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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: Piano Flute Recorder Piccolo
The most difficult skill for beginner flutists is sound production. For beginning students we will focus the first couple weeks primarily on making a sound and forming the correct embouchure, or lip position. We learn simple tunes by ear during this time and begin to associate them with musical notation. Once a good understanding of sound production is achieved we begin to broaden the range and learn new notes. Repertoire will depend on skill level and the amount of practice time that a student devotes to the flute. Read More
Instruments: Flute
I have recently again started playing after many years. I have played in a the pit band at the Count Basie Theater for Jesus Christ Superstar, and Into the Woods for a Wagner College and Brookdale Community College productions. I have been sitting in on local jam sessions with very favorable feedback. I played at a performance at Brookdale Community College with a group, Hot Air. Enjoyment, hearing pitch and rhythm by vocalizing, and developing a register appropriate and flexible embrochure, and using harmonics to tone match are some of the techniques and strategies I would emphasize for flute specific instruction. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone Flute Clarinet
I have over 25 years experience teaching Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet, and beginner-intermediate Piano to children and adults of all ages. I am active in the NYC jazz and improvised music scenes, and have toured throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe including concerts in Sweden, Germany, Austria, France, Hungary, and Portugal. I have a Masters of Music degree from New York University, and a Bachelors degree from William Paterson University (NJ). Read More
Instruments: Voice Flute Music
Also, I hold a Master's Degree in Music with a specialty in Opera Performance from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and served as an artist for the International Vocal Arts Institute of NYC, working closely with professionals at the Metropolitan Opera. I’ve been singing all my life, and I’ve honed in on the art of using your voice to communicate through song.In performance, I love communicating with an audience and bringing them in to my character’s circumstance on stage. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone Flute Clarinet
I enjoy when my students show improvement through dedicated practice. I encourage this by setting achievable weekly goals for them. This can be as simple as working through a known exercise at a few metronome clicks faster than the previous lesson, or as complicated as learning a whole song in one or more entirely new keys. Read More
Instruments: Flute
Izzo has performed at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Symphony Space, The Stone, National Sawdust, and the Jazz Standard. An active orchestral musician, she has played under conductors like Kurt Masur, Eric Jacobsen, JoAnn Falletta, Alondra De La Parra, and George Manahan and worked with musicians including Sir James Galway, Robert Langevin, Carol Wincenc, Paula Robison, David Krakauer, and Charles Neidich. Izzo received her B.M. from the Manhattan School of Music and M.M. from New York University. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone Flute Clarinet Music
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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