FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
I am flexible with budgets and family packages!
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
I always like to start with a chat about the students goals, musical experience and interests. It's really helpful to have a strong understanding of this right from the start so we can lay down the appropriate direction. I will then work out an individualized plan for each student and find the necessary musical literature or songs to get us going. Lastly.. play some songs together!
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I have studied music formally since the age of 8, on the classical guitar, clarinet, and saxophone. I competed in international and regional competitions for Jazz and Classical music through high school, and went on to receive a full ride in Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon in 2012. I then transferred to the University of Washington, where I continued playing gigs, studying with internationally renowned musicians such as Ted Poor, and forming bands in Seattle while earning my BAS Cum Laude. My musical education has always been a strong blend of self-driven ambition and formal training, and I've had the honor to work with and be mentored by many internationally renowned musicians. I really understand the process and what it's like to study music from a teacher, having done it from so many different musicians with so many different methods for so many years. Every time I teach, I try to expand on what I always found worked from my musical education and cut out I saw to be ineffecive for myself and for my peers; it needs to be fun!