Studio philosophy

How I teach

Classical piano at its highest levels can be a brutal world. Some of the most gifted students train so relentlessly that they leave the instrument before adulthood, having developed a relationship with music that is closer to dread than to love.

We train, instead, for a lifetime with the music.

My training can be very rigorous. I have prepared students for the highest levels of competition, and I push hard when that is the path the student is on. The studio is also home to students who simply want to live with music, and that path is no smaller. Monet was not a mathematician, and his paintings are no less for it.

A healthy challenge

The work is real. Posture, technique, theory, and serious repertoire are taken seriously from the first lesson. But the work is shaped to the student, never imposed on them. We push hard where it helps growth, and we lift our foot where it does not.

A healthy challenge sits at the center of three pulls:

Our students learn to live in the middle. That is where they return, lesson after lesson, year after year.