Singing is healing for the whole body.
Liz is a music/creative coach and vocal arranger. Raised in Mill Valley, California, she is the daughter of Ernest Stires, modern composer and mentor to many including Trey Anastasio from PHISH. Being from a multi-generational line of musicians; classical composers, opera singers, song writers and instrumentalists, she spent decades studying all types of music including harmony, lyric writing, guitar and voice. She also developed a unique instinct for arrangement and harmony.
All are welcome whether you are at the beginning of your musical journey or years down the road, she will help you find your thread and get going. Having navigated her own creative life path from touring nationally, to a challenging career in women’s health, while raising a child she learned to fit music between the cracks when necessary. Liz has invaluable experience knowing how to work within your current circumstances and still find the time and space to let music grow.
Liz's performing career began early. Having sung with Huey Lewis and the Monday Night Live Band, Jerry Garcia Band (JGB) also toured with Bob Weir and King Fish. Her harmonies come effortlessly and are featured on dozens of bootleg recordings of JGB as well as the JGB CD, Run for the Roses, and many other local cd's and recordings. Liz released her own CD in 2012 recorded with her band Kettle of Fish. She continues to record and perform locally. Having coached hundreds of students of all walks of life and all different ages and talents; Liz finds great joy in her work. She continues to teach individually, arrange and uses a variety of harmony styles from those taught in class for live and in person harmony singing, to sending out her original arrangements of more complex songs from a lifetime of playing, loving music and singing harmony.
All are welcome whether you are at the beginning of your musical journey or years down the road, she will help you find your thread and get going. Having navigated her own creative life path from touring nationally, to a challenging career in women’s health, while raising a child she learned to fit music between the cracks when necessary. Liz has invaluable experience knowing how to work within your current circumstances and still find the time and space to let music grow.
Liz's performing career began early. Having sung with Huey Lewis and the Monday Night Live Band, Jerry Garcia Band (JGB) also toured with Bob Weir and King Fish. Her harmonies come effortlessly and are featured on dozens of bootleg recordings of JGB as well as the JGB CD, Run for the Roses, and many other local cd's and recordings. Liz released her own CD in 2012 recorded with her band Kettle of Fish. She continues to record and perform locally. Having coached hundreds of students of all walks of life and all different ages and talents; Liz finds great joy in her work. She continues to teach individually, arrange and uses a variety of harmony styles from those taught in class for live and in person harmony singing, to sending out her original arrangements of more complex songs from a lifetime of playing, loving music and singing harmony.