Fun Piano Lessons for all ages

Learn from a patient, experienced teacher.  Jazz, blues, soul, rock, folk, Latin, gospel, world music, and more.   These are fun, creative lessons.

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Lessons

I have been teaching piano for almost 30 years.  My intention is to foster a love of music, and good feelings around music.  A student who feels good about playing music will eventually get good at it.  It doesn't matter if you're playing Frère Jacques, Chopin, Taylor Swift, or Thelonious Monk.  If it moves you, it is good.  My students learn to interpret the music they love in a creative way.  They learn to create their own music.  They learn how to learn music.  Young students learn how to read, but this isn't the emphasis.
 
Many of my adult students are what I like to call "recovering classical students".  Maybe they feel they didn't learn to express themselves joyfully at the piano.  It usually doesn't take long for them to realize that they already know how to play creatively.  Adult beginners find joy here, too, learning to play songs that they already love.

For children younger than 8, lessons are mostly play.  It's the same as learning to speak.  I try to model my joy at playing music.  Kids 8-12 (-ish) are learning to read a little.  I'm teaching them some songs.  Teenagers are getting their own musical tastes, and we are learning the songs that they like.  We'll look up the song, and I'll figure out how to play it; here I'm modelling the process of learning by ear and interpreting.

Neurodivergent students can find a comfortable setting here.  I feel confident saying that here is the best place in Vermont for ADHD and autistic students.

My Studio

This is the studio I always dreamed of.  I have an incredible Steinway L piano.  I have upright bass, drums, Hammond organ, Rhodes piano, guitars, synthesizers, congas, bongos, bells, whistles, accordions.