FAQs
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
We offer a free 30 minute trial lesson to evaluate skill level, develop appropriate curriculum and make sure it's a good fit for all.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Our Creative Director, Jane Bongiorno, has over twenty years of music experience including nineteen years of intensive private training on the harp and piano, a year of study in Germany, two years in the Portland Youth Philharmonic as a harpist, two certificates of participation at the Golandsky Institute at Princeton University, and over a decade of experience as a professional church organist and musician. Classical music is the heart of all this!
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
Oregon Octave Academy started as Bongiorno's Music Studio in 2015 after Jane Bongiorno converted her living room into a piano studio and began offering lessons.