Katie - BAH Teacher #4731

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

Age: 28

Gender: female

I attended MacEwan University for 3 years where I was the signer for the large Jazz ensemble. I obtained a Diploma in Jazz and contemporary music performance specializing in voice. I studied voice, piano, and guitar privately from the age of four until the age of eighteen. I was raised in a musical family where we played bluegrass together, and often switched instruments depending on the song. I learned to sing harmony and play flatpicking style guitar, clawhammer banjo, mandolin, and upright bass from my experiences with family, attending multiple music camps and jam sessions. My main area of expertise is in learning through ear training, and the Nashville numbering system. I have led my own music projects since the age of sixteen. I currently lead my project, where I write music, and perform both solo and with a band consisting of a drummer, bassist, lead guitar player, and synth player. I perform around the city and across the country with multiple projects singing backups, and playing guitar and bass. I can teach basic music theory and songwriting on all of the instruments listed.

I was present for other students' critiques and evaluations in Jazz school, learning and understanding the ways that voices and instruments are interpreted by the audience. I have worked in elementary schools and centres for adults with disabilities which has allowed me to learn through experience all of the ways people learn. I value all different kinds of learning whether through basic rhythm and participation or music theory and games, to song based learning, or technique. I have played at several music festivals where artists collaborate with each other and have learned how to improvise, jam, and lead different collective music playing and listening experiences.

English

French

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).