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Music
Piano & Drum Lessons
Lessons
FALL 2024

PIANO DRUM

LESSONS LESSONS

PIANO LESSONS DRUM LESSONS
Ages 5-Adult Ages 5-Adult
Niles Park District offers private piano lessons. Children and adults Private one on one lessons. All instruction includes note reading,
with all levels of experience are welcome and no prior instruction in rudiments, history, theory, posture, composition, syncopation, and
piano or music is required. Lessons will focus on the fundamentals improvisation. Students are prepared to play as soloists as well as in
of technique, music theory, and good practice habits. Practice time groups, band recital and live performances. All styles of music and
may also be arranged through the park district for a minimal fee. In technique are taught and introduced within the program. Styles of
addition, students may need to purchase their own instruction books instruction include jazz, pop, funk, Latin, rhythm, blues, percussion,
and music. Refunds will not be granted for missed lessons. and African drumming. All equipment and teaching materials for
lesson are provided by the instructor for a fee. Each lesson is 30
loCATion: HowARD lEiSURE CEnTER minutes in length. Prior to the start of the session the instructor
TiME: lESSonS ARE 30 MinUTES long will contact you with the time of your lesson.
Lessons take place on Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs or Sat
Please call 847-967-6633 for availability Meet our Drum Instructor
Tom Corrao has 22 years’ experience as a professional
drummer, percussionist, and teacher. Tom teaches drums and
percussion throughout the northwest suburban park districts and
music schools. Tom teaches all ages and level of students from
beginning to advance. Tom is an enthusiastic highly experienced
teacher and performer. Tom has extensive experience in regular
performances both locally and on national tours. He offers each
Vicky Ostwald Jeanne Hanline Tom Slater student an individualized lesson plan and curriculum and the best
musical experience based on student’s special interests.
Meet our Piano Instructors AgES: 5-ADUlT
Vicky Ostwald has a degree in piano and studied piano loCATion: HowARD lEiSURE CEnTER
pedagogy at the graduate level. She has many years of playing TiME: lESSonS ARE By APPoinTMEnT
and teaching experience, including formerly teaching at the college
level. Vicky enjoys working with all levels and all kinds of students, Code Day Date (6 wks) R/NR
especially children but also adults, including those with special 410113-21 Thurs Sept 12-Oct 17 $168/$192
needs. If you have a special interest such as learning to play by 410113-22 Thurs Nov 7-Dec 19 $168/$192
ear, this can be incorporated into the lesson time. She looks NO LESSON NOVEMBER 28
forward to meeting you and your child!
Jeanne Hanline has studies music and given private piano
lessons for over 35 years focusing on teaching children and adults
to read music and enjoy the accomplishment of sitting down to
play this amazing instrument. Teaching traditional methods of
classical and popular music are the results she hopes to achieve
for her students. She has played various venues for private affairs
and church functions. Patience, practice, and enjoyment are the
main goals.
Tom Slater has been playing music and studying the piano
for over 30 years. He studied music at Cleveland State University
and has a background in classical, jazz and pop music. He is
currently a multi-instrumentalist in several local bands, and he has
been featured on the WGN Morning News, WXRT and NPR.
Tom’s main goals are to help his students develop and maintain
good practice habits, learn music theory, and get the most
enjoyment you can from playing music.

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