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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Voice lessons in Oakland . Whether you are looking for beginner guitar lessons for your kids, or are an adult wanting to improve your skills, the instructors in our network are ready to help you now!
Instruments: Voice
My lesson is divided in 2 parts. Warm up - it consists of very important excercises that cover all the aspects of vocal technique development. Applying all just learned to performing the real music. I care about voice and try to advise to my students musical pieces that are beneficial for their development. My students always welcomed to bring in the music they are passionate about. Pretty often they impress me with their good musical taste and wide range of in interests. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Accordion Music Keyboard
As a piano instructor, I am in a direct teaching lineage that dates back to Beethoven. Member of National Guild of Piano Teachers (Teachers Division of the American College of Musicians), Music Teachers Association of California, and United Association of American Musicians. I am a jury team member for Arts Council San Jose in recognitionof outstanding skills in research, performance and teaching. I have taught voice, piano, and composition at Music and Arts Institute of San Francisco, Zimmer Music Studios, Napa Valley Music Company, Opera Institute of California, Our Mother of Perpetual Help Academy, Los Gatos CA (grades k-12), and Visalia Music School. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Clarinet
When I was ten, I made the decision that whatever career I chose, I needed it to allow me to help people. As I got older and discovered that music was the thing I most wanted to do in this life, teaching voice and piano became the vehicle I needed to keep doing music as well as help people, like I wanted. In training my voice classically, I had the very best instructor who taught me how to sing the healthy way. Read More
Instruments: Voice Music
For beginning students, I typically start with the foundational elements, focusing primarily on technique and simple application into song. I slowly introduce repertoire that is appropriate and can highlight their strengths. For more advanced singers, I continue to build upon the foundational elements and guide my instructions based upon the student's interest and goals. I am building custom lesson plans and materials suitable for the student, so the plans will be unique for the individual. Read More
Instruments: Voice
I am a musician with 20+ years of performance and recording experience and 5+ years of teaching experience. I currently teach at two Bay Area music schools and am also offering online lessons. I have have toured through the US, UK EU, Mexico, and Europe, and released multiple albums on various record labels with international distribution. I have received formal training, but I greatly enjoy the even more valuable lessons I've learned from the stage and the recording studio to students. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice
I have been teaching piano for over twenty years. My teaching philosophy is that every piano lesson should be fun. For young beginners, I focus on basic technique. The reason is that it is very important to form good playing skills right from the beginning. For older students, I broaden their musical knowlege by introducing piano literature from different time periods. I also encourage them to pick songs that they like to play. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Drums Music Keyboard
My lessons are student driven. I typically assign some technique, repertoire, and theory assignments each week. I often try to include a “student challenge” most weeks in order to gauge how much a student is understanding during the lessons. I modify my styles based on what seems most effective for the student. Sometimes a student really needs 5 pieces to work on over a longer stretch of time. Other times, a student can only reasonably work on one piece for the week. Read More
Instruments: Piano Trumpet Trombone French Horn Tuba
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 musician when I was in the middle of high school, about 10th or 11th grade. While most kids would come home to do their homework and watch tv or go out, I would do my homework quickly and then go to my room to practice. The defining moment for me was when I realized how much more I knew about music than the rest of the kids in my high school band. I often heard them say that they knew how to play the music but have not heard it before, while I had already heard many different versions of it. This was a good and bad thing at the same time. It was good because I realized that I was going to take music seriously but it was bad because later on it would come as a surprise that there were so many other kids that where better than me outside of my hometown and school. As an adult, I have learned the value of being surrounded by better musicians that one can learn from.
Does music run in your family? Tell us a little about your musical family members.
Yes, both my parents are professional musicians. My mother is a pianist and my father is a violinist. My aunt and my sister are also professional violinist. As you can imagine, I grew up in a highly musical environment. My parents often held rehearsals at home with their friends, and they took me to see the symphony orchestra frequently. Oddly enough, there was not much jazz music being played at home, which is my favorite style of music now. However, I believe that listening to and learning to play classical music will prepare a musician to play and understand other musical genres later on.
If you play more than one instrument, how did you decide to start playing the second? (Or 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc)!
I actually began to play the piano before my main instrument which is the trumpet. My mother is a piano teacher as a result I began to play the piano when I was 3 years old. It was not until I turned 11 or 12 when I picked up the trumpet and began to practice on my own. A few months later after my mother saw how serious I was about the trumpet, she enrolled me in trumpet lessons. Recently, I had the opportunity to learn a few things about creating sound on the clarinet, alto saxophone and the flute. If I could learn a third instrument it would be the clarinet because of its beautiful sound.
What is your favorite style/genre of music to play and why?
I enjoy all kinds of music. However, my favorite style of of music is jazz. This goes back to when I was a child and watched the three little pigs playing their instruments at the end along with the wolf, who was playing the trumpet. After listening to this music I began to listen to Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie everyday on the bus while riding to school. I also enjoy listening to Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. French Impressionism is my favorite classical style, I guess this could be because of its similarity with jazz in terms of its harmony.
If you weren't a musician what do you think you'd be doing instead?
Because I was born in a musical family, I have not really thought about this question. However, I think I would enjoy studying and working in the field of advertisement. Advertisement is the only other job outside of all arts that I can think of that would require creativity and that the end result of your work can be seen by millions of people. As musicians, we work on advertisement every time we try to sell a piece of music to our audience, especially when the music is our own or when the music is not well known. You never know how people are going to react to something new and it is the musician's job to sell it.
25 Years
Since We Started
41,456+
Happy Customers
10,769
Cities with Students
3,123
Teachers in Network
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