Private Study

Teaching studio in Wind Gap, Pennsylvania.

  • I offer private study in music.
  • Online lessons are provided through Lessonface.
  • My home studio is open to adult beginners who wish to make music for pleasure and to mature adolescents who wish to audition for college or conservatory. I will consider teaching self-motivated children with cooperative and committed parents. I primarily teach older adults.
  • My teaching is influenced by concepts from the Alexander Technique, the Taubman approach, & Gestalt psychology.
  • Group lessons in techniques of music course (theory, solfeggio, ear-training, rhythmic training, sight reading).

Musicianship (for all instruments) Solfeggio, ear-training, rhythmic training, theory, sight reading, analysis, & interpretation.

Piano (classical, jazz, & improvisational)

Trombone (classical, jazz, & improvisational)

Voice (pop/jazz)

Beginner brass (tuba, trombone, euphonium, trumpet) 

Beginner flute

Folk rhythm guitar (chords for songwriting & performing)

Composition & Songwriting

Theory 

Solfeggio & Ear-training

College/conservatory audition consulting

Conducting 

 

Piano Curriculum

Beginner through intermediate studies.

Each lesson we work through:

  1. Rhythmic Training (Starer & Bona)
  2. Solfeggio & Ear-training (Dannhäuser)
  3. Prima vista (sight-reading) (Schafer)
  4. Piano method (children) (Van De Velde, Bartok) Piano method (adult) (Bartok, Faber)
  5. Technique (Schmitt)
  6. Repertoire (Agay, Bach)
  7. Jazz (Siskind, Mehegan)
  8. Free Improvisation


Trombone Curriculum

Beginner through advanced studies.

Each Lesson we work through:

  1. Rhythmic Training (Starer & Bona)
  2. Solfeggio & Ear-training (Dannhäuser)
  3. Prima vista (sight-reading)
  4. Method (Rubank, Arban, Remington)
  5. Etudes (Rochut)
  6. Etudes (Kopprasch)
  7. Clef studies (Blazhevich)
  8. Repertoire (Saint-Saens, Larsson, David, Koechlin, Barat, Rimsky-Korsakov)
  9. Orchestral excerpts (Vol.1)
  10. Jazz studies (Rawlins, Cocker, Aebersold, Cocker, Johnson)
  11. Free Improvisation


In-studio lesson fees

$35 half hour (under 13 years old)

$60 one hour (13 years old & over)

In-home trombone or piano lessons are available for the Forks Township, Easton, Palmer, & Nazareth areas. (Lesson rate plus $25 travel fee).

For students outside of Pennsylvania, I offer remote teaching through LESSONFACE or Zoom.

*Twenty-four-hour cancellation notice required for make-up lesson.

*Tuition is paid at the first lesson of each month.












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