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Piano Teacher Shimin Oh
Qualifications
– ABRSM Grade 8 practical and theory
Teaching Area
– Mostly north and north west area, central and queenstown
Teach At Home And Where
– Yes, Sembawang near Sembawang shopping centre
Teaching Methods
Understanding of the keyboard and harmony and is important. A few methods to let them understand it, by memorizing, by visualizing and singing. I also emphasize student to use the metronome too, constant tempo is a must! Will constantly teach fun songs/ songs they wish to learn even when they are preparing for exam as it is part of sight reading. Will try not to make my lesson dry and repetitive.
Piano Teacher Eunice Ong
Qualifications
Experience
Ms Isabel Lim
Qualifications
– Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts – BA (Hons) Music, Songwriting and Performing specialisations.
– Singapore Polytechnic – Diploma in Music & Audio Technology.
– Trinity Rock & Pop – Grade 8 Keyboards (Distinction)
– Rockschool – Grade 5 Band Based Keys (Distinction)
– ABRSM – Grade 8 Piano
– ABRSM – Grade 6 Theory
Experiences
– Freelance piano teacher since 2014.
– Taught church youths how to play contemporary worship piano styles (6 months)
– Leisure piano to International school students from age 4 to 14 (8 months)
– IT Music instructor for Primary and Secondary schools (2 years, adhoc)
Teaching Area
Mostly central – Toa Payoh, Bishan, Ang Mo Kio, Yio Chu Kang, Orchard, Bukit Timah, Balestier, Serangoon, Boon Keng and on weekends Queenstown/Commonwealth.
Teach At Home And Where: No
Teaching Methods
Ms. Isabel currently teaches only leisure and/or contemporary pop piano/worship accompaniment.
For beginners (both kids and adults), She usually uses books from Alfred’s piano series. Sometimes she plays mini games with them to improve their reaction time on reading/playing notes. If the student wants to learn pop songs by ear she will usually teach the chords first then the melody, then apply them both to playing the song.
Ms Anna
Qualifications
-Grade 8 ABRSM Practical Merit
-AMIS MOE certified teacher
Experiences
-Accompanist for vocal students and helped MEP students for duet piano performances and examinations (including ABRSM and Trinity)
-Experienced in teaching primary school kids piano course in groups and individually
-Experienced in teaching preschool kids piano courses in groups and individually
Teaching Area
– Central Locations, preferably Toa Payoh
Teach At Home And Where
– Yes; Toa Payoh
Teaching Methods
Discipline is key; attitude over aptitude
As an educator, Ms Anna believes that she is not purely imparting piano playing skills and developing students’ musical abilities and techniques. Rather, she believes that music teaching is a way of developing students’ discipline and inculcating them a culture of humility and “learnability”. She strongly believes that every student’s key ingredient to succeeding, in many aspects in life, is self-discipline. By that, she places an emphasis in her lessons to character-building without having to lose out on student’s progress in learning piano.
Every student is one-of-a-kind
There is no one-fit-all model. As she believes that every student has different sets of interests since they come from very different backgrounds. However different the practice repertoires may be assigned to the students, the agendas and students’ progress will always depend on whether the pieces chosen for them are tailor-made to their needs. She does her very best to help students to improve by consistently upgrading and refreshing my personal repertoires so as to ensure that students’ optimal learning.
In examinations and choosing particular pieces provided by the examination boards, she will always ensure that students are able to bring out the best of the pieces with their interests and musical inclinations in consideration. This is to ensure that students remain interested and still be able to develop a set of repertoires that is able to bring out the very best of their potential.
Proper Foundation is Quintessential
She believe that students ought to develop the skills required to play the piano correctly in order to deliver the finest in every piece and to ensure that their progress remains at an increasingly positive gradient. This is also to ensure that they can become independent in their piano learning and music education as they progress to the more advanced stages in piano learning.
Ms Betty Chong
As a teacher, I will constantly help students to keep a good seating position and hand
posture. It helps a musician to use his/her energy efficiently and get rid of muscles injury.
Music is not happening when your fingers press the keys, or the hammer hitting the strings.
It happens when you feel it. Listening skill helps a musician to make a music that can
communicate with the audience.
We have inexhaustible passion towards music because we exploring music. How to keep a
student’s interest in music if they only know how to hit the 88 keys on the piano? Not only as
a teacher, but also as a musician, I willing to share all my knowledge on music after lesson
time, not only for piano and classical music, also on technology using, composing,
appreciation on pop style, or other musical instruments. On the lesson, I also give
opportunities to allow students to be creative. To keep student’s interest while practicing, I
also composed for my students to solve their technical problem according to their technical
level, their favorite musical style, and age.
Rhythmic playing will not effectively gain through clapping and saying 1234. When we feel
the rhythm, we might move our body, or sing along. Rhythm gain through our whole body
more effectively. The student might need to do some body movement to feel the rhythm in
the music, then apply it to their playing.
As an educator, I’m not only seeking for student’s good result on a certificate but also their
further development. They might not work as a musician in the future, but a good learning
attitude and positive thinking will gain through their music learning process, and make
benefits to their daily life.
FOO MENG YEEN
Ms Foo is fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese and Bahasa Malaysia.
Music has always been a part of her life and she hopes to reach out to students to inspire learning and appreciation of music amongst students of all ages. Her most fervent wish is to share her vision and passion with mature students, and to groom young learners to bring them into the artistry of music.
Qualifications
The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music Grade 8 Piano, passed with Merit in 1993
The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music Grade 8 Theory of Music, passed with Distinction in 1995
The London College of Music Diploma of Teaching Early Childhood Music in 2014
The London College of Music Grade 8 in 2015
Work Experience
Between 2002 to 2004, she had short teaching attachments at the Rhapsody Music School in Rawang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia filling in for absent teachers from time to time on request basis.
From 1 October 2013 to 31 March 2019, she was teaching piano part time at My Inspiration Music School, which became the Pianist Studio in Kovan.
She has been teaching many students over weekends for more than five years and she has decided to decrease teaching so that she can find time to compose and be more involved with performing. She still wants to continue to share her passion for music but hope to have fewer students.
