About Daria B.
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Music Instructor
Sep, 2001 - Presentself
• Teach private lessons on flute and piano to students ages 6+ both as an independent teacher and for private music studios. • Help students select and prepare appropriate music for recitals and auditions. • Create personalized course depending on student needs and interests, including writing brand-new exercises, arranging pieces for solo instruments, and devising games to hold younger learners’ attention.
ESL Instructor
Apr, 2019 - Aug, 2019LASC
• English as a Second Language classroom instructor to adults for weekday evening classes. • Taught Grammar, Reading, Vocabulary, Writing and Idioms to Pre-Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate classes.
Adjunct Faculty - Flute
Jan, 2019 - Jun, 2019Pierce College
• Private instructor for applied flute course for music majors. • Help students select and prepare appropriate music for recitals and auditions. • Create personalized course depending on student needs and interests, including writing brand-new exercises, arranging pieces for solo instruments, and helping students find opportunities to perform in public.
Multiple Subject Tutor
Oct, 2018 - Apr, 2019Unlimited Learning
Music Instructor
Jan, 2018 - Aug, 2018Mission Hills Music
• Gave individual beginning flute and piano lessons to students ages 5-13.
Music Instructor
Jan, 2018 - Jun, 2018California Music Studios
• Gave individual beginning flute, piano, clarinet, and violin to students ages 6-16.
ESL Instructor
Mar, 2017 - Mar, 2018Eurocentres San Diego
• English as a Second Language classroom instructor to adults for weekday morning classes. • Taught Grammar, Reading, Vocabulary, Writing to Pre-Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate classes.
ESL Instructor
Jan, 2017 - Aug, 2018International House, San Diego
• English as a Second Language classroom instructor to adults for weekday morning classes. • Taught Grammar, Reading, Vocabulary, Writing to Pre-Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate classes. • Taught project-oriented lessons to international middle and high school students in Summer Juniors program. • Developed project-oriented curriculum and taught 12-week Business English Class for Advanced students.
ESL Instructor
Jan, 2013 - Jan, 2014ELS Seattle
• English as a Second Language classroom instructor to adults for weekday morning classes. • Taught Grammar, Reading, Vocabulary, Writing to Pre-Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate classes.
Doctoral Teaching Assistant
Oct, 2012 - Jun, 2015University of Washington
Director - Contemporary Music Ensemble • Developed a new contemporary music ensemble for-credit course for graduate and undergraduate students, choosing repertoire that was both challenging and enriching for new performers of contemporary music. • Arranged all rehearsal schedules and performances for performance class and began an initiative of using student-written program notes for all concerts. • Recruited students for ensemble class every quarter, ranging from 6 to 30 performers, depending on repertoire needs. • Arranged performances off-campus as part of the curriculum in spaces such as churches and cafes so students could get experience performing with the ensemble between 2 and 4 times a quarter. • Led a West Coast premiere performance of Bruno Maderna’s multimedia opera, Don Perlimplin with the ensemble. Instructor – Woodwind Techniques • Developed curriculum for a weekly undergraduate and graduate-level course in flute techniques for Music Education majors, including the history of the flute, teaching methods, common practices and issues in elementary to high school students, instrument care, and performance technique. • Taught weekly, 30-minute private flute lessons to each student of the class. Instructor – Flute Lessons • Taught private lessons to graduate and undergraduate majors and non-majors. Primary Instructor – Chamber Music Lab • Primary instructor for weekly chamber music performance class for undergraduate and graduate students. • Updated chamber music class curriculum to be consistent with the needs of today’s music student, incorporating presentation and improvisation skills into a performance setting. Grader – Music Theory 116 • Evaluated student quizzes, tests, and homework for beginning music theory class for non-majors.
Multiple Subject Tutor
Jan, 2012 - Jun, 2012One-on-One Learning
Education
Music Performance (flute)
Sep, 2001 - May, 2005Eastman School of Music
Music
Sep, 2012 - Jun, 2015University of Washington
CELTA-ESOL Certificate
Feb, 2012 - Feb, 2012New York Teaching House
Music Performance (flute)
Sep, 2006 - May, 2008McGill University
Affiliations
National Flute Association
Apr, 1998The National Flute Association, founded in 1972, is the largest flute organization in the world. Approximately 5,000 members from more than 50 countries join together in person, online, at conventions, informally and in forums, through publications and classrooms, in performance, in friendship and collegiality. Guided by its goals to encourage a higher standard of artistic excellence for the flute, its performers, and its literature, members include leading soloists, orchestral players, jazz and world music performers, teachers, adult amateurs, and students of all ages.
College Music Society, The
Nov, 2016The College Music Society promotes music teaching and learning, musical creativity and expression, research and dialogue, and diversity and interdisciplinary interaction. A consortium of college, conservatory, university, and independent musicians and scholars interested in all disciplines of music, the Society provides leadership and serves as an agent of change by addressing concerns facing music in higher education.
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