About

Brookside Guitars is a community music store located in the beautiful Brookside neighborhood of Kansas City, MO dedicated to passing on knowledge and love of music to others and to being a gathering point where local musicians can come together. BG's mission is to educate, inspire, and instill a lifelong enjoyment of creating music in students of all ages. Brookside Guitars also carries a specialized selection of acousitic, classical, and flamenco guitars as well as strings and accessories available for sale.

FED REGGIARDO  owner/head instructor: guitar

Brookside Guitars' owner and head instructor Fed Reggiardo's passion is playing and teaching music. A resident of the beautiful Brookside neighborhood, Fed sought to create a place where the community could come together to study, create, and perform music.

Fed began playing the guitar at the age of seven and performaing at the age of 12. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Guitar Performance, has co-owned a recording studio (Pluggs), a record label (Swap Records) and performed extensively with his former band Tongue Dried Sun.

Fed has been teaching guitar for over 15 years and is a state certified music teacher for K-12. He has developed a teaching methodology designed to nurture and encourage his students to collaborate, perform, and create. He has studied with many of the best guitarists in the world and has created a specialized teaching curriculum designed to deveop the full potential of guitarists from 5 to 85 years of age.

Although fluent in all music styles, Fed's specialties are classical, flamenco, and acoustic fingerstyle guitar.

RYAN WURTZ:  guitar/ukulele

 In 2003 Ryan Wurtz earned a degree in Jazz Guitar Performance from the Conservatory at UMKC, studying under Bobby Watson, Rod Fleeman and Douglas Niedt.  Ryan has taught in the Kansas City area for the last 9 years and has taught students of all ages and levels.  Specializing in Jazz and improvisation, Ryan is also at home teaching everything from rock to classical, as well as theory, ear training and writing your own music!  In addition to teaching, Ryan performs weekly here in town, as well as across the country, with Kansas City's own Grand Marquis.

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A dedicated vocal and choir accompanist, she has concertized throughout South Korea and the United States. Sora Park has bountiful vocal and choir repertories, including Beethoven’s Solemnis Mass, Mozart’s Requiem, Verdi’s Requiem, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, Strawinsky’s Les Noces, Leonard Bernstein’s Chicheter Psalms and John Corigliano’s Fern Hill. Her career as a choral accompanist started with the Male Choir at Han-Yang University, in Seoul in 2003. In the United States, she has represented on the 2009 West Central Conference Choral Festival (Western Illinois University. IL), the 2010 Missouri Choral Directors Association and The St. Louis Suburban Music Educators Association (St. Charles, MO), 2010 Illinois Music Educators Association District 3, All District Festival (Illinois state University, IL). From 2011 to 2012, she has participated Western Illinois University Summer Music Institute as a choral accompanist. Also as a rehearsal opera accompanist, she worked at Muddy River Opera Company (Quincy, IL) in 2010. She served accompaniment of Madama Butterfly by G. Puccini, and worldwide soprano Michele Crider played the Madama Butterfly. She also participated with the accompanying staff of Turandot which many great musician were involved, such as Zhang Yimou (artistic director), Carlo Palleschi (conductor), and Nicola Martinucci (Tenor) at Seoul in May. 3. 2003.