Private Flute Instructor

Tatiana P.

Flute

I started teaching flute privately in 2007 and have been teaching students ranging from beginner to advance. I have always enjoyed teaching and watching my students grow through music as I have. Some of my experience includes teaching the flute masterclass at the UW-Milwaukee Honor's Band Festival in November of 2014 where I taught a class of 50 middle school students to help them prepare for their ensemble performances in the Honor's Band Festival, as well as taught them more about the flute in terms of articulation, tone, and technique. In 2012, 2013 and 2014, I was an adjudicator for the UWM UWAY auditions, which included listening to about 30 flute and piccolo students at their auditions, asked them for scales of my choosing, and placed them each in the appropriate chair placement for each ensemble. From 2013-2015 I was the Graduate Teaching Assistant of Flute at UWM, which included teaching the woodwind doubling majors private flute lessons once a week, preparing those students for their recitals, juries and future endeavors, teaching the flute fundamentals course which was a group class of music education majors who needed to learn flute in order to teach it to other students as part of their career, and I helped the flute professor with any copies, scans, and masterclasses. I have helped my students get accepted into programs such as MYSO, UWAY, and WSMA. When I teach my students, my goal is for them to learn flute properly by giving each student the instruction that is right for them. I use many different pedagogical method books, I teach scales, etudes and solos. I prepare students for auditions, school band/orchestra preparation, and festivals and competitions. I require my students to bring a pencil, tuner, metronome, their techniques, etude and solo, a binder and a notebook. I use the notebook to log assignments. I also teach basic music theory in my lessons as needed, so the student can learn how the music works more depth. Most importantly, I want my students to ENJOY playing flute and to have FUN