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The Blalack Orchestra is proud to offer Private Lessons. A private lesson gives the student an opportunity to work with a person that specializes on their respective instruments. One day each week during class, students will have the ability to have a 25 minute lesson with one of our private lesson teachers. Things that will be taught during this time would be technique, scales, solos and many other things that will improve their playing. Private lessons give students the opportunity to get the one on one attention that would be difficult to receive in a regular classroom setting.
Private lessons are $20 per lesson. If that is too much but you are still interested, contact Mr. Tharp and we can find a way to assist you in those payments. We have a teacher for each instrument and are trained at the collegiate level. Below are our teachers along with our forms.
Below is the button to go to our Private Lessons form. Fill out if you are interested and we will get back to you as soon as we can!
We understand that times can be hard. We do offer our Aiming Higher Scholarship to help pay for lessons for those that qualify. Download, fill out and email to Mr. Tharp.
Klaudia Cop
Klaudia Cop
Ms. Klaudia Cop was born in Rzeszów, in the southern part of Poland. From her earliest childhood, she has always been deeply fascinated with the universal language of music. She began playing instruments (violin and piano) when she was in kindergarten, and since then, music as a form of communication has played a significant role throughout her life.
After 15 years of musical studies in Poland, Ms. Cop traveled to Oklahoma City where she received her Bachelor's degree in Violin Performance from Oklahoma City University. In 2013 she moved to Dallas, TX to teach private lessons on violin and piano at Carrollton – Farmers Branch ISD middle schools and high schools. Since 2014 she has been studying at the University of North Texas. In 2016 she received her Master’s degree in Violin Performance, and the same year she begun the Doctoral Program in Music Theory.
Currently, she is working on her dissertation on Szymanowski’s opera Hagith, she performs with several professional orchestras in the area (Plano Symphony Orchestra, Irving Symphony Orchestra, Fort Smith Symphony, and others), and she continues to share her knowledge and experience with students in the classroom environment and through private lessons.
Katie Lopez
Katie Lopez
Katie Lopez has been playing the cello for 20 years, beginning at 4 years old through the Suzuki program in her hometown of Waco, TX. Following her passion for music and sharing it with people of all ability levels to reach their goals, she went to Texas Woman's University and received her bachelor of science in music therapy. She is now a board certified music therapist practicing in the greater DFW area in addition to teaching at 7 schools in CFBISD and Lewisville ISD. Katie has been teaching for 5 years since being one of Ms. Jones students at Ranchview High School and loves celebrating each success her student has. She lives in Lewisville with her husband and loves going to the lake with her two German Shepherd-Lab mixes Harley and Freyah.
Kevin Lopez
Kevin Lopez
Kevin Lopez currently serves as a Private Lesson Instructor of Violin/Viola at Blalack Middle School in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD.
Mr. Lopez is a native Texan, born and raised in the Dallas metroplex. Growing up in Farmers Branch, he is an alumnus of CFBISD having attended McLaughlin-Strickland Elementary, Vivian Field Middle School, and R. L. Turner High School.
Mr. Lopez has been playing the violin for 8 years and began in the 6th grade at Vivian Field Middle School under the direction of Kelly Nino and Eric Chui. He then continued on to play at R. L. Turner High School, where he was the concertmaster of the Symphonic & Sinfonia Orchestras under the direction of Christy Myers and Robert Pierot. Lopez was a violinist in the Region 31 Symphony Orchestra for three years and also qualified for the Texas State Solo & Ensemble Competition on violin, earning superior ratings three times. At R. L. Turner, he was also the Student Orchestra Director, assisting in teaching the Concert and Philharmonic Orchestras.
Mr. Lopez is currently a student at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX, working on earning his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education. At TWU, he plays violin in the Chamber Orchestra and has accompanied choruses in the annual Composition Contest. Lopez studies Violin under Dr. Ania Bard-Schwarz and String Music Education under Sam Flippin.
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