| Everyone has to start somewhere. I have a video clip of the first time I touched a piano. I was one-year-old. It was my eldest brother’s piano and my sister let me sit on her lap while I banged on it. The first memorable connection came, through dance, when I was 4. My brother played Boogie, Beethoven, and Bach while I danced next to him. I started studying the piano when I was 7 because my mother made me, in spite of me being convinced my teacher was the Wicked Witch of the West. Some of the time I did feel like Dorothy trying to find her way back to Kansas, but I couldn’t resist the experience of touch and sound. My second teacher, Louise Kallifer, who I picked, spit every time she counted the number "three" (prounounced "tree"). But it was "all good" - and I got better too. |
| I teach all styles of piano. Beginning students, by the end of the 5th lesson, will have a grasp of the basic components of music theory, tempo, meter, rhythm, pitch, notation, dynamics, ear training and song structure, and will have the tools to build any chord without having to rely soley on a chord diagram or notation to do so. Students will gain insight into their musical goals and the role of music in their life as appropriate to their age and way of self-expressing this. With this foundation the sky is the limit for all students at any level of playing. My promise is to coach, guide, mentor, support and provide the tools needed to take students where they want to go. |
