Our Staff

Gabrielle Krieger

Gabrielle Krieger has taught hundreds of students with over twenty years of piano experience. After taking traditional, classical lessons since age 6, she began the journey of creative self expression and taught herself accompaniment, chording and improvisation. In 2013 she joined the Des Moines based band Like Tides. She played keyboard and synth, wrote original pieces and shared the stage with globally successful bands. After her own roadblocks with traditional lessons and being exposed to the beauty of musical understanding in her own journey, she established Passion Studios in December of 2016.

One of her life's goals is to culturally redefine what it means to be musical, enabling individuals to cast off the pressure to fit the mould and be musically self-expressive.

Mark Doman

Relocated from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mark’s love for music came through exposure to a variety of genres at a young age. His breadth of study has led to an intrinsic, holistic approach to musical understanding that he passes on to his students through demonstrations of compositions, improvisations and music engineering, inspiring the next generation of musicians. He teaches guitar and keys at Passion Studios.