Piano Lessons in De Pere. Amazing Teachers.

16 years of teaching experience with a proven curriculum for students of all ages beginners to advanced. Music theory, ear training, sight-reading, and note-reading are my specialities for building a strong foundation helping you truly love music for a lifetime. Let's get started!

I incorporate a lot in piano lessons such as chords, technique, memorization, music reading, music theory, and more. I like using both lesson books and music that the individual picks out to keep students interest and engagement. I like to incorporate fundamentals of music theory so that they understand how to play music and not only learning to read music. I also incorporate by ear training. I try to keep lessons fun and teach students patience with themselves, as we all have to learn while learning any instrument! I continually help students form good practice habits and show them effective ways to practice.

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I’m Zachary, a classical composer and pianist from Pittsburgh, PA. I have been composing music for orchestra for six years and playing piano for nearly a decade. In 2018, I was offered a seat in the studio of world-renowned composer, Lowell Liebermann at the Mannes School of Music.

Our lessons will range from the difference between your piano’s white and black keys through to advanced theory applications (advanced counterpoint, modal modulation, score analysis, etc.)

Here are some of the things you can expect from our lessons!

-- A devised a lesson plan catered specifically to your musical ambitions, whether they be simply playing piano for friends and family or using your piano as a medium to craft the symphony you’ve always dreamed of writing.

-- Instilling proper technical habits in your piano playing — and ditching any bad habits!

-- Developing a fundamental understanding of music theory and its many applications in piano, composition and much more!

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Piano classes will be geared not only with piano technique, but with music theory as well. Piano is a great instrument to learn because it is the instrument that allows you to be able to transfer to other instruments, if you desire. Piano lessons will be geared towards music reading and technique. Once a basic and proficient music reading is achieved by the student, lessons can begin to infuse music not only from the method books, but from student interest.

I recently graduated from The Juilliard School with a BMA in Piano Performance, having studied with legendary pedagogue and Chair of Piano Dr. Veda Kaplinsky, and fabled concert pianist Hung-Kuan Chen, whose students also include the likes of Yuja Wang and Sean Chen. I've traveled the musical world and studied with several of the world's most celebrated concert pianists, including András Schiff, Richard Goode, Ari Vardi, and Sergei Babayan, mentor of international piano star Daniil Trifonov, as one of eight students worldwide accepted to his final Babayan International Piano Academy. I've performed with the Seattle Symphony amongst various other orchestras in Europe and China, and perform regularly as a soloist in the greater NYC area and Seattle at venues including Carnegie Hall. Since beginning my teaching career, I've looked forward to sharing my knowledge of music as an international language with students across all ages, in order to nurture their artistic talents and unique ...

What you'll expect is a mix of sight reading, technique learning and playing, book performance and improvisation by ear for each lesson in the style the student wishes to learn about. If needed, I also write individual exercises tailored to each student and their practice routine. I teach them all of the major, minor and modal scales, chords, arpeggios, proper hand positioning and fingering. I teach many ages, especially beginners up to level 5 in piano levels.