“My students have 100% success rate in Royal Conservatory of Music exams (both classical guitar and music theory)”
- Vanja
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By using both, famous historical and contemporary classical guitar methods, enhanced with classical guitar pedagogy, I teach classical guitar beginners and also coach intermediate to advanced level. Primary goal is that student establishes a solid classical guitar techniques, becomes familiar with note reading including sight-reading skills and with fingerboard harmony. On the another hand, student will also get basic understanding of music theory and develop necessary research aspects of exploring classical guitar. I also teach student to learn how to analyze the pieces and various compositional elements through listening and reading assignments. On top of that, I teach classical guitar history. Besides teaching classical guitar by traditional methods, I am also teaching kids by Suzuki method.
Name: Vanja (Full name will be provided upon registration)
Age: 50's
Gender: Male
Our teacher began playing guitar at age seven, and later engaged in serious study under renowned European classical guitar teachers: Kosta Popovic, Maestro Milivoj Praljak and under the guidance of the world-renowned teacher- Mila Rakanovic with our teacher received extensive instruction in the spanish and Italian tradition with a focus on musicality and artistic expression. Later, our teacher graduated from Classic Guitar Music School with the highest score.
Classical Guitar Teacher accredited by Suzuki Association of the Americas for Comprehensive Guitar All Units
Croatian
English
Serbian
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
Vanja is available to teach in your home if you are located in the following areas
Online lessons
Vanja 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.
Vanja's Studio Location
Vanja offers lessons from her studio. Please note that map locations are based on the postal code of the teachers studio. address will be released to you if needed.