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About Lynn D.
Music is my passion and I very much enjoy passing that passion on to others. Whether a student is a beginner or at a very advanced level, I can provide them with instruction which will enable them to be very successful, not only in their playing but in their understanding of how music works.
With more than 40 years of teaching, my students have gone on to study at major Canadian, American and UK universities and I very much enjoy preparing students for university auditions. Similarly, I tutor students working on GCSE Music, A-levels Music and IB Music in all three areas of each course (performance, composition and analysis and understanding).
Reacquainting lapsed players with their instruments and helping older beginners to discover a new passion is one of my specialties.
I am a Canadian music educator (now living in the UK), who has spent the past twenty years teaching in international schools. I hold a Bachelor of Music Education and a Masters of Music in performance (flute) and woodwind pedagogy.
For beginners, the focus is on a creating a good basic set-up. Promoting good habits in embouchure, posture, hand position and air stream to produce good characteristic tone quality are essential for a great musical future.
For more advanced players, the focus is on using the tools of expression: tone quality, vibrato, variation in dynamics and rhythmic control to create expressive musical performance.
My experience in a formal school setting has included teaching Band and Strings full ensembles, IB Music, Music Technology, full class general music. In addition, I have taught flute both privately and at Michigan State University and the University of Prince Edward Island.