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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Piano lessons in Downers Grove . 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 Trumpet Trombone Saxophone Flute Clarinet Euphonium Music Keyboard
I am a passionate music educator with over 10 years as an instructor and performer. As an instructor, I am licensed by the Illinois State Board of Education to teach K-12 Instrumental, Vocal, and General Music. I teach full-time as a High School Band Director in addition to running a private studio. I am able to teach piano and most band instruments [woodwinds and brass]. I am a Grammy nominated music educator. Read More
Instruments: Piano Trombone
The methods I use to teach depend on a number of factors. For enrolled in beginner band at their school, I will use whichever method their school is using. If the school is not using a specific method, I use the Rubank method supplemented with my own materials. For more advanced players I assign various etude books, jazz play along books, and method books based on the students needs. I provide all the materials for my beginning piano students for the first few months, then assign method books based on the student's interests. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Trumpet Drums Bass Guitar Keyboard
I normally create a lesson plan that develop the student skills yet keep them interested in wanting to learn more about music not just a whole lot of theory. I also believe, the best way is hands on work. (Practical learning) I keep the lesson interesting and the syllabus simple for learn whatever it is I'm teaching with homework for practice. I enjoy creating lesson plans that I read from other books and use the books to help demonstrate and support the lesson I'm teaching. and to follow the guidelines for teaching. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice
The student will learn music theory and of course also how to sing or play the piano. I always use a combination of what the student needs and also what the student wants to play.For beginning students who are children, I typically start with Hal Leonard's Essential Elements. Once the student has progressed to have a grasp of the fundamentals, I will begin to introduce solo repertoire appropriate for their first recital performance. Read More
Instruments: Piano Organ Synthesizer Keyboard
I started playing piano since I was 7. My dream was to be a church musician so I when to a college and graduated with a Bachelor of Church Music. My job title is a church pianist and church organist. It's been almost 30 years since I've been playing and teaching my skills to people. I'm a passionate and motivated instructor who loves working with students and sharing my love of music. Read More
Instruments: Piano Drums Mallet Percussion Orchestral Percussion Conga Latin Percussion
As I mentioned previously, I find it very important that every student be approached from an individual, customized standpoint. However, I do find it important that every student has a strong basis in fundamentals and sound quality so that they have a strong foundation which they can then build upon. For beginning students, I will typically start them with rudiments and eventually work them into a mix of published and improvised solos to foster both technical progress and artistic creativity. Read More
Instruments: Piano Organ
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 become a professional upon graduation from my undergraduate music school. After graduation, I was able to get a job in music retail at a large music company in Los Angeles, California. My job at that time was demonstrating organs in retail stores to sell to customers. The hope was to get people to buy organs with group organ instruction. In my classes, I would have as many as 50 students observing me at a concert theater organ with a mirror over the console. Each person was able to obersve my hands and fingers during the instruction.
Does music run in your family? Tell us a little about your musical family members.
Music does run in my family. My mother was a very gifted pianist but never studied the keyboard formally. She is most likely the person I inherited my playing skills from. My mother's mother was also a pianist and played at her community church. I can vividly remember going to church and hearing my grandmother play for her choir rehearsals and even church. It was such a pleasure and will always be part of my life's journey. I might mention also that my uncle is quite gifted at playing keyboard. When he was growing up, he did study piano formally.
If you play more than one instrument, how did you decide to start playing the second? (Or 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc)!
When I was a junior at West Virginia University, that was the year I began the study of the organ and decided later to make a career in church music with this instrument. The organ has offered me more opportunities performing as I never thought. I've had workshops with Marie-Claire Alain, Anton Heiller, Flor Peeters, and others. Once, I had the priviledge of hearing and meeting Madeline-Durufle. She did a concert at National city Christian Church back in the mid-1980's and I must say that every organist within 100 miles of Washington, D.C. attended.
What is your favorite style/genre of music to play and why?
My favorite style/genre of music is baroque and classical. To me, Johann Sebastian Bach was the greatest baroque composer when it came to organ and piano works. Bach was also the ultimate church composer and his output was enormous. Then when the transition to classical occurred, my all-time favorite composers was Mozart and Beethoven. It is a toss up between Mozart and Beethoven as to who is the greatest, but I would have to say Mozart. His music is straight from heaven and is likened to a puzzle. When you hear it, it
is a like a puzzle, every piece fits perfectly.
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