TEACHING

Sara has an extensive teaching experience both with beginners and more advanced students, including beginners from age 4, as well as University classes to students performing concert programs. Sara’s teaching method is based on her ability to detect the student’s needs and employ a personalized approach, resulting in a unique path for each person:

• Regarding young children, Sara believes that piano lessons should always be fun, and that the student should be able to play the piano from the first lesson, maybe a very easy and familiar tune, including cartoon theme songs; in a relaxed environment and with the trust of the student, teaching piano and music theory results in easier and more effective learning.

• Sara is experienced in teaching adults that have zero to very little experience, with an impressive rate of success. Particularly suited to this category of students, Sara’s teaching philosophy consists of keeping alive the initial desire that pushes someone to take piano lessons, through the difficult, sometimes frustrating period of learning the basics. The student is accompanied hand in hand to protect that desire and imagination until the dream is realized. To achieve this goal, the classes are structured in a way that the progress can be tangible and recognizable. For example, Sara pairs systematic music theory with selected piano arrangements of well-known masterpieces that technically suit the specific learning needs of the student at that moment. In addition, Sara always puts the taught music in its historical context and encourages her students to listen to works similar in style, period and form as part of their at-home study.

• The college classes taught at the University of Wisconsin (Piano 200) gave Sara the possibility of teaching complex piano programs including works by D. Scarlatti, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninov, and Villa-Lobos.

Sara teaches in Italian, English and Spanish.