The Studio 

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Early Learner Piano is nestled in a sprawling garden in the Berkeley Hills. The Maybeck Cottage residence was built in 1923, this piano studio nearly a century later. Learning in this quiet and green place gives music study a welcome separation from the rest of life.

Wall moves completely to allow “outside” lessons during Covid-19

inside the studio

The piano studio features a Steinway Grand, an upright Yamaha Disklavier, and a Virginals style harpsichord as well as a truly comfortable parent armchair! Music Mind Games materials support reading skills acquisition and theory! The Maybeck summer living room, a storied spot on this historic property, inspires creativity for everyone studying here.

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Reading practice

Students learn together with hands-on practice, group activities. The homework reading tools include Kristin Gore’s Minibooks Faber’s Reading series and the Clarfield Series on Technique.  

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Recitals & Graduations

All children participate in recitals, even the youngest new students. Preparation begins months in advance with refinement of completely memorized pieces during group classes and lessons, ensuring recitals are positive experiences, always well within the child’s capability.

“Outside” Lessons

“Outside” Lessons during the pandemic we never skipped a beat in learning and staying analogue while students were newly in virtual classrooms for their school days.

“The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self ”
— Shin'ichi Suzuki