Gretchen Nealon has studied percussion with members of the Navel Academy Band and Dr. Cort McClaren, and she has been a percussionist for many years with various Maryland and DC orchestras.  A music education major in college, she has experience teaching percussionists in a school orchestra setting as well as in private instruction.

Gretchen has more than a dozen full-sized percussion instruments in her studio for the use of students, including a xylophone, marimba, and vibraphone.