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Tatiana is a highly qualified teacher with 10+ years of teaching experience and 25+  years in the classical music profession. Tatiana first started her musical journey at the age of 7, when she came to her first piano lesson, and ever since that auspicious day music has not left her life. She would study piano until the age of 17 in a general music school in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. She was always praised by her teachers for her great talent at the piano. Upon graduating from the general music school, she would take a step back from pursuing music for a few years, and go on to obtain her Bachelor's degree in Optical Physics.  But, realizing, that her passion, indeed, lay in music, she returned to her pursuit of becoming a professional musician by beginning private lessons in Opera Singing from a wonderful Russian opera singer,with whom she studied for almost 10 years, before transferring from taking private lessons to beginning her Bachelors degree in Music (Piano and Singing) from the "Leningrad State University named after A. S. Pushkin" in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. She finished her degree from this University in June of 2020. 

But for Tatiana getting a music degree was not enough: she also wanted to learn how to give the best possible experience to children in their music lessons, and so, while she was working for her BM, she also enrolled in a 4 year program at the "Saint Petersburg College of music pedagogy ", where she went through extremely rigorous training on working with kids, specifically. Teaching piano, singing, and group genre music classes to children aged 3+. During the 4 year program she had the opportunity to work with children in numerous schools and kindergartens across the city under the guidance of very experienced teachers and pedagogues, almost daily. 

Tatiana is a wonderfully kind, patient, but more than anything extremely qualified teacher. She will with certainty teach your child how to excel at the piano, but at the same time to enjoy, and look forward to their lessons. 
Tatiana is currently actively teaching piano and working towards her Master's degree in Music, which she will have finished by September 2022. 

Tatiana strives for excellence in her lessons, making sure that she teaches her students immaculate technique and musical expression. But at the same time she does her best to keep lessons fun, and light; and to ensure that students are enjoying their musical experience.

In this adult-oriented weekly class students can expect to learn the basics of playing the piano: hand position, proper finger movement technique and posture, reading notes on the staff, simple finger dexterity exercises, understanding different note lengths and rhythms, the rudiments of scales, as well as learn how to play simple songs with both hands. Tatiana Kostenko is a professional pianist/opera singer and a very patient teacher, who is especially experienced in teaching adult beginners. She is very excited to work with you and help you get started on the right foot on your musical journey! 

Piano basics for adults

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Opera Voice

Singing

Music Theory

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I am a highly qualified teacher with 15 years of experience teaching piano and a degree in children’s music education. I have a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance as well as a Bachelor’s degree in music pedagogy, with a focus on children’s music education. I have been teaching piano to kids and adults for the past 15 years, and have myself played piano for the past 35 years.  In my lessons you can expect to learn proper piano technique and work on classical piano repertoire (however I am also very open if you would like to learn something outside of the classical repertoire: feel free to let me know of any songs you wish to learn, and we will make it happen! :-) ). I will teach you how to find a perfect piano hand position for your body, to help you play as easily and as effortlessly as possible, I will teach you the rudiments of music, I will teach you how to produce a beautiful singing sound on the piano, how to play fast musical pieces, how to play different styles of music, and so, so much more! In my lessons I strive to create a supportive and positive atmosphere, while at the same time pushing the student to get better and better at playing piano.

Thank you Ms. Tanya, she is a wonderful teacher. She has taught me piano lessons for the past year and helped me develop good piano skills, such as the proper way to play on the keys (the position of the finger movement), and helped me a lot in the pieces that I learned. She also taught me a lot about music theory and in the pieces. She also helps me improve as well. 10/10 I would recommend her to other students who want to learn piano. She does singing too in connection to piano to help. 

I'm an adult student and decided to start piano lessons despite a busy work schedule. Tatiana K. is very patient and encouraging, which is very helpful for an entry-level student. I particularly like that she emphasizes the basic skills for making good sound and she taught me to analyze the music before playing.   So far I only had about 10 lessons. But I can see that I should make good progress if I continue the weekly lessons with her.  Thank you, Tatiana! 

I spent a year of weekly lessons with Tatiana and it helped me a lot!.She certainly knows her stuff. Highly recommended!

Tatiana guided my grandchild through her first introduction to learning the piano.  She is a great teacher, and anyone should be so lucky to have her as a resource.  Changes in location and time zones for the teacher and student became the only obstacle.  We wish Titiana all the best.

Tatiana is an experienced and patient teacher with a wealth of knowledge to offer. She tailors her teaching style to address challenges unique to each student. Highly recommended!

Her skill with piano really comes through and she is very versatile in her instruction methods. I am only a few lessons in but she has been very understanding and patient as I fumble my way through. 

She really seems eager to teach this skill to those willing to learn and I am grateful to find her on here.

She never showed up to the meeting, I was waiting for 1 and a half hour for NOTHING, Please be mindful,Next time if your late, Please email people!!

It meant so much to have a genius teacher, who is a fellow Russian too.  She shared so much incredible information.  To look at her video of her playing piano is to be completely awestruck!  Her playing is that miraculous!  I loved my lesson completely and soon to take more. How can I gratefully thank such a dazzling magnificent teacher as Tatiana?! Who has a phenomenal way of teaching never to be forgotten!

It meant so much to have a fellow Russian who is an astonishingly brilliant teacher, as well as a complete Genius at the piano. If you see her video, she leaves you stunned!   I learned massive amounts of valuable information.  I loved my lessons entirely! Tatiana made all the difference in the world!

Tatiana is great! I was a complete beginner when I started lessons with her—couldn’t read music or play anything. Very quickly she got me to the point where I could play fairly difficult pieces really well. 
She is really warm and friendly as well

Tatiana is an amazing teacher! I took piano lessons with her for one year to prepare for my entrance auditions to a music program in college, and she helped me to make an enormous difference in my piano playing technique. She has high standards, and helps you to get better and better without ever being too overbearing. She has a solid lesson plan for each and every lesson, and a bigger picture of what you can achieve within a month or a year. She is amazing at teaching proper piano technique, she is very positive and patient, and gets great results. I recommend her 1000000%!

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