Our Instructors

Owner & Founder

As the owner and founder of Park Street Piano, Becca May Grant takes pride in coaching every student toward excellence. She enjoys challenging students of all abilities to think creatively, to expand their musical boundaries, and to bring their unique selves to the music.

Becca leads the Worship Arts ministry at Fountain of Life Covenant Church, a multicultural, Black-led church on the south side of Madison. She loves to collaborate with other musicians and artists in leading worship, whether playing in the band, directing the choir, singing with a team, or planning and executing creative, inspiring worship services.

Becca trained from childhood as a classical pianist and accompanist and studied jazz piano at UW-Madison with Joan Wildman. She has written for and performed with various contemporary gospel and jazz ensembles. Her compositions for vocal ensemble draw on gospel, jazz, and classical choral repertoire, with emphasis on collaboration. In 2016, Becca recorded Beauty for Ashes Live, an album of original compositions for contemporary gospel vocal ensemble.

Becca has served multiple years as the music director for Wisconsin’s annual statewide Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute and Ceremony. She taught general music in the Madison public schools, is an instructor with Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Music Makers program, and has extensive experience teaching individual lessons to children and adults of all ages and abilities.

Becca lives on the south side of Madison with her family and her vegetable garden.

Instructor: Piano, Composition, Music Theory

Joachim Austin is a music composer, educator, and pianist living in Madison, Wisconsin. He earned his master’s degree and DMA in composition at UW-Madison working with Dr. Laura Schwendinger, and he holds a bachelor’s degree in music composition from Brigham Young University.

Joachim has been teaching music in both private and group lessons in Madison since 2019. He has taught theory and piano to elementary and middle school students for the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra Music Makers program, led a music internship course for high school seniors in the UW-Madison PEOPLE Program, and lectured advanced music theory at the UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music. His recent compositions have been featured in public concerts in Madison, Vienna, and Brasília, and his academic career includes years of study in Spanish and Arabic.

Instructor: Piano, Cello, Violin

Adam Pandian has enjoyed making music since he was young and has been teaching professionally since 2023. He loves musical expression and the freedom to be creative. He most enjoys playing in groups, improvising, and composing, and his main instruments are piano, guitar, cello, and voice. Adam also has experience with instrument repair and modification, particularly with strings.

Originally from a small town near La Crosse, Wisconsin, Adam has performed with the Drake College Honors Orchestra, the Simpson College Orchestra, and the Berklee College of Music summer strings program while in high school. Adam founded and led an improvisation club while in school. Looking ahead, he aims to expand his work in production, collaborative music, and performance.

Adam believes that anyone can learn to be an excellent musician. He enjoys teaching students of all ages and sharing his passion for the art of music.