Professional & Studio Grown Instructors

Briana De La Torre has been a music instructor for over twenty years. She teaches piano and violin, and has had an upwards of fifty-five private students weekly. She started her musical journey taking piano lessons, at age eight, studying with Evonne Blackwelder & Marie Hasse. As she continued to develop musically, She started learning violin with Alice Putnam, Yew Yoong Chong and Josh Dampier. At the age of sixteen, she began taking private voice lessons under the tutelage of Dr. John Anderson. Over the years, She’s also had the opportunity to observe several master classes with Julliard educated piano and violin instructors.

She’s had the opportunity to play with the Polk State and Florida Philharmonia Orchestras. For twelve years, she sang with the Messiah Choral Society under the direction of Dr. John Sinclair. Briana had many musical opportunities with the Annie Moses Band. Highlights include performing with a choir at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, and with a choir and ensemble at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Briana was the Worship Leader at The Solid Rock Church in Winter Haven for three and a half years until she married and joined her husband Alex serving at FBC Sunday Alive. They previously both served at First Baptist Church of Wauchula where she was the pianist and a worship leader. Alex and Briana combined students and teach under De La Torre Music Studios. She really loves giving lessons and interacting with her students.