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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Flute lessons in NYC, New York . Whether you are looking for beginner guitar lessons for your kids, or are an adult wanting to improve your skills, the instructors in our network are ready to help you now!
Instruments: Flute
I have been teaching for over fifteen years, having served on faculty at the Manhattan School of Music Summer Program and as a teaching artist at NYU. I received her B.M, Manhattan School of Music and M.M from New York University and feel extremely passionate about sharing my musical training and values with other flute lovers. Nothing is more rewarding than to get to work with students in music at all levels. Read More
Instruments: Piano Flute Recorder Piccolo
I am a fun and energetic instructor who enjoys sharing my musical knowledge and pushing my students to challenge themselves. I have a Bachelor of Music as well as two Masters of Music, one in orchestral flute performance and the other specializing in contemporary performance. I enjoy many genres of music and have performed in Cabaret, jazz bands, marching bands, orchestras, chamber ensembles, and more. I have toured all over the world as a performer including Italy, Sweden, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, and Thailand. Read More
Instruments: Piano Trumpet Saxophone Flute Clarinet Drums
My teaching includes all aspects of music; Musical theory, sight singing, as well as Music History. My teaching style allows the child to have fun while they learn their instrument, but I emphasize a strong practice regiment. Your child will understand that while learning music and an instrument can be fun, there will be some work involved if they want to become great. I usually use either the Alfred or Rubank method books to supplement a curriculum that I tailor make for each individual student. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone Flute Clarinet Piccolo Oboe
I’m a woodwind doubler based in New York City; graduated with a degree in saxophone performance from Kennesaw State University in 2011. I’m passionate about music and enjoy sharing all the skills required to enjoy playing an instrument with my students. I spent years touring the world on cruise ships, international acts, and pit orchestras. Nowadays I focus most of my time working on playing all the single reed instruments and playing in the bands in musicals locally in and outside of New York City. Read More
Instruments: Flute
My teaching style requires the students to be consistent with their practice and warm ups, which helps to make lessons more efficient and allow students to see faster improvement. For all of my students, I put a lot of emphasis on the fundamentals of a woodwind player, which focuses on student's posture, embouchure, fingering, and breath support. From studying with Carol Wincenc and Karimi Furugh, I learned how closely linked our voice is to the flute. Read More
Instruments: Flute
I always begin a lesson with a warm up. This can look different depending on the student, however I emphasize the importance of warming up your lungs, fingers, embouchure, and body. I then move to scales. For my beginner students, I use methods to learn the quick fingerings that is needed for basic fundamentals as well as exercises that assist in how we blow into the flute. As I see fit, we grow from there, adding scale exercises, arpeggios, and articulations. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Flute Clarinet Ukulele Keyboard Electric Guitar Acoustic Guitar
My teaching experience dates back to my high school days, as I rose to become section leader of the clarinet section in band and section leader of the alto section in choir. Since then, I have been teaching private lessons to students of all different ages and skill levels, as well as individuals with disabilities. Encouraging practice schedules and routine is something I like to emphasize in younger students. I aim to bring my students individual musical interests into our class as that tends to keep them more engaged. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone Flute Clarinet Music
What is your dream piece to perform and why?
As an improvising musician, I do not have any specific way to play a specific piece, so each time I play anything, is a dream piece for me at this very moment.
If you weren't a musician what do you think you'd be doing instead?
I would be a writer, an author, a translator of writing and poetry, because literature and poetry are my strong side, besides music. I do not know why 27 words are required, it is a very short answer that does not need that many words at all. So I am just writing words in order to fulfill the minimum requirement.
What is your favorite style/genre of music to play and why?
The style that comes out of my being. There is no style of human beings. Each one is unique. Someone who plays any music, has to be who he is first and foremost, not trying to fit any style.
If you play more than one instrument, how did you decide to start playing the second? (Or 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc)!
Why not. I do not know why 27 words are required, it is a very short answer that does not need that many words at all. So I am just writing words in order to fulfill the minimum requirement. Let me write some more, it is still not enough, apparently.... Whew, now it is enough.
Have any of your students won awards or been selected for special honors? How have they succeeded?
A few of my kids students have been selected to perform at Carnegie Hall for a spring concert of the School Of Music Westchester. One adult student of mine in Belgium has a few records that came out. But more often, I teach amateurs and music lovers who never take part in any competitions, have a very stress- and competition-free relationship with music and simply enjoy playing for themselves.
What do you think is the hardest thing to master on your instrument?
The hardest thing to understand is that there are no ultimate achievements, that it is important to set small goals and make sure these goals are attainable technically. Learning and mastering never ends, because we ourselves don't stay the same and our understanding of what mastery is, constantly evolves and grows. By learning music, we develop ourselves more than we develop our technical abilities on the instrument. We teach ourselves to grow. And of course, because woodwinds involve our complete body, not just arms or hands, the physical challenge in getting used to it, differs from person to person, from body to body. So I simply expect physical and technical challenges to be very, very individual.
Do you use specific teaching methods or books? (Ex: Alfred, Bastion, Suzuki, Hal Leonard) Why did you choose them if you did?
I have specific books that I use, but in my own way and order. In the US, there are no individual method books for teaching saxophone, flute or clarinet anymore, like there are method books for teaching piano. For some reason, woodwind methods are only for a group, a band or a very, very slow personal study which is not fit for an average thinking person. Therefore, I prefer to use my own method which differs greatly from person to person. However, if a child needs help with school band music, I will use the books that he/she will bring along.
What does a normal practice session look like for you?
Necessarily playing a set of calm breathing - long tones, playing scales that I need to interiorize, improvising, playing etudes that are challenging for breathing and stamina, learning new melodies.
Does music run in your family? Tell us a little about your musical family members.
I come from a musical family, both my parents play piano, and they always had a rich collection of records that I was hearing as long as I remember myself. Both my aunts were classical pianists as well, very strong and virtuosic, and my uncle was a composer and an improviser on piano. My brother is a film composer.
When did you decide to become a professional musician? Was it a gradual decision or was there a defining moment for you?
I decided to pursue art, music and theater when I was 5. It was not a decision to become a professional, it was a decision to focus on specific target, to master arts. It took 20 years for me to find out which area in arts I want to pursue. Finally, after being an actress, singer-songwriter, composer, pianist, guitarist, opera singer, jazz vocalist, I came to play woodwinds and become an improvising musician and a band leader which is now my main profession.
If you have a Music Degree, what is it in (Performance, Education, Musicology, Theory, Composition, etc) and why did you choose that degree?
I have one Master's Degree in Performance (Germany) and one Master's Degree in Composition and African-American Music Studies (US). I did not choose these degrees. I earned them because I went to study first performance, then composition and arranging. In Germany, I won the place at the Conservatory out of 22 applicants, and in the US I was awarded a full scholarship and a teaching assistantship. That is how I earned both degrees.
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