Hello! My name is Karis!

Karis grew up in South Bend Indiana in a missionary family. Her parents served as campus missionaries at the area colleges and universities in South Bend. Karis grew up ministering in music with her parents at supporting churches when they would go out to report their ministry. Karis started music lessons at a young age, and her father was her piano teacher. Karis learned a variety of instruments growing up such as piano, voice, flute, recorder, pennywhistle, and violin. Karis loved doing recitals in her teen years and got a lot of performance experience. She later attended Faith Baptist Bible College in Ankeny Iowa and received her Bachelors of Science Degree in Sacred Music. Over the years Karis has taught private lessons and in the last four years she has taught pre-school, elementary music and band/ensemble classes at Grace Christian School in West Columbia SC and Beth Eden Baptist School in Denver CO. Karis Joined Inspire Music Arts in 2024 where she teaches beginning piano and voice lessons, with the plan of also teaching flute. She also accompanies for Inspire’s Children’s Choir. Karis can teach piano, flute, voice, clarinet, ukulele, and trumpet. She likes to dabble on many different instruments.