Lisa C. Wood

204 Culver Road • Ithaca, NY 14850

272-2890 January 2001

I welcome this opportunity to recommend Karta Iglesias for piano instruction. Karta's open-minded, non-traditional teaching approach has provided my eight-year-old daughter with skills, enthusiasm, and practice ethics that are the very basis of good musicianship.

 

In the year and a half she has studied with Karta, my daughter has learned, in addition to the fundamentals of basic notation and rhythm, sight-reading, complicated concepts of music theory, and musical expression-things that I regret were lacking in my own highly traditional music training. Karta's unique but exceptionally effective method of integrating these and other aspects of music instruction are his trademark and his strength.

 

My daughter's musical accomplishment is characterized by a broadness of knowledge and an excellent attitude toward learning that are not typically mastered in the early years of music instruction. Each lesson with Karta is an open-minded, positive extension of the week's practicing-a time for playing and learning with him rather than performing for him. The result has generated in my daughter a sense of self-confidence, enthusiasm, and technical ability that years of traditional training may never provide.

 

Finally, any teacher who truly enjoys teaching is invaluable. Karta thoroughly enjoys teaching, genuinely cares for his students, and makes a part of every lesson fun. This, in my estimation, is central to his effectiveness when combined with the high quality of his music instruction.