Piano Ped 16. Good teachers are the ones that we can look up to as role models as well as talk to as friends. I have always enjoyed having such relationships of mutual respect with my music teachers ones in which we can talk about things inside and outside the realm of music.
Influential teachers are the ones that are genuinely passionate about what they do.
The essence of my teaching philosophy is to be a trustworthy friend to the student, and from that relationship will come a natural desire to see that the best is being done for the student with respect to the actual teaching of music. The goal of my teaching is to help students discover their own abilities to create expressive music. As human beings, we all possess the inborn ability to express ourselves through creation and the arts. Even though all of us discover ways in which we express ourselves best and some of us may even be naturally inclined or gifted in expressing ourselves in certain arts, I believe that anyone who possesses aural perception can be trained to hear musically and utilize musical performance as an earnest outlet of expression. All three aspects must be synthesized in order for the performer to be absolutely free to express himself.