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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Flute lessons in Hempstead . 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: Saxophone Flute Clarinet
I tailor my teaching style to each individual's needs to maximize lesson time and help them grow to their full potential. Read More
Instruments: Flute
During my time at Hartt and NYU, I have performed with the Hartt School Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, the NYU Orchestra, as well as the hart School Contemporary music ensemble, and performed recitals as a soloist, and as a member of my flute quartet and flute and guitar duo. I have had a wide variety of experiences with performing different styles and types of music. As a teacher, I would love to pass on some of my knowledge and experience on to all of my students. Read More
Instruments: Flute
I started working as a music teacher when I was really young, during my second year in college. After all these years I've learnt how important is to connect with students to understand what motivates them, what their goals are, and what they need to achieve them. That's why I love teaching one-on-one private lessons, because I can give the students all my attention and adapt the teaching process according to their needs. Read More
Instruments: Flute
The most exciting thing about working together with a student is savoring the aha moments - those times when a student walks into their lesson and shows how hard theyve been working by performing at their best. Teaching has been a fundamental part of my music-making for over 10 years. I opened my teaching studio during my undergraduate studies in Sydney, Australia and have continued to grow my practice since relocating to New York. Read More
Instruments: Flute Recorder Piccolo
I am passionate about teaching music to all ages and all levels. I love teaching beginners, I love teaching professionals. All teaching excites me because I am learning alongside my students. It's important to me that students learn how to practice, to have a part in selecting their music and feel excited about their lessons. I have performed at national and international performance venues, both in chamber music and orchestra work, where I have also been a concerto soloist several times. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone Flute Clarinet
My teaching emphasizes development of the most important fundamentals of woodwind technique. Using a wide variety of repertoire and exercises, I focus on developing a solid foundation for tone production/intonation, articulation, and digital dexterity. At the same time, I encourage students to explore repertoire and style, both for listening and for performing, to help them find the music they really love. Methods books I use to help develop technique include: Rubank for all woodwinds Deville for saxophone Klose for clarinet Moise for flute Charlie Parker Omnibook for jazz studies Repertoire for performance can include anything the student requests, as well as basic material in a variety of western and eastern styles. Read More
Instruments: Flute
Do you use specific teaching methods or books? (Ex: Alfred, Bastion, Suzuki, Hal Leonard) Why did you choose them if you did?
There are some decent books from long ago I would use, including a Maquarre Daily Exercises for Flute. Kohler etudes are also good for learning technical clhalleges on the flute.
What musical accomplishments are you most proud of?
Actually playing now, after many years not. Recently I sat in with two NY level exemplary musicians and a 16 year old on drums. At 76 I held my own, the pianist said I drove the group on the second tune we did, I'll Remember April. It is all about now for me, and playing better on a personal level. The video attached gives an indication of my present abilities.
Why did you choose your primary instrument?
It was not my choice, and in my opinion, not they way to choose. My dad came home one day with a flute and clarinet. He chose for my brother and me. In high school for a time I played saxophone, and was going to continue later in life but unfortunatley had an injury which impeded my playing ability for many years. Over time I also play, more like use, the piano for compositon and jazz theory and harmony.
Have any of your students won awards or been selected for special honors? How have they succeeded?
Years ago I taught a students who was accepted and played with the All Shore Intermediate Band. As principal my students have won awards in different areas not limited to Monmouth County Volunteers and Teacher Volunteer of the year.
What do you think is the hardest thing to master on your instrument?
Playing well is a holistic approach. This includes tone matching in the three registers keeping a resonant tone in the highest register. For all, including myself, who seek to improve and excel learning to playing passages and parts slowly in time is highly important. This is another way to say that patience with progress matters.
What does a normal practice session look like for you?
I have in my older age shied away from the idea of practice, replacing it more with play. A "normal" playing session would be prescribed in notes to the student, yet the student could choose the order - warm ups, technical exercises, scales, and pieces.
If you have a Music Degree, what is it in (Performance, Education, Musicology, Theory, Composition, etc) and why did you choose that degree?
I do not have a degree but have taken college level classes in Keyboard Harmony and Jazz Improvisation. My lessons with Frances Blaisdell were of the highest level of expertise.
What is your dream piece to perform and why?
As an improvisational piece, I am learning Charlie Parker's solo on Koko, which is a rewriting of the tune Cherokee.
I am working on tunes I have played - Syrinx by Debussy and Fantasie by Faure.
What is your favorite style/genre of music to play and why?
I listen to and play jazz and classical music. I learn now from listening to exemplary performances on youtube. Favorite classical composers include Ravel, Debussy, Faure, Bartok, Brahms, Beethoven, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Dvorak, Sondheim, and Bernstein to name a few.
For jazz I listen and continue to learn the jazz standards not limited to Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Charlie Parker, Budd Powell, Thelonious Monk, Tadd Dameron, Horace Silver, Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson, and others too numerous to include here.
If you play more than one instrument, how did you decide to start playing the second? (Or 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc)!
I played for a while saxophone when in college and learned to play the piano when taking a keyboard harmony class with Kenny Barron at Rutgers, Livingston in the mid 70s.
Does music run in your family? Tell us a little about your musical family members.
Yes. My father was a drummer who played in the Catskills during the Depression, and could play several piano pieces he learned on his own, not limited to Claire de Lune.
His father was a cellist who played with Arthur Fiedler in a string quartet in his youth.
My grandfather's father was the concert master with the Imperial Orchestra of Kiiv.
This family history is documented by photographs and text.
When did you decide to become a professional musician? Was it a gradual decision or was there a defining moment for you?
I am not a professional musician, although I have played in professional level contexts.
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