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Piano Teachers
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Performing:
Kristina has played in an eclectic variety of musical
situations. Originally trained in Europe as a classical
pianist, she has also played in live bands since her late
teens. Her most recent group project, The River Gypsies,
performed at the Boulder Creek Festival and the Dreamtime
Festival in Paonia. Over the past years, she has been
a regular solo artist at Vic's Coffee Shop and Penny Lane.
She has also performed in North Indian Classical music
concerts, as a vocalist and harmonium player. Her most
recent solo project, The Singing Cave Woman, premiered
at the Dreamtime Festival, coming soon to a theater near
you. She also has played at weddings and parties, and
has accompanied voice and dance classes and performances,
in conjunction with Express Yourself Dance Studio, C.A.M.P.
of Boulder, the Gurdjieff Movements Group, and Rebecca
Johnston, a lead voice teacher.
Education:
Kristina spent her early
years in specialist music schools in London and Budapest
studying classical piano as well as all other facets of
formal musical training. Later, her interest expanded
to world music, rock, jazz, folk and experimental music.
She spent 2 years in the CU Boulder College of Music.
She has studied for 6 years with Chaitanya Kabir, a teacher
of Indian Ragas, and currently also studies composition,
improvisation and performance with Art Lande, a well known
local jazz musician and exponent of visionary, experimental
music. Kristina's education has been a blend of formal
training, and experience gleaned through playing with
other musicians. She has also learned much from her own
musical explorations of composing, recording and performance.
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Teaching Experience:
Kristina
has taught piano for 16 years. She has added teaching
Indian Raga Singing, music theory and guitar to that
over the past several years. She has also taught music
to children, including classes at Homestar Child Development
Center, Iris Hollow Montessori, and Horizons Elementary
School. Kristina seeks to identify the student's own
goals, and use that as a starting point to support the
unfoldment of the student's creative expression. Care
is taken to discover what makes the student tick, how
they best learn, and how the process can be most enjoyable,
while keeping a balance of all the necessary ingredients;
good technique, theory, ear training, learning compositions,
writing songs, improvising, reading music and preparing
for a performance.
Styles
taught: Classical,
Improvisational, Popular, Blues, Jazz, Composition,
Experimental Folk and Kidz
-n-
Music.
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Performing:
Fatima has played in a variety of bands and musical
shows, including "Fame" and "Grease."
She has also performed for weddings and other engagements.
Over the years, she has received several awards in classical
music competitions. Fatima plays a unique variety of
musical styles and has performed anything from traditional
Classical Music to Middle Eastern improvisation and
the Blues. She is currently working on a collaborative
project entitled, "The Free Land Explorers,"
incorporating the art of group musical improvisation
and dance.
Education:
Fatima
began her training at the early age of seven and has
accumulated seventeen years of musical experience. She
was originally trained in classical piano and voice
by private instruction and is self-taught in the guitar
and Middle Eastern drumming. Fatima received her B.A.
at Naropa University where she studied musical improvisation
and received her degree.
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Teaching Experience:
Fatima has been sharing her piano experience with the
Boulder community for five years. She is a proficient
teacher in many styles of piano and works very well
with small children and adults. Fatima aspires to provide
her students with all the skills necessary to allow
them to express themselves freely through their instrument.
She provides a relaxed and positive environment for
optimum learning and adds a degree of fun and excitement
to every lesson. Fatima believes that everyone is unique;
therefore she adjusts her teaching methods and materials
to the needs of each student.
Styles
taught: Classical,
Jazz, Blues, Pop, Latin, Middle Eastern, and Improvisation.
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Performing:
Ms. Rex made her professional debut
in New Mexico as the Third Lady in Mozart's The Magic
Flute. She was also selected to perform at the Aspen
Opera Theater Center for two seasons in 1990 and 1991
where she performed a dance role in Stravinsky's opera
Renard, sang as the Second Lady in Mozart's The Magic
Flute, sang in Four Saints in Three Acts, and played
the role of Eva in Marinu's Comedy on the Bridge. In
addition, Diane has performed with the Colorado Gilbert
and Sullivan Festival, the Bold Lion Opera, the Colorado
Music Festival, the Colorado Springs Opera Festival,
the Cantabile Singers' Mozart Requiem as soloist as
well as Handel's Messiah in Boulder. She was a New Your
City Metropolitan Opera Colorado-Wyoming District finalist
for two year in 1989 and 1990. She performed as a singer
in Noe's At the Hawk's Well for the National Opera Association
and composed and performed original music for the premiere
of Martin Colben's The Nightmare. Recently Diane sang
with Opera Colorado in seasons 2006 and 2007.
Education:
Diane received a Bachelors degree in Music Education
from Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio in 1980.
There she was honored with the Ann Montgomery Memorial
award for outstanding woman of the year in scholastics
and achievements. After moving to Boulder, Colorado
she received her Masters degree in Performance at the
University of Colorado in 1989.
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Teaching
Experience:
Diane is an accomplished
pianist. She has taught piano privately from 1990 to the
present. She enjoys teaching beginning to intermediate
level students. She focuses on developing:
Correct reading of rhythms
Sightreading skills
Correct fingering
Musical interpretation of a piece
Music theory
Styles taught:
Classical, Pop,
R&B, Folk, and Children's. |
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