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"... talented
teachers
make students love music..."
—A.
Artobolevskaya |
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| Our piano teachers are willing to share their joy and
appreciation of the great musical works with students. |
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| Katrin Arefy |
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Katrin designed the Golden Key method and is the artistic director at Golden Key Piano School where she trains all instructors to teach using the same method.
Katrin received her bachelor and master’s degree in piano performance and pedagogy from the Gnessin School of Music in Moscow. Her graduation was followed by two productive years in Iran, where she taught piano at Soure University in Tehran, as well as pedagogy classes to piano teachers at their request. Her articles and lectures on Russian methods were published in Iran, which is one of the country’s biggest newspapers. She translated Artobolevskaya’s First Meet with the Music and Neuhaus’ The Art of Piano Playing from Russian to Farsi. She also holds a Bachelor of Art in painting from Azad University in Tehran.
After moving to America, Katrin began arranging folk songs for piano, incorporating the Russian approach of teaching, and developed a method and curriculum in Golden Key Piano School.
She is a member of Music Teachers Association of California. Her very first students are now professional pianists graduating from some of the best music universities in Austria and Armenia.
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| Laima Meurer |
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She studied at the J.
Gruodis Conservatory. She received her Bachelor's
degree in Music Instruction at the Lithuanian National
Academy of Music in Kaunas and her Master's Degree
in Pedagogy from the Academy of Lithuania. After
10 years of teaching music in Europe, she moved
to US and has been teaching at Golden Key Piano
School since 2005. She is a member of the Music
Teachers’ Association of California (MTAC) and performs as an accompanist in bay area. Her gentle yet energetic approach supports her students
with their achievements.
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| Elena Akopova |
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She graduated from Krasnodar Conservatory of Music and moved to the USA to continue her piano studies at San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Mack McCray’s. She soon established herself in the Bay Area as an accompanist, a chamber music collaborator and a teacher.
Elena received many awards in her native Russia. She is a laureate of Sochi Chamber Music Competition, Astrakhan National Piano Competition and International Competition of Young Performers in Jyväskylä, Finland. She has an extensive teaching experience. For five years she was a member of faculty at Krasnodar Music College as well as Krasnodar School of the Arts.
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