I am a retired NYC public school music teacher, with 35 years experience. I teach all ages and abilities. I specialize in prepping students for auditions to Magnet schools, NYC Arts high schools and college auditions. Music lessons are held in my studio on Saturdays in the Ft. Greene/Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn. I hold a BFA from Long island University in Jazz Performance on Trombone. I hold a Master of Arts from Brooklyn College Conservatory in Secondary Education. I love music and I love teaching other people how to play and sing so they can love it too. No matter how young or how old you are, everyone can learn to play an instrument ...

The son of two music teachers, I have been immersed in music, first violin, then piano, and finally trombone, since the age of 7. I fell in love with jazz, especially Dixieland, Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, through Miles Davis, JJ Johnson and beyond, when I was a teenager, but ultimately my main focus has been on Classical music for most of my career. I attended Juilliard Pre-College, Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard School, where I studied with the top trombonists in the classical orchestral field, and I now perform with some of the top orchestras in New York City, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, America...

We value our students' desires to achieve their specific goals. Music education can merely be a hobby as students walk in. As they leave our weekly lessons, they start to open their minds on the endless possiblities of what they can do with music, from composition, performance or simply as an outlet. We enjoy the experience of watching our students move up in different levels. Our teachers get the satisfaction of teaching and seeing many of the students achieve goals they were not aware they could accomplish in a short amount of time....