Quick answers to the things students ask most often. If your question isn’t here, the intro call is the fastest way to get a real one.
Yes. Complete beginners are welcome. Lessons are built around the music you actually want to play, starting from your first lesson — no slogging through method books for six months before you get to enjoy yourself.
Every lesson is 50 minutes, with a 10-minute buffer between students for lesson notes, planning the next session, and resetting the room. The buffer is deliberate — it’s how your teacher arrives fully ready for your lesson instead of catching up from the one before. In-person at the Ukrainian Village studio or online via Zoom — same rate, same structure either way.
They’re built to be equivalent. Online lessons over Zoom work well for piano, voice, and theory work. In-person lessons happen in a studio with a real acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3, and a recording setup — useful for students who want to play those specific instruments or capture finished work. Same rate, same structure, same teacher.
Yes — and lots of students do. You can split your lessons across both instruments, or alternate weeks. Just let me know what you want to work on.
Reschedule with at least 24 hours notice and your lesson moves to a new time at no charge. Late cancellations and no-shows count as a used lesson.
The studio takes a two-week break around the winter holidays. Pack lessons aren’t counted against you during the break — your remaining lessons hold.
Yes. All packs — Single Lesson, 4-Lesson Pack, 8-Lesson Pack, and Semester Pack — have credits valid for one year from purchase. That’s long enough to absorb a vacation or a sick week, short enough that you’ll actually finish what you started. If life intervenes near the end of your year, talk to me — we’ll figure it out.
The 8-Lesson Pack is $850 for eight 50-minute lessons — $106.25 per lesson. It’s the middle ground between the 4-Lesson Pack and the full Semester Pack. It’s also the format behind our seasonal programs: the Pop Piano Jumpstart and the Jazz Piano Bootcamp.
Yes. Any unused lessons in your current pack roll over, and you pay the difference to move up — 4-Lesson to 8-Lesson, 8-Lesson to Semester, anywhere in the ladder.
Teen students (roughly 11+) are welcome. For younger children, you’d be better served by a teacher whose practice is built specifically around early-childhood music education.
Show up. Bring music you want to work on if you have any in mind, but you don’t have to. The first lesson is about getting a sense of where you are and what you actually want to do — we figure out the path together from there.
These are the studio hours, full stop. Friday through Sunday are reserved for performing and other work. If those hours don’t work for your schedule, this isn’t the right studio for you — and that’s okay.
Two paths. If you already know what you want, purchase a pack directly — payment and lesson booking happen in one flow. If you’d rather talk first, book a 15-minute intro call. Either way, no audition, no commitment beyond the first step.