Alek – Piano

Level Taught:  beginner, intermediate, advanced, all ages.

Alek’s passion for music and education inspires him to continually work at improving his craft. His distinguishable teaching approach encourages individual students preferences and tastes, whether they are interested in learning jazz, popular music or classical piano.

• Classical piano (technique, classical repertoire)
• Jazz (improvisation, chord voicings, jazz standards)
• Pop/Rock (Pop classics, the Beatles, popular chord voicings and much more)
• Over 14 years of experience in piano pedagogy
• Comfortable teaching students of all ages
• Music Theory

• McGill University – jazz piano performance program
• Master’s degree in classical piano performance  – the University of Novi Sad in Serbia (with highest honors)                       

Genre-crossing pianist Aleks is currently finishing jazz performance studies at Schulich School of Music at the University of McGill. As a soloist he has achieved important results in international piano competitions such as: Takasaki Artist Competition in Japan (1999) and Ignacio Cervantes Piano Competition in Cuba (2003). His performance titled “Voices” at the Belgrade Jazz Festival in 2013 was “beyond” a jazz concert. It was multi-media performance art, described as challenging, exhilarating, baffling, hypnotic by Thomas Conrad, Jazz Times Magazine 2013. As part of various artistic projects, he has participated in international music festivals across Europe. 

Alek offers at-home lessons in the following locations:

Plateau Mont-Royal, Outremont, McGill ghetto, Mile-End and Downtown. 

* an additional 5$/per lesson add-on is charged for transportation. 

Online video lessons available

• Zoom
• Skype
• Face Time