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Instruments: Piano Voice Organ Synthesizer Keyboard
I am a Pop Keyboardist, Songwriter/Producer, and Composer, who has toured with two bands, and done plenty of gigs with solo artists. I recently graduated from the University of Miami's Frost School of Music, where I studied contemporary piano, and I have had the pleasure to play with student musicians at the GroundUP Music Festival, Okeechobee Music Fest, SoFar Sounds, WLRN Radio, and Adrienne Arsht Center, performing with Il Volo, Michael McDonald, GRiZ, Eric Krasno, members of Snarky Puppy and Vulfpeck, Gallant, Lawrence, Becca Stevens, and Darmon Meader. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Bass Guitar Keyboard Electric Guitar Acoustic Guitar
I believe that you never stop learning. Even when you are teaching. Thus I am not the teacher to show up without my own equipment and sit quietly while on plays what I gave them the week before. Everything will be done together. Iron sharpens iron. Goals will be realistic but challenging. Each session will include a review of everything else that's been worked on. Read More
Instruments: Piano Saxophone Flute Clarinet Mallet Percussion
I have experience primarily in Classical and pop music, and I strive to make lessons fun for my students!! (Even when we are learning scales!) I enjoy challenging my students to experiment, explore, and compose their own music. I am always looking for ways to mix lessons up, whether that means playing Musical Twister or listening to music before playing. Regardless, I always want my students to feel good about their hard work!! I have experience teaching students in preschool, and in elementary, middle, and high school. Students of all ages are always welcome! Read More
Instruments: Piano Synthesizer Keyboard
I strongly believe that learning is an extremely personal endeavor. I am very sensitive to each student's style of learning. I like to get to know what inspires each student and help them fuel their own inspiration. I really think the learning should come from them. Sometimes I see myself as a facilitator, helping ushering in the calling that is already within. I am very good at helping the student set realistic goals. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice
I think voice especially has always been viewed as a bit of a mystery... you can't see or touch your voice as you sing, unlike playing instruments, so there's a certain amount of imagination that has to be involved. I do my best to straddle making singing as tangible as I can, and approach things somewhat scientifically ("This muscle is used in this way," etc.) while also inspiring visualization ("Send your sound out into the distance," etc.) I also really think it's important for musicians to be diverse, so not only will we learn chord and strumming patterns on a guitar, we'll also learn how to read simple lead lines of solos, etc. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Keyboard
I am a dedicated, passionate, motivated, serious and fun-loving Music teacher for over two decades. I graduated the Aaron Copland School of Music with a BA/MA in Voice and Music Education. I have supplemented these studies by studying, taking courses attending various conservatories and colleges such as The Juilliard School, Mannes College of Music, Amherst College and, Berklee College of Music. I love teaching my private students, which range from 8-82 years of age. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Bass Guitar Ukulele Double Bass Music Electric Guitar Acoustic Guitar
I want to show you that music can be the most exciting and enriching experience in your life! The best way for a student to grow and succeed as a musician is to enjoy playing. There is an enormous amount of practice that comes with learning an instrument, but if you become passionate about playing, then the urge to practice will come naturally. We will work together to establish a long term goal. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Music Keyboard Acoustic Guitar
What musical accomplishments are you most proud of?
I am most proud of my work with the Schubert Club Solo Singers in Ensemble: it was with my colleagues singing in harmony, and working on scenes, that I learned the most and felt the most exalted. The sounds of the various voices blending together filled me with joy, meaning, purpose, and created a rich, textured musical fabric with vitally interconnected threads of melody; musical line; rhythm. I can say the same about my work as a youngster, playing piano trios, quartets and quintets at (Fiorillo LaGuardia) Music & Art H.S., Mannes College and at Blue Hill, in Maine, where the piano, violin(s), viola and cello were each important to the utterance of the musical expression of the compositions.
Do you use specific teaching methods or books? (Ex: Alfred, Bastion, Suzuki, Hal Leonard) Why did you choose them if you did?
As stated earlier in my profile, I use a variety of different teaching methods from Suzuki style work (rote; listening; duplicating), to traditional method books like James Bastian's and John Thompson's series, etc.
Guitar-- I enjoy Mel Bay's Method books, but I also use Alfred's and the Berkeley Method....There are many pathways to learning an instrument, including the voice. I first stress musicianship. YouTube has become a veritable library of incredible, valuable information which includes all sorts of teaching tutorials. Sometimes I might deploy part of a video and a snippet from other printed matter found online, drawing from recent research and discovery!
What do you think is the hardest thing to master on your instrument?
One of the most difficult things to master is reading notation and playing the right and left hands in different clefs. (Piano)
Voice-- one of the most difficult things to master is hearing one's own pitch and finding notes that skip or leap in a song (singing in tune); this requires learning and mastery of how scales work; and of chromatic harmony.
Guitar--As a guitar player must 'make' his or her own notes by applying pressure with the left hand fingers on various places on the fretboard, it is most difficult to master awkward positions, wide stretches and adequate pressure to produce a viable sound.
Why did you choose your primary instrument?
I didn't. It was chosen for me.
Have any of your students won awards or been selected for special honors? How have they succeeded?
One of my students was legally blind and I had brought him from beginner to being a leader of his High School jazz band; another boy started with me at age 3 going on 4, was still having temper tantrums, sucking his thumb, and holding on to his teddy bear, but with the help of his parents assisting me at every lesson and practicing with him every day, this student earned gold ratings in the state's Young Musicians Festival under my tutelage. Another young woman voice student of mine landed a lead role in a local Musical and prepared to sing at ball games.
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