PRIVATE MUSICAL INSTRUCTION

Private lessons in musical instruments or voice are available for all Grinnell College students, whether beginner or advanced, music major or non-music major. In a typical semester, approximately 20-25% of all Grinnell students take private lessons for credit. For Music majors, private lesson instruction is subsidised at the junior and senior levels. The department employs 27 instructors (see listing below) for instruments ranging from flute to harp to piano and voice. The Bucksbaum Center for the Arts contains 14 practice rooms that are open during all building hours.

There are several levels of instruction. In Music 120, students meet with their instructor in weekly 30-minute lessons and are expected to practice a minimum of one-half hour each day, receiving 1 credit for their studies. Music 220 Performance: Private Instruction meets for a half-hour each week, and students are expected to practice a minimum of one hour each day and perform at least once in public during the semester. Music 221 Performance: Advanced Private Instruction meets for an hour each week, and students are expected to practice for an hour each day and perform at least once in public during the semester. Music 420 is for students presenting a recital, and Music 495 is for seniors presenting their senior projects, which often include a recital. Music 220, 221, and 420 all earn 2 credits, and music 495 earns 4 credits.

Private Lessons Instructors
(Applied Music Associates except where indicated)

banjo – Fred Buck
Bass- Michael Fanelli
Low Brass- Matthew Cameron
cello – Julie Sturm
clarinet – Victor Acevedo
flute – Claudia Anderson
French horn – Guinevere McIntyre
guitar – Robert Dunn, Dan Caraway
harp – Jeanmarie Chenette
harpsichord – Elizabeth Hays (Assoc. Prof.), Jennifer Williams Brown
jazz bass – Robert Dunn
jazz piano – Gabriel Espinosa
lute –
oboe – Jennifer Wohlenhaus
organ – Linda Bryant
percussion – Mark Dorr (Lecturer & AMA)
piano – Eugene Gaub (Assoc. Prof.), Patrice Ewoldt (Lecturer), Barbara Rivadeneira, Melinda Westphalen
saxophone –Regina Cole
trombone – Matthew Cameron
trumpet – Craig Swartz
tuba – Matthew Cameron
violia– Christina Fay Carpenter Mixemong
violin - Nancy McFarland Gaub
voice – Lisa Henderson, Marvin Kelley, John Rommereim (Assoc. Prof.), Michael Oxley