FAQs
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
I create a unique curriculum for each student that reflects their interests and abilities. We work as a team in your musical growth and education. I see myself as a mentor and guide helping each student find their own musical voice and way of playing music and expressing artistically at the piano.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I have studied at Arizona State University under Eugene Pridonoff, who was a student of Rudolph Serkin and at Florida State University under Leonidas Lipovetsky, who was a student of Rosina Lhevinne. I also have studied extensively with Robert Brownlee at the University of Houston, who was a student of John Elvin at Oberlin Conservatory, who was a student of Harold Bauer and Nadia Boulanger.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
My first piano students were in the 1980's, when I taught at a private school grades K-5, and teens and adults outside of the school. This is when I fell in love with teaching. I come from a musical family on my mother's side, all working musicians at one or more times in their lives, the most well known being my Uncle Dr. John Marcellus, who retired a few years ago from the Eastman School of Music, where he was Professor of trombone. My mother played in the Jacksonville, Florida community orchestra as did her younger brothers, her mother was a church organist and composer, her father taught high school orchestra and band. They all exerted a huge influence on me as I grew up, though I was unaware of it, until it finally became obvious.