About My Piano Studio
Welcome to my piano studio’s page! I have over 10 years of experience teaching the piano. Since starting my first students in 2014, I have had countless opportunities to expand my pedagogical knowledge. This includes many teaching positions across the United States, a fully-funded Master of Music degree through a Graduate Teaching Assistantship, and a completed Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship from the New School for Music Study. My piano studio is typically full of 20+ students. They are regular top prize winners. In addition to annual recitals, my students have entered competitions and examinations, such as Music Teachers National Association and the Royal Conservatory of Music. Whatever your needs for piano lessons are, I will help you achieve your goals! If you are interested in piano lessons (a free trial lesson is included), click Contact Me to send inquiries. Formats are available both in-person and online.
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From my studio’s Royal Conservatory of Music “Send-Off” Recital this past year!
Some of my original students from the St. Louis area!
My Teaching Philosophy
Everyone can learn how to play the piano. Learning piano should be an enjoyable and engaging process. Lessons with me are individually tailored to the student, promoting learning by discovery. Playing the piano is a rewarding experience that comes with a great amount of hard work and discipline. In order to achieve this, it is my goal that my students can achieve anything they desire with music, whether they want music as their career or not. To that end, I have two goals in mind when teaching piano:
Every student can make beautiful music and it is my goal as a teacher to guide them to do so. Learning to love music also means respecting the music to the best of the individual’s ability. While it might be daunting at first, I strive to make learning the piano an exciting experience. To that end, I believe in a structured approach to teaching, that includes relaying background information of the material they are learning, theoretical components, and technical concepts. Doing so will help nourish a passion for not only playing music, but performing well and gaining a passion for piano.
Fostering independent learners. Being a pianist requires a lot of independence; it can be quite jarring to a beginner. However, once students acquire the ability to grow self-control and discipline, the process of general learning will come much easier. After this is accomplished, students will be able to use these skills in other areas of life. I foster this by giving clear, attainable goals each week for students to pursue. In order to adapt to each student, I use a variety of method series like Faber and Faber, Music Tree, Alfred, etc, and include supplemental material with each series.
I started teaching piano due to my love of sharing music. While I prefer classical music, I enjoy teaching all genres of music. Most of my students tend to learn classical music, but quite a few have gone the path of exploring popular music with harmonization, church music, and other genres. Regardless of the genre, a high standard is required for all of my students. As a result of how I teach, I have students of all ages and levels, all who play to their fullest potential. Just like I enjoy sharing music, my students also enjoy performing; I strive to have as many performance opportunities for my studio as possible.
These performance opportunities require solid practice in order to fulfill the student to their potential. With that in mind, if students in my studio are younger, I encourage my families to encourage their children to practice daily. For my adult hobbyists, they require less push to practice daily, as it is already in their hope to better their craft. Whatever age my students are, they all enjoy how they perform because of being in my studio.