Salome S. TakeLessons Instructor music, Guitar, voice, keyboard, Keyboard for children, Salsa dancing, Spanish Atlantic St., Quincy, MA

Hello prospective students!

My name is Salome and I would love to make music part of your live. I belief music is for eveyone and anyone can learn and instrument and enjoy it. So what are you waiting for? let's get started!

Here is my resume so you could get to now me better.

Salomé Sandoval sings and plays a variety of fretted string instruments such as lutes, early and classical guitars. Native of Venezuela Salomé holds a B.M. from Instituto Universitario de Estudios Musicales (with Luis Zea) and a M.A. from Middle Tennessee State University (with William Yelverton) both in classical guitar. She has played in master classes with renowned international guitarists, as well as in radio shows, theater, movie soundtracks and television. Award winner in several competitions, Salomé has sung and played early, Latin American, and contemporary music in various ensembles and choirs in Venezuela and the US. Recently she was part of the classical guitar faculty at MTSU. She has collaborated in many CD recordings and in her first CD “Cantando con el Fuego” (Singing with the Fire) Salome combines her voice and guitar with repertoire that includes English Renaissance pieces and Spanish music; her second CD “Pociones” (Potions) is now available, containing a variety of songs from early, Latin-American and twentieth-century music. Today she is pursuing a GPD in early music as a voice and lute major thanks to a scholarship awarded by Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA.

Teaching Philosophy
The student-teacher relationship is fundamental in the foundation of a successful music performer. The focus of a private lesson should be balanced and based on the development of technical skills and musical understanding, as well as on performing psychology aspects. Essential tasks of music teaching and learning must go towards: 1. - Students’ musicianship in regard to musical expressiveness. 2. - Students’ self-efficiency: generalized ability to solve musical problems, and as consequence, independence and creativeness as musicians, and 3. - Students’ enjoyment of the ‘giving-receiving’ experience in performance.
Other aspects to strongly consider are: student’s motivation as well as awareness of strengths and weaknesses. An emphatic and psychology-based student-teacher relationship and a “constructive and preventive program of performance preparation” (Schneiderman 1992), will function as an effective strategy for performance success.
For classroom teaching creativity and technology-based activities are primordial for student’s involvement. Today’s generation is visually oriented, so I implement not only the required aural and listening contents but also Power Point presentations and in-class performance. I addition to technology, I think students feel more engaged and understand other musical periods or other cultures by participating in physical activities, such as dancing, playing ethnic instruments and going to art exhibition and concerts. I believe that teachers can make a difference in student’s lives.

Cuatro (Venezuelan four-string guitar),
Classical, folk, and Latin.
Classical Guitar, Folk Guitar, Electric Guitar for beginners.

music, Guitar, voice, keyboard, Keyboard for children, Salsa dancing, Spanish