With Yumiko in Kyoto, April of 2004

LINKS:

Visit the German School Washington, D.C., and see the music we make there...

See the notes to my Seminar on Music Acoustics at the University of Music, Vienna, Austria, Spring 2004 (In German only!!)

I have been teaching music since 1990. The instruments taught include violin, violoncello, double bass, piano, accordion, guitar and bass guitar, teaching ages 5-60 years. I have taught privately in Europe, the U.S and Japan, at the University of Music in Vienna, Austria, and am currently employed as the elementary music teacher at the German School in Washington, D.C.

Creed: A positive first-hand experience with music stimulates the mind, body and soul, and deepens one's awareness of human dimensions. This positive musical experience, especially at an early age, can inculcate the creative resources, self-confidence, discipline and means of expression that makes an enormous difference as a human being, member of society, and even when competing for a future job. Besides, it can simply be beautiful, and a lot of fun!

My goal as a teacher is to accompany and guide my students on a path with music using an appropriate recipe of encouragement, inspiration, discipline and fun, upon a basis of mutual appreciation and respect for music and one another. I have been lucky to have many good students who are succeeding on their own musical path.