Eastside Piano & Music School
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667 165th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA 98008 (map) - (206) 713-6247
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Eastside Piano & Music School • Bellevue, WA
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I am a Bellevue piano teacher now accepting enrollments for piano lessons. My studio is conveniently located very near Crossroads Mall in East Bellevue. Lesson days in Bellevue are on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I hold two recitals per year with an additional 1-3 master classes, depending on level.
If you would like to know more information, please send me an email to receive an information package. References are gladly provided; English speaking and many other languages too. I offer a comfortable seating area for parents, with toys for younger siblings to play with. To schedule your free introductory lesson/consultation meeting, please call or send an email.
I have Masters and Baccalaureate degrees in music composition, music theory, and piano. I have seventeen years of experience in teaching piano, theory, and composition in the private sector, at Washington State University, and currently as an affiliated faculty instructor for Bellevue Community College, and in various church settings. I have a solid history of successful teaching, and am highly recommended by current and previous students. My primary teaching specialization is piano performance in the classical tradition. Jazz, popular contemporary music (studio improvisation), contemporary and traditional Christian music, composition tutoring, theory classes, and Royal School of Music exams are available as well.
My studio is centrally located next to Crossroads mall, and about 10 minutes from Downtown Bellevue, Microsoft Redmond Campus, or Downtown Redmond, Factoria, or Downtown Issaquah.
Hours
Mon-Tue: 2:00pm-9:00pm
Wed: 1:00pm-9:00pm
Thu: 2:00pm-7:00pm
Question and answer
Q. Why does your work stand out from others who do what you do?
A. Excellent referrals. Proven track record. I also work with students based on their individual needs.
Q. What do you like most about your job?
A. I enjoy working with a variety of students from all walks of life. It's enjoyable to be a positive influence in the lives of my younger students.
Q. What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A. The number one question is "How do you get the kids to practice". With younger kids, parental involvement is key, especially the first year. Parents can generally keep up with the instruction for the first year and work with the kids at home. However, after a year or so, the kids will outpace the parents who don't have musical training of their own. When that happens, it's key for the teacher to find out what inspires the student and weekly encouragement seems to work wonders.
Q. Do you have a favorite story from your work?
A. My longest student has been taking lessons with me for more than eight years already. This young lady has a physical handicap where she was born with only one finger and a thumb in her left hand. I believe that she had a lot of anger about this disability and her attitude reflected that when I first started teaching her. However, over the years I found that using continual encouragement, rewriting the music in a way to where it was playable for her, challenging her constantly, she actually started to become very skilled and could play even very advanced music so well in spite of her condition that it would sound virtually indistinguishable from the original. In fact, I had her play for a college professor last year. I forgot to mention to him about her handicap, and he didn't even notice except for one little spot at the end of the piece. He was very impressed overall, and he came up to ask her why she left a note out, he also noticed her hand. He told me later that it was a "miracle of teaching".
Q. How did you decide to get in your line of work?
A. Was originally going into math & physics when in college, and did that major for the first two years. Also, I took music classes and was constantly being asked by the professors to be a music major. I also had a math professor that played in the orchestra with me, and she told me that if she could do what I could do in music, she wouldn't have majored in music instead of math, and that was pretty inspirational. I always felt like music just "made sense" to me, and have always enjoyed creating with it, and also do the more analytical side of it, too.
