Courses
#1. A New Path to Musicianship:
Musical education taught from the ground up. Thorough ear training with emphasis on tension/resolution, harmony, form, orchestration, polyphony, and more. Complemented by strong harmonic writing and playing skills and the keys necessary to understand what a piece is truly about. This course could also be called “Exploring the True Nature of Music”.
The course is always tailor-made depending on your needs, prior education, and goals. To learn more about my approach, please visit the “Why this education” section linked above.
Donations: These lessons are offered as part of a donation based education project. Open to anyone with the dedication and ambition to learn regardless of financial circumstances. Please see below for more details. Limited spots available.
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#2. Entrance Exam Preparation and Practice Help:
These courses are more practical in nature and are oriented towards a specific goal. I offer both entrance exam preparation and “How to practice” help. Regarding entrance exam preparation, I am well-versed in the requirements to be admitted to many under-graduate and graduate programs in many countries including most of Western Europe and the USA. Practice Help is a new offering that is available to any instrumentalist that needs assistance in preparing a piece for performance or auditions. Practicing is a skill in itself, a poorly taught one in a surprisingly practice dependent field. You may request a trial lesson of 30 minutes if you are curious of what can be done. To learn more about my approach, please visit the “Why this education” section linked above.
Investment: These specific courses are not supported under the donation based education project, but they remain affordable nonetheless. Please contact me for more information. Trial lessons are of course available.
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#3. Specific Subjects:
If you need help with understanding a specific subject, I can then offer individual courses on Solfege/Ear Training, Harmony, and Analysis.
This is not tutoring. As tutoring is fixing the end result of a bad system (conservatory style group classes) or trying to compensate for inadequate instruction. This course instead aims at understanding and mastery from the ground up on a specific subject. If completed, you will have little trouble passing a class or exam in any institution. To learn more about my approach, please visit the “Why this education” section linked above.
Donations: These lessons are offered as part of a donation based education project. Open to anyone with the dedication and ambition to learn regardless of financial circumstances. Please see below for more details. Limited spots available.
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Donations:
These lessons are offered on a pay-what-you-can basis. Open to anyone with the dedication and ambition to learn. If you have the means, your donation helps sustain this work and allows me to offer lessons to others who could not afford them otherwise. The usual price of private music lessons in this country ranges between €35-€55 per lesson. These lessons are offered to anyone who needs them, regardless of their financial situation. A limited number of spots is available. This work is not only my calling, it is also how I make my living. Your support allows me to dedicate myself fully to teaching and to share this knowledge with more musicians. The “Sponsor a student” section is filled with details for those interested in contributing to this cause.
I am in the process of setting up a foundation that will help me to better manage the donations received and will help provide transparency and accountability for everyone who has supported this project. At the moment, I must keep track and include VAT tax on all donations as they count as taxable income for my company. Donations to this project are also not tax exempt for supporters yet. There is a clear difference made in the invoices issued as to what is a normal business transaction for a specific course outside of the donation based project and all voluntary contributions from both students and supporters that go exclusively towards the donation based music education project.