ABOUT US
ABOUT CHARIS MUSIC STUDIO
The staff of Charis Music Studio believes there is room for everyone in the music industry. Our students have performed at a range of venues and events, including the Tulsa BOK Center, ESPN, Miss Oklahoma, Julliard, Mayfest, the Oklahoma State Fair, and more. Each of our students has access to talented teachers and great performing opportunities that allow them to make name for themselves in the music industry and overcome their fear of performing. Each teacher works hard to help students, no matter where they are, and music also helps children with all academic studies.
You'll see an increase in your child's grades, their confidence, and life in general. Programs are available for special needs children, and we even help by giving away guitars on mission trips, offer scholarships, and help out students touch and change the world in ways few can. It all starts with a free trial lesson. Contact us today for piano, guitar, drums, and vocal lessons, and see why our students are invited to perform all over. We have produced 10 CDs of music with our students.
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Furthering music careers for over 10 years...
We help aspiring musicians perform confidently on stage so they can further their music career without the fear of making mistakes.
Charis Music Studio started in the home of our owner and teacher, Jaime Highfill, and grew into teaching hundreds of students in Owasso, Oklahoma.
We have taught celebrities and their kids as well. We try to help people not only take lessons, but also help them go into the music industry.
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OUR TEACHERS
Vocal and Piano
Jaime Highfill
Jaime Highfill grew up in New York where she sang, played piano, and flute as well as perform in many musicals directed by Broadway cast members. She grew up in church where she sang and wrote music. She went to Oral Roberts University and graduated with a BA in Music. She now plays 4 instruments and has sang at many venues over the years.
When deciding upon a name for this studio she wanted a name that was bigger than her own. She decided on Charis Music Studio because Charis, in ancient Greek, means “God’s Greatest grace”. She wanted to make sure she gave people a place to perform as well. Now with many recitals and venues to perform at students can stay as busy as they like.
Jaime has taught many people throughout the past 17 years. Students that have made it to American Idol, the Voice, Juilliard, Celebrities, people who are currently big in the industry, who have had large college music careers, actors, praise and worship leaders, people who sing on cruise ships, and many more! She loves teaching, she loves her studio, loves her students, and her family. She feels truly blessed and grateful to get to do what she loves every day!
Elizabeth Keitges
Elizabeth has been a vocal coach at Charis for many years. Her love for music began when she started taking private piano lessons at the age of four. Through many years of private piano and vocal training, she has developed a passion for teaching others. Elizabeth is married and has two daughters. She is currently a professional performing artist. Elizabeth teaches the young to adult on everything singing! Her teaching skills and care for each and every student is evident through her teaching. Schedule your lesson today! Available Mon-Thursday
Kali Thompson
Kali is a dramatic soprano who strives to expand voices through expression and heart. She graduated from Oklahoma Christian University with her bachelors in vocal performance in 2023. Whether it is classical, pop, or Broadway, she makes sure her students are always singing from the heart! Kali has been on the stage since she can remember and has performed in pageants, on cruise ships, television, and even as an opener for a Branson show! Kali’s goal is to spark expression and imagination while her students are also learning key life lessons that will help them as they grow, not only in their musical skills, but in life!
Piano
Chris Mashburn
Chris Mashburn is one of our newest piano teachers. His passion for music has led him many places throughout the 40 years of his life. He has had the opportunity to be involved in piano lessons, piano recitals, school choirs, community choirs, church choirs, church bands, praise and worship teams, praise and worship leader, and has taught several people along his journey.
His journey with the piano started when he was eight years old as he saw his older sister taking piano lessons and asked his parents if he could start taking lessons. This gave him the solid foundation that he would return to off and on throughout his journey. Chris has a passionate desire to give the gift of music to all who desire it with the hope that it will bring them as much joy as it has brought him.
Elizabeth Keitges
Elizabeth has been a vocal coach at Charis for many years. Her love for music began when she started taking private piano lessons at the age of four. Through many years of private piano and vocal training, she has developed a passion for teaching others. Elizabeth is married and has two daughters. She is currently a professional performing artist. Elizabeth teaches the young to adult on everything singing! Her teaching skills and care for each and every student is evident through her teaching. Schedule your lesson today! Available Mon-Thursday
Guitar
Bobby Dale Harris
Guitar Teacher
Bobby Dale Harris is a singer, songwriter, recording engineer and guitar instructor with 43 years of experience playing music. His ear for music allowed him to learn many instruments through the years. His passion for music connected him to a group of friends in high school where he played the drums in the band Rock Tulsa for a year before moving to acoustic guitar and co-fronting the band.
Bobby was a regular at the Oklahoma City Opry during the 80’s. Bobby played with the band Rowdy Creek in the 90’s and then went solo and has played in numerous restaurant and pub venues in the Tulsa and Oklahoma City area. In 2015, Bobby started his own recording studio and loves to help others with their passion for music as well!
In 2017, he won a music mixing contest through the classes he was taking. Bobby is currently in the process of cutting his own CD of all his original music with a special emphasis on a special song he wrote for Paisley, his forever 5 year old granddaughter, called “PayPay’s Voicemail.” This lead him to become the Music Even Coordinator for The Paisley Project Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by his daughter which is designed to ease the burden for families that tragically lose a child.
You will rarely find Bobby without a guitar in his hand and a song in his heart.
Janos Wozniak
Guitar Teacher
After picking up the guitar at age 14 and the drums at age 15 and jamming with fellow musicians in their parents' houses until really late at night Janos Wozniak knew he had to pursue music for as long as he could and went on to get his Associate's degree in Music Performance at ACM@UCO in Oklahoma City at age 19. Being no stranger to the gigging life, his own original band All for More has opened up for the rock band Saliva and has won the 2016 Battle of the Bands award at The Cain's Ballroom. Wozniak also played as a fill-in drummer for the Tulsa band All About a Bubble on their intercontinental tour on the rock cruise "The Rock Boat". His band All for More released their first 7 song EP titled "Release" on Spotify and Apple Music on September 28th 2018.