Christopher - BAH Teacher #3269

About Christopher
Christopher specializes in teaching baritone-euphonium, trombone, and tuba, offering online lessons and in-home sessions. His teaching philosophy revolves around ensuring that students not only develop a strong grasp of the fundamentals of playing trombone but also explore a variety of musical styles and genres. Christopher aims to make performing music an exciting and rewarding experience for his students. Book an interview with Christopher now to start your musical journey.


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Performing music should be an exciting and rewarding experience. I want to ensure my students develop a strong grasp of the fundamentals of playing trombone, and explore a variety of musical styles and genres.

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

Age: 40's

Gender: male

I have attended Douglas College and Capilano College schools of music where I studied bass trombone. I have performed as a professional musician for the last 2 decades. Ensembles include the Vancouver Island Symphony, Kamloops Symphony and several small ensemble gigs including weddings, chamber festivals, R&B and Rock bands, and musical theatre productions.

I am a reserve military musician and perform regularly with the 5th Field Regiment Band in Victoria and fill in with regular force Nadan Band in Victoria.

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).

Lessons in your home

Christopher is available to teach in your home if you are located in the following areas

Online lessons

Christopher can provide online instruction. While other platforms are possible BAH strongly recommends the use of the Zoom video conferencing platform as it is optimized for music lessons and audio quality.

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