Experienced tutor in Piano in New York, Mary offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

Mary is far and away the best teacher I have ever had. She is highly intuitive and enormously empathetic. She is an extraordinary musician with a phenomenal gift for teaching. While she is warm and encouraging, Mary is no pushover. She sets high standards and helps her students achieve them.

“She possesses the ability to present matters of considerable complexity with simplicity. Mary is a born teacher. I cannot recommend her highly enough.”

Mary possesses the ability to present matters of considerable complexity with a simplicity derived from a profound understanding of their essence. Her approach is to assist the art of discovery by framing the presenting problem in such a way as to suggest its possible solution, putting the responsibility for solving it on the student, where it rightfully belongs. By providing them with just enough information to encourage a lively colleagial exchange, she makes students active participants in the learning process, inspiring them to come up with their own working models, which become ever more refined as they go along. Her emphasis on process rather than product takes unhelpful pressure off a pedagogical situation in which learners must necessarily perform inexpertly, making themselves vulnerable and failing repeatedly in the process. Because of her skill in taking into account the psychological subtext of individuals and using it constructively in their own best interests, they can comfortably give over and put themselves in her hands, inspired to make their own best efforts. Mary is a born teacher. I cannot recommend her highly enough.