Jamie - BAH Teacher #3383

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

Age: 29

Gender: female

I have a masters of Classical Voice from the University of Ottawa. I am a partially self taught piano player who has taken lessons privately for almost a decade. I have experience with choral music as well as solo music, and with piano up to an intermediate level. My speciality is in classical voice with a focus on opera and artsong, but I am not limited by those genres.

Kiwanis Music Festival of Sudbury, ON 2016 top performer award North Bay Rising Stars competition First Place

Having studied classical music from a performance standpoint and a historical standpoint gives me unique insight into how different genres are performed and how they have evolved into what we recognize today. This means that I can easily accommodate any style of music with very little difficulty! I have a great ear for pitch and have brought several students from near tone-deafness to a point where they can differentiate and identify pitches with almost no context. I also have knowledge of how the human body works while singing, and am able to describe instructions in a variety of ways to suit the student’s needs.

English

French

German

Italian

Japanese

Spanish

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).