Ryan Gonzales has taught private voice and piano lessons for ten years in metro areas across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Colorado. He has performed in musicals, operas, and plays since he was 13, and has added conductor, director, music director, pit keyboard player, and sound technician to his resumé over the past decade. Favorite roles include “The Beast” in Beauty and the Beast, “Gomez Addams” in The Addams Family, and understudy for “Shrek” in Shrek the Musical. He enjoys composing and arranging music in his free time, as well as traveling, video games, movies, baseball, photography, and cooking. He currently teaches K-8 music classes with Mapleton Public Schools in Denver and also voice and piano lessons and Maestro Music Institute in Arvada.