began teaching voice lessons and releasing her original music on streaming services. Today, she continues to release her own music while performing around Chicago and she loves teaching others the art of singing and the joy that storytelling through music creates!

Anna Thomason was born and raised in South Carolina. She began study piano at age 8, and quickly realized she had a love and passion for music picking up trumpet, mellophone and eventually french horn. French horn became her instrument of focus in high school and she toured in many groups including Carolina Youth Symphony and Carolina Crown Drum and bugle corp. She attended Indiana university and graduated with a bachelors in performance in 2013. During her undergrad she realized her passion for the art extended beyond music to visual arts as well and she has been developing and refining her skill as a painter and visual artist for over 10 years. She studied vocals during college and began singing in a band after her undergraduate. She has been teaching vocals and piano around the Chicago area since she moved here in 2022 and continues writing her own music and exhibiting her art work around the area. In her down time she loves to travel, read and be in nature as much as possible.

In fifth grade, Danny picked up an instrument, and it was all over - fast forward a couple years and he’d picked up three more. Throughout school he gigged with bands, helped run a national award-winning troupe at the Bristol Renaissance Faire, and earned a B.A. in Music from Beloit College. In the years since, he’s continued writing, recording, performing and teaching in Chicago.