Sabrina Saiki-Mita
Jamie Sanborn
“First and foremost music is supposed to be fun and that is my main goal. Sometimes this means helping a student become the best but more often this means using music to help them find their own voice, courage, and community.”
Rachel Saul Schifino
“Prioritizing a curriculum that is unique to each student, I carefully observe each student's ability to determine the course of study. My teaching philosophy, influenced by my "Grandfather" teacher Ivan Galamian, emphasizes an equal pyramid of technique and musicality. Developing both equally, with technique’s sole purpose to express innate musicality, is essential to achieve the end goal to create artful music.”
Joyce Shih
My goals are to help my students develop confidence, coordination, and concentration, and to help them learn to enjoy and appreciate classical music.
Sheryl Shohet
Violin, Viola / Central-West O‘ahu (Waipio Gentry)
“In addition to playing the violin beautifully and loving music, students in my violin studio learn valuable life lessons. My studio is a close-knit community of students and families who interact with me, with each other, with other music organizations, and with various populations we serve while sharing our music. ”
Kayla Uchida
Anna Womack
Cindy Wu
“My main goal with a student is to built a beautiful musical journey with him/her while growing and learning together. They would enjoy learning so much and all I wish for my students is to carry on that joyful moment in life. They will become self-motivated to practice by themself. Music eventually became the best asset in one's life!”
Rosy Wang
Audrey Luna
“He or she may have a beautiful voice but if it is not connected to a passionate heart, which the listener can feel within themselves, then the passion will only be larynx-deep. To me, being a great singer means being able to communicate not only through the voice but through the face and body. To be called "great" you have to be an excellent interpreter of the music and the text.”