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About Me
I have 3 sons - Don, David, and Rory, and 4 grandchildren - Nathan, Mikayla, Wyatt, and Cayden. When I am not teaching piano, I spend as much time as I can having fun with my grandchildren. I have many different interests. I'm a lifelong genealogist. I am a dedicated student of Tai Chi and Qigong, and an avid pickleball player. I also enjoy hiking, making beeswax candles, and doing pottery. |
Music Background
Music has been a big part of my life since childhood. I learned my first instrument - ukulele - at about the age of 5. I taught myself piano, at first. Many of my cousins played and I wanted to play too, so I sat at my grandmother's piano and learned to play from the books she had. Eventually I got my own piano and piano lessons. In 4th grade I started to play the flute, in middle school, the drums. During high school I tried many different band instruments, as well as guitar, electric bass, and 5-string banjo. One year I sat 1st chair in both flute and oboe in concert band, and played in the drum line in marching band. I studied flute in Philadelphia with Carol Light, and then Loren Lind. I spent several years playing bass professionally with different bands, during which time I attended West Chester State College as a music education major. I've sung in several choirs, and eventually held a position for 10 years as a church organist and music director. I started teaching when I was about 17, and have been teaching pretty much constantly since then. While I have taught most of the instruments I've learned, piano has remained the constant for me, and it is the instrument on which I now focus. |
I love to teach piano, especially to kids. The high point of my week is when my student has practiced and we have a great focused, productive lesson with a few laughs here and there. Before I know it, our lesson has ended and often I wish we had more time.
Some dream of hitting the lottery in order to not have to work anymore. I confess, I do it too. But when I ask myself if I'd still teach, the answer is always, "Yes". |