Private Study

• I offer private study in music.
• I teach in Hellertown, Pennsylvania, at Saucon Valley Music Center and in Easton, Pennsylvania, at East-Tones Music School.
• My teaching is influenced by concepts from the Alexander Technique, the Taubman approach, & Gestalt psychology.

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 euphonium

Beginner trumpet 

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