Yes, You Can Play!
Enjoy learning to play the piano with Nicki Kerns of Up Scale Music, a teacher who uses kindness, extensive real world professional experience, and the occasional dad joke as the tools for your music making success.
Individual Piano Lessons Tailored to the Individual
Every student in Up Scale Music's studio is unique. Nicki Kerns does her best to tailor curriculum and teaching methods to each student's learning style.
Personalized Piano Lessons
Join Up Scale Music for tailored piano instruction that turns beginners into confident musicians. After all, playing music should reduce stress, not induce it!
All About Nicki Kerns:
Nicki Kerns holds a piano performance degree from Dominican College of San Rafael and a master's in music education from Boston University. She studied piano with Robert Hagopian, Robert Shultz and Sylvia Jenkins. Along the way she also picked up string bass, electric bass, clarinet, organ and voice (she's an alto). She became a piano teacher quite by accident while still in college and discovered she loves it. Besides teaching piano, she has also worked at and/or performed with the following establishments, ensembles and organizations, thus bringing real-life experience to her students:
Nicki Kerns holds a piano performance degree from Dominican College of San Rafael and a master's in music education from Boston University. She studied piano with Robert Hagopian, Robert Shultz and Sylvia Jenkins. Along the way she also picked up string bass, electric bass, clarinet, organ and voice (she's an alto). She became a piano teacher quite by accident while still in college and discovered she loves it. Besides teaching piano, she has also worked at and/or performed with the following establishments, ensembles and organizations, thus bringing real-life experience to her students:
At the organ during a Palm Sundayservice, 2022