Kristina S.

General Info

• Certified Music Teacher

  Certified Music Teacher

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• Levels: Beginner to Advanced

• In-Home Lessons: No
• In-Studio Lessons: Yes
• Ages: 5 & up

Subjects Taught

Guitar, Piano, Singing, Music Performance, Music Recording, Music Theory, Songwriting, Speaking Voice, Theatrical Broadway Singing

Education

John Ford School of Music and Voice - Voice Lesson speech level singing technique, music theory, performance, songwriting, composition - Sept. 1989-1992 (Degree received)
De Anza College - Music, General Ed - 1989-91 (not complete)

Specialties

I specialize in all styles and genres. The technique I use can be put into all styles. I do not teach Opera or Classical.

Lesson Details

My teaching style is very much like my personality. I am serious, determined, disciplined and structured. However, I am very friendly, encouraging, patient and like to encourage you through POSITIVE strokes and feedback. I like to inspire and help you to be your most creative self. I like the student to learn by experience. I often hold student recitals and performances so that you can have a goal in mind that is specific. I will write down all of our lesson plans and what you do in every ... lesson so you can see your progress. I also record your lesson so that you can have something to hear back during the times you are not with me. I like to have fun as well and encourage you to take big leaps of faith, and try to do things you never thought you would!

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About

"When I go about singing, performing, or writing a song, I want to convey a message that there is something beyond your everyday worries and habits. There is this beautiful mystery within us all. I want to touch a person's spirit when I play, and I feel that music has that power.
If I am able to reach one person then I've done what I came to this world to do."
I have been performing professionally in the Bay Area and through out southern California for over 15 years. I have been teaching ... voice, guitar, piano and all music theory for 20 years. Some of my influences and inspirations are musicians like Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, John Lennon, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Edith Piaf, and Sarah Vaughn just to name a few.
Having spent much of my time performing as a solo artist, I now love the company and sound of performing with my husband who is my bassist/guitarist, and with various other musicians and band mates. I have also started a company with my husband called Firesign Entertainment which promotes humanitarian causes through music.

I was introduced to music and art at a very early age and taken to many jazz gigs by my mother. She made certain that I had the background in jazz music by taking me to many shows where I would watch her sketch the musicians. I have seen and met many of the greats like Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Abbey Lincoln, Shirley Horn and many more. I grew up in a home that upheld a strong respect and discipline for the arts. There was much music and laughter in my early years with my parents in Los Angeles, CA. They were often entertaining friends at fun gatherings where we would all sit around and sing and play music.

As the years passed, my parents decided to move up to Northern California where I spent most of my childhood and teenage years learning classical piano from my grandmother, singing and writing songs, being inspired by all the great singer songwriters of our times, and finally learning to play the guitar. After finishing high school, I graduated after four years from the John Ford School of Voice and Music in San Francisco. I studied music composition, theory, songwriting, performance, and all aspects of singing training and technique.

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