Rosalinde Block Piano Lesson
Half hour piano lesson with Rosalinde Block. Rosalinde has been teaching piano and voice to adults since she was a student at Sarah Lawrence College. Her work with children began in the mid-1970s when she taught art and music in special ed programs. That work inspired her to conduct childrens art salons. One could find Rosalinde and her students propped with their easels and palettes everywhere from Central Park to the Brooklyn Bridge to the maze of the Times Square subway station. The popularity of the art salons, combined with Rosalindes cross-over talents, led to spin-off salons for other outlets such as music composition/ recording sessions and creative writing workshops.



Rosalinde spent three years running the music department at The Hoboken Charter School in New Jersey. There she worked hands-on with pre-Ks through seniors, teaching everything from instrument-making to music appreciation to rap poetry. During that time she wrote a lot of childrens musicfunky, upbeat songs that to this day are recited verbatim when she runs into these kids on the streets of New York. Six-foot 18-year-olds have been known to come up to her and start singing songs she wrote for them ten years earlier.



From 1996 to 2001 she worked with dozens of children, helping them compose and arrange for the orchestra. Over the years, she has taught piano privately to several dozen students each week. She uses an alternative approach to teaching, drawing from her classical, jazz and pop training and utilizing her giftsencouraging kids to create their own compositionsfrom writing and arranging to recording. www.rosalindeblock.com