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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Piano lessons in Kansas City . 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 Piccolo
My main priority while teaching is to encourage and uplift my students. I never want to tear any of them down. To me, nothing is more rewarding than seeing your students face light up when they nail what they have been practicing. Each student will progress at their own pace and that is perfectly okay. I want each student to set a goal and we will work hard until that goal is accomplished. Read More
Instruments: Piano
I love seeing students succeed and developing a love for music! Each student learns and progresses at different paces, so it is important to me to set realistic goals based on the individual. Encouraging and acknowledging their success is very essential to helping the student progress and desire to learn more. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice
For beginning students who are children, I like to start with Hal Leonard's Piano for Beginners. Progress will depend on the students' willingness to learn and practice as well as encouragement from their parents. For students who already have an understanding of basic fundamentals, I will assess their skill level and select music appropriate for their progression and level of play. Adult beginner students are more than welcome to use piano books. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Saxophone Flute Drums Bass Guitar Ukulele Mandolin Music Keyboard Electric Guitar Classical Guitar Acoustic Guitar
I believe in a student learning to hear music and think for themselves. Through ear training, creativity, and learning "how" music works, the goal is to get each student to not need a teacher to learn their instrument, but want a teacher so they may become their best version of it. I focus on this as a primary value in my studio. In lessons, we'll use formulas and concepts to understand "why" things sound good, and "how" we actually get better. Read More
Instruments: Piano
I began playing piano at age 5 and played for church since age 12. I graduated with two piano performance degrees with one of the greatest pianist of our generation,Valery Kuleshov. Throughout my classical music career, I have particpated in several well-known music festivals, masterclasses, and performance venues including The Classics on Disney Boardwalkanda performance with the Imperial Symphony. I began teaching during my undergraduate degree and have taught privately for the past 10 years. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Music
I believe that an understanding of music theory and learning to read music is the foundation of success for both my piano and voice students which is why I typically require my voice students to be taking piano simultaneously with voice. For beginning piano students, I will typically begin with the James Bastien Primer/Level 1 Series with the focus split equally between theory and technique. I require students to fill out a practice log monthly to ensure that they are maintaining the knowledge and skills they learn in lessons and so that parents can be involved in their progress. Read More
Instruments: Piano Violin Synthesizer Music Keyboard
What advice do you have about practicing effectively?
Effective practice is focused (and regular!) practice. A daily 30 minutes of focused, non-stressed, comfortable, and pre-planned practice is better than an hour or more of unfocused, anxious, unplanned practice. Even advanced students benefit from this: so many university-level students overpractice with a lack of focus, and while a 10 hour day of practice sounds impressive, it's likely that they would have gotten far more effective work done if they had done 3 to 4 hours that day, in short, focused bursts of time.
Does music run in your family? Tell us a little about your musical family members.
My mother has a degree in music therapy, and my father has been a gigging bass player since college. They chose to homeschool me and my brother specifically so that we could have strong education in the arts and music, which worked out beautifully: I am now a professional musician, and my brother a costume designer. My mother has always had a strong love for music, encouraging my family to have little jam sessions for as long as I can remember, singing songs we all knew and learning new ones. She now even has her own piano studio in Kansas City and teaches full time! My father was mostly self-taught, and went to school for bass performance, but dropped out once he realized what he really wanted to do was play as music as possible. He has an incredible ear and an obsessive love for Jaco Pastorius. Between the two of them, the variety of music genres in our house is truly incredible.
When did you decide to become a professional musician? Was it a gradual decision or was there a defining moment for you?
I have had so many doubts about so many things in my life. I am an anxious person who has been so desperately busy since high school that slowing down is often not an option. But music - that is something that was never a question. It was in my bones, in my heart, there was no option other than music, no thing I felt more sure about, even in the maelstrom of uncertainty that comes with college and adulthood and the unending pressures of life. It is so essential to who I am and how I interact with the world. There was never a clear moment of "oh yes! I am going to be a musician!" It just kept unfolding and growing, drawing me down deeper into it, and I was so enthralled and in love that there was no reason to say no, to try another path. I knew that I would not be happy if I did not do something, anything to do with music on a daily basis.
Stumbling into the world of musical theater pit orchestras was truly one of the best things that ever happened to me. That spontaneous decision, spurred by a call from a dear friend who music directed at the Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City who desperately needed a Keyboard 2 player, got me almost all of the professional jobs I have had since then. It is such a joyous, collaborative, fun environment, so much community and ensemble work that I missed from my chamber music days, so much I missed after being alone in a practice room with a piano for four years of my life. These jobs are what have provided me with the reality of existing and working as musician on a daily basis, are what have made extant my soul's deep desire to perform.
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