Teaching
Philosophy
Learning music should spark curiosity and build self-trust. I coach technique, but also train ears and imagination so students leave the studio ready to shape their own sound.
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Grounded in classical tradition. Enjoyable for all ages. Focus from beginner to advanced on tone, relaxed mechanics, and orchestral excerpts.
Technical foundations: posture, bow technique, left hand mechanics
Tone production and expressive phrasing
Repertoire from baroque through contemporary
Orchestral excerpt preparation
Audition coaching
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Chord-scale fluency, voicing choices, and improvisation over standard forms.
Jazz harmony and theory
Left-hand voicings and comping
Improvisation techniques and approaches
Transcription and ear training
Repertoire building with jazz standards
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Sight-singing, dictation, harmony, and quick-fire rhythmic drills.
Sight-singing with movable-do and fixed-do systems
Melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic dictation
Theory fundamentals through post-tonal theory
Score analysis and reduction
Ear training exercises
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