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Instruments: Piano Violin Viola Clarinet
Hi Everyone! My name is Benjamin! I'm a high-energy guy that loves to teach music. My students come from all walks of life and from various ages. In 2012, I graduated from Evangel University with a Bachelor of Arts in Music, focusing on composition. Getting to see people advance in music has been one of my true joys as a teacher. It has also been my joy to perform with some great musicians all over Missouri. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Synthesizer Keyboard
One of the most important things that I stress is consistency in practice as well as correct practice. Both my piano lessons and vocal coaching emphasize technique but my main goal is to build confidence in performance. Confidence can only come from correct practice, but correct practice can only come if you're motivated and you're having fun! For my younger students I make sure to change things up to avoid boredom while teaching new angles of a certain skill. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice
I believe each student has unique gifts. I love watching my students thrive by encouraging self-exploration as we learn about music. If a student loves playing by ear, we seek knowledge of composition more, if they are inspired to play Star Wars, we add that to the repertoire. If a good solid foundation is built through the sequential lesson books along with motivating material, retention is higher. Encouragement of progression at his or her own pace by understanding each students gifts, along with realistic goals and practice, aids in well rounded musicians. Read More
Instruments: Piano
For beginning students like young students, I typically start with Piano Adventure as the textbook. Once they have progressed of study, I would like to introduce some solo repertoires with beautiful melody line for their recital performance. And in each lesson, I will play the accompany part for young students, which can bring them more fun of learning short pieces, and enjoy studying. For adults, I would like to talk with them, and find out a good way that they are interested in of studying, and give them more space of choosing repertoires for learning. Read More
Instruments: Piano Trombone Euphonium Tuba
By establishing goals and and regular practice habits, students will realize they are progressing on their instrument, and getting better. It is fun to be a good musician! And the better you are on your instrument, the more fun you can have. I try to find out what inspires a student, and let them realize how rewarding the study of a musical instrument can become. To do this, I encourage students to listen to recordings or local performances, and tell me what they like and why. Read More
Instruments: Piano Violin
I was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia. I picked out melodies on the piano when I was two and a half years old, and was soon taking piano lessons. When I was enrolled in music school at six years old, all of the piano openings were taken and only violin openings remained, so that became my instrument. I spent twenty years in music schools, including the Rimsky-Korsakov Music College and the St. Read More
Instruments: Piano Violin Synthesizer Music Keyboard
What advice do you have about practicing effectively?
Effective practice is focused (and regular!) practice. A daily 30 minutes of focused, non-stressed, comfortable, and pre-planned practice is better than an hour or more of unfocused, anxious, unplanned practice. Even advanced students benefit from this: so many university-level students overpractice with a lack of focus, and while a 10 hour day of practice sounds impressive, it's likely that they would have gotten far more effective work done if they had done 3 to 4 hours that day, in short, focused bursts of time.
Does music run in your family? Tell us a little about your musical family members.
My mother has a degree in music therapy, and my father has been a gigging bass player since college. They chose to homeschool me and my brother specifically so that we could have strong education in the arts and music, which worked out beautifully: I am now a professional musician, and my brother a costume designer. My mother has always had a strong love for music, encouraging my family to have little jam sessions for as long as I can remember, singing songs we all knew and learning new ones. She now even has her own piano studio in Kansas City and teaches full time! My father was mostly self-taught, and went to school for bass performance, but dropped out once he realized what he really wanted to do was play as music as possible. He has an incredible ear and an obsessive love for Jaco Pastorius. Between the two of them, the variety of music genres in our house is truly incredible.
When did you decide to become a professional musician? Was it a gradual decision or was there a defining moment for you?
I have had so many doubts about so many things in my life. I am an anxious person who has been so desperately busy since high school that slowing down is often not an option. But music - that is something that was never a question. It was in my bones, in my heart, there was no option other than music, no thing I felt more sure about, even in the maelstrom of uncertainty that comes with college and adulthood and the unending pressures of life. It is so essential to who I am and how I interact with the world. There was never a clear moment of "oh yes! I am going to be a musician!" It just kept unfolding and growing, drawing me down deeper into it, and I was so enthralled and in love that there was no reason to say no, to try another path. I knew that I would not be happy if I did not do something, anything to do with music on a daily basis.
Stumbling into the world of musical theater pit orchestras was truly one of the best things that ever happened to me. That spontaneous decision, spurred by a call from a dear friend who music directed at the Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City who desperately needed a Keyboard 2 player, got me almost all of the professional jobs I have had since then. It is such a joyous, collaborative, fun environment, so much community and ensemble work that I missed from my chamber music days, so much I missed after being alone in a practice room with a piano for four years of my life. These jobs are what have provided me with the reality of existing and working as musician on a daily basis, are what have made extant my soul's deep desire to perform.
23 Years
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Cities with Students
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