Connor R
Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Violin, Music, Keyboard, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Styles: Classical, Rock
Connor R
Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Violin, Music, Keyboard, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Styles:
Classical, Rock
Where I Teach:
Ages Taught: 8-80
Associate Concertmaster of CWU symphony Orchestra
Concertmaster OMHS Orchestra
Scholarship to UNM graduate M.M. degree
Honors convocation performance of Vieuxtemps violin concerto 5
I am a motivated teacher who delights in seeing his students improve! I started playing violin at 6 years old. I started teaching when I was in High School, with one student. She progressed very fast so I figured after finishing my degree at Central Washington University, that I should continue teaching. I taught for six months with Lessons In Your Home-Seattle and it was a great experience, but I relocated to New Mexico to pursue a M.M. in Music at the University of New Mexico. All of my students with LIYH made significant progress and I have some very good stories of remarkable progress with a few students - Alois Gorner (11 years old) progressed from being brand new to playing through Fur Elise, in 5 months. Taly Turchin (13) Another violin student who had a successful audition into her school's chamber orchestra with the piece we were working on (Bach Cello Prelude in G Major - transposed to D Major for violin).
A big part of their progress was the scale routine that I told them to practice daily, as well as various other Etudes like the Burgmuller piano etudes and Kreutzer violin etudes. I tell them what they should work on in a straightforward manner and I keep every lesson positive. I try and make jokes to lighten the mood because I have had several very critical professors and I don't think that's what every student needs the majority of the time. I offer critiques with levity, the students that followed through with my critiques progressed significantly faster.
Violin - Core: Suzuki Violin series volumes 1-6, Kreutzer Etudes, Mazas Etudes, Original Compositions, Bach, Mozart. + Scales/Arpeggios + Interval exercises such as broken 3rds, 5ths, Octaves. Piano - Core: Alfred's or Faber Piano Adventures, volumes 1-3, Czerny Etudes, Burgmuller Etudes, Mozart, Beethoven. + Scales/Arpeggios, Interval exercises such as broken 3rds, 5ths, Octaves. The Scales, intervals, and arpeggios are usually the first thing we go over in lessons, to activate the students ear without jumping into something too technical.
I like to get to know all of my students, it's a unique challenge as a teacher forming individual lesson plans in accordance with the students personality. That is a big part of what makes teaching interesting, and I really enjoy when students and I can work together to play pieces that they want to play. It's not about progressing lightning fast all of the time. Music is more of a marathon and there is a ton of literature out there, so with students I always try to remind them of that and encourage exploring music as a world, and not as a competition with others. When I play violin for my students they are always inspired because of all the time I have spent mastering its difficulties.
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