40 YEARS TEACHING EXPERIENCE; TEACHING ONLINE SINCE 2010
PRIVATE MUSIC LESSONS IN REAL-TIME VIA VIDEO CHAT
Interactive, personalized instruction on the internet, customized 4 U !!!
Advanced and high-tech online teaching studio with state-of-the-art tools.
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Musical artist and educator Andy Wasserman has been giving private music lessons online since 2010 with highly interactive, customized and personalized programs of study via video chat in real-time for students around the world (all ages and all levels).
JANUARY, 2021 begins Andy Wasserman's 42nd year as a professional music educator providing superlative one-on-one ONLINE LESSONS in real-time to students via video-chat around the world since 2010 using the most advanced and high-tech audio, video and software online teaching tools in his state-of-the-art studio.
Highly interactive, customized and personalized programs of study in piano, music theory, composition, arranging, improvisation, percussion and rhythmic training, and George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization. Specializing in Jazz, Classical and Pop styles and the connections between them, including Jazz improvisation, Song Writing and Classical Repertoire interpretation.
PERSONALIZED PRIVATE PIANO LESSONS IN YOUR HOME IN CHESTER, NEW JERSEY 07930, and throughout MORRIS, HUNTERDON, WARREN and SUSSEX COUNTIES of Northwestern New Jersey
Certified Instructor of George Russell's LYDIAN CHROMATIC CONCEPT OF TONAL ORGANIZATION (LCCOTO); providing lessons and seminars since 1982.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND SUMMARY
Bachelor of Music degree from New England Conservatory of Music, Boston. Studied abroad at University and L'Academie des Musique in Sion, Switzerland. Graduate studies in Music Therapy at New York University. Attended The High School of Music and Art and The Metropolitan Music School in Manhattan. Mentored through intensive, long-term private study by: Dwike Mitchell (Mitchell-Ruff Duo) - piano George Russell - Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization (Theory/Composition) Jeannette Giguere - classical piano Anne Bacon Dodge - classical and jazz piano Papa Ladji Camara - jembe (West African drumming)
TEACHING BACKGROUND SUMMARY
Private music teacher and mentor for 35 years; 2016 roster of 20 - 30 students per week in person and online SKYPE lessons. Visiting artist giving master classes at Universities, Colleges and Festivals throughout the United States. Presenting master classes, workshops, teacher-training and performing concerts as an arts-in-education curriculum specialist in over 2000 schools, working with K-12 grade students and teachers since 1979. Certified Instructor of George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization; providing lessons and seminars since 1982. Visiting artist teacher and guest performing artist at Berklee College of Music, North Texas State University, Delmar College - Corpus Cristi, TX, New England Conservatory of Music, University of Georgia, Jersey City State College, and at the Percussive Arts Society International annual conferences in Nashville (1996) and Los Angeles (1997).
PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE
Pianist and native New Yorker Andy Wasserman draws on an astonishingly diverse range of experiences in the music industry. His original compositions, arrangements and instrumental performances on many recordings and soundtracks for TV, Radio and Film productions have appeared on the NBC, CBS and ABC networks, as well as Cable TV stations that include A & E, The Lifetime Network, The History Channel, The Travel Channel, TBS, Nickelodeon, The Turner Network, QVC and The Learning Channel. Internationally, his work has been heard on TV, film and radio produced around the world in countries that include Japan, Argentina, Canada, Hong Kong, Italy, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Ireland, Australia, Brazil, Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom and France.
Andy Wasserman has had nine CDs of his compositions, arrangements and performances released in the USA over the last 10 years on different labels. Titles include KINDRED SPIRITS (High Harmony Records), BEFORE WE ASK (Z-Pen Records), COOL JAZZ, UNIVERSAL BEAT (Alternate Mode Records), TONAL GRAVITY POEMS, ANDY WASSERMAN PLAYS THE BLUES Volumes One and Two, BEAD SONGS (TransMedia Sound & Music).
Additionally, his unique and sophisticated thematic solo piano work has been produced on special edition TV/Film Music Library CDs as composer, arranger and instrumentalist, distributed around the world by both the Pyramid Music Library (SOLO PIANO, Vol. 1) and the TWI North American Library (SOLO PIANO, Vol. 2) through licensing deals with Premier Radio Network. Wasserman's publishing company Andrew Roy Music has a current catalog of 35 of his original compositions that have been recorded and released for worldwide distribution. BMI maintains a catalog of 73 published works with Wasserman as songwriter & composer. Wasserman entered into Digital Distribution beginning in June 2007 with licensing to Apple iTunes, E-Music, , Spotify, BeatsMusic, GreatIndieMusic, PayPlay, CD Baby, Tradebit, BuyMusic, and SNOCAP.
For more detailed information, videos, photos and testimonials, please visit Andy Wasserman's Music Website: and his PIANO LESSON CITY website for ONLINE PIANO LESSONS and "PLAY PIANO" BLOG:
Wasserman's production studio and Indie record label TransMedia Sound & Music is his main vehicle for production assignments, from in-house scores and digital editing & mastering to multimedia content development. Corporate clients since 1987 have included AT&T, IBM, Panasonic, Mastercard, Sanofi-Winthrop Pharmaceuticals, Atlantic Mutual Insurance, Prentice-Hall, The Mayo Clinic, Castrol Motor Oil, Altered Image, Time-Life Music, Digital Cable Radio, New York Communications and Prime Productions. He is co-creator of the world music Beat of the Blue Planet interactive CD-ROM, a ground-breaking 1995 disc produced for the music software company Opcode Interactive, and has been working with the therapeutic and healing modalities of music in private and public forums since 1974.
