
About Us
We exist to develop young artists and elevate the Performing Arts in Jamestown, North Dakota and the surrounding region.
At Two Rivers Performing Arts School, we are passionate about nurturing creativity and talent in a supportive and inclusive environment. Our dedicated team is committed to providing exceptional performing arts education to students of all ages and skill levels.
Two Rivers Performing Arts School opened its doors in September of 2015. Since then nearly 1000 students have benefitted from private instruction in piano, voice, guitar, bass, trumpet, trombone, french horn, flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, drums and percussion, violin, viola, cello, and, music production. Some of our alumni are music majors and full time music educators.
Each summer we partner with the Jamestown Arts Center to present Buffalo City Players, a two-week musical drama camp for students in grades 3-12. Buffalo City Players have staged The Secret Garden, Fee Fi Fo Fum, Cinderella, The Big Bad Musical, Recess, Seussical, Jr. and - coming in the summer of 2025 - Willy Wonka, Jr.
Meet The Team

Mark Reeves
Mark is a highly experienced music educator and worship pastor with a career record of building vocal music programs in schools and churches all over the United States. He holds a BME degree from Samford University and a MM degree in choral conducting from the University of South Florida. He studied vocal pedagogy with Catherine Barlow, operatic soprano and graduate of Curtis Institute of Music; and piano with Dr. Sandra Lawler, Dr. Charles Turon and Dr. Witold W. Turkiewicz, also a Curtis Institute graduate. He currently teaches music at Pingree-Buchanan Schools, owns and operates Two Rivers Performing Arts School, is the worship pastor at Buffalo City Church in Jamestown, ND, and directs Dakota Vocal Union, a men’s chorus based in Fargo, ND. Mark has co-written and/or produced numerous large-scale musical dramas, and is proficient in keyboard instruments, guitar, bass, brass instruments. Early in his career Mark worked in radio as the Operations Manager of WVSU and Libraria and WDJC in Birmingham, AL, and WJIS (The Joy FM network) in Sarasota, FL. Mark has adjudicated choral clinics and festivals, and conducted numerous all-county choral concerts in Florida and North Dakota; and has served on the Executive Board of the Florida Vocal Association. Alliance Music Company and Lifeway Music have published Mark’s compositions. He has performed or directed with Barry Manilow, the Gatlin Brothers, Walt Disney World, Four Him, First Call, the Florida Masterworks Chorale, Gloria Musicae and the Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra. His choirs have won awards competing in Florida, Virginia, Tennessee and New York.

Valerie Hubbard
Valerie Hubbard joined Two Rivers as a Piano Teacher in September 2022. She specializes and focuses on piano literature - from Bach to Bartok and beyond. In her youth Valerie participated in various music festivals and piano competitions on the East coast. She received her Bachelor of Music Degree in Music Composition and a prestigious Piano Performance Certificate from the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music in Virginia. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with highest honors and received the Sigma Alpha Iota (SAI) Sword of Honor, only awarded to the member with the highest GPA and musical proficiency in a graduating class. Over the years, Valerie was invited to participate in several piano master classes with legendary pianists such as Gary Graffman, of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and Leon Fleisher, of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. She was awarded a full teaching fellowship in music theory at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX, during her first year of graduate work. Valerie was also selected to work with Elliott Antokoletz on his book about Hungarian composer Bela Bartok’s string quartets. In 1988, she was invited to participate in a master class with American composer and conductor, Leonard Bernstein. Family circumstances - and God - changed her chosen musical career path. Valerie entered the legal field and had a successful career as a corporate lobbyist in Washington DC. She retired in 2020, bought her farm outside of Valley City, and has devoted her retirement to teaching piano and working on her farm, but the priority being her piano students.

Ursula DeLaurier
Beginning piano lessons at age five, Ursula continued lessons for over 15 years with her beloved piano teacher, a Juilliard-trained pianist. During this time she acquired a strong foundation in classical music. As a young adult and wanting to expand her musical knowledge to encompass other genres of music, she began working with Bill Wentz, a well-known San Francisco Bay area musician, composer, and recording artist, learning jazz, pop, blues, ragtime, as well as theory and composition, for several years before applying to college where, based on her strong musicianship skills and presentation of two of her original compositions (a solo for piano, and a duet for piano and flute), she was accepted into the rigorous music program at University of California-Berkeley. Ursula gave private lessons during her time at the University where she graduated with a minor in Music. She went on to obtain a Master’s Degree in School Psychology, all the while continuing her private lessons with 40-50 piano students, children and adults alike. While working as a school psychologist for a number of years, she continued teaching piano until she and her family relocated from California to North Dakota in 2010. Once settled, Ursula began teaching piano again in Kulm and had played piano for the children’s choir at the local church during Sunday evening services, and had enjoyed playing piano for residents at a nearby nursing home. In 2015, Ursula obtained a school psychologist position at the James River Special Education Cooperative, working in the rural and Jamestown schools until her retirement in 2023. In her retirement years, she feels very blessed and excited to teach at Two Rivers Performing Arts School, doing once again that which she loves the most: working with children and teaching piano!

Jovi Taylor
Jovi is one of our apprentice instructors, a homeschooled freshman, who has been playing piano for 10 years, having studied with Maddy Tyson and Mark Reeves. She currently teaches 5 beginning students at Two Rivers PErforming Arts School and thoroughly enjoys it! She has been in many adutioned choirs, a barbershop quartet, plays violin at Jamestown High School and plays keyboard and sings on the worship team at Buffalo City Church. She has participated in several music festivals over the summer, including the Medora Music Festival, and has won lead roles Two Rivers Players in its summer musical programs at the Jamestown Arts Center. She works hard to pass her love for music along to her students! Jovi is the daughter of Levi and Brianna Taylor of Ypsilanti, ND.

Sariah McClean
Sariah McClean has been studying violin for nineteen years under instructors in several states. Before high school she played with the Strings Attached Music Studio orchestra under Angela Carlson, who inspired her to become a music teacher herself. In Colorado Sariah played in the local high school orchestra and chamber orchestras while also singing in her church choir and taking private piano, violin, and voice lessons. She studied music theory, violin and piano at the University of Wyoming, where she also performed in the orchestra and chamber orchestra. She has performed with the University of Jamestown choir, and other ensembles in the region. She currently lives in Jamestown with her husband and son.

John Nyberg
John Nyberg started his musical journey early with a fiddle and mandolin at the age of 5. He taught himself serious guitar playing at 13, playing bass guitar for his parent's radio show, and joining a community band. As a young man in the Air Force, he informally taught many friends how to play guitar, a practice which continued throughout his life. He now teaches people of all ages to play guitar and various stringed instruments at the Two Rivers Performing Arts Center in Jamestown ND. Music is John's lifelong passion. He has written and produced hundreds of original songs over the last 45 years - an ongoing venture - with various pieces in the music libraries of production houses. He currently plays acoustic, bass, and electric guitar in the worship team at Bu0alo City Church each Sunday. John owns an aircraft maintenance business at Jamestown Regional Airport and is the only licensed aircraft mechanic in the Jamestown region.

Tamra Wiedenmeyer
Tamra has enjoyed a lifelong career as a church musician, having organized and directed numerous choirs and ensembles which performed on national and local tours. As a teenager, she was a member of the Anchorage Youth Symphony, and competed at the national level as a vocalist at the Assemblies of God Fine Arts Festival. She studied music theory and classical flute at Northwest University in Seattle WA, where she participated in the Kings Choralons Choir and Orchestra, and was acclaimed as a featured soloist in Northwest University’s Chapel services. Tamra was a member of the Seattle Pacific University Wind Ensemble, and organized and performed an area chamber woodwind ensemble. She has performed with numerous groups over the years, including a flute choir which she launched and directed. Tamra has coached many flute and piano students, encouraging them to pursue excellence in their musical experience. Her love for music compels her to promote it in all forms, and pass it along to others.

Miah Tyson
Miah is one of our apprentice instructors, a homeschooled junior active in public high school band, choir, orchestra, and jazz band. She has participated in honor festivals like UND, Concordia, All-State, and Northwest Festival. Miah enjoys attending Dakota Chamber Music and Medora Music Academy (summer music camps) for orchestra and chamber ensembles. Her primary instruments are violin and flute, although she also enjoys playing saxophone and guitar. She currently takes flute lessons from Dr. Bost-Sandberg at UND and has studied violin with Nancy Wiens and Sariah McLean. Miah is the daughter of Garett and Heidi Tyson of Jamestown, ND.











