Quick Facts about Michael
- Teaches All levels & styles of Piano & Accordion
- Works well with ages 7 and up
- Expert Level Jazz, Classical, Rock and Pop
- Specializes in Jazz improvisation, composition, and arranging
- Teaching for 11 years
- Bachelor in Music from Cornish College of the Arts. Magna Cum Laude.
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General Teaching Style
I have an easy-going, personable style that teaches solid fundamentals and higher concepts. I believe in teaching the student, not the subject. Identifying the best ways a student learns, their interests, and tailoring lessons accordingly.
Unique Strengths
Patience, multiple ways of explaining different concepts, sense of humor, deep understanding of music and knowledge of multiple styles of music. Identifying a students strengths and teaching to those.
I am a professional composer, arranger, pianist, and theatre artist. I am always working in my field and bring the joy of music and the practicality of my experiences as a professional musician into the teaching studio.
Most Inspirational Music Moments and Experiences
I feel very fortunate to say that I have many and continuous inspirational musical moments. If I had to pick one, I would say playing with musicians of a higher skill level than myself, rising to the occasion and connecting with them.
Top 3 Desert Island Albums
- The Julliard String Quartet's recording of Bach's Art of the Fugue.
- Charles Mingus' - Ah Um
- Pink Floyd's - Dark Side of the Moon.