Cornerstone is happy to offer lessons from several Instructors!
Find out more about our Instructors, Mrs. Cati and Mrs. Linda below!
About Mrs. Cati
Catheryn (Mrs. Cati) Ferguson, M.A., has been teaching music in various settings for 15 years. She has made it her life goal to inspire and teach music students of all ages by equipping them with the essential skills to become disciplined, expressive, and creative musicians.
Mrs. Cati grew up here in Lebanon, IN where she was homeschooled and participated in 4-H, piano festivals, and church band/choir. She began teaching private lessons in high school for Family Music Studio. It was a hard decision to move away to Florida for school, but she is excited to be back in Lebanon with her husband, near family and teaching music lessons in her hometown again.
Her love of music started when she was about nine: it started with piano lessons, but then grew to a life filled with music! She has been part of multiple bands, orchestras, traveling choirs, and has studied several instruments to varying levels.
Mrs. Cati graduated from JUFL in 2015 with a Bachelors of Arts in Bible and Musical Arts, and then from UCF in 2017 with a Master of Arts in Music with a focus in Piano Pedagogy.
She has taught as a Lecturing Music Professor at Johnson University Florida, teaching Music Appreciation and Music Theory Lab (levels 1-4). Mrs. Cati has also taught at Seminole State College and University of Central Florida as an Adjunct Professor of Music teaching Music Appreciation and Class Piano (levels 1-4).
About Mrs. Linda
Mrs. Linda grew up and graduated from Columbus North High School in southern Indiana. She began taking piano lessons at the age of nine and continued through graduation. She continued on to attend Western Kentucky University, pursuing a degree in Classical Piano. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Mrs. Linda returned home and decided to change career paths. She graduated with a Registered Nursing degree from IUPUI. She worked primarily as an ICU Nurse for several years and in 1978 moved to Boone County where she and her husband owned and operated a local restaurant while raising a family of four. As their family grew, Mrs. Linda renewed her interest in piano and received lessons from three advanced classical and pedagogy teachers at Meridian Music for a few years. In the early 2000’s she began offering lessons at students’ homes in the Carmel/Zionsville area. She had 22 students and held recitals at the Sugar Creek Art Center.
Mrs. Linda has played in church ministries, weddings, as well as accompanied individual artists. She has taught children as young as three years old, teenagers, and adults of all ages. Mrs. Linda is very excited to be part of the Cornerstone Music Studio teaching team. She often quotes to parents and students, “You won’t be playing sports at 90, but you can play the piano for the rest of your life!”