gigging
- Began gigging professionally in 1972.
- More than 6,000 professional performances since 1972.
- Audiences ranging in size from a few dozen to more than 10,000, at venues varying from intimate private home concerts to major arenas and concert halls.
teaching
- Over forty-five years experience teaching private piano lessons.
- Since 1999 over 300 students taught, with an average student retention of five years.
- Multiple students have continued their studies as collegiate music majors upon high school graduation.
- Methodology uses a proprietary pedagogy: teaching students to play songs immediately as well as standard pedagogy.
qualifications
- Bachelor of Music, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
- Master of Science, Interdisciplinary Studies, with concentrations in Music Education, Education Psychology, & Learning Technologies, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
- Private piano studies with Mrs. Lillian Stewart, John Arcaro (Berklee College of Music), Mike Marra
- Private piano/jazz studies with world renowned jazz educator Charlie Banacos.
- Three years of songwriting studies with Pat Pattison, member of Pat's private songwriting circle, Boston, 1995 - 98.
- ProTools Certified
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