Lessons
To schedule lessons with one of our teachers, please call (314) 727-0524.
We are accepting new students interested in studying violin, voice, piano, viola, guitar, cello, and percussion.
Specialty classes such as music theory, vibrato, improvisation, chamber music,
and sight-reading are also available in private or group lesson settings.
Private lessons are scheduled each quarter, which is approximately a three month term. Lessons are 30, 45, or 60 minute sessions.
VIOLIN
Nora Teipen
Twinda Murry
Sarah Browdy
Tova Braitberg
CELLO
Amanda Davis
Valentina Takova
PIANO
George Tesson
Mo Egeston
Chelle Habecker
Deyan Bratic
Brent Stater
Allen Hoffman
VIOLA
Sarah Browdy
Twinda Murry
GUITAR
Deyan Bratic
Brent Stater
VOICE
Brent Stater
PERCUSSION
Brent Stater
Andy Teipen
UKULELE / CLARINET / FLUTE / TRUMPET / BASS GUITAR / THEORY
In addition, Teipen Performing Arts offers spring and fall recitals, allowing students to showcase their musical talents while gaining confidence in the public arena. These recitals, a long standing tradition, are an added highlight for students and parents alike.
"As Brain Changes, So Can IQ
Study Finds Teens' Intellects May Be More Malleable Than Previously Thought"
Excerpt From The Wall Street Journal
By ROBERT LEE HOLTZ
Nov 10, 2008
A teenager's IQ can rise or fall as many as 20 points in just a few years, a brain-scanning team found in a study that suggests a young person's intelligence measure isn't as fixed as once thought. The researchers also found that shifts in IQ scores corresponded to small physical changes in brain areas related to intellectual skills, though they weren't able to show a clear cause and effect.
"If the finding is true, it could signal environmental factors that are changing the brain and intelligence over a relatively short period," said psychologist Robert Plomin at Kings College in London, who studies the genetics of intelligence and wasn't involved in the research. "That is quite astounding."
Long at the center of debates over how intelligence can be measured, an IQ score - the initials stand for "intelligence quotient" - typically gauges mental capacity through a battery of standardized tests of language skill, spatial ability, arithmetic, memory and reasoning. A score of 100 is considered average. Barring injury, that intellectual capacity remains constant throughout life, most experts believe.
But the new findings by researchers at University College London, reported online in Nature, suggest that IQ, often used to predict school performance and job prospects, may be more malleable than previously believed - and more susceptible to outside influences, such as tutoring or neglect.