Our Team
Paige Burzlaff
Paige is the Owner & Director of The Children’s Voice Studio: a multi-teacher, Kodály-inspired studio that provides music classes and performance opportunities for children grades K-9. The Children's Voice Studio has enjoyed collaborations with the Bakersfield Master Chorale, Bakersfield College, and the California Living Museum (CALM). Paige also teaches General Music at Valley Montessori Academy in Bakersfield.
Paige holds a BA in Music from Luther College and is fully Kodály Certified through The CSUB Kodály Institute, where she teaches Level 1 Pedagogy & Folk Literature. She is a presenter at local conferences and specializes in helping children develop independent singing skills.
Paige and her husband Patrick - also a Choir Director - have three musical daughters.
Anna Santiago
Anna Santiago is a music educator based in Bakersfield, California. She teaches private voice and ukulele lessons and creates classroom resources for fellow music educators through her TpT store, Music Teacher Rescue.
With over a decade of experience, Anna has taught general music and choir at the elementary and junior high levels and served as a vocal coach for high school choir students. She holds a music degree from Cal State Bakersfield and earned her Level III Certification from the CSUB Kodály Institute.
In 2019, she was named General Music Teacher of the Year by the Kern County Music Educators Association. Anna is also an active presenter and clinician, leading workshops for teachers and music education students across California. She is passionate about spreading joy and building music literacy in every learning space she enters.
Patrick Burzlaff
Patrick Burzlaff has been teaching in the Kern High School District for 17 years, and has served as the Choir Director at Centennial High School for the last 13 years. He holds a BA in Music from Luther College and an MA in Choral Conducting from CSULA, and he teaches Conducting at the CSUB Kodály Institute.
Mr. Burzlaff was awarded the KCMEA Choral Music Educator of the Year in 2016, was featured as one of Bakersfield's 20 under 40 People to Watch in 2020, and was named the KCMEA Educator of the Year in 2022. Mr. Burzlaff's choirs are highly rated in the district and recipients of PEAAK Awards, have been featured on Valley Public Radio, and have performed in the esteemed Carnegie Hall in New York City.
He has served as the chair for the CCDA Regional Honor Choir, guest conductor for various honor choirs, guest clinician and adjudicator at festivals, and has recently begun serving as Director of K-12 School Programs for the California Choral Directors Association.
