Matoush Melodies Bach2Rock Piano Studio

Started my 10 year daughter for her first lesson last week and already our piano sounding good. She’s building a solid foundation going forward in her lessons.

It’s been one year since my son, who’s eight years old, has started piano lessons with Toby without any prior tutelage. He has progressed immensely in that time span that it’s hard to believe it’s only been one year! Toby is patient, attentive, and gives constructive feedback in a way that he’s able to grasp and utilize. Along with piano lessons she also arranges recitals with all of her students that give students something to work toward, and look forward too. Since the start of the shelter-in-place during this pandemic, she has transitioned to zoom lessons that he’s still able to learn and advance his skill level. I definitely recommend!!

Tobi is an amazing piano teacher and I couldn’t recommend someone more. I’m an adult student and have been taking lessons with Tobi for the past 7 months. At a high level, she is a great instructor who has really helped me learn. I really enjoy working with her and am very proud of my progress. I’ve played at a recital which was a great learning experience and have gotten great feedback from friends who have heard me play. This is testament to the guidance and teaching I’ve received from Tobi. On a more granular level, she is very detail oriented (laser focused on learning all the intricacies of a piece such as hand placement, timing, dynamics, pedaling etc.), very patient (understanding when I have bad weeks and makes a big effort to be encouraging), and makes a big effort to go through your learning journey with you. I’ve learned so much over just 6 months and have gone from a complete beginner to being confident to play simple pieces in LAX airport as people walk by. I’m more interested in pop pieces, and Tobi has been great about giving me the right balance between theory, typical progression pieces that help me learn, and pieces that spark my interest as something I’d really like to be able to play. For example, currently I’m learning a Chopin piece while also learning All of Me by John Legend. She’s very flexible in terms of tailoring lessons around your goals and is very attentive to what interests you as a student. Each week you leave with a homework sheet containing specific things to work on for the week. This includes scales, warm up exercises, various pieces you’re currently working on and detailed notes to go along with them. It takes approx. 20-30 minutes to run through this homework once each day. Tobi is really good at identifying your strengths and makes sure to use that asset to your advantage as you learn. This has made lessons thoroughly enjoyable and has kept me motivated. She also gets the right balance between pieces that suit your level and ones that challenge you to be better. You won’t go wrong by choosing to work with Tobi!

Toby is a thorough and fantastic teacher! I've taken two lessons so far and I feel like I'm making lots of progress. I would highly recommend her.

Toby is a wonderful piano teacher. She's been teaching our 7 year old son since January and his progress is amazing. Father of our house is a drummer (and such a good guitarist with a good knowledge of music as well) he also recently started piano classes with Toby. So from a musician to another musician, she is highly respected in our household.