Before winning a tenured position with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra I was teaching a lot as a licensed teacher in the Massachusetts public school system, and had a private cello studio with over 30 students. I always loved teaching, but something inside me felt wrong. I felt that unless I earned a professional performance job to prove my validity as a cellist, that my methods would never be worthy enough for my students. After all I had earned performance degrees from Manhattan School of Music, Southern Methodist University, and the Royal Conservatory of Music. I became determined to win a job with an orchestra, so after finishing my studies, every day for two years I taught classes in the Newton public schools to 4th, 7th and 8th graders, then taught 30+ students weekly private lessons, then practiced to win an audition from 7:30pm-11:30pm. I was paying my own flight plus my cello's flight to take auditions, and while advancing in a few, I was never able to close the deal. l was getting overwhelmingly discouraged until I read a life changing book about audition preparation that was actually popular among professional athletes training to win competitions. It uses the idea that performance success comes from focusing on statistical consistency within one's preparation. After applying these specific methods to my practice, I began winning auditions and competitions almost immediately. When I applied these same methods to my students the results were incredible, and I finally felt that my own methods were worthy of teaching. With over 100 sequential curated video lessons each filmed in beautiful locations in Hawaii, I can be your private cello practice coach teaching you just one core element at a time. You might be surprised at how easy it will feel to retain and compound your skills in
such a short period of time. I invite you to take a free stroll walking through the program so that you can see how easy it is to just put one foot in front of the other all by yourself.
