My Teaching Philosophy:
Teachers inspire and create the next generation of geniuses, artists, pedagogues, orators, and leaders, and are essential to the shaping of our future society. Learning is an ongoing process, and is best facilitated by continuous communication between the professor and student. I believe that it is the instructor’s duty to not only coach good technique and musicality, but also to discuss goals for the student and push the student to achieve above what the student believed possible to begin with. The most important element of teaching for student success is love for the art being taught. I believe we must remember why we chose to love music in the first place, and strive to cultivate that love endlessly. Technique and skill without passion results in dead music, and we must always remind the student through our playing and teaching that music is alive and always strives to awaken something within the soul.
Teachers inspire and create the next generation of geniuses, artists, pedagogues, orators, and leaders, and are essential to the shaping of our future society. Learning is an ongoing process, and is best facilitated by continuous communication between the professor and student. I believe that it is the instructor’s duty to not only coach good technique and musicality, but also to discuss goals for the student and push the student to achieve above what the student believed possible to begin with. The most important element of teaching for student success is love for the art being taught. I believe we must remember why we chose to love music in the first place, and strive to cultivate that love endlessly. Technique and skill without passion results in dead music, and we must always remind the student through our playing and teaching that music is alive and always strives to awaken something within the soul.