Katrina R  
Instruments: Voice
Styles: Classical, Pop, Folk, Musical Theater, Opera, Showtunes

I fell into and in love with teaching my senior year of college when I accepted an internship oppertunity at Northminster Presbyterian where I taught begining music skills through games and team building. Last summer I was offered a wonderful oppertuniy to teach voice one on one at Second Baptist School of the arts, and I learned that I prefered the dynamics of privat lessons with the flexiblity to satisfy my students' needs individually. I like to form connections with my students and promote fun, so that they feel like they can make requests and voice concerns. I like to incoorporate other subjects and styles of music to help ground harder music concepts with concepts they are already familiar with. I look forward to teaching and learning with all of my students.

At the beginng of the first lesson I like to ask my student about their musical experience, interest and if they have any over arching goals, and after that I warm them up and teach them part of a simple song either from a popular musical or (for my younger students) Disney song in order to hear the maturity, tonality, and range they are starting with. If my students do not have a particular song or songs picked out then I assign songs, trying to adhere to the student's interest, during the second lesson. I typically half my lessons between music reading and theory skills and working on their song or songs, and I normally assign a listening example, music reading assingment, and encourage daily practice. I do not punish a student for incomplete homework, however I stress that the homework I assign is to help them on their musical journey. When preparing for a performance or audition I spend the lesson fine-tuning their repetoire. I like to press my students beyond their own expectiations, but also try to remain sensitive to my students frustrations and believe in positive re-enforcement.