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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: Piano Flute Keyboard
I'm a full-time middle school music teacher and also greatly enjoys teaching private music lessons. I performed as a soloist as well as in a variety of ensembles throughout my life including choirs, vocal ensembles, concert bands, wind ensembles, orchestras, jazz bands, and pit orchestras. I'm also an active participant of Carnegie Halls Music Educators Workshop. My specialty is solo piano performance, also I have had experience teaching students of all ages, including students with special needs. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Trumpet Saxophone Flute Clarinet Drums Synthesizer Recorder Piccolo Oboe Keyboard Acoustic Guitar
4 to 6 year olds - I ask that they know their alphabet, and I will take care of the rest. I feel it should be just a fun experience and practicing should not be forced, but encouraged. I implore prizes and techniques that make learning fun and a great first experience. 7 years and up - Music requires practice and I will teach the student how to practice, what to practice, and require that they practice. Read More
Instruments: Flute Music
Always start with the basics to build upon a strong foundation. For beginners, I typically recommend the Rubank series (now part of the Hal Leonard Corporation), likely the Rubank Elementary Method, or E. Wagner Foundation to Flute Playing, depending upon what level they've already achieved. I teach both to the book and to the student's needs preferences; thus, we may progress on a page-by-page basis, covering approximately 1 book page per week with a weekly 45-minute lesson to review and then progress, or focus on areas the student needs to strengthen, such as practicing long-tones to improve tone strength and quality and using the book lessens only as a supplement. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone Flute Clarinet Recorder Bassoon
My teaching style matches the personality of the student. I can vary my lesson from high energy to calm and sensitive. As an previous elementary school music teacher to 3000 students, I have the ability to read a student and find the most effective way to teach immediately. When it is appropriate, I enjoy teaching in the Orff-Schulwerk approach to music education, which means making music through movement, speech, play, and creativity. Read More
Instruments: Flute
Flutist Suzanne Francis received her BA from Kutztown University and a MM from Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts. Her principal teachers include Bart Feller, Emily Skala, and Susanna Loewy. She resides in Princeton, NJ performing regularly with the Princeton University ensembles, the Brook Symphony Orchestra, New Jersey Voices Chorale, the Bronx Opera Company, and Berks Sinfonietta. As a founder and Principal Flutist of the Garden State Quintet, she is an advocate for emphasizing the prominence of contemporary music while staying rooted in the foundations set forth by traditional pedagogy. 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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