Why I Teach
I have always enjoyed music and spent hours as a child playing the piano. Having an older brother who played helped my development - I always wanted to be better than him! All my memories of playing different instruments with friends are positive - we had great fun. I learnt to play various instruments including guitar, bass, drums and more recently the flute.
Music should be a fun, enjoyable experience and this is the underlying factor in my teaching approach. Teaching brings me great satisfaction. Being able to see students understand music and competently play pieces to a progressively higher standard gives me a real sense of achievement.
Music is much more than exams. I had a ‘mature’ student who was scared to come out of her house and only came to her first lesson because her husband made her. She was on all sorts of medication for depression. She worked hard, made some very good friends and progressed well. It wasn’t until a couple of years into her lessons that she told me about this, and she explained how music had given her so much more confidence and feeling of self worth that she was able to come off a lot of the medication. She even started driving lessons which would have been unheard of before. She would always be first on the list to play at student concerts - a completely different person to the one who came through the door on her first lesson. She is now doing some teaching herself!
Music can be a life-changing experience - I love being part of it.
Music is much more than exams.
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