About Gillian
Gillian is a dedicated music teacher proficient in flute, piano, and saxophone, catering to a diverse range of students from young children to adults. She offers lessons online and in the comfort of your home, ensuring a flexible and accessible learning environment. Gillian holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Western Ontario, emphasizing her strong foundation in classical music training. Her accolades include the Cosmo Music Award and an Award of Distinction from PDSB, highlighting her recognized talent and commitment to excellence. Gillian's teaching philosophy is rooted in making music education available to all, believing in its power to enrich lives. She is fluent in English, which she uses to foster clear and effective communication in her lessons. Book an interview with Gillian now for a comprehensive musical education experience.
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Music has been and always will be fundamental in my life. I believe every student should be able to access music education. Music is a universal language and is the one thing that I would say brings peace to many of my students' lives. Everyday I see my students at the school I teach put their headphones in during work periods - and that is why I feel that it is important that we can continue to provide students with this opportunity.
Name: Gillian (Full name will be provided upon registration)
Age: 28
Gender: female
I have a BMUSa from the University of Western Ontario, which included performance classes in saxophone. I studied both piano and saxophone privately when I was younger. My teachers were classically trained.
Cosmo Music Award - 2010 Award of Distinction (PDSB) - 2010
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
Gillian is available to teach in your home if you are located in the following areas
Online lessons
Gillian 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.