Daniel Cowden
Daniel is the founder of Underhill Music School and has been playing drums and percussion for over 10 years and teaching adults and kids of all ages for over 4 years. He is passionate about being a small business owner and inspiring new and experienced musicians to take the next step in their journey. Daniel has a Professional Bachelor's degree in Architecture from Iowa State University and has lived in London, San Francisco, and Segovia, Spain. Through this experience, he brings an international perspective to music and drumming culture and sees the spaces we make music in as integral to the process of creation. He has performed and recorded in a variety of ensembles including Lahaina Noon, Faunix, jazz band, show choir combo, and marching band. Some of his biggest musical influences are Carter Beauford, Anderson .Paak, and XO among others.
Lauren Fernandez
Lauren developed her love for music at a young age, with her grandmother teaching her piano and her father teaching her to sing. Since then, Lauren has expanded her musical abilities, learning guitar and ukulele, and developing her songwriting skills. At the University of Washington, she pursued a BA in Education with a minor in Music, while being actively involved in Seattle’s vibrant music community through groups like UW Songwriters Circle and iBuildBridges. She has performed at local music events, such as the Folklife Festival and the Royal Room’s BIPOC Showcase, and her music has been featured on SPACE 101.1 FM, a local radio station. With a background that blends education and music, Lauren finds joy in helping students explore their musical interests. Whether it’s learning a new instrument, writing original songs, or refining their skills, she’s passionate about guiding students to use music as a tool for creativity, self-expression, and personal growth.
Kaeli Earle
Kaeli Earle is a professional vocalist and upright and electric bass player from Bellingham, WA. The child of a piano teacher, she studied classical cello with Pall Grondal and jazz and classical vocal lessons with Margot Hansen. As a senior in high school she began learning upright bass, busking at the Bellingham Farmer’s Market with friend and saxophone player Conner Helms.
Kaeli went on to attend USF in San Francisco, studying musicology in their performing arts program while touring North America on upright bass with gypsy-jazz band George Cole and Eurocana and bluegrass band Three Times Bad, while also playing in street cyphers with Oakland hip hop group Oakland Mind. During this time, she learned how to produce in Ableton releasing a short EP through East Bay label RareNnudes and developing a Soundcloud catalog. In 2014, Kaeli transferred to Berklee College of Music where she received a full scholarship on the bass. There she studied songwriting with Ben Camp and Cara DiGuardio, taking bass lessons from Victor Bailey and Lenny Stallworth as well as bassist Gary Willis while studying in Valencia, Spain. She recorded an album in SF in 2017, Bixou Bixou, with George Cole and Madeline Tasquin and formed her own trio in Washington with former classmates Conner Helms and Alex Roemmele. This trio played a series of tours down the West Coast and released a live album from their house concert series Bellingham Sessions in 2015, renaming themselves Triple Mood and playing the Lancaster Music Festival in Lancaster UK. In 2019 the trio released the EP "Stay Gold."
In 2018, Kaeli moved to Seattle and joined bands Hard Maybe on backup vocals and High Pulp on bass. She picked up the 6-string electric bass and joined electronic music labels Evolved and Get it Done Music as a topline artist, writing over 300 songs. From 2022-2024, Kaeli played a KEXP session with High Pulp, performed at THING festival, recorded a second KEXP session in Port Townsend, and performed to a sold-out Earshot Jazz audience. In 2023 she released an EP of electronic jazz, "Karamozov," under the name kiklene, and a christmas album, "Merry Christmas Lucy," with NYC vocalists and producers Dillon Greenburg and Derek Buckwalter. She is currently working with Triple Mood and High Pulp, and freelances for Seattle bands while developing a solo album. Throughout the course of her musical life Kaeli has always taught professionally, on a variety of instruments and to a diverse range of students. She considers it an integral part of her career as a musician, to pass on what she has learned.
Triple Mood
High Pulp
Sous Chef Music
High Pulp
Sunking Experiment
Antione Martel
Antoine Martel was born and raised in Bellevue, Washington, and has been playing music for 28 years. A McGill University graduate with a degree in music (composition), his primary instruments are synthesizer/keyboards, piano, and guitar (acoustic & electric) in addition to many more. He’s a founding member and currently plays in "High Pulp" & “sunking,” two bands signed to Anti-Records, as well as a professional composer & producer known as "sous chef." He has been playing piano since the beginning, guitar for 17 years, and synthesizers for 13, studying both locally and internationally in Montreal. He previously served on the faculty of the Academie de Musique de Montreal, and is a past director of Music Works' Rock Shop summer camps. He is excited to share his love and passion for music & art with others.
Antoine offers lessons in French.
Coral Grief
The Whags
Cameron Hancock
Cam has been a dynamic member of the Seattle music scene since moving to the city in the fall of 2016. After joining a few bands and forming others he's settled on three. The Whags, Coral Grief, and Lightweight Champion showcase his variety and adaptability as a player. He's spent many hours in the studio recording with these groups and as a session player working at Avast Studios, Strange Earth Studios, MRX, Hazy Bay Music, The Unknown and Bear Creek Studios.
In the last few years he's taken up teaching as a way to pass along the musical baton and get others excited about the drums. Though his formal education in music ended after high school, Cam has been a life-long learner and strives to excite students with musical experiences they can't get in a traditional classroom. His lessons are grounded in exploration and cover the gamut of styles, feels and exercises that are available to the drummer.
In addition to playing in bands, Cam has managed The Whags and booked tours for that band and many others that have spanned across the western states.
Matt Hitchcock
Matt Hitchcock is a Seattle-based singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and instructor. With over 20 years of experience, he offers a wealth of knowledge in guitar, piano, bass, and voice. Matt's teaching style is patient and tailored to each student's goals, whether they're picking up an instrument for the first time or are a seasoned pro looking to expand their skills. He emphasizes fun and creativity in his lessons.
Matt started his musical journey from the moment he could speak, singing along to his favorite songs while inventing melodies and new ways to use his voice. He fell in love with the guitar from an early age and was gifted his first guitar at the age of five. After a short stint of introductory lessons, Matt started to explore and create on his own, beginning to write his own music, and self-teach guitar. Curating a unique style blending curious and intentional instrumentation alongside a vivid, depthful, and poetic lyrical approach. Matt continued to spend all of his free time obsessively writing songs, while learning how to play and sing his favorite songs.
At the age of 16 Matt began to take vocal lessons, and started his first band, Beladona, as well as a production internship at Stu Studios in Lake Stevens, WA. Beladona recorded a four song EP Blending Heavy Metal instrumentals with Grunge inspired vocals and lyrics, releasing on CD. They performed at venues throughout Seattle and Western Washington including El Corazon and the now lost Studio Seven before disbanding.
Around this time, he also began to fall in love with the erratic and provoking literature of the Beat generation of authors. Using this alongside a carefully cultivated musical
styling Matt began to formulate his artistic identity. Pulling heavily from stream of consciousness theory.
Matt began his formal education studying Performance Jazz Guitar and Composition at Edmonds College. At this time he greatly expanded his understanding of Music through his lessons with Milo Peterson. He also formed his second band, The Astrolemons, during the covid-19 pandemic. While The Astrolemons never had the opportunity to perform live together, Matt was able to outfit the rental home him and his bandmates shared into a live-in recording studio in order to record the bands garage single “Justice Tired”. Blending Doom Metal, Punk, Mathrock, Rap, Hip Hop, And Jazz into what would be Matts most ambitious project yet. Matt recorded and produced the single.
As the members of The Astrolemons parted ways, Matt continues to create and produce his own work under the pseudonym Hobkni, continuing to push boundaries and develop his ability to speak through music.