"The total musician"
- comprehensive education and refinement -

(minors require a guardian on-site)

"Basic Musicianship" as offered assumes no prior experience.

Mid-level musicians can be accommodated, too.

Note: advanced musicians, ref.: Option #3.

FEATURES

All students receive a customized music course, tailored to each.

Classic mentoring - the personal touch, one-on-one coaching and fun.

Variety of lesson formats, including media and optional field trips.

Concern for the total student progression: balance and maturity.

Instructor is smoke-free, drug-free: great personal references.

Economy of materials, good value | Focused attention.

Assistance in placement with advanced instructors.

BENEFITS

Health: calm your nervous tension, improve circulation & muscle tone.

Learn to: decipher (and sing!) music notation along with playing piano.

Create smooth, artful gestures and gain physical confidence and poise.

Master global arts concepts, historical/cultural relevance.

Improve posture and hand/eye control.

Gain new vocabulary and social grace.

Entertain yourself and others.

Improve brain function.

Special Note: Private study with a composer is rare,
it offers a fresh and more comprehensive approach to beginning musicianship
than the standard course.
There is a real difference, and the difference is a life-long advantage.
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Dr. Lynn Job, composer, was herself fortunate to train with several fine pianists.
Dr. Burton Karson (California State University Fullerton)
was her last private studio instructor for solo piano,
and she performed in his home college recital series in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
During her time of successful study with him, he regularly provided opening remarks
and notes for the Los Angeles Philharmonic concerts.
Dr. Karson's bio (U.S.C. Thornton School of Music alumnus) -- | here |

Many years observing graduate lecture/recitals, collaborative piano master classes
[such as by Vladimir Viardo, Pamela Mia Paul, Neil Slater, Adam Wodnicki,
Joseph Banowetz, Elvia Puccinelli, Gustavo Romero,
Ayke Agus ("Heifetz as I Knew Him" Amadeus Press, 2001),
Roger Kamien, Carole Leone, among dozens of others],
and her composer-to-pianist coaching sessions for new music premieres
add depth and dimension to her orientation to the instrument,
as well as her many autograph publications of piano music,
writing commissions for piano, and instruction appointments
in college music appreciation. Dr. Job met literally hundreds of
international and guest pianists in the course of her 7 years
managing the piano tuning access, rehearsing and public concerts
for the many stages of the College of Music, University of North Texas.

Lynn Job began her childhood music training on the song flute
(while watching her parents in dance band rehearsals), then sequentially receiving applied
instruction in clarinet, choir, autoharp, piano, Western theory, tenor saxophone,
pit orchestra, pep band, concert band, marching band, acoustic classical
guitar, voice, composition, electronics, trumpet, conducting, violin, double bass, and
finally Chinese percussion, along with course work and requirements
completing 3 U.S. university music degrees: the Bachelor of Music,
the Master of Music, the Doctor of Musical Arts.
For much more, click to her vita, or biography.

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Instructor Fee --- $25 = 1/2 hour | $30 = 3/4 hour | $40 = hour

Add Travel Fee
(as from Denton Courthouse-on-the-Square to your home):
$5 = 3-5 miles | $7.50 = 5-8 miles | $10 = 8+ miles

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1. CASH = Exact change, remit on site.

2. CREDIT

CLICK this "Make a Donation" button above for lesson payments by credit card.
Write-in your monthly lump-sum payment amount (rate quoted in your lesson contract + 3.5%).

Due date = 24 hours before the 1st lesson of the month.

The Paypal receipt/bank statement is your lesson payment receipt.
The receipt will say: "Buckthorn Studios Misc account."

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