I don't believe in one way to teach everyone.

For me, every student is unique, and teaching begins there.

A composer's greatest advantage — any artist's — is a voice of their own. Not sounding like the rest. You don't arrive at that on a path built for someone else.

When we meet, my first goal is to know the person in front of me: your creative personality, your dreams, your strengths, what makes you singular.

Only then do we turn to the weaknesses, and to what needs work.

My own work moves across contemporary, neo-classical, jazz fusion, art-pop and orchestral writing. That lets me meet students wherever they come from, classical or not, and teach each one what they need, in their own music.

We work through whatever the music demands: form, colour, harmony traditional and not, orchestration, arrangement, the rules and when to break them. Always in service of the one thing that can't be handed over — what makes this composer this composer.

A word on what this is, and what it isn't. I don't grant a degree. One-to-one work costs more than a seat in a class. That trade is worth stating plainly.

The world has changed. For an artist, a diploma matters far less than it once did. Meanwhile the hard part — being heard at all, sounding like no one else — only grows harder. A degree can no longer give you that.

Undivided attention on your own voice, rather than a general curriculum, can.

Student work

Some of the works I have developed together with students:

What students say

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Rates

Three ways to study — see rates

Weekly

A genuine weekly slot. Because it follows the calendar rather than a lesson count, some months run five lessons, not four. 480 EUR per month. Up to 3 email consultations between lessons each month.

Twice monthly

Two lessons a month. 270 EUR per month. One email consultation between lessons each month.

Single lesson

A one-off, no fixed slot. 170 EUR. For when you want a specific problem looked at rather than ongoing work.

All lessons are 60 minutes, one-to-one. Israeli students are billed in ILS, everyone else in EUR.

Lessons are billed at the start of each month by bank transfer. Unused lessons do not carry over to the next month.

Starting

Write to me and tell me a little about what you are working on and what you want from lessons. Lessons are online worldwide, and in person in Berlin; workshops, masterclasses and guest lectures are also available. Get in touch.