Philosophy

“There’s music in every child. The teacher’s job is to find it and nurture it.”

Frances Clark

“As teachers, what we want is a student who owns the rhythm. He owns it, he doesn’t have to borrow it from the teacher. So that he can use it whenever needed, in any piece in the whole wide world. He’s got it for life!”

Frances Clark

“My primary goal as a piano teacher is to create a climate in which my students can experience continual musical, intellectual, and emotional growth, and to become increasingly dispensable to them in the process. Everything I do as a teacher, and every other teaching goal I have, relates directly to the first, most basic objective – to help my students grow by and for themselves.”

Frances Clark

“Teach music...in such a way that it is...a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.”

Zoltán Kodály

“Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.”

Shinichi Suzuki

“Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play.”

Carl Orff

“Talent works, genius creates.”

Robert Schumann

“Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here!”

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

“Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.”

Douglas Adams

“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”

Martin Luther