Pre-School

Mrs. Olga Day is a member of the Music Teachers Association of California and trains children to get the MTA Certificate of Merit. She received Bachelors and Masters degrees from Russia. Before she moved to the United States, Mrs. Day was a piano teacher and an accompanist for a chorus at a music school. She wrote an award winning series of articles giving a new, progressive method of teaching piano. She was involved in educating other piano teachers. Her students participated in piano competitions, festivals, and other events.

I have played professionally and taught in the Bay Area and New York (1980 to 1990) over a period of 35 years. I also taught instrumental music in the West Contra Costa School District until I retired in 2010.
I would describe my approach as individualized. That is to say it is geared to the specific individual that I'm working with at any given time. I take into account the person's

Ryan Stohs has lived the majority of his life with a pair of drumsticks
in his hands: starting in 1985 with drum set lessons, through 12 years
of drum corps, into the percussion program at San Jose State University,
and on to teaching, writing, and performing all across the country.
Ryan
has experience performing with all styles of musical groups, from duos
and trios to orchestras and drum corps. He has a passion for musical
theatre and has most recently been the drummer for all of the musicals

Bruce Loeb is an experienced teacher and performer who offers piano lessons that develop musicianship, sight-reading and technique.

Learning how to produce a beautiful tone allows you to hear music better and to develop the ability to play with presence and a sense of being centered in your whole body.

I love teaching and performing - and I do a lot of both!
I have been
teaching in the Bay Area for over a decade, and I also perform regularly
with Opera Santa Barbara's innovative education outreach program, The
Opera Lab. I perform locally and abroad -- I have sung in Spoleto,
Italy, for two summers and bring my expertise in Italian into lessons.
I
teach children and adults - anyone who has a passion for singing and
wants to learn! I help you create a solid technique rooted in a free

Professional Music Educator (excellent references) with almost 20 years
of experience , ages 4 1/2 and up. Seniors are welcomed. No need to drive
to a studio, you save time and on gas. I specialize in working with
beginners and truly help students,helping them to discover how to feel
comfortable at the piano,develop good reading and listening skills,learn
how to practice, and understand some theoretical aspects of
music. Recitals are being held twice (at least) a year in 1 of music

Classical guitarist & lutenist, Adam Cockerham, was a finalist in
the Carmel Society Instrumental Competition where his performance was
regarded as being "beautifully and effortlessly executed" by Peninsula
Reviews. He recently performed alongside such guitar luminaries as
Sergio Assad, David Tanenbaum, Marc Teicholz, Lawrence Ferrara, &
Peppindo D'Agustino in the world premiere performance of Assad's
"Wednesdays at Sugar."

 I am a
veteran music teacher in the public schools, with extensive musical
connections throughout the Bay Area. I have played and taught violin,
viola, clarinet and saxophone professionally in orchestras and jazz
bands. I educate the Whole Musician; I instruct in music reading,
instrumental technique and general music appreciation. I will come to
your home (I do not have a studio.)
Besides, teaching, I conduct the
most innovative and family-friendly community orchestra in the Bay Area,

 My teaching career started in Brussels area music academies, teaching solfège (sight-singing) while I was a harp student. I also have an extensive piano background. Since moving to California, I have taught many students privately and at university level. I have pursued simultaneously a career focused on solo/ chamber music performance and teaching. It is important for me to leave a legacy, so I am also engaged in music advocacy, writing on harp literature and in arranging, editing and publishing harp music.

My career in music began as a piano prodigy. At age sixteen, I was selected to be an apprentice teacher to a protege of Rosina Lhevinne of Juilliard, and personally taught children and adults. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music at Stanford University (studying piano and chamber ensemble with Adolf Baller), I studied chamber ensemble and performed in a piano trio at USC. I have taught piano privately for over sixteen years. I prefer to maintain a boutique practice, will travel to student homes, and I customize my methods for the needs and interests of my students.