Melissa Fargason received their Bachelor of Arts in Music Education in 2020 from Clayton State University. A Gwinnett native, Melissa Fargason has been teaching violin, viola, cello, and piano from ages 6 and up since 2016. Her studio has had students go on to play in many higher level orchestras and honor orchestras as well as play for various ensembles and functions. Along with teaching their studio, Melissa directs the Grace Snell Middle School Orchestra.

Aaron "Dwight Leon" Craig currently works as a professional musician full-time. He has taught private music lessons for over 10 years, and performs in several musical ensembles, as well as solo/acoustic. Dwight Leon has played acoustic/classical and electric guitar for over 20 years, as well as brass-wind and woodwind instruments. He is a multi-instrumentalist/vocalist and plays a wide variety of genres including blues, funk, metal, country, rock, and jazz that spans multiple decades.

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His band, “Dwight Leon and the Georgia Groove”, has a horn section that is a crowd favorite wherever they perform. He has many years playing professionally, ranging from performing solo in intimate atmospheres at local restaurants to playing at sold out events with more than 35,000 attendees.

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Dwight Leon also currently plays guitar with 2X "Georgia Country Music Artist of the Year" - Mary Kate Farmer, with whom he has performed around the southeast, performing on the same bill as Keith Urban, The Marshall Tucker Band and opening for acts like Easton Corbin and multi-Platinum award winning artist Deana Carter.

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Aaron stays active in the local music community having hosted Open Mic Nights, providing musicians of all ages and skill level a chance to perform in public and also has experience in running "live sound" for events and music production taking on recording projects of many styles.

Mitch has been teaching trumpet for over 10 years at music stores and schools across the country. He received his degree in trumpet performance at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford Connecticut. There he studied under Jay Lichtmann and performed with the Hartt School's many theatre productions. He has been teaching as a clinician in Gwinnett County for the past three years. He specializes in classical trumpet technique and performance.

Mr. Ken Billups is the former Orchestra Director at Couch Middle.  He retired from Couch in May 2021 and helped to open the school in 2009.  Mr. Billups taught middle school Orchestra in Dekalb for 5 years and in Gwinnett County for 28 years. Mr. Billups considers himself strongest in the lower strings, cello and the double bass.  The double bass, though, is his primary instrument. Mr. Billups received his BMUS with concentration in Music Ed from UGA, his MMUS from Georgia State University and his EdS in Leadership from Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee. 

Wayne has been teaching percussion for over eleven years, with eight of those years at Gwinnett Discount Music. Wayne teaches drum set for all styles of music, traditional drum corps techniques, and orchestral percussion. He teaches students from age four through adult, including college level music students. Wayne has worked in both middle and high schools with concert band, and has served several schools as instructor for marching band drumlines. Wayne has a B. A. in Music from Lee University.

Guitar and Bass instructor at our Lawrenceville location.