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Frequently Asked Questions
Absolutely! Several of our teachers have degrees in pedagogy and have specifically trained in teaching children. We accept students age 5 and up, although students under 13 should have a parent in the room with them for lessons. For children who are too young to read music right away, our teachers will do rhythm games, ear training, and even improvisation in order to develop your child’s musical abilities.
Of course! We have many teachers who are great with adult students, and the scheduling flexibility that we offer is particularly helpful for many adults. In most cases, instead of using a pre-planned method book, your teacher will simply ask about your musical interests and then create a personalized plan to help you reach your goals.
They are very similar to in-person lessons, except more affordable and more convenient. You will still meet with the same teacher each lesson and interact with them in real time. You will learn technique, music theory, how to read music, and all your favorite pieces.
In order to take advantage of our 10% discount, you will want to sign up for 8 once-a-week lessons. After you have completed those lessons, you are welcome to choose any of our packages or flexible scheduling options. With these options, you can take lessons once or twice a week, or we can do custom subscriptions if you would prefer to take lessons more or less often.
Lessons are typically $30 per half hour, $42 for 45 minutes, and $55 per hour.
Yes, as long as the lessons are with the same teacher, we offer $5 off per additional lesson per week. So if you’re taking half hour lessons twice a week or have two children taking half hour lessons, you will only pay $55 instead of the $50 (as in $30×2) that two half hour lessons would typically cost.
In that case, we will pair your child with one of our teachers who has experience with working with children with learning disabilities. Even if your child has difficulties, for example, with staying focused or learning to read music, there is still much to be gained from music lessons. The teacher will easily adapt and include rhythm games, improvisation, ear training, and other musical exercises that suit the level and capabilities of the student.
Yes. We’ll do our best to match you with the teacher who best suits your skill level and interests, and as long as you keep wanting to take lessons from that teacher, you can keep taking from that teacher. If you want to try lessons with a different teacher, just let us know, and we will pick a new teacher for you.
Dr. Geraldine Anello
Jazz & Pop Piano
D.M.A. Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
M.M. Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan
With two decades of experience as a music instructor, an accomplished career as a Broadway pianist and conductor, a Doctorate in Musical Arts from Boston University, and as the author of an upcoming book on the music industry and a published poet, Geraldine is thrilled to be joining LessonWithYou.
Geraldine Anello has conducted Kinky Boots and School of Rock on Broadway, The Fantasticks off-Broadway, and played in the orchestras of Broadway’s School of Rock, Kinky Boots, Bronx Tale, Aladdin, and On the Town. She has also worked on the Broadway productions SpongeBob the Musical, An American in Paris, On Your Feet, and Matilda. Anello served as music director of We Are the Tigers off Broadway, and of Renascence for the Transport Group, Finian’s Rainbow at the Irish Repertory Theatre, etc. She was the music supervisor and conductor of the benefit concert Double Standards at Town Hall in New York City, featuring Sarah Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson, amongst others. She is the leader of Theatre Music Directors, an industry group of 8,500 members worldwide, for which she offers professional advancement classes taught by Broadway conductors.
Ana Gogava
Piano
M.M. Guildhall School of Music
B.M. Guildhall School of Music
London, England
Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Ana Gogava entered the prestigious Z. Paliashvili School in Tbilisi at the age of 8 under the guidance of Darejan Tsintsadze.
Ana’s performance was recognized at European Union of Music for Youth Competition (EMCY) in 2002. Many other prizewinning achievements were to follow most notably 1st Prize at the N.Gabunia national competition in Georgia, 1st Prize in the VIIth and IXth V. Krainev International Competitions in Ukraine and 1st Prize in the VIIth international N. Rubinstein Competition in Paris in 2007.
Ana Gogava has participated in master-classes given by artists such as Imogen Cooper, Vladimir Krainev and Michel Sogny, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Richard Goode and has received scholarships from the President of Georgia, Elizabeth Leonskaya and the Sogny Foundation. She has given recital and concerto performances not only in Georgia, but also in Spain, Russia, Azerbaijan, Austria as well as Holland, where in 2010 she won 1st Prize in the Enschede international competition for Young Pianists. In June 2015 she was awarded by Hortense Anda prize for the “ most talented young pianist” at Geza Anda International Piano competition. In 2015 and 2016, Ana was awarded by Help Musicians Trust, Martin Musical Trust and English Speaking Union ( ESU) to take a part at Piano Master Classes at Banff Centre in Canada. In 2017 and 2018, Ana participated at Oxford Philharmonic Piano Festival. In 2019, Ana won 1st Prize at the Birmingham International Piano competition.
Ana Gogava successfully completed her Bachelor’s, Master’s and Artist Diploma courses at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where she studied with Professor Philip Jenkins.
Ryo Kaneko
Piano
D.M.A. Indiana University (Exp.2024)
Bloomington, Indiana
M.M. Rice University
Houston, Texas
Winner of the 2014 Miami Music Festival Piano Competition and the 2015 Jacob Flier International Piano Competition, Japanese pianist Ryo Kaneko is a rising star in the next generation of pianists. He has performed with conductors such as Vladimir Feltsman, Michael Rossi, Victoria Gau, and Bohuslav Rattay and has presented recitals on many prestigious venues including the Kennedy Center, New World Theater, Rosa Hart Theater, McKenna Theater, Manhattan’s Steinway Hall, and the Studley Theatre.
Kaneko’s performance has been consistently praised for his unrivaled, visceral energy.
Times Herald-Record’s Mr. James F. Cotter vividly describes Mr. Kaneko’s performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s first piano concerto: “The final allegro takes the form of a scherzo, which Kaneko brought to a rousing climax that brought the audience to its feet with shouts of ‘Bravo.’”
Ryo received his undergraduate and Master’s degree at Rice University, where he studied with the internationally acclaimed artist Dr. Robert Roux. Currently, he is earning his Doctor of Music in Indiana University under the guidance of Professor Emile Naoumoff.
Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Arpi Vardanyan graduated with the highest distinction from Tchaikovsky Specialized Secondary Music School in 2014.
In the same year Arpi was accepted to the piano department of the Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas. From 2016 to 2021, Arpi transferred to the Academy of Music of Zagreb in Croatia, and she recently received a Master’s degree in piano performance from the Academy.
From 2017 till 2019, she taught as a piano instructor at the music school “Muzički Atelje” in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2013, Arpi became a laureate of the international competition-festival “Renaissance” in Armenia, and since then, she is sponsored by the YerazArt Foundation located in Boston, USA. Arpi has performed as a soloist and chamber performer at worldwide concerts, festivals, and concert cycles including “Skladatelji-Obljetničari”, “Vivat Akademia”. Arpi has recently participated in Erasmus plus Traineeship program in Vienna, Austria.
Alison Chiang
Classical Piano
D.M.A. Eastman School of Music
M.M. Eastman School of Music
Rochester, New York
Alison Chiang received her Doctorate Degree in Piano Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music, where she also received her Bachelors and Masters degrees. She owes her musical development to Natalya Antonova and Nelita True, as well as Pamela Mia Paul and Olga Radosavljevich.
She has been an Eastman Community Music School piano instructor since 2016, and her other teaching experiences include college-level secondary piano and class piano during her studies at Eastman.
Alison’s most recent honors include top prizes in the Eastman Piano Competition, the Lewisville International Piano Competition, the Wideman International Piano Competition, and the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition, as well as a Carnegie Hall debut in October of 2019.
Julian Castilla
Classical & Jazz Piano
M.M. University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
An “artist of the sound,” Julián is more than just a pianist. His skillful versatility includes a wide-range of styles, from the classical tradition to Jazz idioms, and Colombian & African musical idiosyncrasy. His experimentation with different musical ideas inspired by the Great Masters of music history, have led him to the joy of musical expression through composition. This addition to his musical skills lets him fully explore musical thoughts with all options at hand, making each performance a truly personal expression through music.
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Julián began his music and keyboard studies at the tender age of four, with one of Colombia’s most important composers and pedagogues, Jaime Torres Donneys, and his wife, Esperanza Valbuena.
In 2008, he continued piano studies with his brother, Renato Pernett Castilla, who is an accomplished composer, arranger, and pianist himself. Simultaneously, Julián began to immerse himself into the world of Latin-American music and Jazz. This rich background of influences inspired him to become a professional musician. To achieve this, he began formal studies with Pilar Leyva, the former pupil of legendary pianist, Claudio Arrau.
Julián earned his Master’s degree at The University of Southern Mississippi, in Hattiesburg, after which he has been working as a Jazz Piano, Big Band conductor, and collaborative pianist in both USM and the Winters School of Music at William Carey University.
An important part of his musical awareness and on-going pursuit of his craft has been participating in numerous masterclasses at national and international piano festivals, in addition to interacting with many renowned musicians of diverse genres and disciplines such as Blanca Uribe, Bill Summers, Chick Corea, Don Preston, Edoardo Torbianelli, and Lang Lang.
Tina Chou
Piano
M.M. Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
B.M. McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
Taiwanese-Canadian pianist Tina Chou has actively performed as a solo pianist and collaborative musician in national and international festivals and competitions. As a former member of the West Island Youth Symphony Orchestra (WIYSO), she performed at the Maison Symphonique in the Association d’Orchestre de Jeunes du Quebec (AOJQ) Festival in 2016. As the first prize winner of the 2012 Crescendo International Music Competition, she has been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall
and made her debut in January of 2012. Her performance (in duo with her sister Gina Chou) on PBS Mountain Lake Television has also been broadcasted nationally.
Ms. Chou holds a Master of Music in piano pedagogy at Michigan State University and a Bachelor of Music in piano performance with a double minor in music education and in early music from McGill University. She has also studied with many well-known pianists at the Orford Music Festival, Maine Chamber Music Seminar and Walnut Hill Summer Music Festival. She is currently pursuing a Master of Music in collaborative piano at Michigan State University where she studies with Dr. Zui-Hua Tang. Her
former piano teachers include Dr. Angela Chan, the concert pianist Wonny Song, Dr. Ilya Poletaev, Dr. Sara Laimon, Dr. Derek Polischuk and Prof. Margarita Shevchenko.
Besides sharing music through performing, she is a passionate and enthusiastic piano teacher with 10 years of experience teaching students of various ages and levels. She believes that music lesson should be accessible to anyone who has an interest to learn, and she creates a personalized lesson plan for each of her students to help them find their voice through the art of piano playing.
Dr. Amalia Rinehart
Classical Piano
D.M.A. Stony Brook University
M.M. Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, New York
Amalia Rinehart is a pianist and piano teacher with multiple years of experience teaching students of all ages and levels. Ms. Rinehart is a recent graduate with a doctorate degree in piano performance at Stony Brook University. Amalia earned her Master of Music degree from Stony Brook, and her Bachelor’s in music (theory and history) from Columbia University, from which she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Amalia has performed all over the US and Canada, at festivals such as the Beethoven Institute at Mannes School of Music (NY), Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival (WA), Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival (ME) as a Kaplan Fellow, Sarasota Music Festival (FL), Domaine Forget in Quebec, and as a fellow at the Kneisel Hall Festival in Maine.
Emi Kaneda
Piano
M.M. Manhattan School Of Music
B.M. Manhattan School Of Music
New York City, New York
Japanese Pianist Emi Kaneda is a member of Mu Phi Episolon Foundation since 2015.
Emi had performed at Tenry Culture Institutes in New York city, International House New York city, Longy School of Music in Boston, Maiami Senior high School in South Beach, Halle in Germany. She had also participated in Euro Music Festival in Germany in 2017 and Maiami Music Festival in 2019.
Emi holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degree at Manhattan School of Music, New York, under the guidance of Marc Silverman.
Her teaching style focuses on the basic foundations of keyboard performance and developing the student’s musicality along with studying different types and levels of keyboard technique. Emi helps students to improve their general sight-reading skills, ability to read music, hearing, and memorize a variety of music through different memorization techniques.
Sooyeon Baik
Classical Piano
D.M.A. University of Cincinnati
M.M. University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio
Pianist Sooyeon Baik is expanding her career in the United States and South Korea as a soloist, chamber musician, and piano instructor. She has performed in many concerts with the recent ones having taken place in Cincinnati, OH, San Marcos, TX, Candás, Spain, and Gijón, Spain. As a co-founder and music director of the Espoir Ensemble in Korea, a piano ensemble group composed of a group of alumni of the Goyang High School of Arts, she organizes originally-themed concerts and performs in them. Sooyeon is also a teaching assistant and accompanist in Gangseo Music Academy for the Gifted, where she has been given solo and chamber recitals and lectures since 2011.
Ms. Baik holds a bachelor’s (magna cum laude) and Master’s degrees in piano performance at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, with a full scholarship as well as CCM Honors Scholarship, Drake Scholarship, Meretta Scholarship, and Baur Scholarship. She is now pursuing her degree of Doctoral of Musical Arts in piano performance, working with many world-renowned pianists.
Ms. Baik gives piano lessons to various age groups and levels from the beginner to the professionals.