Nicole A. Burns · 39 years of teaching, adjudicating, and leading music education in Ventura County. Enrollment by wait-list and referral.
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Years of teaching, adjudicating & leading music education (established 1987)
National Adjudicator/Evaluator · American College of Musicians & NFMC
Ventura County Chair, National Guild of Piano Teachers
President, Ventura County Federation of Music Clubs
"I teach the way I was taught — slowly, honestly, and as if the student will still be playing forty years from now. Because most of them will be."
Burns Piano Studio has decades of documented experience teaching students with autism, ADHD, dyslexia, spina bifida, and auditory processing disorders. Strengths-based, dignified, and the same high musical expectations held for any student.
Read about adaptive piano lessons →"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."
California's most respected studio assessment — eleven progressive levels in repertoire, technique, theory, and ear training. Prepared by a former CM Adjudicator and Council Member.
Memorized repertoire programs from Local to International — prepared by a National Piano Adjudicator with the American College of Musicians.
NFMC Junior Festivals, Southern California Junior Bach Festival, branch recitals, and competitions — the structured performance year.
Written from inside the evaluator's chair and the adjudicator's bench — not from a marketing template.
Open the Answer Library →Burns Piano Studio accepts new students through a wait-list interview. Referrals from current and former students are highly recommended.
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