Carla is highly regarded as a passionate and dynamic performing artist, teacher, and coach. She is co-founder, pianist, and executive/artistic director for Revel, an Austin-based “classical band.” She also serves on the piano faculty at Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, maintains a private teaching studio, and publishes an e-zine called Passion in Action that integrates her interest in the field of personal development, her life as a performing artist, and her advocacy for creatives and their work.

Carla attended the Eastman School of Music and the University of Texas at Austin, where she received a Doctoral Degree in Musical Arts; she has served on the piano faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, and then the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music in Berea, Ohio before returning to Austin to co-create Revel.

Carla lives in Austin with her husband Bryan, and two children, Katie and Miles.