Lesson Info

The information below will help you prepare for your first piano lesson! If you have any questions feel free to contact me.

Location

Lessons are held at Living Water Brethren Church, 621 Carpers Valley Road, Winchester, VA.

Practice

My desire is to help students accomplish all of their musical goals. I recommend that students practice 30 minutes a day for at least five days a week, students preparing for college 60 minutes, and beginning and younger students 15-20 minutes per day. If students leave their music out on the piano they tend to practice more.

Waiting/Sick Policy

Please NO student or family member with ANY symptoms of any illness including fever, cold symptoms including runny nose and sneezing, vomiting or diarrhea within the past 24 hours will be permitted to lessons. 

    • STUDENTS NEED TO BE FEVER FREE FOR 24 hours before returning to piano. Students will be given hand gel to sanitize their hands before piano.  Please enter and exit quietly as to not disturb the student before and after you.  Please wait in your car until 2 minutes before your lesson begins. Please quietly exit promptly as the lesson ends to not disrupt the student after you.  Parents may drop off students to go run errands, wait with us in the sanctuary, or wait in their car. For siblings who take lessons and are waiting their turn, please bring something quiet to work on and sit quietly in the pews. There is no place for siblings who are not taking piano to play, please wait in your car.

Tuition

Tuition is due monthly at the first lesson of the month and is the same each month regardless of how many lessons are in the month. Tuition cost details are under the “schedule” tab. Tuition is based on how many lessons a student will have over the course of the school year. Some days have more lessons that’s why there is a difference in cost for different days. For more serious students, longer lessons are available. During the months of September through May, you will have your own weekly, assigned piano slot. I do not give refunds or credit for lessons missed due to illness, school or sports activities, bad weather, or any other reason. If Frederick County Public Schools are closed due to snow/ice, I will also be closed. I offer a Piano Party (10 student limit) three times a year on a Saturday, 10:30-12:00 for a group lesson make up day. It consists of a peer performance and review, game/craft, snack, and a music history lesson. If I have to cancel a lesson based on my own emergency, you will receive a make up day for that (probably in June).

Tuition is due at the first lesson of each month. Please pay cash, check (made to Jenny Richardson), by PayPal on the last page of this website. Please contact me via text or phone call to let me know as soon as possible if you cannot be at your lesson. Students who do not show up for any three lessons without contacting me will be dropped.

Summer lessons are handled a little differently. Students sign up for an appointment under the “Summer Schedule” tab on this website for the times they want to come to piano and tuition is $100/5 lessons, and then $20 for any additional days. There are no assigned spots during the summer.

Materials

Students need to have these materials at each lesson and at home to practice:
-Metronome (or download a free app)
-Spiral Notebook (or I will give an assignment sheet)
-Folder for loose assignment and music sheets
-Pencil
-All of the books you are currently in (even if you didn’t have an assignment in them the week before)

Performance Dates to Remember for 2023-2024:

November 4 – FESTIVAL for PP-E3 levels at Tree House Music

December 8, 6:45- Prelude Music for Winchester Community Choir Concert, Victory Church

December 9, 10:00- Christmas Recital at Spring Arbor

December 16, 10:30 – Christmas Recital at Westminster Canterbury

March 2, 8:00-10:00 – FESTIVAL for E4 levels and higher

June 1 -(Tentative) Spring Piano Recital and Awards, 3:00 and 5:00, reception is at 4:00. The recital will be held at Woodbine Assembly of God (626 Rest Church Rd. Clear Brooke, VA 22624) *all students that are able are encouraged to perform*

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