Ms. Englert…Thank you so so much for dedicating your precious time and energy to me these past 5 years. I am beyond appreciative for the opportunity to learn the skill and discipline of music through you. But, even more are the precious times of genuine conversation and the relationship we have been able to foster. Best of luck to your studio and the students that are lucky enough to have you as a wonderful instructor. Stay in touch!
- Doug Kurtz

Dear Ms. Englert…Thank you so much for being such a wonderful piano teacher for Wyatt and Taylor. We continue to be amazed at how much they’ve learned in the two and a half years they’ve spent with you. We promise to find a new teacher in Iowa as soon as possible to continue what you have started. We will miss you!
- Ashley and Tom Brown

Carolyn…This card had your name on it because you do all the front of the card says! Thank you for all you do for me and so many others! The Card Reads: “Thanks for all you do…helping out when you’re needed, going the extra mile, always being thoughtful, giving support, showing how much you care. You’re appreciated more than you know!”

- Liz

Hello Ms. Englert! For yesterday’s auditions, I played the beginning and end of Lamento and 3 scales….C Major (I know, right??? I couldn’t believe it!), Bb major, E major…I was, indeed, a VERY happy camper. So, that is my pretty spectacular news for Gettysburg and I really want you to know that I attribute so much of my success yesterday at auditions to your six years of incredible teaching—your teaching and the things you’ve taught me have opened up new parts of the world for me. I don’t know who I’d be if I didn’t have music in my life, and of course, you! I am forever in thanks to you and I want you to know that the love of music that you have helped take seed and grow in my life is a truly irreplaceable and inexchangeable gift that I will cherish the rest of my life, I know it. It is something that has been and will always be a part of the person I am—it is so close to my soul. Music is a beautiful creature and I will thank you forever for the opportunities I will get because I know that so much of the credit is due to you and your own overflowing love of music. It is always so obvious, your joy for music and your work…I can always see it in your eyes and hear it in your laugh.

I hope all is going well for you and I’d love to keep in touch. My gosh, I can remember my first lesson with you…you were trying to teach me the alternate fork-fingering for low B. I remember telling you I simply “couldn’t”. You said, “not using alternate fingerings is like trying to hammer in a nail with a screwdriver.” Good times!

Thank you so much for giving me the gift of music—but more than that, an appreciation for beauty and technique and art and antiquity and the divine and tradition and loveliness and emotion of music! I’ll be thinking about you a lot…all my best wishes!

- Kathryn Bucolo

Ms. Englert…I would like to thank you for all these years of wonderful music you have given to me. You have taught me lessons that not only improved my musicianship, but improved me as a person too. You have been an inspiration to me in many ways and I hope that someday I can take my lessons learned and put them all to good use. Despite my choice, I still love music and it remains a passion of mine. Thank you for being a good role model for me…you are a strong, passionate, independent woman. Thank you for being my teacher.
- Aubree Robitzer

Hi Ms. Englert! This is Jacqui Hickey Rothera, one of your stu the late 1990s at Darlington. I have been thinking about you recently and wanted to reach out and say hello. I am living in West Chester with my husband and pets and am working as a middle school assistant principal. I am still playing oboe with a few local community groups and at a few local churches. I also still have my old Loree, which I recently learned was manufactured in 1927 and originally purchased by Marcel Tabuteau. I am not making reeds but have connected with Terry Belzer in Berwyn, who I purchase them from now. I am just so grateful for your teaching and all of the time that you put in to me as a student. Playing the oboe enriches my life so much. I hope that you are doing well!
- Jacqui

Ms. Englert…What you have taught me these past years is a blessing and I enjoyed every minute of it. You have a wonderful gift that will help many others learn the beauty of music. The sound of your influence will be in my music forever.
- John Wallace

Music is the most entirely human of the fine arts, and has the fewest analoga in nature. Its first delightfulness is simple accordance with the ear; but it is an associated thing, and recalls the deep emotions of the past with an intellectual sense of proportion. Every human feeling is greater and larger than the exciting cause—a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence; and this is deeply implied in music in which there is always something more and beyond the immediate expression.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ms. Englert…I can’t believe it’s been almost 14 years since I first started taking piano from you. I still remember one of my first lessons when I got sick in your house…it seems like yesterday! Thank you for all you have taught me…not just about piano, but about life. I’ve learned that great results take a great amount of work. I’ve learned not to sell myself short and that I have more talent than I may realize! I have enjoyed learning how to make music my own and that it is okay to let music come from the heart. I will take with me to college all of the knowledge you have instilled within me and use it to help me in my nursing career. I wish you good luck with your music studio and I hope you are able to influence other students in the way you have influenced me! Thank you!!

- Leah Wallace

Dear Carolyn…I am catching up to tell you it was a joy, an honor and a privilege to be with you and your wonderful students again for Piano Guild! BRAVO! You are a true blue “guild teacher”! Your students are so blessed to have you! Congratulations to all of you again! Keep up that great work!

- Elizabeth Goethe

Piano Guild Judge