341 W. 71st Street, New York NY, 10023
Instruments:Conducting, Piano, Violin, Voice

Styles:Classical
Levels:Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Experience:20 years
Rate:$125 / hr

Personal Statement

I can easily assess the student’s abilities and determine the next steps that will yield the fastest and most effective progress. As a life long musician, I have very effective practice techniques that keep my students improving and loving their musical journey. I feel I can offer an in-depth education in music as well as the technique to become proficient in singing or violin and piano. Music is the greatest of all the art forms and I find it thrilling to show students why!

I teach in both Manhattan and northwest Connecticut. Please visit my website. Thank you.

Education / Training

Bachelor’s of Music – The Juilliard School
Master’s of Music – The Juilliard School

Violin studies with Dorothy DeLay, Ivan Galamian, Artur Grumiaux

Voice studies with Ellen Repp, Ruth Falcon, Judith Blegen and Chloe Owen

Chamber music studies with Robert Mann, Felix Galimir, Hato Beyerle

Professional violinist with the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Philharmonic (London), English Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Strasbourg Philharmonic (France) and l’Ensemble Orchestral (Paris)

Soloist in the U.S. and in Europe as opera singer and violinist, first violinist in the Quatuor Stanislas (France)

Teacher at the Pimlico School in London, Harlem School of the Arts, Blackheath Conservatory, Escuela di Vida y Movimento and l’Ecole Americain at Fontainbleau.

Private studio in New York for 20 years.

Heather Kelley