Hi, I'm Meghan.

I never actually planned to become a violin teacher. My mom played oboe and has a Master's in conducting, music was the background of my whole childhood. I started on piano, but once she signed me up for violin a year later, I fell in love so hard I'd "run out of time" for piano on purpose.

I went to the High School for the Performing Arts in Houston, and that's where I fell more deeply in love with music. Playing brought me so much joy it felt obvious to pursue it as a career. But I learned quickly that music school has a way of quietly stripping the joy out of the thing you love most. By the end of my Master's, my self-worth had gotten tangled up in how I played, which is a dangerous place to be.

I always planned to play in an orchestra. After music school, I couldn't bear the thought of taking auditions. Around the same time, I took a Suzuki training class just to see what it was about, and it completely reshaped how I thought about teaching. It reminded me why I started playing in the first place.

When the world shut down in 2020, I began teaching adults online and haven't looked back since. The people who responded most to what I shared weren't other teachers, they were adults who'd always wanted to play and never believed they could.

I built Learn Violin Online for them: a warm, structured, affordable way in for the learners music school forgot.