Singing with Alley S.

Alley has taught throughout her musical career and loves nothing better than to introduce students of all ages to the power of music to lift their spirits, allowing them to grow, and have fun. As a teacher, she focuses on balancing inspiration and explanation. Inspiration: because if you don’t love your music, what’s the point! And technique: because if it’s easy to play and it sounds good, you’ll keep coming back for more! Alley has taught privately for 15 years. She has a BA in Music Performance from Berklee College of Music and has continued her education through private lessons and real world experience. Alley first became involved with piano when she would tag along with her mother to her piano lessons. The teacher gave Alley a beginners book and a few pointers and that started her on her musical journey. At age 12 Alley met local piano instructor Sandi Bedrosian-Hyde, who became not only her teacher but her friend and mentor. Alley was fortunate enough to become her teaching assistant for several years. From there, Alley developed her own method of teaching to help students positively achieve their goals as an artist and musician. Alley’s students range in age from 5 to 80 years old. Working at each individual student’s pace, Alley’s lessons enhance strength, dexterity, ear-training, memorization and overall musicianship. Artists and genres that Alley has experience teaching range from Disney to Pop to Classical and everything in between. ***Studio Equipment*** Yamaha Digital Piano Multi-angle camera set up AKG condenser microphone Scarlett 2i2 Foscusrite Audio Interface ***Online Supplies*** Sheet music as pdfs Links to purchase piano books **Specialties** I encourage all my students to improvise, to try different musical styles, and to experiment with composition. My goals are to share my own love for music and enable students to discover their unique musical voice.