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.

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) 

Composition & Songwriting

Theory 

Solfeggio & Ear-training

College/conservatory audition consulting

I have experience working with students who deal with learning disabilities.

I have experience working with students who have dimentia & Alzheimers diagnoses.

 

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


Weekly one-hour sessions: $65 per session, paid monthly in advance.

Children under 12: $40 per half-hour lesson, paid monthly in advance.

Individual consultation for performance psychology: $100 per session.

In your home lesson fee add $25 per visit.

I offer remote teaching through LESSONFACE.













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