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Only the best, most talented, dedicated and hard-working ones. What did you think I was going to say?
Seriously, I enjoy having a huge variety of students for voice, piano or theory. Some are indeed very dedicated, hard-working and single-minded. Those are probably the most important qualities if you want to be a professional musician, or even a good performing amateur. Talent is definitely secondary to tuition and dedication.
But I certainly enjoy the many students who are quietly working along at their own pace, learning for the sheer pleasure it gives them. I teach many beginners. My piano and theory students range from about 5 or 6 years old to 70 (in fact the seventy year old does very well in his piano exams). I teach singers from about 16 years all the way up to 70.
You might say I should be more discriminating about who I agree to teach, but if I didn't have such incredible diversity I would have gone bonkers years ago. Can you imagine teaching thirty or forty eight year olds how to play grade one piano all day every day? Or twenty classical sopranos how to sing half a dozen vocalises? I don't know how people do it.
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