The Piano
It can be used in so many ways! The grand concert piano - for great solo performances, chamber music, accompanying choirs, vocalists or instruments, an upright piano is great for music making at home, with friends and family, keyboards are used in bands, organs for church and the harpsichord is mostly used for early music recitals - just to mention a few of the many ways piano skills are beneficial. Learning to play the piano is also the very best way to provide the basics for learning any other instruments or writing compositions.
Ms. Hollo received her Piano Pedagogy Diploma in Budapest, Hungary in 1991 and has been teaching piano since her undergraduate years. In the US she raised her four children to learn to sing, and play the piano and other instruments, then started her own Private Piano Studio as a business while taking up accompaniment, organ playing and singing in choirs. Ms. Hollo has been involved in many different types of music making experiences and enjoys introducing her students to this beautiful language that is international, joy-giving, deeply personal as well as expressive, helping people to connect with each other even without words.
Ms. Hollo’s teaching style is a holistic approach, both musically and humanly. It’s not a “One-Size-Fits-All” but tailored to each student’s personal goals and needs. She encourages ensemble playing and creativity by incorporating improvisation and composition which are based on constantly improved theory and technique skills.
Her students are offered the opportunity of participating in recitals, auditions and competitions as well as encouraged to play for each other and at home, for friends and family.
“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
Wassily Kandinsky
The Voice
The voice is our most natural instrument, a wonderful gift, right inside our body. We use it from the minute we are born and we can take it anywhere we go. We can sing in the car, we can sing Happy Birthday to our friend or we can sing on stage, opera or pop; and anybody, even “tone-deaf” people can learn to sing.
Ms. Hollo learned to sing from her mother, then attended a choir school, and she sang in choirs in all her life since 3rd grade. She took voice lessons during her graduate level choral directing studies at the College of Charleston with Deanna McBroom and Sandy DeAthos.
