Opus 1 Music Studio offers private music lessons for all ages and all ability levels. We can provide lessons for piano, voice, guitar, violin/viola, flute, clarinet, and saxophone. We have lessons in classical music, popular music, and jazz. Our teachers are all university or conservatory trained musicians. Contact us and find out why we're one of the Peninsula's most popular music school!
Opus 1 Music Studio is happy to announce our 2015 Group Music Classes in Palo Alto and Mountain View. We offer classes in Piano, Voice, Guitar, and Violin. These classes will inspire young students by developing basic music skills through interactive lessons and musical games! Classes range from 30-45 minutes. Opus 1 teachers are all university or conservatory trained musicians.
Piano Class
(age 4-5 - 30 minutes; age 6-8 - 45 minutes)
Voice Class
(age 4-6 - 30 minutes; age 7-12 - 45 minutes)
Guitar Class
(age 8-11 - 45 minutes)
Opus 1 Music Studio is happy to announce our 2015 Group Music Classes in Palo Alto and Mountain View. We offer classes in Piano, Voice, Guitar, and Violin. These classes will inspire young students by developing basic music skills through interactive lessons and musical games! Classes range from 30-45 minutes. Opus 1 teachers are all university or conservatory trained musicians.
Piano Class
(age 4-5 - 30 minutes; age 6-8 - 45 minutes)
Voice Class
(age 4-6 - 30 minutes; age 7-12 - 45 minutes)
Guitar Class
(age 8-11 - 45 minutes)
Over the course of the year, students will meet twice a week from 4-6pm to:
• Write an original story
• Create the libretto that turns their story into a dramatic text
• Compose the music that transforms their text into a sung piece
• Choreograph dances and movement
• Design simple sets and costume pieces
• Build simple sets and costume pieces
• Peer-direct scenes throughout the rehearsal process
• Perform the finished, original opera
I have conducted 24 operas for North Bay Opera (Fairfield), and personally coached each cast member. I have guest conducted four operas for Berkeley Opera. I have also coached many singers individually. I was on the music staff of San Francisco Opera for three years, and wrote and edited the Opera's supertitle scripts for 17 years. I worked as an opera coach at Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore) and Indiana University School of Music, where I also accompanied singers in the studios of Margaret Harshaw, Eileen Farrell, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, and Virginia Zeani.
Miss Zhang runs a small private studio, dedicated in providing quality music lessons in Rockridge, Oakland. Her mission is to encourage, support and inspire students through fun, creative learning and to help people in the community to build a life-long interest and appreciation of music through continuous mentorship for music lovers of all ages and levels.
Opera singer Sarah Fletcher (SarahFletcherSoprano.com) has voice studio openings for singers interested in getting to know their instrument and improving their technique. With extensive training in classical voice (Seattle Opera Chorus, Lyric Opera Northwest, Public Opera, Opera On Tap), as well as a Yoga Teacher Certification, Sarah blends energetic purpose with technical support to any genre of music, and any level of musician. With optional accompaniment Sundays by a San Francisco Ballet pianist, openings are now available at her Linda Mar Beach Studio for Saturdays and Sundays.
Thollem McDonas is a pianist, composer, improviser and teacher. He travels perpetually internationally performing as a soloist as well as in collaboration with a wide array of artists in wildly divergent directions.
He resides in Pacifica, just south of San Francisco, during the summer months.
Prelude Chorus is YWCP’s beginning-level chorus, welcoming girls with no previous musical training. Through a Kodály-based music education curriculum, choristers will learn basic vocal techniques, sight-reading, and performance skills, and sing unison and two-part repertoire in many languages. Prelude Chorus is led by Kodály specialist Samantha Maas-Baldwin, and presents 2-4 public performances annually.
Well-known in the San Francisco Bay area, Cheryl Blalock is a voice teacher, acting coach, stage director and performing soprano.
Cheryl has performed over 40 lead roles with companies such as Lamplighters, Lyric Theatre, Stanford Savoyards, and West Bay, Livermore, Oakland, Marin and Inland Opera Companies. She has toured nationally with two of Ken Malucelli’s productions, “Oh Mr. Sousa” and “SavoyExpress”. She performs both traditional and contemporary chamber music and as a professional soloist with local symphonies and churches.