Our staff
As the owner and founder of Park Street Piano, Becca May Grant takes pride in coaching every student toward excellence. She enjoys challenging students of all abilities to think creatively, to expand their musical boundaries, and to bring their unique selves to the music.
Becca leads the Worship Arts Ministry at Fountain of Life Covenant Church. She loves to collaborate with other musicians and artists in leading worship, whether by playing in the band, directing the choir, singing with a team, or planning and executing creative, inspiring worship services.
Becca trained from childhood as a classical pianist and accompanist and studied jazz piano at UW-Madison with Joan Wildman. She has written for and performed with various contemporary gospel and jazz ensembles. Her compositions for vocal ensemble draw on gospel, jazz, and classical choral repertoire, with emphasis on collaboration.
Becca lives on the south side of Madison with her spouse, three kids, their dog, Cannonball, and her vegetable garden.
Born and raised in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, Zach Studdiford has benefited from a rich jazz and classical tradition that offered the opportunity to learn from masters such as Bryan Nichols, Javier Santiago, Omar Abdul-Karim, Kevin Washington, and Emmet Cohen. As a local performing artist in both Madison and Minneapolis, he has recorded and released two albums, writing numerous original compositions for both.
Zach has previously taught piano as a private instructor for Opus Music Academy, working with a wide range of ages and abilities from elementary to adult level. He also had the opportunity to further develop his method of instruction under the guidance of esteemed performer and educator William Duncan, who he worked with as an instructor at Walker West Music Academy for two years.
Now pursuing his bachelor’s degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Zach continues to study and perform jazz piano under the instruction of Dr. Johannes Wallmann in the Mead Witter School of Music. He enjoys collaborating with other local musicians, as well as composing new contemporary works in jazz for small and large ensembles.