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Instruments: Piano Saxophone Flute
I like to start from the ground up, which means I start with Music Theory. Yes starting off with learning how to play the instrument is great but, if you don't know what you're doing while you're blowing then whats the point? Read More
Instruments: Saxophone Flute Clarinet
After receiving my jazz performance degree from Rutgers University in 2010, I put together a studio of several dedicated students in New Jersey while performing in the New York Metro area with ensembles ranging from big bands to funk and soul groups. During that time, I also helped create several music education programs and camps in Red Bank and Asbury Park, and was instructed players of all skill levels, helping them improve their skills. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone Clarinet
Hello! My name is Kevin Cantu. I am very passionate about teaching clarinet and saxophone. I love working with all students of all ages and experience levels. A member of the All-State Band my senior year of high school, I am very familiar with the audition process. A graduate from the University of Oklahoma, I have degrees in Music Education and Clarinet Performance. While in college, I earned principal clarinetist in several honor groups and taught several private lessons. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone
I have multiple books to work from based on the age and skill level of the student. I work fundamentals with all levels and can teach topics from multiple angles. My music library is expanding and becoming more diverse so that I give work solos with all of my students. I keep track of lessons and set a plan for each student in order to maintain forward progress. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone Flute Clarinet
As a product of "the system", I generally teach "the system". By that I mean that in the education system here in Texas has been teaching this same way for years and years. After a year or two learning the fundamentals, scales and phrasing, then one gets to study the Ferling etudes for region band and a few basic solos for solo and ensemble. Depending on what the student wants to learn, I can teach anything they want. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone
I used to set realistic goals for my students at each lesson. Acknowledging accomplishments helps fuel a students desire to progress, and makes students eager to learn more. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone Flute
I began teaching privately since 2004. Here in US, I taught at The New England Conservatory Preparatory School and Berklee College of Music Outreach Program as well at University Of North Texas as a teacher fellow. After several years teaching, I have learned that every students is a different world. Somehow my teaching protocol I will be always customized or adjust to the student's capacity. But one very important factor doesn't change, I'm referring to a consistency on individual practice between lessons. Read More
Instruments: Violin
What do you think is the hardest thing to master on your instrument?
To me, mastering an instrument is an impossibility in that there is always so much more to learn!! It is entirely endless! Once you get past one challenge that you have set for yourself, there are loads more which is allthe fun of it! New dimensions can and will unfold to you not only within the spontaneity of each given moment which only comes through the lucidity you bring to that given moment but also to the creation and ability to comprehend metaphors and the language and databases of those metaphors developed overtime! Things that I always work for and with are bow distribution, direction, intonation and INFINITE MUSICAL AND SPIRITUAL SUBTLEITES that unleash themselves within the very given moment of initiation.
Do you use specific teaching methods or books? (Ex: Alfred, Bastion, Suzuki, Hal Leonard) Why did you choose them if you did?
I began studying under the tutelage of the Suzuki repertoire alongside a more traditional rugged approach to playing the violin. I also learned by playing Kreutzer etudes and exercises from the Carl Flesch books early on in my training. I find that these books worked moderately for my individual learning style. At age 9, I began to steep myself in the learning style of Paul Kantor my next consecutive teacher along the path which included self-created intonation practices and individualized intonation practices and technical practices taken generally from the pieces that I loved and we together chose to explore. This kind of applied learning worked successfully for me. Picture this metsphor for my learning style: it felt something equivalent to that of a moderate mathemtician that was not digesting the material in the most efficient way and was bored by the exercise of math in and of itself until applied to physics and then began to enjoy the math immensely and grew to learn it at a lower-entropied pace. Placing a focal point in such a relationship to something other than itself where it is necessary for that which it is in relationship to feed it and supplement I find is the necessary building block of building a balanced marriage between imagination and logic.
What does a normal practice session look like for you?
A normal practice session is variant upon the day but includes a form of meditation (yoga, sitting practice, walking meditation) at the beginning of each session, and before I bow to the instrument, followed by a slow warm up of the technical most difficult passages within the piece that I am working towards. After this, I play something of Bach for an hour to begin and finish with segments of the pieces that I am working on slowly and incrementally with rhythmed patterns. There is also a time and place for running through a piece. This will be explained directly with the individual student at the approrpiate time.
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