Instructors

I am Alicia Bourdier  and I am a native of St.Francisville, Louisiana. I currently live in the Walker area.  I am married to a wonderful human being and outstanding musician, James Bourdier, and we have two children.  Our family moved back to Lousiana in the fall of 2020,  after living and teaching in Texas for 7 years. While in Texas, I taught private lessons,  Kindermusik, Elementary music to grades K-5 in a public school, and our last 3 years in Texas, I was the Director of Piano Studies at Smithson Valley High School outside of San Antonio. 

I have been a member of TMEA as well as other organizations for numerous years. I have a Bachelor of Music Composition from Louisiana State University with concentrations in the areas of  Theory, Piano and Piano Pedagogy.  I am certified in Music EC-12 (Texas), Music K-12 Instrumental (Louisiana) Music K-12 Vocal (Louisiana) ,  a licensed Kindermusik educator,  and I have 25+ years teaching experience as well as 30+ performing experience. Music is my passion and I am the happiest when I am teaching and sharing music with my students. 

I embrace and practice a holistic approach with European influences in my teaching methods, and gravitate towards the philosophies of Dalzroze and Taubman. It is my belief that the student should establish and master fundamental technical and physical concepts from the start of instruction. Priority should be given to the development of instrument fluency above all other concepts and tools.