Coaching for professionals
In our musical practice as professional musicians, there are always new things to learn, deeper understandings to reach, and greater heights to achieve. This is one of the deep truths of living a life of artistic excellence. As professional musicians, we often know what we want to learn or improve in our practice and want specific, expert help in achieving our goals. With my extensive background as a pianist, composer, conductor, and teacher, as well as my two doctorates in music (PhD in Composition and DMA in Piano), I have the knowledge and experience to help professional pianists, composers, teachers, and academics to further hone their own skills.
I offer short or medium term coaching on advanced musical topics and projects in piano, composition, and related skill areas for professional musicians, music teachers, academic musicians, and other high-level music lovers.
Examples of coaching I have given in the past:
Helping a composer put the finishing touches on their new album of original pieces before publishing them.
Teaching an in-depth refresher on orchestration to a music professor preparing to teach college-level orchestration courses.
Guiding an advanced high school composer through finishing a commissioned piece in time for their premier on short notice.
Teaching beginning conducting for a composer interested in expanding their skillset.
Helping a professional piano teacher gain deeper confidence in their performing abilities through teaching them advanced piano literature.
Teaching complex rhythms (20th-century complexity)
If you have a project you need help with or a skillset you would like to build or learn related to piano, composition, avant-garde and experimental music of the 20th and 21st centuries, orchestration, conducting, improvisation in a classical style, Baroque keyboard skills (figured bass), counterpoint, or analysis, please contact me with details about what you are interested in.
For coaching sessions, I charge $135 for an hour, $170 for 75 minutes, or $200 for 90 minutes. I aim to make coaching sessions as fruitful and efficient as possible, and if I feel like you might benefit from ongoing lessons with me instead (which is charged at a lower rate), I would suggest that path instead.
I look forward to hearing from you!