MANSFIELD – Board-certified music therapist and pianist Olivia Rayburn will offer classes and lessons this fall at Richland Academy of the Arts.
Group piano for beginners, senior 60+ group drumming and private piano lessons are just a few of the offerings Academy students can expect to see this fall.
Rayburn received her bachelor's in music from Baldwin Wallace University, where she studied music therapy with piano as her primary instrument. After becoming a board-certified music therapist in August 2021, Rayburn worked in the Cleveland area, providing therapy and private music lessons for children, teenagers and adults.
Before moving to Cleveland to pursue a music therapy degree, Rayburn lived in the Mansfield area, where she accompanied youth theater productions at the Mansfield Playhouse and Fredericktown High School, as well as choir concerts at Clear Fork High School and Middle School. She was also the organist at St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mansfield.
“Music therapy can be an important part of a person's journey because it provides people of all ages with the opportunity to accomplish individualized goals while engaging with a familiar medium,” Rayburn said.
For more information on registering lessons, call Richland Academy at 419-522-8224 or visit www.richlandacademy.com. Richland Academy is at the corner of 4th and Walnut streets, was founded in 1991 and is supported by the Ohio Arts Council.
