RE: Letter of Recommendation
Karta Iglesias

I am delighted to have the opportunity to offer my strongest recommendation for Karta as a piano and music teacher. In Ithaca, I have experienced Karta as a piano teacher for myself, a piano and music teacher for my three young daughters, and --in the case of my youngest daughter--- a piano teacher at her school.

I decided to take piano lessons following a 35 year hiatus. Largely, the impetus for my starting anew was watching Karta's work with the children. He has an uncanny ability to inspire them, and to excite them with the delight of making and listening to music. His inspiration was contagious, and I have tremendously benefitted from the re-introduction of music to my life. I mostly attribute this to Karta's encouragement and highly developed and flexible teaching style.

Karta is extraordinary in his ability to respond to the children’s needs (and moods.) When the girls have their lessons, he talks and listens to each of them and immediately develops a strategy for the day. With one of my daughters, Karta has come to alternate her piano lessons with singing lessons, depending on her interests at the moment. I appreciate his ability to use voice and other instruments in his lessons, and, on a more intellectual basis, his long and extremely relevant conversations with me about a wide range of historical and mathematical matters related to music.

Karta has a prominent place in my list of the persons and things I will miss as I leave Ithaca