gigging

  • Began gigging professionally in 1972.  
  • More than 6,000 professional performances since 1972.
  • Audiences ranging in size from a few dozen to more than 10,000, at venues varying from intimate private home concerts to major arenas and concert halls.

 

teaching

  • Over forty-five years experience teaching private piano lessons.
  • Since 1999 over 300 students taught, with an average student retention of five years.
  • Multiple students have continued their studies as collegiate music majors upon high school graduation.
  • Methodology uses a proprietary pedagogy: teaching students to play songs immediately as well as standard pedagogy.

 

    qualifications

    • Bachelor of Music, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA 
    • Master of Science, Interdisciplinary Studies, with concentrations in Music Education, Education Psychology, & Learning Technologies, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 
    • Private piano studies with Mrs. Lillian Stewart, John Arcaro (Berklee College of Music), Mike Marra
    • Private piano/jazz studies with world renowned jazz educator Charlie Banacos
    • Three years of songwriting studies with Pat Pattison, member of Pat's private songwriting circle, Boston, 1995 - 98. 
    • ProTools Certified

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