Instruments - Instructors

Kate Whaley

Kate graduated with the TAFA seniors in 2007 after spending 9 years as a TAFA student. She studied clarinet performance and graduated with a Bachelor's of Music in Applied Clarinet with High Distinction from the Eastman School of Music in 2011. From 2011-2020, Kate taught private clarinet lessons in public schools around DFW and her studio produced TMEA and TPSMEA All State students each year. She has been teaching Primary Music, Musikgarten, TAFA Bands, and Private Clarinet at TAFA since 2011 and her own children are now students in the Musikgarten class!

kate.whaley@tafa.org

Lori Rooke

Lori has been the Director of Bands at TAFA since 2000 and has been a part of TAFA since its beginning. With a Music Education degree from the University of Texas she began her teaching career in the Bastrop ISD. Her passion is teaching Excellence as unto Christ as God reclaims His creation of the arts and she desires to instill a love of the arts from a Godly perspective in every student. Lori also teaches private flute lessons, is a member of the Christ Chapel Bible Church orchestra. Lori also teaches private flute lessons and has been teaching privately for over thirty years.

lori.rooke@tafa.org

Michael Moscoso

Michael Moscoso is currently the Director of the Texas Academy of Faith and Arts Jazz Band, Music Director of the Maxwell Hall Jazz Band in Fort Worth, and teaches privately in the Fort Worth area as well as at Music and Arts in Burleson, TX. He retired in 2019 from teaching high school band after thirty-two years, 25 years in Burleson and 7 years in Olney, TX. Before that he studied trombone performance and jazz studies at the University of North Texas at the graduate level and performed in the Two O’Clock Lab Band under the direction of Jim Riggs. He had also earned a Bachelors of Music Education from Florida State University. Michael is currently a member of the Texas Music Educators Association and the Texas Jazz Educators Association. Michael is married to Jennifer Moscoso and has nine children and fifteen grandchildren.

michael.moscoso@tafa.org

Robin Moreland

Robin graduated from UT Arlington in 1991 with a music education degree. Her music education experiences include Suzuki Violin Teacher Training books 1-4, seven years as a public-school orchestra director, over 30 years as a private violin and viola lesson instructor as well as various string camps and sectional coaching. She has performed with the Pavane String Quartet for over 25 years and at local churches for special events. TAFA has been a blessing for both of her children and now she is blessed to lead the orchestra program. Robin's prayer is for the orchestra to be a place where students belong that inspires growth in musical skills and in students' personal relationship to God.

robin.moreland@tafa.org