As a pianist
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As a teacher
My first teaching experience came when I was 15 years old. I taught a couple of my mom’s friend’s children. I remember not really knowing how to teach, but following along in the pages of my Hal Leonard method book. Even though I was still fairly young, and I didn’t understand all the specifics of teaching, I knew that I would continue to enjoy teaching for the years to follow.
Years later, now in undergrad, I started taking courses for my Piano Performance degree. Even as a performance major, I knew that I wanted to keep expanding my worldview. I took my first piano pedagogy course, and absolutely loved it. While it was hard work, I better understood how to effectively teach piano. And, despite it becoming more academic, I loved it even more. I found more joy in teaching, because I understood it better.
My favorite aspect of teaching is musical discovery. My favorite moments with my students are the times when they show me something they’ve learned or discovered, completely unprompted. Or when they ask about something they want to know about; for example, one of my students recently asked me how to perform large jumps. He’s a beginner student, but that budding curiosity shows promise. They are no longer seeking music because their parents are asking them to learn. Rather, they are building their own curiosities and ideas about music, and even the world that surrounds them. I want to be a better teacher in order to guide students through that process of musical discovery.
With the onset of the pandemic, I’ve both lost opportunities and gained new ones. I was hired at a music school around a week before the country started to shutdown. Consequently, the school could not retain enough students, and the school closed in mid-May. This closure made me realize that there needs to be more value placed on musical education, now more than ever. However, this pandemic has created some new frontiers, both for me and the entire musical community. Musicians have had to learn to be adaptable. A year ago, teaching an entirely online studio would have been
nearly unheard of. Nowadays, it’s the norm. Even though the world circumstances aren’t ideal, I am excited to be on the forefront of this teaching and technological development.
Music is a universal language, one that can give insight to emotion when no amount of words ever can. It is one way to understand the crazy world we live in, and I want to give students that avenue of understanding.
Years later, now in undergrad, I started taking courses for my Piano Performance degree. Even as a performance major, I knew that I wanted to keep expanding my worldview. I took my first piano pedagogy course, and absolutely loved it. While it was hard work, I better understood how to effectively teach piano. And, despite it becoming more academic, I loved it even more. I found more joy in teaching, because I understood it better.
My favorite aspect of teaching is musical discovery. My favorite moments with my students are the times when they show me something they’ve learned or discovered, completely unprompted. Or when they ask about something they want to know about; for example, one of my students recently asked me how to perform large jumps. He’s a beginner student, but that budding curiosity shows promise. They are no longer seeking music because their parents are asking them to learn. Rather, they are building their own curiosities and ideas about music, and even the world that surrounds them. I want to be a better teacher in order to guide students through that process of musical discovery.
With the onset of the pandemic, I’ve both lost opportunities and gained new ones. I was hired at a music school around a week before the country started to shutdown. Consequently, the school could not retain enough students, and the school closed in mid-May. This closure made me realize that there needs to be more value placed on musical education, now more than ever. However, this pandemic has created some new frontiers, both for me and the entire musical community. Musicians have had to learn to be adaptable. A year ago, teaching an entirely online studio would have been
nearly unheard of. Nowadays, it’s the norm. Even though the world circumstances aren’t ideal, I am excited to be on the forefront of this teaching and technological development.
Music is a universal language, one that can give insight to emotion when no amount of words ever can. It is one way to understand the crazy world we live in, and I want to give students that avenue of understanding.