About Me

Karli Rodriguez is a 21-year-old attending graduate school at Westminster College where she is majoring in Elementary Education.  She graduated from the University of Utah in May 2013 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education.  She began taking piano lessons when she was seven years old and took for nine years until she began to teach at the age of 16.  During this time she was taking vocal training from a private teacher as well as being involved in her schools concert and a cappella choirs.  She has starred in numerous musicals including the chance to play Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz at Murray High School in 2009.  After teaching piano for four years and taking voice lessons for five years, she decided to share her love of singing with children as well.  She currently has seventeen piano and three vocal students who range in age from five to fifteen.  Her love of teaching piano gave her the realization that teaching is what she wanted to do as a career.  She gets many of her teaching techniques from the classes she took and is currently taking while attending college.  Classes such as child development, learning theories, understanding children, and more have helped Karli to understand how children learn and the best ways to differentiate instruction for each specific child to help them reach their fullest potential.

Karli has also gone to piano teaching workshops at Day Murray Music and taken Music Theory from the University of Utah to help her understand piano concepts on a deeper level.  She is currently the pianist for her church choir and church children’s primary group as well.  When she is not at school or teaching piano, she loves to work at her local Elementary School, play the guitar and piano, sing, compose music and hang out with her family and friends.