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With over a decade of formal and informal teaching experience, Ms. Eliza (as her students call her) has a reputation for her holistic and imaginative approach to music education and is always thinking of a new way to expand her student's musical perspective.

Eliza started her musical training at age 5 in community Kindermusik classes. She went on to study piano and voice, sing with the Des Moines Children's Choir and the Heartland Youth Chorus, and perform at the regional and state level as a young person in choirs, solo and ensemble voice, percussion, chamber orchestra, and chamber brass. She graduated with a B.M. in Voice from Iowa State University in 2015 and an M.M. in Opera from The University of North Texas in 2018. 

Ms. Eliza instructs beginner to intermediate students of all ages in voice, piano, ukulele, and music creativity. It is her belief that music is a language unique in its ability to be used for expression by all people

Etienne de Villiers, from Dallas, Texas, is now a freshman in the Liberal Arts Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin working towards a major in International Relations and Global Studies. He is a graduate from DIS with the Advanced Bilingual International Baccalaureate, for which he gained 33 college credits. He earned an additional 18 credits for four AP examinations in English, French and Spanish. He was at DIS for 15 years and thrived in the close-knit environment that DIS fosters for its students, forging life-long friendships that survive even across borders. 

Anna Levene is from Dallas, Texas, and is now a freshman at the University of Rochester, New York studying Environmental Sciences. At DIS she graduated with a Bilingual International Baccalaureate and had spent 15 years at the Dallas International School. She feels grateful for the opportunities that DIS provided her including her foreign exchange program, which allowed her to study abroad in Caen, Normandy for a month. Her favorite aspects of DIS were the tight-knit community, multilingual culture, and dedication of the teachers to their students' learning and progress.

With over a decade of formal and informal teaching experience, Ms. Eliza (as her students call her) has a reputation for her holistic and imaginative approach to music education and is always thinking of a new way to expand her student's musical perspective.

Eliza started her musical training at age 5 in community Kindermusik classes. She went on to study piano and voice, sing with the Des Moines Children's Choir and the Heartland Youth Chorus, and perform at the regional and state level as a young person in choirs, solo and ensemble voice, percussion, chamber orchestra, and chamber brass. She graduated with a B.M. in Voice from Iowa State University in 2015 and an M.M. in Opera from The University of North Texas in 2018. 

Ms. Eliza instructs beginner to intermediate students of all ages in voice, piano, ukulele, and music creativity. It is her belief that music is a language unique in its ability to be used for expression by all people

Etienne de Villiers, from Dallas, Texas, is now a freshman in the Liberal Arts Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin working towards a major in International Relations and Global Studies. He is a graduate from DIS with the Advanced Bilingual International Baccalaureate, for which he gained 33 college credits. He earned an additional 18 credits for four AP examinations in English, French and Spanish. He was at DIS for 15 years and thrived in the close-knit environment that DIS fosters for its students, forging life-long friendships that survive even across borders. 

Anna Levene is from Dallas, Texas, and is now a freshman at the University of Rochester, New York studying Environmental Sciences. At DIS she graduated with a Bilingual International Baccalaureate and had spent 15 years at the Dallas International School. She feels grateful for the opportunities that DIS provided her including her foreign exchange program, which allowed her to study abroad in Caen, Normandy for a month. Her favorite aspects of DIS were the tight-knit community, multilingual culture, and dedication of the teachers to their students' learning and progress.