Dr. Leticia Lima is natural from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and currently lives in Cypress, Texas. She is the creator and director of Piano Life Academy, an online and in-person piano school designed to develop each student’s musical ability to its fullest. She is Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at the University of Houston where she studied with professor and pianist Timothy Hester. In Houston she worked as a teaching assistant at University of Houston, as piano teacher at University of St. Thomas, and director of the music program at Rise at the Warehouse School. In Brazil, she was piano faculty at Rio de Janeiro Federal University as a collaborative pianist. Dr. Lima has performed in Brazil, Argentina, Portugal, Spain, Germany, and many cities in the United States promoting the Brazilian classical repertoire for piano. She also conducted choir and music appreciation classes in underprivileged areas of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro through Projeto Aprendiz as a way of awakening children’s desire to pursue a better quality of life through music.