Music Lessons in Tucson, AZ

Instruments: Piano Guitar Trumpet Trombone Saxophone Oboe Music

I have been teaching in classrooms and after-school programs for over twenty years, and in 2023 began teaching music lessons in my home studio. I grew up playing music and participating in school bands and orchestras, but spent the first half of my adulthood in careers unrelated to music. I have found that my formal music education did not prepare me for the music-making that I find most rewarding today--making music collaboratively and casually with friends. Read More

Instruments: Trumpet

I do not adhere to a methodology nor a pedagogy (which to me is a four letter word). I apply a the credo "Song and Wind" to quote the late, great Arnold Jacobs, Principal Tuba of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra during much of their heyday. I combine this musical and airflow based approach with the science of sound production in a pipe (a trumpet) and the physics of human anatomy in producing this sound with nearly zero effort. Read More

Instruments: Voice

To all my future students, I have been a professional singer/ actor from the age of 13. A native of NY, as a child, I appeared in an off -Broadway show called Curley McDimple @ the Bert Wheeler theatre in NYC. And never looked back. I continued to perform on cruise ships, dinner theater , voice overs, eventually forming my own Single engagement band company working as a vocalist and MC. I still do! Read More

Instruments: Saxophone

I am a classical saxophonist and composer. In 2018, I graduated from University of Arizona with a Bachelor of music degree in music performance: Composition emphasis. In the coming fall 2019, I will become a graduate composition major student and continue my study of saxophone performance and composition in the next two years. In June, 2018, I went Iowa City for the American Saxophone Academy, and had masterclass with Kenneth Tse, and Otis Murphy. Read More

Instruments: Piano Guitar

I was ableto learn and play four mallet percussion. My marimba set up had crash and splash cymbals, a cow bell (yes a cow bell,the world needs more cow bell, LOL), a brake drum, a djembe and a small set of musical wind chimes all attached to a frame that surrounded the entire three octave marimba. We'd travel with the football team and that year we went to the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Go Ducks! Read More

Instruments: Piano

For beginning and intermediate lessons I use Faber Piano Adventures. Once a student shows the ability to work independently I move on to more standard teaching literature that follows the Royal Conservatory levels from preparatory to level 10. I use theory as a way to enhance lessons depending on the seriousness of the student. I also incorporate technique and scales as a supplement when a student shows motivation and adequate practice. Read More

Instruments: Piano

My philosophy is that music is part of life and useful in all phases of learning. You may have been labled "right brained" creative or 'left brained" analytical, music connects the two together. Music lessons asks the eyes, ears, and hands to work together connecting the two sides of the brain. Music can dramatically improve math and reading skills while building confidence and enjoyment. Read More