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Robert is an amazing teacher. Classes are not some rote prescription. They flow with what you are learning and what you want to learn, yet with structure. He is a truly creative teacher. Plus he does not demand perfection instead encourages heart

Robert is a great teacher. He listens and helps the student create and work towards achieving personal goals.

Robert has made the piano come alive for me and I am so grateful. His teaching is lively and I have never experienced such wonder in music. The lessons are fun:
they include singing, counting, improvising and sprinkling of basics.
I love my lessons with Robert....

Arthur is a really nice guy and a great piano teacher. Very patient!

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We love everything whatever he teaches to my son!!

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I am very pleased with my teacher. He has helped me very much. I am very blessed to have found him.

Trevor is great, he has patience for us beginners, explains things well and answers all my questions. The rest is up to me.

had a great first lesson

Looking forward to the next one!

My daughter had a wonderful first lesson! We are looking forward to many more! Olivier is encouraging and works with students at their level.

It is a very delightful experience to work with Mimi. She is helping me get those deep lovely tones from the viola and helping me with techniques to help me play without fatigue so I can play longer and with more enjoyment!

I am learning so much! I enjoy my weekly lessons and I am always looking forward to the next one. She is an encouraging and patient teacher.

Mimi is an excellent and patient teacher and very sweet person. I recommend all to have her as a tutor.

I started with Saad at a music camp upstate I was attending and of which he was composition faculty. Having taken plenty of music theory in the past but no formal composition, I didn’t know what to expect. First off, Saad’s manner couldn’t have been more calming or inviting from the very beginning, and that really built a great rapport between us and allowed me to do my best work. Secondly, based on my accounts of my past training, it took little time for Saad to identify what were my strengths and what we needed to study in order to ensure my best compositional outputs. We studied invertible counterpoint, a complex subject fundamental to nearly all forms of advanced classical counterpoint. Saad made the subject really approachable through intricate but understandable explanations of different concepts and provided really illustrative examples of each concept. Even a year after those several weeks of study, in which I have hardly written nearly the number of contrapuntal exercises as I did in the weeks during and after Saad’s tutelage, I still find canon and fugue writing to be doable and even fun, testament to how I was able to hold on to Saad’s teachings even long after working with him. I couldn’t recommend Saad’s abilities and qualities higher to anyone wishing to take composition lessons, and it certainly doesn’t hurt that he is an accomplished, experienced, fascinating, and highly-sought-after composer in his own right. Even after working with dozens of different teachers in different musical disciplines, I have found my studies with Saad to be among the absolute most rewarding.

Saad was able to guide me into directions in my compositions I wouldn’t have thought would be possible otherwise. I recommend him highly as he pushed me to work as hard as I could on my pieces, while at the same time highlighting pertinent contemporary repertoire in our lessons.

Such a patient knowledgeable tutor who really cares about his students’ progress and goes above and beyond to nurture their musical growth