Vocal Teacher:

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• Baonan Jiang: Miss Jiang a graduate of the Vocal Department at Sichuan Conservatory of Music, is currently a Middle School Music Teacher and Head of the Middle School Music Preparation Team at Foshan Nanhai Foreign Language School. Since 2016, he has been dedicated to music education, with extensive experience in training music specialty students. Under her guidance, all of her students have passed the Foshan Music Specialty Examination with a 100% success rate, and more than thirty of her students have been admitted to key high schools in Foshan. Ms. Jiang also leads the school’s choir, which has achieved outstanding results in various national and international competitions. The choir won the Gold Award at the 6th Singapore International Choral Festival and placed second with a Gold Award at the 7th China Children's Choir Festival. Furthermore, he led the choir to win the Gold Award at the 7th World Choir Games, along with 15 Gold Awards in various city and district-level choral competitions.

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• Lina Linares: Lina is an experienced and dedicated music teacher with over 10 years of teaching experience. She specializes in teaching singing, choir, and violin, and is adept at creating engaging lesson plans that inspire students' love for music. Committed to individualized instruction, she flexibly adapts teaching methods to meet the unique needs and learning styles of each student. Possessing excellent communication and interpersonal skills, she collaborates effectively with students, parents, and colleagues. As a passionate and enthusiastic educator, she strives to cultivate creativity and musicality in every student. Lina completed a rigorous five-year program at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, earning a Bachelor's degree in Vocal Performance. Throughout her studies, she received comprehensive training in vocal techniques, music theory, music history, and stage performance. Actively participating in various recitals, operas, and choral ensembles, she gained valuable experience in both solo and ensemble singing.

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• Cecilia Cai: Operatic soprano, professional voice instructor. Ms. Cai has experience working with theaters,media companies, schools and non-profit organizations internationally. She performed principal roles in major productions including Nedda from “I Pagliacci”, MIcaela from “Carmen” and Violeta Valero from “La Traviata”. She has performed with Verismo Opera, Opera San Jose, Bay Shore Lyric Opera, First Street Opera, Jarvis Conservatory and The Voice of Harmony Artist. She has taught public high schools, private middle school, public elementary school, various music schools and heritage schools.

 

Flute Teacher:

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• Kay Wang: Miss. Wang is an active flutist and awarded flute instructor. She holds a Master of Music Degree in Flute Performance from Texas Christian University where she served as Graduate Assistant and taught flute throughout the studio. She also completed an advanced performance certificate from Carnegie Mellon University. While at CMU, she studied with the principal flutist of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Ms. Lorna McGhee and was a member of Atlantic Flute Quartet.Miss Wang’s teaching area includes flute lessons, music theory and chamber coaching. Her philosophy has always been to encourage students to perform with their peers and collaborate with one and another to get a better understanding of music.

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• Michelle Chang: Graduated from San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She is principal flute in San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and El Camino Youth Symphony Orchestra. She also is a winner of El Camino Youth Symphony Concerto Competition, Music Legacy Open Music Competition and U.S. Open Music Competition. Her teaching style is organized and fun with students. She can help students prepare the school orchestra and brass band.

Guitar Teacher:​​​

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• ​Erick Recher: He is a multi-instrumentalist and live sound/recording engineer. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Music from San Jose State University. He has been teaching guitar, drums, piano, ukulele, and vocals for over 20 years. He started playing drums when he was 10 years old by joining the elementary school band. Throughout Junior High and High school, he played drums in marching band, pep band, orchestra, jazz band, and various church youth groups. Erick started playing in bands when he was 13 years old and has played in bands such as Death of a Sellout, Misled, Up & Go, and Los Puto Gringos. At 15, he started taking guitar lessons from a parent and learned how to sing in choir. While obtaining his music degree, he completed the piano proficiency exams and took recording/live sound engineering classes at Cuesta College and SJSU. Erick has taught for Blue Note Guitar, La Tevelde School of Music, Guitar Center, and School of Rock. From individual lessons to group classes, Erick has extensive experience teaching kids and adults all the various types of music. From pop to rock and classical to jazz, he can tailor your musical education to your needs.

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Violin Teacher:​

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• Atiksh Rao: Mr. Atiksh has music associated at San Jose State University. He has a huge passion for music. Atiksh started playing the piano when he was just 5 years old and started playing for the Certificate of Merit Program not too long after he started and completed 9 levels mastering skills like: theory, technique, sight reading, ear training, and performing the required repertoire. In addition, Atiksh has performed for the school orchestra as 1st violin from middle school. He also started taking lessons with a private teacher to further develop his skills. During Mr. Atiksh enter university, he pursued high level education in music field. He is believes that teaching music will inspire young children to love music and develop more comprehensive musicianship.​​​

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• Yonglin Jiang: Ms. Jiang graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music,Shanghai,China . She has over 30 years of extensive teaching experience in violin iessons to kids and adults. Her students won many recognition in their school orchestra for their outstanding violin performances. She was teaching violin lessons to kids from kindergarten all the way to high school. Almost all of her students have successfully auditioned to either California Youth Symphony or San Jose Youth Symphony.

 

Piano Teacher:

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• Mengyue (Jane) Jia: earned her Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) at Claremont Graduate University, majoring in piano and harpsichord performance. Jane has more than 10 years teaching experience. Most of Dr. Jia’s students have studied piano with her for many years, the longest being six years. Some of them won prizes in such as Bach competition and the Yamaha piano competition. Some have achieved excellent results in their music examinations, ABRSM for example. Not only teaching technique, Dr. Jia also emphasizes ear training for her students. She believes a good ear will teach them how to play the piano musically. Dr. Jia has also studied the harpsichord in depth, which enables her to teach the works of early composers like Bach and Mozart in the most authentic way, particularly in dealing with fingering and articulation. Following Dr. Jia, students will develop a comprehensive approach to the piano music, as her motto says, “learn beyond the notes.”

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• Loren Alonza: Ms.Alonza achieved a piano performance degree under Dr. Gwendolyn Mok from San Jose State university. She also received a music scholarship to attend Cal-state Eastbay under the tutelage of Dr. Ellen Wasserman. After graduating from university, Ms. Loren joined an International all-female pop/alternative/r&b band in 2010. They toured all over Southeast Asia, Canada and the U.S where they targeted both global and domestic audiences. She was exposed to another realm of musical and artistic performances where she played in front of thousands of fans. In addition, Ms. Loren discovers another way of  communicating her passion by composition. Ms. Loren is currently an active performer throughout the Bay Area collaborating with other musicians and has been teaching for over 15 years. Her students participate in the ABRSM, CM exam and the Guild auditions every year. All students have scored reputably high.

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• Ms. Yvonne: She came from Taiwan with her BA music education degree. After she got ABRSM piano certificate from SF Conservatory of music in 1992 she started her professional teaching career in Bay Area. She places great emphasis on building students' fundamental skills in playing piano and a comprehensive musicianship. She is very experienced in preparing students for ABRSM exams. Her students achieved the exam in merit and distinction level. Her students also participate CM exam and the Guild auditions every year. All students have scored reputably high.

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• Tiffany Pham: Ms. Tiffany is a piano teacher who has had a passion for classical piano since childhood. Fluent in both Vietnamese and English, she has years of experience and special training in working with children and can teach both children and adults effectively. She obtained a B. A. in Music from Valley City State University, and has 2 years of traditional aural training at Ohlone College. Teaching with a style that is adaptive to every student's unique needs, Ms. Tiffany's philosophy is to make sure that students feel motivated and enjoy taking lessons. She also can help student to prepare CM and ABRSM.
   

• Ha Nguyet: Ha graduated from Lawrence University as a Piano Performance major. She started learning classical piano music at Vietnam National Academy of Music before she attended college in the United States. She had played with Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra as a piano soloist and accompanied a lot of vocalists, violinists, etc. Throughout many years pursuing music, she also won a lot of competitions around Asia. She also help her students got several prize and help her students for piano exams. 
  Ha's teaching style is relaxed and fun, and she delights in finding just the right approach to inspire each unique student.

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• Anna Kostiuchenko: She was born and raised in Ukraine, Kiev. A graduated from  Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music in 2016,  Master’s Diploma with honors . Anna  began her piano studies at the age of six in Kiev , Ukraine . She had a great teacher, Irina Lipatova , who brought to the world a lot of great musicians. After her graduation from Ukrainian Conservatory, she moved to the US in 2017. Anna is a dedicated and gifted teacher. She is a versatile piano performer and instructor who specializes in developing young musicians in an interactive and fun learning environment. She has 9 years of experience in teaching individual lessons. She has many students that had excellent performance and results on exams. As a soloist, Anna is a prizewinner of several international piano competitions including the  International Competition for Young Musicians, International Ukrainian Music Piano Competition, International Composers Competition. Anna  has participated in many international music festivals in Ukraine and Europe.

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• Jess Mak: received her bachelor’s degree at University of British Columbia and further her
  master degree in piano pedagogy at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is a registered piano
  teacher of Royal Conservatoire of Music and she has been teaching at International Christian
  Quality Music Secondary and Primary School since 2012. Her job covers from teaching piano
  and music theory to being accompanist and vocal coach. Under the instructions from pianists
  Mr. Norman Lee and Mr. Stephen Wong, she studied precisely the relationship between correct
  healthy postures and the qualities of music tones and techniques. Consequently her studies led
  her into exploration of different posture methods, such as Alexander Techniques to advance
  piano playing. Many of her students received high scores from ABRSM or RCM exams and
  some of them were award winners from music festivals. In recent years, she has developed a
  keen interest in contemporary and choral music. She is also an active member of The Learners
  Chorus Hong Kong and performed in various choral concerts including The Bells by
  Rachmaninoff, Symphony no. 8 by Mahler, War Requiem by Benjamin Britten etc.​​

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• Vicky Pan: She has a Master Degree in The Boston Conservatory of Music, her major in Music Performance. She has had more than 20 years of teaching experience. She currently a piano professor in the San Jose Christian College. She also currently a member of MTAC (Music Teacher Association of California). She sends students to attend the MTAC CM (Certificate of Merit). She sends students to the Royal School of Music Piano Level Test. She sends students to attend competitions, festivals, etc.

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