PIANO LESSONS IN YOUR HOME

I will travel to your home in the North Berkeley, Berkeley Hills, and Kensington areas. Lessons happen once a week during the school year and can continue through the summer.

 

MY PHILOSOPHY

A healthy approach to learning piano includes encouragement of creativity by involving the student as arranger, improviser, and composer from the beginning. I place an equal emphasis on listening (ear training), reading musical notation and just having FUN!

 

ABOUT MARIA

Maria Omo graduated from DePaul University in Chicago with a bachelor's degree in Music Theory in 1984. Upon graduation she began her career as a private piano teacher. She successfully recreated her business in Seattle and currently teaches in the Bay Area (Berkeley/Oakland, California).

For information about private lessons or Maria's NoStress™ Piano Technique

email: maria@NoStresspiano.com

phone: 510-932-5341

ABOUT THE NoStress™ PIANO TECHNIQUE

Over the years Maria heard her students' complaints about technique exercises being "boring" and/or "too hard." In response she composed short exercises for her students tailored to their particular needs.

After realizing she had written nearly 100 short exercises, she compiled these exercises all together and developed her unique method based on the successful results of her students' mastery of these various techniques with ease and quickness.

The result is The NoStress™ Piano Technique which consists of four books covering the full range of introductory to advanced techniques.