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Instruments: Saxophone Flute
With my primary insturment being flute, I began teaching private lessons in 2008 while I was still in high school. I taught the younger flute students in the Worthington School Distrct. When I started college, I continued to teach flute lessons and I then began teach saxophone lessons as well. I have been a flute technician for high school marching bands including Thomas Worthington, Slyvania Southview High School and Napoleon High School. Read More
Instruments: Guitar Electric Guitar Acoustic Guitar
My teaching style is very personal. I feel the need to truly know my students in order to best help them progress. I like for my students to be open about concerns and weaknesses in their abilities. I try to help them to analyze their own technique rather than have me tell them directly as this will help them to progress outside on the lesson and therefore more quickly. The greatest feeling is when a student comes in already having an idea of where they want the lesson to go for that day. Read More
Instruments: Piano
I started teaching piano Jazz improvisation in 1993 in Russia. I moved to the US in 1997 graduated from Berklee College Of Music in 2002. I came back to teaching privately in 2006 - present. I teach my students Jazz related Classical piano - Jazz improvisation techniques writing - if they are interested. My teaching experience is over 13 years. My playing experience is over 25 years. Read More
Instruments: Guitar Voice Bass Guitar Electric Guitar Djembe Acoustic Guitar
As for my experience, I have been playing guitar for 15 years, teaching for 5 years, and active in bands for 7 years. I was privileged to receive private guitar lessons myself for a decade. Also, I have a solid amount of experience with audio recording, mixing, and microphone techniques for amplifying instruments. As far as teaching credentials go, I have not earned any official documents from any institution. However, I am attending The Ohio State University with plans to graduate at the end of this year with a minor in music. Read More
Instruments: Trumpet Trombone Euphonium Tuba
I have taught private lessons and low brass instrutor for Marching bands. The groups I play in I am the lead trombone so I have a responsibility to teach my coherts the correct rythms, intunation and style. I do recordings for our Jazz band as well as lead trombone. I am the back up director for our jazz band and often work with our director to iron out rough spots in our tunes. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone Flute Clarinet
I always create a unique lesson plan for each student based of their age, skill, and most importantly the music style or genre they want to pursue. I approach every genre with a strong foundation in order to make repertoire more approachable, such as learning a variety of scales, developing good tone, and working on method or etude books to strengthen the range of possibilities on their instruments. I will always take in the student's interests to make lessons fun and engaging while developing a strong drive and passion towards creating music. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Keyboard Electric Guitar Acoustic Guitar
My teaching experience began while attending college and has been on and off with my performing schedule but I believe the performance has help me focused on teaching from real-world experience. I therefore dont like to spend a lot of time during lessons on topics a student may never use. This also helps the student hold interest in their lessons. I approach teaching from the students perspective, whenever possible and try to always emphasize the musical style they are most interested in. Read More
Instruments: Flute Piccolo
What advice do you have about practicing effectively?
Don't be too impatient with yourself. A lot of students are tempted to play the music at performance tempo right out of the gate, but this leads to the development of bad habits. Students might end up learning a piece with wrong notes or bad timing because they practiced it incorrectly many times. Take the time to listen to the tone of each note and play passages slowly. Breaking the music into smaller chunks and tackling those parts individually before moving on to the next small chunk is also very effective. If you are able to play the music slowly and gradually increase your speed, your overall performance will be much better.
When will I start to see results?
This question is difficult for me to answer, simply because it is very dependent on what you expect and how you or your child learns. The time it takes to get to a certain level of playing depends on how much time is put into daily practice and how effective each practice session is. However, after the first lesson I have found that students are so excited to play that they are able to make a sound quite easily during their first lesson or, with practice over the week, their second lesson. Progress is not the same for everybody and it is all very dependent on the individual.
Did you have a teacher that inspired you to go into music? How did they inspire you?
My first flute teacher was my biggest role model and is the reason I decided to pursue music at the professional level. I started my studies with her when I was 8 years old and had no idea whether or not I would keep up with it. I was the type of child that would do something for a year and move on to something else that was more interesting to me. My teacher gave me something to look forward to every week. She focused on music that was fun as well as etudes and methods that would help with my technique. She would listen to me talk about my week and was personally invested in my growth as both a person and a musician. It is my goal to be that teacher to a student.
What do you think is the hardest thing to master on your instrument?
I have noticed with most students that their intonation and tone are one of the last things to develop. Most students learn to play flat and a lot of the reason is due to tone production. If they find that they have a more clear tone by rolling their flute in, they will start to play flat consistently. Playing flat will also train their ear to hear pitches flat. For this reason I view intonation and tone as concepts that are developed together and dependent on each other. If your intonation is off, your tone probably needs improvement, as well.
Do you use specific teaching methods or books? (Ex: Alfred, Bastion, Suzuki, Hal Leonard) Why did you choose them if you did?
The two method books that I find the most useful are the Rubank Method and Flute 101. These books start by teaching the students notes that are very easy to produce as a beginner and, in the case of Rubank, there is a fold-out fingering chart. These charts are great guides for beginners who may need to reference the fingerings often. I believe these books are better than beginning band methods due to the band methods teaching students a B-flat as their first note. I have seen students later on become confused between B-flat and B-natural given that they learned B-flat first.
What is your dream piece to perform and why?
This particular piece I have already performed, but the Zyman Sonata for Flute and Piano was an absolute dream piece for me. It was one of the pieces I played on my last recital of my master's degree and it was also the favorite of most attendees. Zyman includes fun rhythms and speedy runs that sound absolutely amazing when played correctly. It was also a great challenge to put the piece together with my pianist. The timing in the third movement was especially tricky in one spot, and when listening to my recording I was excited to hear how perfectly we managed to time it. I love to reminisce on that performance because I forgot about my nerves and just had fun.
What is your favorite style/genre of music to play and why?
I am a classical musician by training, but I like to delve into music that is contemporary. 20th century music plays with tonality in a way that the music of Bach or Mozart did not, as well as the multiple different time signatures that you find in a piece by composers such as Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and Prokofiev. The late Romantic period includes quite a few gems that I absolutely love performing, especially the music of Reinecke. There are so many hauntingly beautiful passages that bring me to tears playing them. My current goal is to peruse as much music by modern composers as possible.
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