Slope Music Open House! Affordable music lessons in a family environment. September 17, 2011

Slope Music

Affordable music lessons in a family environment.

Open House/Registration September 17, 12pm -6pm

Slope Music provides quality private music lessons at an affordable price in jazz, classical, rock and folk music on a broad range of instruments including piano, bass, violin, viola, guitar, trumpet, clarinet, saxophone, flute and voice. Slope Music is conveniently located at 271 9th street in Park Slope, Brooklyn and is easily accessible by the F and R train. Open House and registration, September 17, 12pm - 6pm. Registration is also on going throughout the year. For more information call Charles at (718) 768-3804 or visit www.slopemusic.com.

The staff are personally selected by Charles Sibirsky, director, based on their skills as teachers and players. Check out their bios. The staff are performing musicians who can be heard throughout the Metropolitan area as well as on CDs. They’re not just teachers. Slope Music allows students of all ages to learn music in an intimate, family environment. Students can also benefit from Slope Music’s flexible schedule allowing them to be in control of how and when they take lessons. Lessons can be taken on a rolling basis throughout the year and students do not have to register for entire semesters to start or continue to learn!

Slope Music is set in a glorious historical French Second Empire house owned by Charles and Vita Sibirsky who both run and teach at Slope Music. Their comfortable building hosts several large spacious teaching rooms equipped with outstanding Steinway Grand pianos. Welcoming and warm, Slope Music is an excellent place for children and adults to receive a first class music education taught by seasoned performance and education professionals at the most reasonable rates Park Slope has to offer.

Call for an appointment for a free interview, or send an email.
718 768 4904
[email protected]
slopemusic.com

Private Lesson Rates:
30 minutes - $35
45 minutes - $45
60 minutes - $60

Slope Music Faculty

Charles Sibirsky - Piano
Charles Sibirsky studied composition and theory at Brooklyn Collegeand studied the art of Jazz Improvisation with the great teacher and pianist Sal Mosca. Sal’s teacher was the legendary Lennie Tristano. Charles has been teaching since he was 17. Charles teaches jazz improvisation on most instruments and also accepts vocal students,

Charles Sibirsky has freelanced as a Jazz pianist in the New York City area for over 30 years. There are many venues for jazz in the metropolitan area and he has played as a solo artist or in a combo setting at Birdland, Carnegie Hall, The Brooklyn Academy of Music,One Fifth Avenue, Cornelia Street Café, Barbes,The Coach Inn, The Grand Prospect Hall, Cleopatra’s Needle, 5C. Sofia’s Restaurant,The Duplex, and The Water’s Edge, The Blue Water Grill just to name a few. Charles continues to perform professionally at some of the best and worst venues in New York.

Vita Sibirsky - Piano
Vita Sibirsky has been teaching full time at Slope Music for 20 years. She accepts piano students at all levels of music study. Her students range in age from 4 years old to senior citizens. As most teachers do at Slope Music Vita is still studying. Her interest in Baroque Music most recently brought her to studying harpsichord under Elaine Comparone who lives in New York City and concertizes all over the world. Vita's students have won admission to La Guardia High School and excellent music programs on a University level. Her approach is to get to know each student as a person and as a player and tailor lessons towards what they see as their personal goals on the instrument.

Anders Nilsson - Guitarist/composer
Anders Nilsson grew up in Sweden, started out with rock, American blues, heavy metal and Zappa records and played in bands as a youngster. After jazz studies at Malmö Academy of Music and working as a free-lancing musician in Scandinavia he moved to New York in 2000, receiving an MA from City College in 2002. He leads his own Anders Nilsson Group and co-leads Exposed Blues Duo together with vocalist Fay Victor, and Fulminate Trio with percussionist Michael Evans and bassist Ken Filiano, plus his Swedish unit Anders Nilsson's Aorta. His original music is a hybrid of composition and improvisation with 4 recordings released to date. Since moving to NYC he has performed and/or recorded together with many players/artists on the experimental scene such as Sabir Mateen, Daniel Carter, Raoul Björkenheim, Kermit Driscoll, Paquito D'Rivera, Eugene Chadbourne, William Parker, Fay Victor Ensemble, Tom Bruno, Ras Moshe. He also collaborated with Butoh artist Akira Kasai on Butoh America in 2007 and artmetal project Angelblood in Europe. Mr. Nilsson's work as a composer includes music for short films, dance performances and theatre plays as well as a variety of compositions for small groups and solo guitar, his guitar playing can be heard on a number of albums. He has been teaching guitar since 1998.
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Gene Hicks - Piano, Keyboard, Violin, Accordion
Gene Hicks is a veteran performer, composer, and teacher. A native of Brooklyn, he started playing piano at age four, and violin at age eleven. Besides teaching at Harbor Conservatory he maintains a teaching and recording studio in Brooklyn. He performs educational programs in New York City and area school assemblies, and is often called upon to direct and accompany choirs. Gene taught music at Preston High School in the south Bronx for six years, where he directed the choir and musical performances, and gave instruction in violin, cello and piano. He has traveled the globe, and worked with such diverse notables as Andy Warhol, John Paul Jones (Led Zeplin), Bill Monroe, John Belushi & Dan Akroyd ( aka The Blues Brothers), La Charanga Fanica, and Sleepy LaBeef. Gene has an extensive background in musical theater including: “Hair”, European tour (musical director), “Always....Patsy Cline” N.Y.C. (band leader) “That’s Not funny, That’s Sick”, national tour ( musical director).

Gene has studied orchestration and composition with John Corigliano (The Red Violin-Altered States-Edge of Darkness), theory with Mark Adamo (Little Women-Lysistrata-The Nude Goddess ), conducting with Alan Hollander, solfeggio with Marta Ghezzo, jazz history with Stanley Cowell (Art Pepper-Bobby Hutcherson-Jonny Griffen-Marion Brown), classical piano with Peter Vinograde, and Latin Piano with Sonny Bravo (Tito Puente). With a desire to learn about Indian classical music, Gene is studying Carnatic violin with Michael Braudy who studyed with Roop Verma, a disciple of Ali Akbar Khan and Ravi Shankar. Gene is involved in numerous recording and arranging projects, besides working with several bands playing many genres, including; Country and Western, Cajun, Irish, and Bluegrass, and East European and Baltic folk music.

Elizabeth Schubert - Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone
Elizabeth Schubert is an accomplished flautist and music teacher. Growing up in Brooklyn, her parents were both musicians and fostered her talents early on. As a child she studied at the Central Illinois Conservatory of Music. She then attended the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana on a full scholarship majoring in music education. After college, Elizabeth moved back to New York and began teaching music with the Dept of Education. She continued her education with a Masters in education at Brooklyn College. Elizabeth also performs with the Garden State Symphonic Band and the Kingsborough Community Band as well as other small ensembles in the tri-state area.

Sarah Renfro
Vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, Sarah Renfro moved to Brooklyn in 2006 after sharpening her musical teeth in the artistic oasis of Denton, TX. As energetic and entertaining between songs as she is during, her foray into the underbelly of NYC’s comedy scene has equipped her with witty stage banter often straddling the line between dark and pitch black.
In a recently self-released 6 song EP of escape and self-renewal, “You should be somewhere outside,” Renfro maintains the breathy soul of a southern girl while displaying the strength of a woman hardened by the city. Tracks such as “Little white house,” “Mable” and “Edge of the night” offer lush arrangements reminiscent of Twin Peaks featuring Fender Rhodes, reverbed guitar, violin, flugelhorn and multi-layered vocals. Other tracks are more guitar centric such as the regretful love song “Denton, my love,” the unlikely pairing of “Tanner and Hannah” and the anthem of self sufficiency “State of the Union” which features one of Brooklyn’s finest musicians, Tony Scherr whose credits include Feist, Sex Mob, Bill Frisell and Norah Jones.
Supporting musicians and credits are as follows: guitarist/engineer Zach Landreneau (Felili Rincon, Welcome Signs), guitarist Bob Lanzetti (Corn Mo, The Silver Arrows), violinist Eylem Basaldi (Luna Matto, New England Conservatory), flügelhornist Jay Jennings (The Polyphonic Spree, Capitol Records’ Eli “Paperboy” Reed & The True Loves), bassist Rob Jost (Feist, Björk, Ursa Minor and Jesse Harris) and mastering engineer Dave Willingham (The Echo Lab studio, The Polyphonic Spree, John Vanderslice and Ray LaMontagne).

With a diverse catalogue of soon-to-be recorded material, Sarah Renfro is poised to be a mainstay in the Brooklyn independent music scene. Involvement in local projects include Laura Distasi’s piano based electro-pop band Measure and The Loom, a folk-rock sextet which was recently featured as Paste Magazine’s “The best of what’s next.”

Kaitlin Miller - Trumpet
Kaitlin Miller has been teaching trumpet to a broad range of age groups for over a decade. She has a BA in jazz performance and music education and a background in performance. She has worked for the Frank Sinatra School for the Arts and the New Jersey School of Music. Kaitlin has received numerous awards and scholarships for her trumpet performance.

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