Edgewood Music Studio

I was a piano student at Edgewood from elementary school all the way until my high school graduation. While I disliked practicing at home, I fully appreciate the valuable lessons learned at Edgewood.
Edgewood Music Studio employs extremely talented and knowledgeable teachers who work well in identifying student’s weaknesses and develop techniques in order to help improve them. The teachers are extremely flexible in scheduling. In the nine years I went there, I rarely had a canceled lesson, and in the event my teacher could not be there, a suitable substitute was available.
The director, Joan (who was also my teacher), holds lessons at her house. In addition to an annual recital, we had regular master classes so we could socialize with other students and hear them play. Joan pushes her students to the best of their abilities (we had to memorize our recital pieces).
Joan did a great job in customizing a lesson plan with me. I started off with the Alfred Music books, which were divided into levels (1A/​1B through 6). Each level progressively got more challenging. Once the I learned basic concepts in different styles of music, a classical component was introduced, and I was given more chord and note exercises to improve technique (I did Hanon’s Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises, which got more challenging each week). Students were also required to complete weekly theory exercises in order to retain new concepts.