Tickle Those Ivories
About
I have been teaching students for over 20 years and provide a methodology that will enable your child to read and play many genres of music. I enjoy sharing the many joys that music can bring to each person. You are never too young and never too old to learn!
Please contact me to set up a free session with your child so that I can meet them and then determine a methodology that will best assist your child's learning abilities.
Please contact me so that I can provide you with my Piano handbook which includes my teaching philosophy and other terms.
Please note: My fees are 40.00 per lesson at your home or $35.00 at my place, (lesson time starts at approximately 1⁄2 hour for beginners and time expands as they progress, thus the flat fee.)
I can be reached at 949.690.2129 and my email address is [email protected]
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Jill Cooper obtained her younger training from the Lilian Talge school of music and her advanced training from the University of Minnesota and the Juliard School of Music in New York City where she studied Classical Piano, Music Appreciation, Performance and Education. Jill is a classically trained pianist and is also an accomplished vocalist. She has performed with the Winnepeg, Canadian Philharmonics. She has traveled the nation singing with Up-With-People, and performed in Nashville Tennessee at the Grand Ole Opry, and spent many years in Los Angeles as a record recording studio pianist and keyboard player, and vocalist as well as teaching music and piano. Most recently she has coached students on American Idol.
Jill has studied piano and music since the age of four and in addition to the piano plays the Saxophone, having traveled with a Jazz band, LeJazz7. She also plays Guitar, Bass and Xylophone.
Jill is also on the California State Board of Education where she serves as the Director of the Advisory Board for Liberal Arts. Jill started this program in an effort to keep Music and Art in our schools, and it has become a national program for the arts. She was also a recipient of the British Academy of Fine Arts Music award for the development of music education, specializing in piano and keyboards for young children.
She is also an accomplished author of music training, having co-authored the Studies for the Certificate of Merit.
Jill has been teaching for over 20 years and in addition to private lessons also directs after-school Children's Chorus, and continues to perform for private engagements.
Piano Lesson Information:
Lessons include:
Technique: Scales, Arpeggios, Chords to develop finger and arm movement and assist in the understanding of Music theory.
Repertoire: Consisting of a variety of musical styles with pieces that are both challenging and enjoyable to play.
Appreciation: Teaching to listen for and appreciate the different types of music and in addition be able to play them with style
Theory: The ability to understand how to read and interpret music.
Chording & Improvisation: The ability to play 'fake music" and improvise as a requirement for most music styles.
Performance: Recitals to showcase each student's musical abilities, to familiarize students with proper recital etiquette, and to increase comfortably in front of an audience. These performances may be both informal and formal.