Teaching

If you are thinking about starting, restarting or continuing a wonderful adventure with music I am a dedicated and enthusiastic teacher that can help in this journey. My composition and piano studio is in San Francisco where I teach piano students from intermediate to advanced, composition students from any level, either piano or composition from age 10 onward. A Yamaha concert series C7 is available in the studio together with live recording equipment and composition software.

I have a long experience in teaching that spans almost 25 years. It ranges from teaching musicianship to middle class students, to managing large classroms with up to 200 people, to teach individual piano students, to mentor PhD students and postdoctoral fellows (in my career as a scientist). What I found all students have in common is that they all performs best when independent, creative thinking is encouraged. At all levels, starting from a 7 years old struggling to put notes on a piano, the student to succeed must be encouraged and tought to do what our mind does best: creatively solve problems. Rote, authoritarian, repetitive, one-recepie-fits-all kinds of teaching achieve results, but they do not provide the most valuable lesson: learning how to use our innate creativity.

Please feel free to contact me for more information about piano and composition lessons.