Addy - BAH Teacher #3453

Name: Addy (Full name will be provided upon registration)

Age: 26

Gender: female

I have my Masters is violin performance from University of Western Ontario. In addition I obtained my Bachelor degree in violin performance from the University of Toronto, where I studied under Mark Skatz ( Associate Concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra ). I have been a young artist in the Oakville symphony for 3 seasons where I sat associate concertmaster. I started taking violin lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, at the age of 3 years old. I grew up learning from the Suzuki Method and taking RCM examinations. I have held numerous concertmaster positions in youth orchestras and have been to music camps/festivals which were located in Canada and America. In high school I was concertmaster of the Port Credit Regional Strings Program, where competitions were awarded first place. I have been in teen performance groups.

-Received Western Graduate Research Scholarship -Awarded Gordon Jeffery Strings Chamber Music Graduate Award -Won the Oakville Symphony Young Artist award ( 3 times) - Won Ontario strings award

-This past January I played a side by side concert with the New Orford String Quartet -I studied at the RCM since I was 3 years old to the start of my undergraduate studies with Sarah Fraser-Raff - I have studied- with Peggy Hills for 3 years Pre undergraduate -Completed RCM exams 1-8 and level 10 -Completed Suzuki teacher training courses books 1-5 (this august I will have completed books 9 and 10) - Attended SOSI ( Southwestern Ontario String Institute) for 22 years. It was and still is the hi-lights of my summer. The encouraging and loving environment is what I aspire to bring to all of my students - As someone who had struggled with a learning disability I feel like when I teach I am able to think of different ways for my teaching to resonate with each child in a unique way weather that’s more visual, logical, emotional, or auditory based.

English

Rates and Studio Policies
Registration Fee: $25.00 (One-time lifetime registration fee may be used by all family members)

Rates for instruction:
30 minute private lesson: $39.00
45 minute private lesson: $49.00
60 minute private lesson: $59.00

Travel charge: additional $15.00 per visit (for lessons in a client's home as opposed to my studio)

1. Cancellation Policy
Lessons not cancelled or rescheduled with at least 24 hours notice are billable to the client and payable to the teacher. This does not of course apply to travel fees unless the notice is effectively given at the door and the teacher has travelled to the location.

2. Cessation (quitting) Policy
A client must provide a 2 lesson notice period to stop lessons. So a weekly student needs to give 2 weeks of notice, a biweekly student works out to 3 weeks notice and a twice weekly student works out to a week of notice.

3. Illness Policy
Lessons cancelled due to illness or extraordinary circumstances with less than 24 hours notice remain billable to the client and payable to the teacher.

BAH teachers are encouraged to offer a make-up lesson at a future date in the interest of client relations and general goodwill. This only makes sense as teaching a student with the flu for example, will ruin the rest of your week's employment.

No more than 2 lessons may be made up due to illness within a 60 day period.

4. Rescheduling Policy
Any lesson can be cancelled or rescheduled with at least 24 hours notice.

Summer Vacation and Extended Absence Policy

Clients may schedule longer absences for trips etc. 24 hours notice is required.

It is normal and typical for students and about 20% of our teachers to schedule a break in the summer. We do not enforce a notice period (see cessation of lessons) at the end of a long summer break.

5. Evaluation Period
There are no free trial lessons with Beethoven at Home but we do offer a 2 lesson evaluation period where it is easy to try out a teacher. There are no free lessons during the evaluation period and clients may choose to discontinue the lessons at any time by providing the required 24 hours notice. After the student's 3rd lesson the required 2 lesson notice period will apply (see cessation of lessons above).