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Lisa Gunn

Phone: 925-963-2585 or 925 254 6867

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University of Massachusetts Amherst-MM Piano studies with Nigel Coxe

Teaching Assistant –University of Massachusetts Music Department

Solo recitals and chamber music ensemble performances - Friday morning music recital series

Master class performance for Lazar Berman

Piano studies at Marlboro and Windham College - BFA

Full stipend awarded to graduate studies with Nigel Coxe at U.Mass

Chamber music studies with David Wells and Joseph Schor

Solo keyboard concerto performed with the Windham Community Orchestra

Trio ensemble concerts and accompaniment

Concerts at Yellow Barn School Putney Vermont - Piano and string trio featuring Elmar Oliviera

Scales and chords are stressed weekly until the student can climb up and down the keyboard hands together with good facility. There will be a bit of ear training and transposition as well. Just like any sport has drills whether it be practicing a swing, dribbling and shooting or controlling a soccer ball so does the study of an instrument require the same skills of control.

My strength as a teacher of music is in the ability to take a pianist all the way from beginning to an advanced student of piano. The art of expression, phrasing, articulation, moving a composition forward and learning are all taught at this studio. I am teaching with the desire to have a student for many years. This studio is about passing on the traditions of century old piano technique and teaching musicality. I do not just teach classical - I teach all types of music (as long as it is good music). My training is from a long lineage of pianists from Beethoven, Czerny, Leschetitzky and finally Vengerova who taught my teacher.

I love to teach music - I generally do best with children who are from supportive families where commitment takes place during the week to practice. I do not have the intention of turning out competitive players and concert pianists (although if the desire to do so is there then I have the ability to make that happen.) I do best with adults that can be physically flexible but above all I enjoy teaching people who are not afraid of mistakes as this studio is about getting better, not being perfect.



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