INSTRUCTION
If you live in the Los Angeles area and are looking for personalized instruction in any of a wide range of musical topics, David can help. He offers instruction in:
- Composition
- Arrangement/Transcription
- Notation and Engraving, including parts preparation (handwritten and using notation software)
- Piano
- Analysis/Theory
- Music History
David believes in the value of a malleable pedagogical approach; each of his students receives individualized instruction tailored to meet his or her particular needs. Instruction is available for general study, or can be designed to tackle a unique project or a difficult test. Please contact David to talk about your specific goals.
Recent teaching experience:
- Eastman School of Music: Composition for majors and non-majors, private lessons (Summer 2005)
- Eastman School of Music: Composition, “Music Horizons” program for high-school students (Summer 2005)
- Eastman School of Music: Composition for non-majors, private lessons (2004-2006)
- University of Rochester : Beginning Composition, private lessons/seminar (2003)
- Duke University : Created and taught an undergraduate course concerning the 19th century “War of the Romantics”, as viewed from historical and theoretical points of view (2001)
- Duke University : Created and team-taught an undergraduate course focusing on 20th century aesthetic theory (2001)
- Tutored students in music composition, theory, music history, and English composition (1997-2007)