Louise Yvonne Dufau Frye, born in Dallas Texas, moved with her family to San Francisco, when her father, Ted Dufau completed his service in the army. Growing up in San Francisco was inspiring and adventurous.  Her mother, Margaret, took Louise and her siblings to every kind of cultural event imaginable. Piano recitals, symphonies, operas, ballets, the ice follies, and the circus.  Dressing up was always the norm.

Louise first started piano lessons with her father at the age of seven.  Formal lessons began at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music at the age of thirteen.  Her teachers included Winifred Jones and Sylvia Jenkins, who had been a child prodigy.   Following ten years of study at the Conservatory, Louise received an Advanced Piano Certificate.  She graduated from  California State University, San Francisco, in 1968 and received an Elementary Teaching Credential.  Marriage in 1969 brought a move to Southern California in Covina where she began teaching piano.  

While her son and daughter were quite young, Louise attended California State University, Fullerton where she obtained her Master of Music in Piano Performance.  Her subsequent teachers included Erika Zador, David Berfield, and Charles Asche.  Her love of teaching and performing solo recitals has been a lifelong way of life.  Louise has also served as an accompanist for both adult and childrens choirs in the churches she has attended. In 1996, she participated in a master class for the International Piano Workshop in Graz, Austria.  She also had the good fortune of being able to travel to several European countries to study the lives of a few classical composers with William Wellborn. 

A move to San Luis Obispo County came in 1985 and subsequently Louise joined the Central Coat Music Teachers Association, CAPMT & MTNA.  She has held various chapter and state leadership positions during those years and is proud to be a member for forty-one years.