Sarah Watkins

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About Me

Welcome to Watkins Academy of Music!
I have a studio currently of 25 students, and recitals every fall and spring! I am very enthusiastic about teaching piano! I love creating music and watching children/adults enjoy and the light shine through their faces as they play and love every moment of it! I will create a very positive, exciting, creative, and fun atmosphere! Learning to play music is all about what comes from your heart.

My Musical Education Background

Been studying piano for more than 18 years. Started at the age of 6 years old with a private teacher. At the age of 13 was accepted for study at The Levigne School of Music. Furthered my education at Montgomery College with Dr. Jay Crowder as my piano teacher. Soon started my Undergraduate piano performance Bachelors degree at The University of Maryland under Dr Larissa Dedova. Recently finished my senior recital and looking to head to masters school in the fall of 2016.

Lesson Rates

40 a half hour 80 an hour

My Musical Influences

I grew up listening to Rogers and Hammerstein, Walt Disney, classics from Jack London movies, Julie Andrews, John Williams, his incredible writing for Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean . Etc.. He is my true inspiration. I also enjoy: Jimmy Hendrix, The beach boys, (seen them in concert) Beatles, John Lennon, Billy Joel, I love the 90s, oldies and throwbacks, Elvis Presley, Rick Nelson, Frank Sinatra etc.. And many, many more.. I like modern music such as: rap, hiphop, skrillex, and some country. Now my favorite type of music would consist of piano, violin, symphonic works from: Beethoven,(sonatas and minuets) Hadyn, Mozart, Chopin,( his scherzos and etudes) Scriabin, Fran's Listz, Rachmaninoff,(many of his etude tableaux) Grieg, (concerto in A minor) Stravinsky, (especially his firebird suite for piano) Prokofiev, etc I could go on forever and forever but that's a little bit of the musical background I have.

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