The piano/music instructor, Judy Huang, a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music in Piano, has great passion for piano teaching, expertizing teaching in artistry, interpretation, and expressions, along with the particular techniques they require.  She has invested her time and thought into it.  She would like her students to enjoy, understand, and develop the musicality into their musical life.  Judy explains why we need to have a good and certain posture and awareness of how our physical parts work together, why we need to have a flexible wrist to play particular parts but not others, why we push our elbows out to play certain notes but not others, why we use different weight transfers to various parts, why we bring specific melodies out rather than others, and what touches we need to use to produce various tones and colors, and etc.

         Piano studying is not only about learning the notations but also expressions, interpretations, phrasing, structures, tonal relationships, moods, articulations, analysis, and etc.  Judy includes some music history in association with the pieces the students are learning to play, besides the theory and structure of it.  She would ask her students to find any patterns in the pieces and any differences between the same or similar passages.  She often asks students to tell her what they can find throughout the pieces based on the knowledge they have and what they have acquired through the lessons.  She asks them to listen while playing, training them to listen (believe it or not, musical players rarely listen to what they are playing, unless being trained to listen).  Therefore, when they make less ideal or less satisfactory tones, they know how to improve for the better.  It goes without saying that they know immediately and are aware of any mistakes for rhythms, notes or articulations.  

        She imitates HOW they play a passage and HOW she plays it, and ask them what the differences are in terms of techniques and artistic interpretations, as well as other aspects.  She explains how the students should practice and how they can tackle and isolate a problematic area.  Most piano teachers would ask their students to practice more and more, yet practicing more does not necessarily translate into a better playing.  Judy stresses on HOW to effectively and efficiently practice but not just practice more.  Each lesson will be clearly instructed with how to practice for the week.

      Piano lessons in general include theory, ear-training, sight-reading, history, technique, performance, interpretation, and artistry.  All genres of music are taught in order to get students exposed to all kinds of music styles, despite the fact that classical music is concentrated. On the other hands, adult students can concentrate on their preferences for the music style.  She teaches students of age 14 and above.  Judy is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music in Piano.  

*The instructor, Judy Huang, is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music in Piano.

**She is affiliated with the National Federation of Music Club, the Georgia Federation of Music Clubs, the Music Teachers National Association, the Georgia Music Teachers Association, the Gwinnett County Music Teachers Association, the North Gwinnett Music Teacher Association, and the Royal Conservatory Teacher program.