Marianne Poon

Ms. M has been a great resouce for my kids. A warm, kind teacher who gives them structure but also lets them make choices about their repertoire. Both of my kids enjoy their lessons and never complain! As a parent, I greatly appreciate that she is always on time and responsive.

Ms. M a great teacher! She’s been teaching my seven year old daughter as well as myself for the past year. She’s great with my daughter, which takes a lot of patience. For me, lessons have been awesome! I had taken lessons as a child, and it has been a wonderful experience taking lessons again. It is great to share my love if piano with my daughter and Ms. M has made that possible.

Our son LOVES his lessons with Miss M! I can highly recommend her to work with young children.

After retiring in 2007, I decided to start piano lessons. Being in my 60’s I was skeptical about realizing that dream. Until I found Ms. M. And that made the difference. She not only has taught me the ABC of piano playing but also brought the fun and encouragement to the process. I needed that kind of support from a good teacher to continue with my dream and not giving up. She is patient and fun, and a great listener. I look forward to my weekly piano lesson and to seeing Ms. M, who is a big support. I highly recommend her. She is a talented teacher for students of any age and level.
Alicia

Learning with Ms. M is fun because she is a talented musician, who plays beautifully, and also a talented teacher.
Ms. M is patient and encouraging. While always focused on the learning goals (and she listens, so the goals are your goals) she keeps lessons interesting by having variety, and also by always having a selection of new pieces to play, pieces that she knows you will enjoy musically, but which will also challenge you to keep improving.
As an older adult, coming back to piano after many years, I appreciate her care in developing a program specific to me, that’s strengthening my basic playing techniques and also improving my finger dexterity (despite my stiffness from arthritis). She also has a carefully thought through technical approach (that works) that makes practicing more efficient. This has helped me learn faster and makes practicing more rewarding.
I know Ms. M loves working with little kids, but she is also great with older adults, and I highly recommend her as a teacher.

Ms. M is a serious professional who mostly works with older children and adults. But she also knows and understands the learning needs of very young pupils. She has shown great creativity and adaptability in her work with our five-​year-​old son. The results so far are impressive: he has acquired basic technique, is beginning to play with two hands (after a few months), and often goes to the piano on his own initiative!

As a child I grudgingly took piano lessons for a while at my mother’s insistence. They didn’t last long that I recall. Of course, now as at 48yo I really do want to learn to play piano and I knew it would be from scratch since it had been so long ago that I took lessons. With the help of my husband’s online research, we found Ms. M. Ms. M has been a gift! She immediately put me at ease with her fun and approachable personality. Her process of first building a foundation of knowledge of recognizing keys, notes, rests, and timing gave me a solid base so that when we did begin work at the piano I felt like I knew what I was doing more so than had we sat down at the piano on day one. Ms. M has made each lesson enjoyable and informative. She has shared her love of classical music pieces with me as well as found simple jazz and blue pieces for me when she realized my interest extended into those genres as well. Each lesson, Ms. M sets goals for me to work towards for our next lesson so I am always improving. No matter if I am playing classical or jazz, the learning and practicing have been both fun and challenging, but never a chore. She has taught me practice and learning techniques that have sped up my «getting» pieces of music. I’ve only been taking lessons since January, but I am able to actually play pieces of music and have begun memorizing pieces. Here’s to a lifetime of enjoying and making music!

I have had the pleasure of receiving piano instruction from Miss M and hearing her perform as a soloist. As an instructor Miss M is thoughtful, kind, and patient. She is creative and flexible in her teaching approach, which has been key in my learning. Without hesitation, I would highly recommend Miss M as a piano instructor for students of any age. She loves what she does and it shows.

M was brave to take me on as a student, because I studied piano for a couple years in high school and developed lots of bad habits! She was so patient and kind to me.
In particular, I was never very good with rhythm, and I told M this.
She was very creative on the fly, and she developed a lesson especially tailored to me. She picked a few pieces of music, reviewed the time signatures, and then helped me practice my counting while I bumbled through the notes.
At one point I couldn’t get the notes right, so she played the notes while I counted until I was ready to try again. She also wrote out some rhythm exercises on the spot for me to practice — very impressive!
If I had any criticism, it was that M was determined to make sure I had a good lesson, and so it left me wanting to please her as a student. She wouldn’t accept my own pessimism! Maybe that’s not such a criticism after all…

Ms. M is great Piano teacher.
She is paitient, encouraging enthusiastic and dedicated.
I highly recommend her.

Ms. M. is fun, skilled, and a great teacher! I highly recommend her!