As a lifelong musician I cannot imagine my life without daily listening or playing. Music was once considered a scientific discipline, and remains a well of mystery for why we like what we like. Submission to steady rhythms and the harmonic series teaches a humility and respect for what is naturally beautiful. I can’t help but believe that it is this curious relationship with music that makes young musicians measurable more successful in academics. 

I am incredibly patient. I love life, and have a resilient positivity. 

I’ll talk to children the way I talk to my peers; with a large vocabulary and appeals to underlying principles and big picture concepts. My curiosity, wit and wonder allow me to make the seeming cryptic connections kids make when learning, and I lean into their engagement. I firmly believe this is the right disposition when modeling behavior to our young people. From my years working with preschool, elementary, and middle school age children I have learned what sort of language and appeals work when conveying concepts that hold a young persons attention and curiosity on music. 

A memory of piano lessons when I was very young, around 5 years old, was that my teacher would humor me when I became distracted with other questions about music and even other things in the room. For traditional, Suzuki-style instrumental instruction there are other music tutors better suited for the task. By having music literacy be the subject there is an endless pool of instruments, notations, and history to learn and teach from. Quality in music is the theme we're exploring that that connects these disparate subjects.  

My service.

You as a parent and caregiver have limited time or musical knowledge. I offer 30 to 50 minute sessions designed to expose young children to music in the pursuit of music literacy and performance in Seattle homes, schools, and childcare centers.