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Dear Guests, Welcome to my blog which I treat like a creative garden where I regularly plant and change this and that be it poetry, philosophy, an Oboe Brilliance lesson, an essay of some kind, or a journal about composing. Visit every Monday for oboe coaching which is also helpful for many melodic instrumentalists. Musically yours, Kathryn
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"How do you compose?" That is the most commonly asked question I hear.
This blog is a window into my creative process and philosophies as a composer and instrumentalist. At times it may contain music, photos, and poetry as well. May you enjoy, return, and benefit!   My Archives  September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009
Music lessons 2010
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Music Lessons 2010: www.kathrynpotter.com 828 242 3765
As a San Francisco Conservatory of Music graduate in composition with a specialty in oboe performance and as a composer, I provide highly original custom lessons to meet and surpass the needs of my students seeking a solid technique with maximum expression through the ancient classical European tradition to ultra modern music. I use multiple intelligence teaching techniques, the best of “old school” and innovative approaches to nurture maximum enjoyment, fulfillment, capability, lifelong love and appreciation of music. I take pride in providing an emotionally delightful, self esteem bolstering, and music for music’s sake environment. I also coach serious competitive musicians in a way that focuses on music and psychological health. As a composer, I compose a custom composition for a student per every documented 100 hours of private practice. When appropriate, I schedule performance opportunities. When appropriate, I organize small ensembles of my students at no extra charge. OBOE LESSONS: day one up to an including virtuosic level. Reed making lessons for advanced students only (both American and European styles) and I sell guaranteed reeds at $30 a pop for students. Superb technique, music theory, solfege, music history, proper stylistic practices for various eras, and artful expression is the curriculum as well as ear training, intonation, and improvising. (I keep alive the teachings of Peter Hertling, Lois Wann, Peter Hedrick, Marc Liefshy and Michael Winfield.) FLUTE: day one up to and including intermediate level. Superb technique, music theory, music history, solfege, proper stylistic practices for various eras, and artful expression is the curriculum as well as ear training, intonation, and improvising. PIANO/COMPOSITION: day one up to intermediate level of piano playing. (Up to and including Bach Inventions and Debussy’s Arabesque.) Superb technique, music theory, music history, proper stylistic practices for various eras, and artful expression is the curriculum as well as ear training, solfege, dictation, and improvising when desired. I teach piano on my 2003 Yamaha Clavinova which is a high quality digital piano that provides many excellent teaching benefits – for lessons up to the intermediate level of playing– that an acoustic piano does not. Musically yours, Kathryn |
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