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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Piano lessons in Santa Clara . 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 Guitar Violin Cello Viola Bass Guitar Organ Ukulele Electric Violin Music Keyboard Electric Guitar
Each student learns at their own pace and it's important to understand that not everybody learns the same. Setting both short and long term goals with the student helps me understand what they want out of lessons. This makes it easier for me to engage with them and bring it back to something relevant to them at the end of the day. For example, no child understands advanced rhythm unless you disguise it in familiar terms e.g. using the phrase "run po-ny run" to describe two eighth notes sandwiched in between to quarter notes. Read More
Instruments: Piano Trombone Euphonium Tuba Keyboard
My teaching style is meant to cater to each students specific needs but above all else is having an understanding of what a brass musician should sound like. Many times young students only hear computerized recordings or recordings from their method books and they have not concept of what the instrument should truly sound like. The use of technology is something that I am a big fan of and resources such as YouTube is a great place to hear these recordings. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Violin Viola Saxophone Flute Clarinet
I'm an experienced and caring instructor who loves to see students empowered in their own creativity and excellence. I received my Bachelor's in Music Education from Ithaca College in 1988. I have recorded and released three projects so far that have received radio play internationally and been on the charts on college public radio. My travels performing music in the U.S. and beyond have enriched my life immeasurably and I love sharing the spark of imagination with my students. Read More
Instruments: Piano
For the last 15 years, my teaching has focusing on two parts: highly advanced students from music schools, and amatuear students age from 4-76. I have worked in many music schools teaching piano major and minor students preparing for professional performance careers. Including broad selections for repertoire, constant developing of finger strength and technique, preparing for competitions, auditions, and performances. I've taught in these music schools including 2 elementary, 3 middle, 4 high schools, and 2 music departments of universities. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Clarinet
The technique I use is based on the Alexander Method of teaching and promotes proper breath control and tone placement over volume production and belting. Most singers, young and old, come to me with the idea that to create volume, you must yell or sing from your throat. With that mindset, what oftentimes happens is the voice will give out after five years and will result in the need of surgery to remove things like vocal nodules. Read More
Instruments: Piano Keyboard
I like to inspire people to learn playing piano by my step by step teaching style. I teach beginner students simple and fundamental music pieces to let them learn the basic keys and how to read the music sheet. I like to instruct students from diverse experiences the piano, and how to use the instrument as a means of self expression and stimulate their music talent. I will recommend "Alfred's Basic Piano Library Lesson, Theory" and "Basics of Keyboard Theory" as well as "Piano Adventures Level 1 to 2" for piano beginners. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice
My teaching experience started about 10 years ago when I was in Guitar Center looking at keyboards and someone asked me for lessons... I still have that student and many more now and have a very high retention rate and am an upbeat, positive teacher that students enjoy coming back to. The fact that I also play live gigs about 4 nights a week gives my students a chance to see me play live and get inspired, something that is really necessary to keep a student motivated for years. Read More
Instruments: Piano Organ
What musical accomplishments are you most proud of?
During graduated school, I decided to program Messiaen songs for the entire program. My teacher suggested that I contact Judith Nicosia, a terrific soprano on the faculty. It turned out that she had worked with Messiaen when she was a student at Tanglewood, performing half of his songs. Collaborating with Judith was one of the best things I have ever done.
Doing two national tours as pianist for the Norman Luboff Choir was a highlight of my life. We traveled to places I would most likely not have seen otherwise. Half of our performances were under the auspices of Columbia Community Concerts, a division of Columbia Artists Management in New York. Our venues were typically high school or middle school auditoriums. The remaining half took us to large concert halls and ornate theaters. What a wonderful experience!
Two years after the Luboff tours, I founded Kairos, a piano trio (piano, violin, and cello). I booked the concerts, provided publicity, rehearsed and performed with the group. We played 12 concerts per year.
And then I founded the Rautenberg-Saathoff Duo with prominent violinist Lisa Rautenberg. We met in New York, with both of us moving out of the city within a few years. Lisa is now the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford (CT) Symphony.
In addition, I am proud of my collaborations with many singers and instrumentalists. I have also played a good number of solo recitals, choral concerts, auditions for other musicians, opera rehearsals, and piano parts in musicals and orchestra concerts. Playing for church services has been in my blood since childhood, as my father was a minister.
All in all, there is so much variety out there for pianists! It's fun to switch gears throughout the day!
Do you use specific teaching methods or books? (Ex: Alfred, Bastion, Suzuki, Hal Leonard) Why did you choose them if you did?
I like the Alfred series for adult beginners because the included text provides clear explanations, Bastien, Music for Millions (which offers so much variety and saves investing in tons of music), the Schumann and Tchaikovsky Albums for the Young because the pieces are so beautiful, Bartok folk songs and dances because they are fun, the Bach Little (Short) Preludes and Fugues because they are organized and gorgeous, and others, as they say.
A Dozen A Day and Czerny short exercises are helpful resources. The short Czerny etudes are melodic, and fun to play. Hanon? Not so much, because mindless practicing is boring.
When my students make suggestions, I am willing to go with them!
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