Piano with Chad S.

• Graduated 2002 Onondaga Community College – Vice Presidents List - Associates Degree in Percussion Performance • Summer 2002 – Internship in NYC for Yamaha Music Company • Fall 2002 – Transferred to SUNY Fredonia – Music Therapy – Percussion – Graduated 2006 Bachelor of Science • Instructed Liverpool March Band Pit for three seasons • Freelance performer and composer for area dance studios • Founding “Music Together” Center Director, Skaneateles NY • Music Teacher at “Sunny Patch” Montessori, and Holy Trinity Preschool, Skaneateles NY • Owner and director of “Curtain Time Theater” Music Theatre Director Holy Cross Elementary, Dewitt NY • Percussion and Piano Instructor at Greater Syracuse School of Music • Experience Instructing Students with special needs. I have a gift for teaching and connecting with my students. I am fun to be around and I make the music learning process fun! I can say this with confidence because I see the expression of joy on many little faces when I walk into a their classroom. I am passionate about what I do and I try to pass that excitement on to my students. *** Lesson Details *** The lessons will be all encompassing. I will touch upon rhythm, music theory, notation, and aural theory. I will teach the student all the things I wish I had learned before I went to college. Yes this even goes for the drummers. *** Studio Equipment *** Casio CDP-120 weighted keys, digital keyboard. Yamaha Nylon CG-151S Guitar. Oh Boy do I have Sheet Music, snare drum, drum set, marimba, piano (most styles), flute, guitar! I have tons! Makala Ukulele MK-S *** Specialties *** I have many clinical hours through college and professional experience instructing people with special needs. I work with their strengths and build musical experiences based on those assessments along with the goals of the parents and students.