Nina - Teacher #3721

Instruments:
- Piano

Services:
- Music History
- Music Theory (Beginner-Intermediate)
- RCM
- Solfege

Languages:
- English

Teaching Philosophy

In my experience, I have learned that communication, encouragement and compassion are just as essential elements to imparting musical knowledge as technical skill. I enjoy incorporating solfege and games into my teaching, and model concepts according to the Kodály philosophy. I am a patient and versatile teacher who is dedicated to guiding my students to reach their best potential. I understand each student is different and pride myself on providing a tailored and comprehensive musical education utilising a variety of approaches. While I believe the classical repertoire provides a crucial backbone to musical education, I proactively seek out contemporary material to engage students’ interests and inspirations.

Musical Education

Having graduated with a Music Education BA degree from Ireland’s most prestigious music conservatoire and university (Royal Irish Academy of Music / Trinity College Dublin), I have always strived for not only high quality but enjoyment in the music I teach. As a part of my degree, I had the opportunity to study at the Kodály Institute in Hungary, which solidified my understanding of music as an embodiment of the self and experience and honed in on musicianship. I received my Piano Pedagogy Diploma (ARIAM) with honours in 2018. Notable teachers include Réamonn Keary, Yasmin Folini, Jean Archibald and Marie Moran.

Rates

30 Minutes: $39.00
45 Minutes: $49.00
60 Minutes: $59.00

There is a one-time registration fee of 25 $ charged with the first lessons. All Taxes are included in prices, if applicable

NOTE: Your Credit card will be charged ONLY when the first lesson is set up and confirmed with the teacher

Policies


1. Cancellation Policy

Lessons not cancelled or rescheduled with at least 24 hours notice are billable to the client and payable to the teacher. This does not of course apply to travel fees unless the notice is effectively given at the door and the teacher has travelled to the location.

2. Cessation (quitting) Policy

A client must provide a 2 lesson notice period to stop lessons. So a weekly student needs to give 2 weeks of notice, a biweekly student works out to 3 weeks notice and a twice weekly student works out to a week of notice.

3. Illness Policy

Lessons cancelled due to illness or extraordinary circumstances with less than 24 hours notice remain billable to the client and payable to the teacher.

BAH teachers are encouraged to offer a make-up lesson at a future date in the interest of client relations and general goodwill. This only makes sense as teaching a student with the flu for example, will ruin the rest of your week's employment.

No more than 2 lessons may be made up due to illness within a 60 day period.

4. Rescheduling Policy

Any lesson can be cancelled or rescheduled with at least 24 hours notice.

Summer Vacation and Extended Absence Policy

Clients may schedule longer absences for trips etc. 24 hours notice is required.

It is normal and typical for students and about 20% of our teachers to schedule a break in the summer. We do not enforce a notice period (see cessation of lessons) at the end of a long summer break.

5. Evaluation Period

There are no free trial lessons with Beethoven at Home but we do offer a 2 lesson evaluation period where it is easy to try out a teacher. There are no free lessons during the evaluation period and clients may choose to discontinue the lessons at any time by providing the required 24 hours notice. After the student's 3rd lesson the required 2 lesson notice period will apply (see cessation of lessons above).

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