Jane Piano Lessons

"My daughter started taking lesson with Ms. Jane in May 2019. Here is her opinion about Ms. Jane: “Ms. Jane is an amazing teacher. She is very good at teaching skills or dynamics and is extremely friendly. Also, she is easy to understand and sounds beautiful and musical when she plays. Other teachers only teach you notes and nothing else but Ms. Jane teaches both notes and mostly skill. Without skill, music sounds like it is being played by a robot. She gives something that really affects if you can play music or not and that something is sight-reading. Sight-reading is like picture books to help young children learn to read. Sight-reading is practically the same thing, except it teaches you to read music. She motivates me to work harder and set goals by showing me how working hard and setting goals gives you an advantage in life. I loved having Ms. Jane as a teacher.” I completely agreed with my daughter in that Ms. Jane has many ways to motivate her young students in learning and practicing. She helped my daughter understand the importance of sight-reading and the went over it weekly. She always corrected her hand positions to make sure they’re properly positioned on the piano! Unlike the previous teacher, Ms. Jane created an environment where my daughter always looked forward to lesson times! That’s very important to young kids in order to enjoy the subject. She also helped my daughter set goal during practicing sessions! Overall, Ms Jane is a wonderful teacher! I’d recommend her to all parents who are looking for a good and dedicated teacher for their young kids!"

"Ms. Jane have been teaching my triplets for over 5 years. I’ve recommended her to all my friends and neighbors and they love her too. She’s nice and very patience with the kids but can be strict when need to. One comment my friend told me was that her sons were learning so much without even realizing it since they had fun playing the tunes. Ms. Jane made sure to keep kids interested in piano and encourage them or sometimes changing her styles to reach them. I love that flexibility in her teaching. My kids know to take her seriously and not hating having to practice daily :) overall, we love her and miss having her in-person instead of over zoom."

"We tried four other piano teachers with variable degrees of satisfaction before finding Jane, who we have been with for the last two years, and plan to be the last teacher we'll ever need. She is patient, but firm, talented, but understands the perspective of a beginner, classically trained in one of Russia's best schools, but learned in modern teaching techniques. She has always been good with my kids, always keeps her cool, and explains things using words that kids would understand. She goes above and beyond to help her students. I especially enjoy the group music history lessons that she sometimes hold on weekends, where she provides interesting stories about composers and periods of music, and which she does totally out of her own time."

"Ms. Jane is a naturally gifted musician and teacher. As a piano player myself, I was quite selective in finding a piano teacher for my children. I probably interviewed and/or did trial lessons for over 15 teachers. Ms Jane was the only person who ‘sang’ the melodic line, emphasized musicality over other things (such as exact notes/rhythm, which would naturally improve over time), and explained things using metaphors so that kids would absorb her teachings (hand should move “like a tiger walking in the jungle,” she gave them squishes as presents and placed them on the piano keys so that kids would know how it feels to press into the keys, she had the kids do finger pushups against the wall to imitate the weight and grace of playing piano). She is firm, thorough, compassionate, and encouraging. She is technically trained but can relate to kids and readily impart her knowledge. She is truly a gem amongst the sea of piano teachers out there."

"Top-notch! Jane is super talented, but such a natural at teaching as well. She has a gift for making it easy to understand. Jane runs a beautifully balanced piano education program emphasizing technique, theory and musicality at each stage of the student’s development. She's been teaching my daughter for 8 years who scored with the high honer the musical theory and piano practice examinations on all levels. She is a gifted teacher and I recommend her to you unconditionally."