Jazz Piano Lessons Available

My teaching reflects both an inward and outward-looking view of life and music.  My professional and personal evolution has helped me to cultivate an open mind, patience, and a ready willingness to help guide and motivate you towards achieving your goals.

At the New England Conservatory of Music, I teach creative musicians an in-depth approach to the fundamentals of harmony, rhythm, and improvisation. My systematic and flexible pedagogy, teaching the mastery of musical vocabulary and styles, never loses sight of the bigger picture: the development of each student’s personal aesthetic and professional direction.

At my home studio for amateur and professional musicians, I customize the materials to suit the interests and abilities of each student.  I offer a variety of topics that help address the development of necessary skills while devising a course of study for each student that provides a clear, engaging and efficient path.

Topics for Study and Mastery

• Understanding goals and direction
• Practice techniques/routines for efficient learning
• Aural training – singing and dictation
• Rhythmic training – groove and subdivision
• Melodies and bass lines  – song form
• Long-term melodic memorization
• Long-term harmonic memorization
• Chord voicings as basic structures
• Transcription
• Improvisation
• Scale patterns for improvisation
• Melodic fragments for improvisation
• Rhythmic Displacement
• Song writing
• Piano technique and sound
• Playing with others
• Playing for an audience