Piano lessons with Mr. Carney are fun and life-enriching. For over eight years, Mr. Carney has been teaching students how to enjoy music by playing the piano and discovering the diversity of music in our world. With Mr. Carney, students are given the opportunity to study music that they truly enjoy while learning principles and ideas that are fundamental to any musical education.

In the piano studio, Mr. Carney has taught beginning through advanced students from ages 5-adult. At the college level, he has taught courses in Music Appreciation and Functional Piano Skills at Louisiana State University and served on the faculty of North Central Texas College where he also taught Music Appreciation. Mr. Carney holds both a Masters and Bachelors of Music in Piano Performance and has studied with internationally recognized teachers. Performances in recent years have taken Mr. Carney throughout the Midwest, South, and East Coast. Competitive performances have yielded many top prizes including First Place in the Janice K. Hodges Contemporary Piano Competition, First Place in the Missouri Music Teachers' Association State Competition, and special recognition as a Presser Scholar by The Presser Foundation.

Mr. Carney is a member of the Music Teachers National Association, College Music Society, Fort Worth Music Teachers Association, and Mid-Cities Music Teachers Association. He offers private piano lessons out of his home in North Fort Worth.