Piano By Kris
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233 Oak Grove Way
Acworth, GA 30102 (map) - (404) 434-6681
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Piano By Kris • Acworth, GA • $30 per hour
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I teach one-on-one, in-your-home piano lessons. I come to the student's home and give one 30-minute piano lesson once per week.
I have been playing/studying the piano for over 16 years and have been teaching private one-on-one piano lessons throughout Cobb County, Georgia for the last 10 years. I have given thousands of private piano lessons to students in their homes who range in age from 4+ years old through high school.
I currently have students who have been studying with me for over 8 years and can play various styles of music including jazz, pop and classical. Some recent performances of my students from the last classical and rock/pop recitals include Piano Man by Billy Joel, Hungarian Dance No.5 (Brahms) and Jazz Tocatta.
Kris Okun majored in piano at Kennesaw State University studying under Professor David Watkins. His studies with Professor Watkins included multi-octave modal scales, arpeggios, Czerny/Liszt/Hanon technical principals, JS Bach, Schumann, Scryabin, CPE Bach, and Clementi pieces.
Ear training tests were given weekly requiring dictation of melodies and harmonies through various major and minor keys. Annual performances of his work for Jury's were required for placement into the following year.
Kris Okun also studied piano under Misha Stefanuk from the Moscow Conservatory. While studying under Misha, they covered the classical era (Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, etc.) and jazz. Our classical training included multi-part harmony and inventions, sonatas and sonatinas. During our jazz studies, we covered splitting harmonies under chordal melodies for a more smooth jazz feel.
My studies at home now cover jazz, pop and classical. Each day, something new is always discovered, and it is my hope to not only make piano fun and enjoyable but to also share these new discoveries with my students.
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Testimonials
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January 11, 2012
Chris is an excellent piano teacher and a gifted motivator for our child. Our 3rd grader looks forward to her weekly lesson and is gaining confidence and ability with every session. The sound of a piano in our home is a huge plus also. I cannot overstate how pleased we are to have Chris as our child's piano teacher!
– Chris
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January 4, 2012
Kris has been teaching three of my seven children for almost two years now. I majored in music at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and taught voice for seven years. Kris has a two-pronged strategy of teaching both technique along with theory, which is integral in the understanding of the structure of music. My children love him, and he understands both the seventeen year old and the ten year old, giving them all music they can both identify with and WANT to learn.
As soon as we can, I will sign my eight year old up!– Kit
