My mission is to give young piano students the means to experience and share the love of music.
Jewel is an experienced composer, and an engaging, high-caliber piano teacher for children five to eighteen. Through the learning of piano skills, student will learn more important thing which is the understanding of music. Jewel emphasizes not just the technique, but more importantly the 3W (what's the music theory, what each piece of music tries to tell us, what's the way to express that feeling through piano). In such way, students understand not only how but also why.
San Francisco
Class Information
There are 3 type of 1-on-1 class : 30 min, 45 min, and 60 min.
Which type of class is determined by Jewel based on students skill level and age.
Class is held on weekly basis at San Jose Evergreen Area.
Program
The program is an unique combination of
Afred's Basic Piano Course
Hal Leonard Student Piano Course
The Bastien Piano Course
John Thompson's Piano Course
Disney Piano Favorites
Jewel use S.T.M approach enables each students to reach his/her musical goals and have a great time doing it
Setting Goals : Students work directly with Jewel to set up their musical goals at the 1st class, adjusted at the 4th class, and reviewed yearly.
Tracking Progress : The student tracks their progress towards these goals by logging their learning with Jewel and practice times at home on weekly basis.
Monthly Achievements : Jewel will provide monthly evaluation, and will celebrate when they reach each level.
Practice
Regular practice is essential for any student, no matter how naturally gifted the student may be.
Practice is extremely important. Jewel will work with each student to set up a daily practice target, and Parents are required to work with the student to ensure required practice time and quality. It should be a daily, uninterrupted routine.
Daily practice should be logged by the student, and will be reviewed by Jewel on weekly basis (see Tracking Progress above).
Competitions
Recitals / Auditions / Tests / Competitions
Numerous performance opportunities, such as Holiday Concert and Annual Concerts, are available for students to share their music with friends and family.
Students are also encouraged to participate in Piano Concerto and Solo Competitions, held by the Music Teachers’ Association of California.
Note that Jewel does not encourage students to participate in excessive auditions / tests / competitions, since such preparation will take away valuable time from normal course of study. National Music Research white paper shows that the progress of students with excessive competition lack behind normal students by average of 40%.
Jewel's Background
Jewel obtained her Master of Music from The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, under Professor Christopher Theofanidis, on 1999. After that, she started her teaching career in SF Bay Area. She is also actively involved in multiple chorus programs, and participates various theatrical performance throughout Bay Area.
Before that, Jewel taught at Guangzhou Conservatory of Music, Department of Piano, as Distinguished Faculty. Her students have won multiple prestigious international piano performance compitition, and have later accepted into first rate graduate school of music.
She earned her Bachelor degress from Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China. Her graduation piece, Music for Piano and 2 Archi, won award as most outstanding composition of the century by young artist.
She has performed in a wide variety of venues at Baltimore, New York, New Jersey, San Francisco, San Jose, as well as abroad at Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai.
