Sierra Piersma has been a private music teacher for 11 years teaching piano, voice, guitar, and ukulele. She attended Trinity Christian College for music with a focus in music history. She also has a minor in education. Sierra taught as the music director of the Sandbox Daycare for two years and is in her 4th year of teaching Kindergarten. She also studied improv at Second City in Chicago and has performed an original composition at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Sierra loves to perform in casual settings but her passion is in teaching music. It is her joy to bring these experiences to you so that you can start or continue your musical journey through Triumph Music Academy.

Keala is a multi-instrumentalist who plays fiddle, guitar, tin whistle and Bodhran, the Irish drum. She has grown up playing in Irish and Bluegrass sessions for years and grew up being in bands such as Circling Shannon or The Barley Saints. She is a graduate from the Michigan Academy of Folk Music and now aspires to build community around the fiddle. She is the lead fiddle instructor at Michigan Academy of Folk Music as well as at Triumph Music Academy. In addition to her private teaching work, she has assisted or led fiddle string clinics for Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Great Lakes Music Camp Youth Academy, or with local youth orchestras. Her playing experiences draw from the opportunity to jam and attend fiddle camps across the country with Grammy award winning or nominated artists such as Jeremy Kittel, Darol Anger, David Greely and John Reischman, and now is a fiddle force in the Grand Rapids music scene playing music with jazz fusion band Candid Antics or occasionally filling in for folk acts Roosevelt Diggs, Hawks and Owls String Band, or Ben Traverse. In addition to music, Keala enjoys painting, making a good cappuccino and hanging out with her two parrots.