I have been playing the piano since 1989 and teaching piano since 2002. I started out classically trained by two wonderful piano teachers who encouraged me to perform in recitals and Guild Auditions and gain knowledge of Music Theory. I started performing in coffee shops and was delighted to win a recording session where I began writing songs of my own. Around that time, I also started teaching piano lessons to students and realized it did not matter how young or old they were because I shared t.