At Paradise Music & Arts Academy,

music lessons are fun, interactive, inspiring,

motivational and built on a solid technical foundation.

​Music Brings Us Together

Let Music Enrich Your Life !

BFC music team, Ventura, CA

Steinway Gallery, Pasadena, CA

Girl Talk, KVTA, AM 1090, Ventura, CA

​The Point, River Mouth, Ventura, CA

Balboa dance class with Tise & Jeremy, Burbank, CA

​​​​​​Music is the Bridge

              between Heaven

                          and Earth

Owner & Teacher

With over 30 years of experience in performing, teaching and directing, Connie Mason provides comprehensive music instruction. Motivated by her love of music and children, she has a passion to transfer her joy, experience, knowledge and skills so that students' creativity & talent can shine. This is one of her finest strengths. She truly cares about each student, their goals & growth potential.

Connie has lived in Ventura since 1989.  She has two adorable puppies; she also has 6 adorable grandbabies!   

Her background in music & arts include:

TEACHING:

• Group & Private music lessons, Paradise Music & Arts Academy since 2015
• The Howard School, Carpinteria, CA, weekly music classes for pre-school through 8th grade, 5 years—current 
  
• During Covid, taught music via zoom & had a lot of fun. Taught music at The Howard school outdoors, 18 months.
  
• Private piano, voice lessons, 38 years
  
• Music therapy, memory care facilities, 26 years 
• Golden Valley Charter School vendor, 9 years
• Children's Music Academy, Ventura & Westlake Village, 9 years
• Children's Sunday school classes ages 4 - High School, 11 years
  
• Carpinteria Arts Center Summer Music Camp Director, 2019
  
• Coordinating & leading Vacation Bible Schools & music on Native American reservations, 3 years
  
• Directing summer day camp program, Edmonds, WA
  
• Home schooling, 3 years
  
• Adult Sunday School classes
  
• Teacher's assistant, BFC Pre-school

DIRECTOR:

• Producer, Music Director & Sound Tech for Holiday programs & graduations, etc. The Howard School, Carpinteria, CA 5 years—current
• Studio Director, Children's Music Academy, Ventura, 5 years
  
• Assistant to Director, children's choir, BFC, Ventura, CA
  

MEDIA, PERFORMANCE:

• Radio commercials, live, on-air programs, automated phone voiceovers
  
• In-studio recording with 2 music groups in Seattle & Ventura
  
• Music tour & humanitarian work in Taiwan & the Philippines 
  
• Worship leader, pianist, vocalist, Bible Fellowship Church,12 years
  
• Visions of Christmas, various plays & skits with children & youth groups, Karen Carpenter acting/singing show, Sonny & Cher acting/singing show on the Fillmore Dinner Theatre Train
  
• Comedy improv, Fillmore Murder Mystery Theatre Train
  

DANCE

• Trained in ballet, jazz, Lindy Hop, Balboa, Collegiate Shag, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Fox Trot, Tango, Salsa & Country 2 step—favorite is Lindy Hop.
  

FUN

• Playing with grandbabies and puppies
  
• E-bike beach cruising & trail riding
  
• Day hiking in the mountains
• Boogie boarding and beach walks
• Being an entrepreneur, creating what I can imagine 
  

Learning music assists development in a variety of ways.  Students grow academically, socially, physically & emotionally by means of:

• Mathematical patterns & rhythms
  
• Increased reading skills  
  
• Memorization skills which become intrinsic
  
• ​Focus & concentration
  
• Development & stimulation of new neural brain pathways
  
• Vocalizing & voice projection (singing) 
  
• Speech skills  (singing in rhythmic patterns, pronunciations)  
  
• Small motor skills (using both hands with different motions)
  
• Large motor skills (rhythm in motion, dance, movement)  
  
• Musical terms (Italian, German, etc.)
  
• Self-discipline through regular practice & weekly lessons
• Performances with a supportive audience (building confidence)​
  

Learning music is receiving a gift
that lasts a lifetime!​