Teachers at the Old Town School

Guitar

Nikki O'Neill is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter, deeply influenced by Soul music, Rock and Americana, and all about playing for the song.
 
She's an active recording/performing artist, signed to Blackbird Record Label. Her latest album, World is Waiting, (2020) received positive reviews by American Songwriter, Americana Highways, and other Americana and blues media in the U.S. and Europe. She was featured in the November 2019 issue of Guitar Player Magazine.
 
Nikki genuinely loves to teach and to make music a part of people's lives. Students have described her teaching as encouraging; skilled and intuitive; breaking things down in a way that really works, and easy to understand from playing to theory.
 
She has taught private lessons, group guitar classes at New School University in New York; international clinics; workshops with NAMM, after-school programs, and she has also taught video lessons on YouTube.
 
She's also the author of the instruction book, Women's Road to Rock Guitar (Alfred Music).
 
Nikki graduated with a Bachelor's degree from New School University, majoring in music performance. She also majored in guitar at two full-time music programs in Stockholm, Sweden (Kulturama, Sodra Latins musiklinje). Nikki has studied privately with Adam Levy, Dustin Barber, and Vadim Zilbershtein.
 

Started at the Old Town School in August of 2021