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Instruments: Piano Trumpet Trombone Saxophone Flute Clarinet Acoustic Guitar
I have been teaching Prek- 8th Grade general music, choir, drama and instrumental lessons for the past 5 years. I am a 2009 graduate of Rutgers University with a BA in Music and a 2011 graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University with an MA in Music Education. My primary instrument is trumpet and I have played in a variety of bands and sung in a variety of choruses of the years. I began giving private trumpet lessons in 2004 and began giving piano and voice lessons in college. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Cello Bass Guitar Recorder Double Bass Keyboard
I am a musician, composer, and educator with backgrounds in both jazz and classical studies. I have a Bachelors of Music from New England Conservatory and a Masters of Music at Berklee College of Music's Global Jazz Institute. I am regularly performing in a wide variety of settings from jazz to avant-garde to hip hop and anything in between. Some of my past teachers include Susan Hagen, Dave Holland, John Patitucci, Cecil McBee, Danilo Perez, Frank Carlberg, and Jason Moran among others. Read More
Instruments: Piano
As a teacher I aspire to challenge and engage all of my students in a safe, supportive, and compassionate learning environment. With my energetic, sensitive, and enthusiastic demeanor, I seek to motivate and engage my classroom in teaching methods that reflect the unique and individual needs of each student. As a life longer, I also yearn to consistently grow and evolve as an educator, by embracing new techniques and perspectives. Read More
Instruments: Piano Saxophone Flute Clarinet Mallet Percussion
I believe nothing is too challenging for a student to learn at a young age. If I do not tell a student that something they are learning is difficult, they will never develop a complex that they cannot do it. Basically, I teach my students so that they can surpass where I was at their age. I enjoy preparing my students for concerts, recitals, school talent shows (and any other opportunity) by maintaining high standards, efficiently using lesson time, and combining pedagogically sound teaching with an excellent model for my students to mirror. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Keyboard
My teaching style is very simple, "Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you'll feed him for a lifetime." This is my philosophy of teaching. I am extremely enthusiastic about arts education and passionate about teaching. Ever since I started teaching music with a focus on early childhood music, I have been passionate in my commitment to three things: maximizing individual student performance, inspiring students’ interest in music and technology as well as instilling a sense of self-worth among all students! Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice
I have been teaching voice and piano for the last four years. I worked with a voice teacher back home where he taught me classical and pop/rock singing. I am very involved to every single student and I arrange the lesson accordingly. Some people come to me to work on technique and improve certain areas of singing and others are coming to work on performance aspects. I like to make the lessons interesting with fresh ideas and up-to-date exercises. Read More
Instruments: Piano Organ Synthesizer
I always ask first what the student is looking to gain from these lessons, what pieces will he be interested in learning and who are his favorite composers. If that doesn't yield much, I will try to discover what are the student's interests and will try to approach him in a language that will excite him. Teachers need to be able to either keep the flame of the student going, or polish that flame. Read More
Instruments: Piano
Have any of your students won awards or been selected for special honors? How have they succeeded?
For many of my younger piano students piano lessons are an introduction to the wonderful world of classical music and sonic creativity. As I focus on teaching beginners and intermediate performers I have not had a student that was able to win a national or international competition.
I have had, however, many success stories, from students that went on to become professional musicians to the ones who achieved their most cherished musical goals.
Among these was an adult private student who was so inspired by the musics he played and loved that he went on to compose his own music within the same styles. Eventually he produced a CD of his own music, which he composed, performed and produced.
Several of my former college students who were music majors went on to become accomplished professionals and are now professional musicians and music teachers.
What do you think is the hardest thing to master on your instrument?
I believe the hardest lesson for most is the discovery of their abilities and limitations. Learning discipline to focus and the ability to persevere is also a tough task. But once students learn these significant skills they can apply them not only to their musical goals but also to their non-musical world.
On a more practical note, the hardest things are the areas in which the particular student is in greater need of attention. For some this has to do with time. That is, to keep a crisp and dynamic rhythmic and metric patterns. For others this may be related to the issue of finger dexterity. Finally, those who have trouble reading notation may find it tough to decipher complex pieces and to bring out the melodic line in the middle of a jumble of notes.
Do you use specific teaching methods or books? (Ex: Alfred, Bastion, Suzuki, Hal Leonard) Why did you choose them if you did?
I teach classical piano and am a conservatory trained pianist and teacher with strong academic background. As a result my teaching methods reflect my classical background. This means that I use the methods used in most conservatories with a leaning on the German technique, as my former teacher was a German trained pianist and composer.
I emphasize a relaxed and natural hand position that uses the natural weight of the pianist’s arms and elbows and an awareness of the student’s posture. I recommend that my students spend a small amount of time working on their technique and warm up prior to practicing their main pieces.
As for the musical material, I use classical piano textbooks such as Beyer’s elementary piano method, Bach's Anna Magdalena Notebook, Mozart and Beethoven’s easy pieces, Chopin’s preludes and easy waltzes and Bartok's Mikrokosmos for the beginner to early intermediate students. I have used easy arrangements of classical pieces when my students requested to play those, as I am flexible with the musical choices of my students once they have gained some of the basic musical techniques.
To address my students’ goals I often ask them about their musical interests and request that they think about the pieces that they would ideally like to play. I will then and try to incorporate versions of those pieces or segments of those pieces in order to keep the student inspire and focused on their goals. Those who do not prefer to focus on an ideal piece as a goal usually follow the gradual progression of pieces from simpler compositions to the more complex with a balanced mix of compositions from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th century composers.
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