Miria D. — Piano Teacher — Downtown Montreal, Montreal

I am a music teacher, Master in music education graduated from a Federal University in Brazil, with more than 10 years of experience in piano classes from beginner to advanced levels, music for children and keyboard. I am passionate about working with different profiles of people and helping them to develop new skills, mainly because I believe in the potential of music as a personal fulfillment for students. I find it easy to create relationships and adapt my posture, communication and way of working according to each student. I have taught more than 250 students, in individual instrument classes, music for classes of different ages and undergraduate music classes. I participated in and organized student presentation events, in addition to preparing students for admission to music universities. I recognize that most students seek to study music as a hobby, so I always try to keep classes relaxed, providing fun and good moments during the student's week.

I believe in personalized methodology according to each student, considering their goal (hobby, professional, band, church, etc.) and adapting according to their weekly study time and access to the instrument. My classes are divided into technical exercises and repertoire, always seeking to improve the student's musical skills and knowledge applied in practice, therefore, the vast majority of class time is spent with the student playing with my feedback in real time. I think that studying music needs to be enjoyable, so my classes are always fun and light. I like to propose goals and create repertoires together with the student, always considering the student's musical taste and adapting the songs according to the technical level already acquired.