Mirabai Peart, violin and viola teacher
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Welcome! I'm excited to offer violin/fiddle and viola lessons to ages 5 and up, at all levels. During this Covid-19 Crisis, I'm offering online video lessons from my home studio here in far SE Portland, Oregon. My other teaching location, Mosaic String Academy is temporarily closed until further notice. Please see teaching locations at the bottom of this page. |
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testimonials -- studio photos -- fees and policies
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My teaching approach
I aim to help aspiring violinists and violists find direction in their very own musical adventures and discoveries, and to find their own musical voice. To accomplish this, I seek to build a true connection with my students.
I provide a strong focus on a solid technique, with special attention to creating the most natural physical posture and movement possible. Through establishing integrity in one's physical relationship with the instrument over time, there emerges a true and personal tone along with the physical ease, efficiency and dexterity that allows for freedom and true expression.
To empower students to learn by ear has become an increasingly important aspect of my teaching lately, along with social playing and jamming. I feel these skills help nurture musicians who will want to keep playing throughout their lives in the long term.
As part of a well-rounded approach, I also provide students with tutoring in music literacy, music theory and sight reading.
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ALL AGES 5+ and ALL WALKS OF LIFE!
I welcome both young people and adults as my students. For children, I like to make playing fun, introducing them to various types of folk music and other exciting tunes, using FiddleQuest and Suzuki methods. For more mature students the same can apply, but also I like to encourage each mature student to help direct the course of their own study by actively seeking music that inspires them.
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REPERTOIRE
Along with classical repertoire, I can help students access many styles with tunes that suit their playing level and provide the right amount of challenge- Celtic, Balkan, American Folk, Scandinavian, bluegrass, jazz, Latin American, the list goes on. I aim to teach what I have learned of various styles while paying due respect to the musical traditions, and with awareness that each tradition can take years, if not lifetimes, to delve into fully.
In light of the BLM movement and with my own increasing awareness and continuing self-education about the need for equal representation in music, my fellow Mosaic String Academy teachers and I have resolved to focus on diversifying our repertoire in meaningful and non-tokenistic ways, to create an even richer and satisfying repertoire for our students.
As well as offering a diverse experience of music, I am thoroughly versed in the Suzuki method and will teach classical violin to a high level if that is the desired focus.
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FIDDLEQUEST
Since 2020, my students and I have been using the teaching/learning online tool FiddleQuest, and we're really enjoying it!
It's method and ethos fits well with my view that true wholistic and sustainable music making requires the skills of the ear and experience with social playing.
The building of these skills can open up the possibility for students to have adventures in jamming in any style of music, to explore improvisation as well as composition.
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MOSAIC STRING ACADEMY
I strive to provide opportunities for students to participate in regular ensemble playing, jams, soirées and concerts, which are emphasised as an important element of our musical lives. Mosaic String Academy provides a wonderful musical community of teachers and students in which to experience these things! Even for students who don't take their private lessons with me at Mosaic, they can still access the group classes and community events. During this Covid-19 pandemic, Mosaic is officially closed, but I'm still holding group jams and concerts for students within my own studio (outdoors as weather permits).
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I provide a strong focus on a solid technique, with special attention to creating the most natural physical posture and movement possible. Through establishing integrity in one's physical relationship with the instrument over time, there emerges a true and personal tone along with the physical ease, efficiency and dexterity that allows for freedom and true expression.
To empower students to learn by ear has become an increasingly important aspect of my teaching lately, along with social playing and jamming. I feel these skills help nurture musicians who will want to keep playing throughout their lives in the long term.
As part of a well-rounded approach, I also provide students with tutoring in music literacy, music theory and sight reading.
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ALL AGES 5+ and ALL WALKS OF LIFE!
I welcome both young people and adults as my students. For children, I like to make playing fun, introducing them to various types of folk music and other exciting tunes, using FiddleQuest and Suzuki methods. For more mature students the same can apply, but also I like to encourage each mature student to help direct the course of their own study by actively seeking music that inspires them.
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REPERTOIRE
Along with classical repertoire, I can help students access many styles with tunes that suit their playing level and provide the right amount of challenge- Celtic, Balkan, American Folk, Scandinavian, bluegrass, jazz, Latin American, the list goes on. I aim to teach what I have learned of various styles while paying due respect to the musical traditions, and with awareness that each tradition can take years, if not lifetimes, to delve into fully.
In light of the BLM movement and with my own increasing awareness and continuing self-education about the need for equal representation in music, my fellow Mosaic String Academy teachers and I have resolved to focus on diversifying our repertoire in meaningful and non-tokenistic ways, to create an even richer and satisfying repertoire for our students.
As well as offering a diverse experience of music, I am thoroughly versed in the Suzuki method and will teach classical violin to a high level if that is the desired focus.
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FIDDLEQUEST
Since 2020, my students and I have been using the teaching/learning online tool FiddleQuest, and we're really enjoying it!
It's method and ethos fits well with my view that true wholistic and sustainable music making requires the skills of the ear and experience with social playing.
The building of these skills can open up the possibility for students to have adventures in jamming in any style of music, to explore improvisation as well as composition.
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MOSAIC STRING ACADEMY
I strive to provide opportunities for students to participate in regular ensemble playing, jams, soirées and concerts, which are emphasised as an important element of our musical lives. Mosaic String Academy provides a wonderful musical community of teachers and students in which to experience these things! Even for students who don't take their private lessons with me at Mosaic, they can still access the group classes and community events. During this Covid-19 pandemic, Mosaic is officially closed, but I'm still holding group jams and concerts for students within my own studio (outdoors as weather permits).
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For our private violin lessons, we have the choice between 2 different locations in Portland, OR:
1. Mosaic String Academy on SE 28th near Steele
2. At my home studio in East Portland on SE 140th between Holgate and Foster.
'Samothrakitikos Ballos' and 'Rustem'
Hello dear Homebound Sessions fiddlers, it's been a joy to get to work on tunes with you!
If you have any questions about these tunes, about Greek music, Romanian Romani music or Balkan music in general,
please feel free to write to me via the contact form on my website here.
Hello dear Homebound Sessions fiddlers, it's been a joy to get to work on tunes with you!
If you have any questions about these tunes, about Greek music, Romanian Romani music or Balkan music in general,
please feel free to write to me via the contact form on my website here.
'Samothrakitikos Ballos' is a Greek Island tune from the Island of Samothraki in the Aegean Sea.
The recording is played by Kyriako Steriyou on violin, and was the source for the transcription here.
The recording is played by Kyriako Steriyou on violin, and was the source for the transcription here.
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'Rustem' is a Romanian-Romani tune. Romani is the preferred term for the people otherwise known as 'gypsies'.
This recording is by the band 'Taraf de Haidouks', and was the source for the transcription here.
This recording is by the band 'Taraf de Haidouks', and was the source for the transcription here.
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