Welcome! My teaching focuses on the students interests with a balance of technique and fundamentals. After receiving a degree in music performance, touring with 3 bands and playing on 2 cruise ships, I began teaching in Boston: sax, clarinet, flute, piano. I went on to direct elementary bands and teach guitar and song writing in Brookline for 7 years. I customize lessons to fit the need and learning style of my students and have experience with all ages and many interests. I teach on-line or in my studio in Belmont, MA.

Professor at Berklee College of Music (teaching saxophone, improvisation and jazz history) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Affiliated Artist Harvard University MLSP Instructor D’Addario Artist/Endorser/Ambassador I love to share my knowledge and help students reach their goals.

In Sync Center of the Arts, founded in 1996, is a holistic center for the arts based in Quincy, Massachusetts, serving the surrounding areas. They offer a wide variety of classes in dance styles such as Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, and Contemporary, alongside music lessons in Voice, Piano, Guitar, Drums, and more. Their mission is to inspire and build confidence in children through the creative arts. Their facilities include dance studios, music lesson rooms, and even a birthday party room. In Sync Center of the Arts prides itself on providing a welcoming environment that feels like a home away from home for its students.

I am highly dedicated to the succes and enjoyment of the educational experience I provide. Each student is an individual and recieves a personally crafted and structed lesson experience for thier needs. I have over 25 years of teaching experience teaching private lessons as well traditional classrooms. Music is a language and a physical skill, and my approach is structured to decode and breakdown the mental proceccing of the information taking in with our eyes and ears with the physicality and coordiantion needed to express it. Like any language it starts with your ears. The more you listen and hear it, just as you did as a child, the mor...

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