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Classical and acoustic guitar - be the best player you can be.
Ileen Z.

38 hours tutoring

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About Ileen


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I teach both in my Teaneck studio and online either via Skype or Zoom.

I work with classical and acoustic players. For intermediate and advanced players, emphasis on sight reading/crossover styles is given. Group coaching for guitar with all combinations of instruments is available.

My career as a concert musician began in the 1970's with youthful performances around the US and Canada. In early 2006, I was included in Who's Who in American Women and Who's Who in Education in America, and...

I teach both in my Teaneck studio and online either via Skype or Zoom.

I work with classical and acoustic players. For intermediate and advanced players, emphasis on sight reading/crossover styles is given. Group coaching for guitar with all combinations of instruments is available.

My career as a concert musician began in the 1970's with youthful performances around the US and Canada. In early 2006, I was included in Who's Who in American Women and Who's Who in Education in America, and in 2009 was added to the roster of International Who's Who in Music. I attended Wittenberg University (sacred music) studying conducting and orchestration with John Williams and Ian Polster, New York University for humanities, and the Mannes College of Music (MM classical performance and theory), studying with Robert Secrist, Frederic Hand, Charles Kaufman, Julius Levine, Yakov Kreizberg, Leo Edwards and Marie Powers and completed my graduate library studies with Jane Gottlieb at the Juilliard School. My scholarly work has been focused on the performance, documentation, historiography and promotion of music and performing arts. As a music annotator, analyst and critic, I have worked for over 15 years with major arts agencies, technical journals and CD labels in performing arts media, technical writing, editing and proofreading, following a career as a successful classical touring musician. In 2010, after living 25 years in Manhattan, I moved back to where I was born – Bergen County. Working in my teaching studios in both Teaneck and New York, I specialize in teaching and coaching up-and-coming young musicians, college-bound guitarists, adults with backgrounds in other instruments, in classical, acoustic and crossover styles.

With the small devotion of 30 minutes a day to your practicing, I can make a novice player become a good guitarist, and a good guitarist into a great player. For beginning pre-teen students, I most often begin with the Alfred Auberge method. For those who can already read music or have played another ins


Education

Mannes College of Music
BM, Guitar performance
Mannes College of Music
Masters

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General Music

General Music

I attended Wittenberg University (sacred music) where I studied conducting and orchestration for undergraduate coursework in vocal performance with concentration in choral conducting. I then went on to the Mannes College of Music (B.Mus. 1986; M.Mus 1987, classical guitar performance and theory).
Guitar

Guitar

I attended Wittenberg University (sacred music) studying conducting and orchestration at New York University for humanities, and the Mannes College of Music (M.Mus. classical guitar performance and theory).
Music Theory

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Knowledgeable and patient tutor

First 3 lessons on Mel Bay first grade book and some notes and chords. I would like to learn to play classical guitar style.

Daniel, 38 lessons with Ileen
Tutor responded:

Thank you, Daniel. You're a great student!

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