From the age of 4, my life has been immersed in music: learning, performing, competing, and teaching. I bring that life’s experience to students who wish to learn. Whether just beginning piano lessons, experienced but wishing to grow, or looking for help to work through challenges such as technique problems, pain or injury, a committed student will find in me an equally committed partner in exploring the rich rewards of music.
In addition to my many years teaching in schools and in my private studio, I continue to be a student myself, always seeking new experience, new insights, new techniques. Fundamentally, however, my teaching is built upon a core foundational principle:
All music learning begins with perceiving or hearing of sound, then as student responds in some way the mind begins to grasp bits of understanding and the student is ready to actuate or create his own music by either performing, improvising or composing.
- Virginia Hoge Mead