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Mary Claire
- Rate $50
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1st lesson free
- Piano
Experienced tutor in Piano, Mary Claire offers private lessons tailored to your needs.
- Piano
Lesson location
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At Mary Claire's house: Bowling Green
- online
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at your home or a public place : will travel up to 20 mi. from Bowling Green
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About Mary Claire
Mary Claire Murphy grew up with seven siblings on a small farm in northwest Ohio. She began studying piano in 2003 and continued studying music at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. There, Mary Claire was awarded Xavier’s Presidential and McCauley Music scholarships and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Music. Her concentrations were piano performance and composition, which she studied under Dr. Polina Bespalko and Dr. Kaleel Skeirik, respectively. Prior to graduation, she travelled abroad to teach general music and piano lessons in Costa Rica, received the West Hills College Piano Award for her solo performances, and performed as an accompanist for the Cincinnati Children’s Choir.
Mary Claire is now an active member of greater Toledo’s musical community. She has taught Pre-K through 8th grade music at St. Augustine in Napoleon, Ohio, and 6th-12th grade music at St. Ursula Academy in Toledo, Ohio. Inspired to foster music education, she founded Field Lily Music to offer private piano lessons to local students. Mary Claire was awarded a tuition scholarship and music theory assistantship at Bowling Green State University, where she then completed a Master of Music Composition degree. At Bowling Green, she studied under Marilyn Shrude and Christopher Dietz and received additional instruction from Mikel Kuehn.
The National Federation of Music Clubs recognized Mary Claire’s piano solo Cenote Dos Ojos with the 2019 Marion Richter Composition Award. She continues to take special interest in piano solo composition and has an affinity for writing lullabies. She also strives to write poignant musical narratives which juxtapose moments of thoughtful intimacy with simple grandeur to create an experience that is authentic, unapologetically emotional, and visceral.
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1) BA in Music with concentrations in Piano Performance and Composition
2) Masters in Music Composition
3) 18 years of experience playing piano
4) 4 years of experience teaching piano
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About the lesson
- All Levels
- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
My goal is to help you reach YOUR goals. I like to start with a free meet-and-greet session so that we can get to know eachother and discuss your musical experience (though none is necessary), interests, and goals. This will help inform me which books and materials might be a great fit for you.
In a typical lesson with me, you may anitcipate the following elements:
Warm-up exercises: note-reading flashcards, major scales, minor scales, modes, cadences, technical exercises, creative exercises
Writing music: hand-written and printed via notation software
Discussion of solo repertoire, including pertinent historical and theoretical concepts
Performance of solo repertoire
Development of practice techniques
Critical listening
Assignments, including daily targeted practice based on lesson commentary
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Recommendations
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“My daughter Aftyn has been taking lessons with Mary Claire for years. We absolutely love her and so does Aftyn. The amount of growth we have seen is impressive. I would highly recommend her to anyone. 100% satisfied with her teaching. As long as she is teaching, our children will remain her students.”
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Rates
Rate
- $50
Pack rates
- 5h: $250
- 10h: $500
free lessons
This first lesson offered with Mary Claire will allow you to get to know each other and clearly specify your needs for your next lessons.
- 1hr
online
- $50/h
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