Musical and intellectual growth will happen for every music student. My job is to guide each student through their own personal progress in learning how to read, perform, and interpret music. I encourage music lessons for all because it reinforces what I consider to be pillars of humanity: problem-solving, self-improvement, confidence, progress, empathy,  and emotion. You can find history and math as well as collaboration and pure beauty.

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In music, as we do in all other areas of life, we set goals, work toward and achieve them, then set new goals with different challenges. In studying music, my students also study the human condition. There is so much to know when it comes to music and no knowledge is useless.