VOICE

Beginner

• Learning the fundamentals of healthy vocalizing
• Improving technique through simple scale exercises
• Applying the acquired knowledge in easy songs

Acquiring healthy fundamentals is essential in preserving singing voice for decades. Thus, beginners will not sing songs until they show a stable level of vocal control in scales without the teacher's constant intervention.

Intermediate

• Building upon the earlier acquired fundamentals
• Getting rid of bad habits acquired earlier in life
• Improving technique through more complex scale exercises
• Learning level-appropriate songs

Continuing voice lessons with a new teacher might bring up unexpected challenges if the previously acquired vocal technique is found unhealthy. Unlearning bad habits and building healthy ones is always more challenging than starting without any preliminary vocal studies. This requires a lot of patience both from the voice teacher and the student.  

Advanced

• Professional work on high level
• More genre-specific, based on the interest of student
• Learning songs challenging enough to further advancement in technique 
• Vocal coaching for professional performances

The advanced level is a quasi professional level. Students will be prepared for auditions or they will be led into the university level vocal studies.

PIANO

Beginner 

30 minutes once or twice a week

 

• Getting familiar with music fundamentals
• Acquiring the basics of proper piano technique
• Learning fun, easy songs with the teacher’s accompaniment

Strong fundamentals are inevitable to build upon. Stable knowledge of basics helps to step onto the next level. Step-by-step, customized lessons tailored to the student’s needs.

For young students between ages 6-9 the active involvement of the parents is inevitable in order to see any progress. Thus, if none of the parents plays the piano, then the one who is present at the lesson must pay attention closely in order to be able to assist the child when (s)he tries to practice at home.

At this level one of the popular method books are used, like Alfred, Bastien, Faber, Keith Snell.

Intermediate level 

30 minutes twice a week or 45 minutes once a week is recommended

• Deeper knowledge of the piano
• Improving technique through scale skills and etudes
• Music theory

The intermediate level requires more commitment and helps students to step into the advanced level no matter whether the student wants or not to choose music as a career. The books used at this level depend on the commitment level of the student. Serious students abandon the method books and switch over to more meticulously selected book series.

Advance level 

30 or 45 minutes twice a week is highly recommended

• Learning complex, but musically more gratifying compositions
• Further improving technique through scales, etudes, technical exercises
• Deeper understanding of music theory

At this level no method books are used. The curriculum is tailored to the age, interest, individual needs of each and every student.