music lessons

Now offering online violin lessons with adjunct instructor Donna Spicer

Providing Education & Training in Violin for Beginner-Advanced Levels (recommended for ages 11-adult)

  • Private Lessons and Small Group learning is FUN, fast paced, and thorough!

  • Dedicated students have the skills to play over 200 songs after just eight one-hour weekly sessions.

  • Donna’s live, online curriculum is geared toward students with a one-hour attention span of engaged, interactive teaching. It is imperative to provide a space where the student will not be interrupted or lose focus.

  • The learning includes verbal instruction, audio music, visual, and interactive elements.

  • Though some students as young as 9yo have excelled nicely from this method and applied it to playing in their school orchestra or other avenues, typically ages 11-99+ tend to thrive on regular basis.

What you can expect to learn:

  • Music fundamentals

  • Music theory

  • Violin techniques (fingering and bowing)

  • How to read music

  • How to play by ear

  • Improvisation

  • Variety of styles (classical, worship, celtic, jazz & blues, pop, etc)

  • Lessons are customized to meet the goal of each student! Students have the opportunity to join a small group of students at the same level, and/or the potential opportunity to play in an acoustic string jam circle, quarterly hosted via hybrid or in person by your instructor

Tuition for Online Lessons (Pricing below does not include 2.9% Processing Fee; El Check, Credit Card, Debit Card):

  • $50/Hr Private Lessons

  • $25/Hr Small Groups (2-4 students online)

Scholarships are available for families with proven financial hardship (donations in the amount of what you can afford are acceptable). Since 1996, Donna has yet to turn away a dedicated student due to financial difficulties.

How To Register:

  • Registration and payment takes place directly through our adjunct teacher Donna Spicer

  • To register, email MusikaLessonsWithDonna@gmail.com or call (910)229-6954

  • Be sure to Donna know you found her through Alpha & Omega Dance Academy!

 

Donna Spicer, Bio

Donna holds an Associates Degree in General Education from Fayetteville Community College, Bachelors in Small Business Management form Western Governors University online, Diploma and Certificate in Biblical Studies and Teaching from Carolina College of Biblical Studies, and Certification/Pedagogy in Music Education from Eastern University online. She has also played in All City of Bridgeport Orchestra, All State Orchestra in Connecticut, University of Bridgeport Orchestra, as well as several church worship teams and local bands in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Vicenzap/Camisano Vicentino, Italy.

Donna has used all of the above experience to teach Violin and Contemporary Piano since 1996. Playing the violin as 1st Violin, 3rd outside chair in London and Wales, Europe, under the direction of Conductor, Dr. Thomas Valenti, was an experience that she hold dear as it began to reveal the trajectory of her musical career. She also functioned as the Founder and CEO of the former REJOICE! Performing Arts Studio in Fayetteville NC, that began in the sanctuary of Calvary Chapel Fayetteville and gymnasium of Fayetteville Christian School in 1996, and ended in 2013 as she prepared to move out of town.

Giving back to Cumberland County and the surrounding counties with her expertise in Music and Performing Arts has been, and is, a deep passion for Donna. Since 1996, she has never stopped. It is equivalent to breathing for her.

With her expertise, and today’s technology advancing at lightning speed, Donna excitedly and effectively teaches Music Education with emphasis on playing the Violin in Private and Small Group Sessions. Teaching effectively online and providing outlets for her students to perform brings Donna immense joy!

When not teaching or performing, Donna enjoys time with her husband, family, church family, and many dear friends that have remained close over the years. She is a doting Grandmother of two grandchildren in North Carolina, and eight in Pennsylvania, thus the desire to serve both states as she lives in one and frequents the other.

Donna is elated to be an Adjunct Music Educator/Violin Instructor with Alpha & Omega Dance Academy!

 

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