Tuition
(For the year of 2025-2026)
30 minutes: $42
45 minutes: $62
60 minutes: $80
Studio Policy
Payment for piano study is due at first lesson of the month. Parents are asked to compute the amount due by multiplying lesson fee times number of lessons in current month.
Lessons missed will receive a tuition credit if I am given a 24-hour advance notice.
Communication
Please feel free to contact me at any time about your child’s progress. The combined efforts of student-parent-teacher always produce a superior result.
Lesson & Practice
Regularity of practice and lessons is the surest guarantee of success. Learning how to play piano is a great opportunity to develop discipline – to learn to schedule priorities and to understand there is not always enough time in the day to do everything, but to choose wisely those activities that are important. The piano requires the ability to study independently. Beginning students would do well to practice in small accounts every day. Intermediate students should be practicing 30-45 minutes per day. Advanced students should be practicing one hour per day. (These are minimums) However, if this is impractical, it is still important to have your lesson every week. Lack of practice is never a good reason to miss a lesson – the lesson is important even (or perhaps especially) if the student is unprepared.
Events for the Year of 2025-2026
More events will be added…stay tuned 🙂
September 21, Sunday (4pm-6pm): Annual Piano Studio Recital
October: MTAC Glendale Fall Workshop
November: MTAC Glendale Contemporary Festival
January: MTAC Glendale Winter Workshop, CAPMT Honors Competition, CAPMT Contemporary Competition
February: Certificate of Merit, MTAC Glendale Open Adjudicated Festival, MTAC Glendale Piano Master Class
March: Southern California Junior Bach Festival
April: Glendale Memorial Scholarship Audition, CAPMT Sonatina/Sonata Competition
June: National Guild Audition
July: Southwestern Youth Music Festival, Satoria Summer Festival
Bio
Pamela, a National Certified Teacher of Music from MTNA, earned her Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance with Dr. David Phillips and Master of Music degree in Piano Performance with Edith Hirshtal. She also studied with Gyorgy Sandor, Mykola Suk and Vladimir Shakin in New York during the summer times when she was in graduate school. In addition, she was the Teacher Enrichment Grant recipient from MTNA which allowed her to perform in Europe including the Bartok-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev Festival in Ragusa-Ibla, Italy.
Pamela started her piano teaching at Los Angeles Music and Art School as a young teacher, where she developed a deep love of teaching at a non-profit environment and thus started her life-long passion in the non-profit music organizations. She also taught piano classes at California State University, Long Beach. Eventually she moved to private piano teaching in the San Gabriel Valley. Her students have received numerous awards in various competitions, including the Davidson Fellowship Scholarship Awards, Virginia Waring International Piano Competition, Southern California Junior Bach Festival, Satori Grand Prize Competition, and many more with MTNA and MTAC. In addition, her students are chosen to perform at the Music Teachers’ Association of California’s Annual State Convention every year.
She has served actively as an adjudicator for piano evaluations, festivals and competitions throughout the nation. She was one of the International Judges at the World Pianist Invitational in Kennedy Center and also at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference. She also gave master classes and taught summer music programs in Hong Kong during the summer season.
Besides her private teaching, she is currently the Certificate of Merit Evaluator State Trainer and the State Coordinator for the MTAC Panel and Young Artist Guild program. She is also on the board with Southwestern Youth Music Festival. She is the President for the MTAC Glendale Branch in 2024-2026, after serving this same position twice in the past. She is also the former State Coordinator for the Young Artist Performance Competition by MTNA.
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