My goal is to provide your child
with a satisfying experience in music education:
- Learn to like music and develop a positive attitude toward
music and musicians.
- Learn to play to the best of his or her capabilities.
- Make as much progress as your child comfortably can during
these years of study.
Lessons
I prefer that beginning students take one or two half-hour
or 45-minute lessons per week. When students are older, they
may choose to take an hour weekly lesson instead.
I welcome both children as young as 4 years, through adults.
Please feel free to call me to discuss how I may be able to
introduce your child to the piano or further his or her
musical development.
Parents are welcome to stay while their children are taking
their lessons.
Professional Activities
I have worked as a piano accompanist as well as a teacher.
During each year, I work in the Plano Music Teachers
Association festivals and auditions, plan and arrange piano
auditions and student recitals, and attend professional
seminars and the Texas Music Teachers Association (TMTA &
MTNA) convention.
Auditions, Contests, Recitals
Auditions, contests, festivals and recitals are available
for students who wish to participate. My students
participate in the PMTA fall festivals, sonata festivals,
class and spring recitals, the Dallas Piano Competition, and
the Plano Trophy Award Competition.
Participation in these events is optional, and I will never
require a student to participate. Some events are more
competitive than others. I will always try to direct
students toward events that I feel will be a positive
experience for them.
Experience
I have taught beginning through advanced piano students in
Dallas since 1993. I have been an accompanist for the
Brookhaven College dance department and at the Dallas Dance
Academy. I have also taught at Trinity Christian School and
a Montessori school.
I graduated from the Baku (former USSR) Musical College with
Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Music, with certification
as a Teacher of Children’s Music. I taught piano and music
to children in schools and privately, as well as serving as
an accompanist with a ballet school, and creating and
supervising concerts and programming for television.
** Life is like a piano… what you get out of it depends on
how you play it. **
