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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
While I generally begin with the Rubank Method and move onto a more personalized approach after 7th or 8th grade, I am always focused on providing the individual student with the best guidance possible. I like to encourage solo performance for friends and family early on to achieve performance experience and mitigate nervousness. If a student is interested in jazz or other styles of improvisation or composition, they will have a chance to get their feet wet in these areas at a young age as well. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone Flute Clarinet
I am looking for students who have the time and energy to dedicate themselves to practicing a minimum of four times per week. My lessons are fast paced and fun, and students who practice regularly can expect to see noticeable improvement in their playing each week. In each lesson I will introduce some new techniques and will work with you on scales, fundamentals, exercises from a method book, and music (classical, jazz, or both, depending on the player's preferences). Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Flute Piccolo
Teaching is the best decision I have ever made in my entire career. When students first start I always ask them what their goals are and what they would like to work on. My goal for them is to watch them grow into the best musicians they can be because I see so much potential in them. For band students, during marching band camp, I asked my students to play what they could and gave them feedback afterward including suggestions on how to correct bad habits early on. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone Flute Clarinet Recorder Bassoon
My teaching process looks like a mountain stream. We start at the top of the mountain, and the goal is to get to the bottom. As I teach using my tried and true techniques, we make our way down, but when I notice that my student needs extra help, or should be pushed more, we detour into another stream until we can return to our main path. Sometimes, we diverge immediately and continue down different paths until we make it to the bottom anyway! Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Trumpet Trombone Saxophone Flute Clarinet Recorder Euphonium French Horn Tuba
For beginning students just starting out method books like "Hal Leonard's Essential Elements" is very popular and useful or other similar method books that public schools use. In addition to working from the popular school method books and any band music I will assign different things for my students to work on to keep our lessons fun and engaging. Each student will receive instruction from me that will inspire them to practice and want to learn more and get better. 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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