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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
I am a passionate piano instructor who loves sharing all my love, and study experience to my students and working with them. In 2018 summer, I graduated from Ithaca College with a Master of Arts degree in Piano Performance. I have many experiences of playing recitals and concerts to the public, which has been one of the most valuable lesson in my pianist's life. And I also played the piano part in the orchestra for the concert band in Ithaca College from 2016 to 2017, which gave me more confidence in piano collaborative. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Organ Ukulele Recorder Keyboard Djembe
I am a creative, goal-centered and insightful instructor who has spent many years dedicating her life to excellence in music. My primary instrument is piano. I'm an exceptionally gifted sight-reader and love to pass on some of those skills to my students. While I specialize in accompaniment, I've given some lessons for a variety of other instruments as well. I graduated in April 2018 with a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Therapy from Illinois State University. Read More
Instruments: Piano
I am someone who is passionate about music and loves working with students and seeing that passion grow in them as well. I have been playing the piano for 26 years and have learned many different styles, from classical to jazz to improv playing in different bands across the U.S. I graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music with a Piano Performance minor. Having the opportunity to travel around the nation to perform has been an incredible experience as a musician. Read More
Instruments: Piano Flute Piccolo
For my methods, it depends on the age of the student and what their ability level is. For a young student, typically children, I would have to cover the fundamentals of music while applying it to piano or flute to help them learn the notes, clefs, time signatures, key signatures, etc. For my lesson plans, it changes from student to student as each student is different and has different needs they need to focus on to better their musical experience. Read More
Instruments: Piano Saxophone Clarinet Oboe English Horn
For piano students, I like to use the Alfred method books with supplemented music that peeks their interest. I like these books because they have several series depending on the age of the student and their interests such as music theory and broadway hits.-For woodwind students, I like to work for a few weeks out of their band books so I can assess their strengths and weaknesses. From there I will assign the appropriate method book; typically from the Rubank series. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Bass Guitar Synthesizer
I want to take you in the direction that you want to go. The approach is very hands on, you with your instrument. Music is endless so its important that we focus on direction and goals. With short term goals in place and regular practice you can achieve the success that you desire. 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.
23 Years
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Cities with Students
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