Every student brings their own personal experiences, customs, values and morals, and previous knowledge - all through a cultural lens based around an enlightened, westernized, Euro-centric way of thinking and viewing the world. As an educator, I want to teach music in a way that is understandable to the individual and to grow each student’s awareness of different cultures and thoughts. 

When students come together to make music, they have the ability to leave all of their emotional baggage at the door and come into a setting of positivity, ready to create art as a cooperative team and learn more about the world they live in with an open mind and heart. They can do this by having in-person, real-world experiences...
through performance.
Music in every form (from elementary education to the London Symphony Orchestra) is a subject that is learnable, worth learning, comprised of important things a person should know, and the result of its study and mastery will be and has been (for millennia) growth in human life and cultural and societal improvement.

My goal is to encourage and educate students to become bright, kind, and exceptional individuals in society who will change the world by creating, enjoying, and supporting music – enabling them to have the tools to be lifelong musicians.