Piano Lessons with Suzanne

LOCATION: northwest Tucson near I-10 and Cortaro Rd.

Creative Piano Lessons

for Children and Adults

My students tell me that I make music enjoyable, fun and easy.

Find your true musical voice and direction.

I've taught music for more than 20 years.

I enjoy teaching and coaching people in letting their music come out.  

I also coach other instrumentalists and vocalists in skills named below.

Call (520) 229-6282 or email suzanne@musicforhealth.net

RATES:  

$25 / Half Hour

$50 / Hour

$37 / 45-minutes

Call if you have questions 520 229-6282 or email suzanne@musicforhealth.net

My specialty is in cultivating the music skills a musician needs to fulfill your goals and dreams.

This can include:

• Understanding music from the inside out.

• Classical piano repertoire

• Jazz. Playing from a lead sheet.

• Understanding chords, scales, modes.

• Learning to improvise

• Playing by ear

• Composing, Arranging

• Hearing and writing your own music.

• Songwriting

• Writing your own chord charts.

• Also pop, rock, blues, boogie, country, funk, soul music.

• Music Theory

• Recording Techniques. I use Logic studio.

• Music Notation. Learn to notate music accurately. I use Finale software.

• Creativity development

• Technique

• Accompanying yourself or another vocalist or instrumentalist.

• Discovering a deeper sense of who you are by developing the music in you.

• Therapeutic music: What makes music healing?

• Recovery from previous bad experiences with music.

It's not too late to study music.

MY CREATIVITY IGNITED

As a result of my sessions with Suzanne, a creative flow of inspiration opened in me and I composed more music than I ever have before. I composed an entire stage production in a short amount of time. My creativity ignited when I realized how to become in touch with my real feelings and translate them to music.

David Helfand, Teacher / Celtic Harpist

BIO

Suzanne has taught piano in private practice for 20+ years and enjoys teaching. She coaches instrumentalists and vocalists as well as pianists in developing skills for well-rounded musicianship and becoming authentic in your music to realize your greatest joy.

At the age of 10, Suzanne was guest piano soloist in concert with youth orchestras.  At 17 she was a winner in the Phoenix Young Musicians Concerto Competition and received scholarship awards to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Arizona State University where she majored in music.

For ten years, Suzanne made a living as a piano sideman in jazz, blues and other improvisational styles. She wrote and sang a song that became a regional radio hit.

As a composer, her soundtracks have aired on NPR Radio, PBS Television, the Disney Channel and in film festivals around the world. She has composed numerous pieces for piano, some for chamber orchestra and for choir as well as multi-instrumental soundtracks for short films and radio drama.

Her solo album Lantern in the Window, a mix of jazz, classical and modern new age piano became a favorite on college and eclectic music radio as well as some classical stations. (see reviews) Her piano music was featured on the CD, Lights Out II, alongside music of William Ackerman, David Lanz, George Winston and other artists.

She released a collection of "music as medicine" Sound Portrait improvisations in 2012 on the CD Light Shining Through which can be found at Amazon.com, on Pandora radio and iTunes as well as YouTube.