Facilitators
Austin Biel - Music
Austin Biel is a worship leader, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He has traveled with Benny Hinn Ministries for 10 years, and also travels with his own ministry, worshipbecoming.com, regularly. Austin has been an international professional musician for almost 20 years. As a musician, he has played with jazz/pop artists like Al Jarreau and Larry Carlton, and ministered in worship with leaders like Ron Kenoly, Donnie McClurkin, and Kim Clement.
Austin moved to Central Florida two years ago to become the Worship Pastor of CCF-Tampa and has been involved with the OneThing Prayer Center in Brandon, Florida. He has served with some of the largest churches in the USA, including Lakewood Church and Second Baptist Houston. He is currently the Worship Pastor of The Covenant Center and is working to help found the Covenant School of the Arts in Lakeland, Florida.
His producer credits include over 80 projects to date, as well as teaching young producers the craft with MediaTech Institute for 3 years. His passion is to ignite a renewal of creativity and art within the worship community, finding our ultimate expression in the Spirit.
Contact via email: austin@covenantschoolofthearts.com
Amey Celoria - Vocals
Amey Celoria has been singing since a young age-growing up in a musical family, the daughter of a minister of music. Participation in gospel music and piano throughout childhood gave Amey a solid foundation in harmonies and music theory. She began singing in ensembles in high school and leading worship in her early twenties. She has worked as a studio vocalist and since 2001, has a focus on spontaneous worship vocals.
Amey teaches vocalists basic chord theory and how it applies to vocal performance. Her students learn how to read chord charts as a vocalist, adding greater depth to their creativity in spontaneous worship. She also teaches lyric writing and development, and how to express the messages of Holy Spirit lyrically during spontaneous worship as well as in traditional songwriting.
Contact via email: amey@covenantschoolofthearts.com
Brandy Biel - Visual Art
Brandy has an Associates Degree of Fine Arts, with a focus in Ceramics and has created and sold a number of art pieces including painting, drawings, sculptures and graphic arts. She enjoys mixing different media and has worked in acrylics, charcoal, pastels, fabrics, ceramics, polymer clay, metal work, glass, computer graphics, jewelry and woodworking.
She has varied experience in art, including designing labels and graphic pieces for print including flyers, brochures and book covers. Brandy was a Creative Memories Consultant for 3 years, teaching people about scrapbooking and historical record keeping through visual arts. She has helped with costume designs and stage construction for many productions. She helps artists to tap into the heart of the Creator as they work with multiple media to express worship through art.
Contact via email: brandy@covenantschoolofthearts.com
Heather Celoria - Writing
Heather Celoria is the Director of Communications at The Covenant Center
and facilitates Covenant Publishing House. She has been a professional writer
for more than ten years, primarily writing content for web sites, research
articles, marketing materials, business plans, press releases, slogans,
and ebooks. Heather helps writers to communicate clearly in their own voice,
while coaching them through the creative process of producing art through
words.
Heather has a degree in Public Relations from University of Florida with
a minor in Business Administration. She worked for the New York Times Company
for five years before she founded her own company, Celoria, Inc. As her
business card states, Heather is a Creative Business Consultant whose clients
include business start ups, media companies and ministries. While managing
a variety of creative projects and activities, she uses her strength in
writing as the foundation from which she effectively communicates ideas.
Contact via email: heather@covenantschoolofthearts.com