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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Piano lessons in Downers Grove . 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 Clarinet
Nothing is more rewarding than seeing one of my students develop a passion for music! Therefore, it's important that each student progresses at his or her own pace. I encourage this by setting realistic goals for my students at each lesson. Acknowledging accomplishments helps fuel a students desire to progress, and makes students eager to learn more. By trying to find out what inspires the student, I can successfully tailor my instruction to their wants and needs. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Music
I believe each person is uniquely different in this life and that goes for music too. For piano beginners, I like to use the standard Faber curriculum, if you're more advanced we can explore adding some more challenging books such as the Hanon scales, Junior Hanon for beginners, etc. I like to supplement core pieces with scales, technical books, and ad hoc assignments that I sometimes have students pick. For voice, it will very much depend on your goals and where you are at vocally, but my voice teaching style is very much grounded in healthy technique and learning about vocal pedagogy, no matter what genre of music you want to sing! Read More
Instruments: Piano Cello Music
I am an avid believer that a student's personal enthusiasm for learning and improving is the sole catalyst for their development. I do not believe in enforcing practice regiments on students as the motivation to practice should come from within. That being said, it is my job as the teacher to foster the student's passion for music by introducing them to exciting concepts and pieces that can grow their passion. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Organ Synthesizer Keyboard
I build each lesson around the needs of each student and what they would like to accomplish. I help them set reasonable practice and achievement goals. If there is a style of music they would like to learn or a particular song, I try to fit it in with the lesson and use it as a teaching tool as well. Proper technique is the foundation for exceptional performance. I spend at least 5-10 minutes each lesson on technique. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Violin Cello Viola Bass Guitar
My teaching experience began in the Chicago public and private schools in the 1970's. Wanting to have the ability to work with a student on a one on one basis, I went into business for myself as a private teacher. From 1976 to 2010 I taught music in a music store that I co-owned in the Chicago area. During that same period I worked with several universities with theMethods of Private Instruction in the area of Music Education. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Saxophone Flute
I began teaching while I was in High School and I would teach the younger students who were freshman and sophomores the tenor saxophone. Once I went to Eastman, I taught several people throughout the course of the four years there. I beleive that, particulalry when teaching the saxophone and flute, a mix of classical fundamental technique is very important as well as incorporating the jazz or rock repertoire. I feel that my skills as a music therapist can be very unique particularly because I can really attend to the needs of the student and adapt the music and lesson accordingly. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Synthesizer Music Keyboard
My name is Rebecca and I am a Classical/ Pop singer living in Chicago! I received my Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Chicago College of Performing Arts , and my Masters of Music at Loyola University New Orleans. I have sung numerous operatic roles, recitals, have appeared as the guest artist for the St.Luke's Concert Series and the Stahl Family Theater, and perform in two local New Orleans bands. Read More
Instruments: Piano Organ
When did you decide to become a professional musician? Was it a gradual decision or was there a defining moment for you?
I decided to become a professional upon graduation from my undergraduate music school. After graduation, I was able to get a job in music retail at a large music company in Los Angeles, California. My job at that time was demonstrating organs in retail stores to sell to customers. The hope was to get people to buy organs with group organ instruction. In my classes, I would have as many as 50 students observing me at a concert theater organ with a mirror over the console. Each person was able to obersve my hands and fingers during the instruction.
Does music run in your family? Tell us a little about your musical family members.
Music does run in my family. My mother was a very gifted pianist but never studied the keyboard formally. She is most likely the person I inherited my playing skills from. My mother's mother was also a pianist and played at her community church. I can vividly remember going to church and hearing my grandmother play for her choir rehearsals and even church. It was such a pleasure and will always be part of my life's journey. I might mention also that my uncle is quite gifted at playing keyboard. When he was growing up, he did study piano formally.
If you play more than one instrument, how did you decide to start playing the second? (Or 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc)!
When I was a junior at West Virginia University, that was the year I began the study of the organ and decided later to make a career in church music with this instrument. The organ has offered me more opportunities performing as I never thought. I've had workshops with Marie-Claire Alain, Anton Heiller, Flor Peeters, and others. Once, I had the priviledge of hearing and meeting Madeline-Durufle. She did a concert at National city Christian Church back in the mid-1980's and I must say that every organist within 100 miles of Washington, D.C. attended.
What is your favorite style/genre of music to play and why?
My favorite style/genre of music is baroque and classical. To me, Johann Sebastian Bach was the greatest baroque composer when it came to organ and piano works. Bach was also the ultimate church composer and his output was enormous. Then when the transition to classical occurred, my all-time favorite composers was Mozart and Beethoven. It is a toss up between Mozart and Beethoven as to who is the greatest, but I would have to say Mozart. His music is straight from heaven and is likened to a puzzle. When you hear it, it
is a like a puzzle, every piece fits perfectly.
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