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Instruments: Piano Voice
I start teaching voice and piano when I was 20 years old. Since then I had countless students. I am available to teach students from novice to expert. In Romania, I taught at the Music Highschool in Brasov and also the Arts academy in the same city. In the USA I worked with Northwestern University, Depaul University, Roosevelt University. Also with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theatre, Madison University WI, San Francisco Conservatory. Read More
Instruments: Piano Drums Bass Guitar Organ
For all students during the first lesson I have them play something regardless of their skill level. Based on personal experience I’ve noticed that not all students have the same level of ability. For example in drum lessons I’ve had some entry level students sit down and play a groove and have another sit down and have no coordination. After determining the students ability level, my next step is to determine what the students likes. Read More
Instruments: Piano
I love kids. I believe that music is a continuous learning. It needs a lot of patience and dedication to both intructor and students in order to see the advancement. I am passionate and kind. I love to teach in this field and love to meet more people with different race and cultures. I graduated Bachelor of Science in Tourism and now I am taking my Masters of Business Admininistration. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Trumpet Trombone
I began my teaching career as a private lesson teacher in 2000. Then I advanced into the private schools from grades k-12 from 2001-2003. During this time I taught children that had special needs. They became one of my best students. I taught in public schools as well in 2008. I did private lessons for six years in between from 2003-09. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Drums
I have loved music from a very early age and I have been fortunate to study a variety of instruments and musical styles. I grew up studying the drums, piano, guitar, voice, and songwriting. I have been in a cover bands, original bands, jazz bands, choirs, a country band, a steel drum band, marching band, opera, a pop orchestra, a hip hop ensemble, and musical theatre productions. In college I took my studies further by learning music theory and aural skills while still performing in ensembles and writing lots of music. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Music
I have a bachelors and masters degree in vocal performance with ample experience in classroom, one on one, and group education with honors, from Pacific Lutheran University and Northwestern University respectively. I have been teaching privately and in large settings for over six years and have taught ear training, music theory, classical piano, classical voice, musical theatre, and other genres as well. In addition to teaching, I am a performer nationally and have sung with reputable companies such as Des Moines Metro Opera, Vashon Opera, Symphony Tacoma, and have placed in national and regional levels of classical singing and musical theatre competitions. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Drums Keyboard
My teaching style is technical and yet open ended. I stress knowing scales, chords, inversions like the back of your hand to enable you to put them together just as we put the English language together. Letters become words which become sentences which become paragraphs which become stories. Keys become scales which build chords which build progressions which build phrases which build songs. Knowing this language of music, one can freely express what they hear in their mind outwardly to their audience. 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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