About Audrey

Welcome to Pretty Ivories Music Services! My name is Audrey Luttrell, and I have been a music enthusiast ever since I can remember. My mother began teaching me when I was 6 years old, and I loved it from the start! Most of it, anyway.

For the first couple of years, I learned every piece by listening to my mom play it first. I loved music and I loved playing piano, but I did not enjoy the more academic portion of theory. I couldn’t read music, and I didn’t think I needed to. Many hours were spent side by side on the piano bench, my mom and I both crying from frustration. But she didn’t give up on me! She knew I had potential and she was determined to help me succeed.

After learning that I was playing only by ear, my mom made me study theory for two hours each day. I studied the notes, the clefs, the time signatures - all the necessary components to reading music. Eventually, the principles clicked, and I had no idea what a big world that was about to open up for me!

Reading music enabled me to play much more than just my lesson pieces, and I would sometimes play for hours at a time. When I was 13, I became the choir pianist for my church. This was a wonderful opportunity that provided me with valuable experience, not only in playing piano, but in sight-reading, following a director, and collaborating with other musicians.

I took professional lessons off and on for a few years as a teenager, gaining more experience and branching out into more genres, such as classical and modern.

I knew early on that I wanted to go to college to study piano performance. After graduating a year early from high school, I started a bachelor’s degree in music at Pensacola Christian College. I had a wonderful teacher who instructed me in classical, romantic, baroque, modern, and sacred music throughout my four years of undergraduate studies. He taught me much about writing and arranging music, and I have been able to write a few original songs and over a dozen new arrangements of classic and modern hymns. I also completed a year and a half of a master’s degree in piano performance with the same teacher, but had to drop out of the program in early 2022 due to extenuating circumstances.

I got married to the love of my life, Ryan, on January 7th, 2023. Exactly one year later, we moved from Pensacola to Rolla, where Ryan started a new job at Missouri S&T and I started a new job as a receptionist at a local veterinarian clinic. I worked at the clinic for about 6 months before deciding to branch out and start this new business as a piano instructor and event musician. I am so excited to begin this new adventure and meet all sorts of wonderful new people along the way!

It is my desire to use the talents and knowledge God has given me by teaching, providing quality piano music for events, and sharing my original pieces and arrangements with the world. This is all made possible by people like you!

So, thank you for visiting my website. I look forward to getting to know and serve you!

Sincerely,