Our Team
Emily Fellner Zeig
Emily Fellner Zeig has been working in the music industry for over 20 years. With a Bachelors and Masters Degree of Music from University of Northern Colorado and Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, respectively, Emily has had an abundance of experience all over the world working with instrumentalists and vocalists alike. In 2006, Emily moved to New York City and immediately began working as a coach, music director, singer, audition accompanist, arranger, composer, and musician. She has traveled all over the world as the music director for the hit show Pure Piaf, as well as furthered her opera training for a summer in Italy. With the birth of her daughter in 2016, she began a singalong class in Astoria, NY called Who's That Baby Singalong. Since moving to New Jersey a year later, she delights both children and parents alike at her standing-room-only singalong at the Verona Public Library. Emily is deeply passionate about sharing her love of music with her favorite humans, children. She is thrilled to have played a part in the creation of MaestroTales, a place that combines her many talents as a musician and singer with her love for teaching little ones. You may find her singing and playing the accordion and trumpet regularly on the weekends at bars and cafes all throughout the city with one of her many blues and country bands.
Brian Sears
Brian originally hails from Overland Park, Kansas, where he started performing and singing at a young age. He holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music, one of the most prestigious programs in the country. He has performed all over the world since graduating. He’s been in many Broadway shows, including All Shook Up, Grease, Finian’s Rainbow, Lend Me a Tenor, and The Book of Mormon, as well as many regional theatres (Paper Mill Playhouse, Goodspeed Musicals and the Asolo Rep, to name a few). He spent four years starring as Elder Cunningham in The Book of Mormon in London’s West End and on Broadway. His voice can be heard on the original Broadway recordings of Grease and The Book of Mormon. He is the spokesperson for the energy drink E-ON overseas, and has starred in more than a dozen commercials for them. He has made TV appearances on the Tony Awards, FBI , Kevin Can Wait, and Law & Order: SVU. He met his wife, Jenny, on the first national tour of All Shook Up and they have two daughters, Nora and Ruby. His main passion is kids, and inspiring the youth of tomorrow to be weird, wacky, respectful, musical and just good human beings.
Jenny Sears
Jenny grew up in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota, where her love of music was given to her by, and nurtured by, her parents. She was introduced to a wide variety of music and given the opportunity to begin studying piano at the age of four and from there, her desire to learn new instruments kept growing. She graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a degree in Musical Theatre with an emphasis on music, moved to New York City and immediately found success in the theatre. Starring in such Broadway shows as Mamma Mia, Pal Joey and Wicked, she found happiness onstage whilst continuing to hone her skills as an instrumentalist. She has played in numerous musical groups, orchestras, pit orchestras / bands and has also enjoyed using her talents as a piano accompanist in many different facets. Over the years, Jenny has mainly focused on the piano, violin, oboe and guitar, though to this day she gets tremendous reward out of picking up something new, like the accordion, the autoharp, and even such worldly instruments as the balalaika. Jenny currently plays the violin with the Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra. In 2013, she got the most wonderful news of all...she was going to be a mother. Jenny now has two daughters, and she has witnessed what classical music, and being introduced to a variety of instruments, has done for her children.