Bonnie Pausic

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About Me

Bonnie Lynn Pausic is the owner and operator of  Blue Skies Piano, affiliated with Lynn’s Music Service. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland where she earned a degree in piano performance. Bonnie instructs and mentors students in piano performance, music theory, music history and practical practice techniques. She continues to concentrate her studies of piano, conducting and interrelated musical disciplines at the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey.

She has taught class piano and Kindermusik in various locations in Bowie, Maryland as well as maintaining a large roster of private individual piano students taught online. Her online students are local as well as out of state and international.  Many of her students win state and local competitions and continue to be accepted at many prestigious conservatories, colleges and universities.

Bonnie has taught both individual and class piano at the Prince George’s Community College. She has also mentored students in private and class piano, pedagogy, theory, ensemble performance and accompaniment techniques at The Suitland School for the Performance of the Arts. 

She judges for many local music associations in addition to the National Guild of Piano Teachers, where she is a certified teacher and a member of the Hall of Fame. She is a member of the Music Teachers National Association, the Maryland State Music Teachers Association, and is a former member of the Music Teachers Association of Bowie. In the latter organization, she has served as President, Vice President and Treasurer.

 

My Musical Education Background

Bachelor of Music, University of Maryland, College Park, MD in piano performance



Post-graduate studies:

Certification in online teaching methodology with Carly Walton, Teach Music Online

Classical piano studies with concert pianist Brian Ganz

Jazz piano arranging with jazz artists Bradley Sowash, Les Carr, and Michael Maher

Jazz vocal studies with Lisa Rich

Classical vocal studies with Lisa Reagan, Marilyn Hahn

Organ performance with Dale Krider

Conducting and Sacred studies at Westminster Choir College, Princeton NY

Gospel studies at Wesminster Choir College, Princeton NY

Kindermusik teacher certification



Numerous seminars and conventions that deal with the interests of piano students of all ages

Genres and Subjects Taught

Piano performance and allied subjects:
Music Theory, including Analysis, Ear training, Calligraphy
Sightreading
Music History
Improvisation and Composition

All styles that motivate and appeal to the student: classical, jazz, pop, show, sacred

Fully accrediated in Music in Education, Yamaha's course in class piano

Fully accredited in all levels of Kindermusik

Lesson Rates

All possible lessons for the school year are added up, holidays and other closures are subtracted, and the remaining sum is divided into 10 installments. This makes the tuition affordable and predictable for the student.

Summer lessons are available also and are highly encouraged to maintain consistency of instruction.

Ages / Skill Levels Taught

Lessons in piano and allied subjects are offered to 4-year-olds up through adults.

Lessons in class piano are offered to Kindergarten through 8th grade.

Lessons in Kindermusik are offered to 6 weeks through age 7.

My Certifications and Awards

Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance, University of Maryland, College Park MD

Certification in Music in Education Class Piano Method by Yamaha Music Corporation

Certification in Kindermusik, all levels

Certified by the American College of Musicians

Hall of Fame Award, American College of Musicians

Scholarship through the American Guild of Organists for Organ Performance

Member, National Guild of Piano Teachers (Adjudicator)
Member, Music Teachers National Association
Member, Maryland State Music Teachers Association
Member, Former, Music Teachers Association of Bowie (Past President, Vice- President, Treasurer)
 

My Musical Influences

Greatly influenced by all the consummate professionals with which I have studied: Carly Walton, Brian Ganz, Roy Johnson, Bradley Sowash, Evelyn Garvey, Dale Crider, Les Carr, Michael Maher, Lana McCoy Bailey, Marilyn Hahn, Lisa Reagan and countless seminar and conference presenters.

Love and teach most styles of music, including jazz, classical, pop and show.

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