Utau
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Mayu Funaba's private music lesson
Welcome to the music school Utau -うたう-
Utau aims to let student’s music to be ‘ALIVE’.
Our lessons are designed individually for each student.
We find the comfort zone of each student and maximize their musical strength and personality to develop each person’s musical fluency with stimulating their creativity.
By the combination of theoretical approaches and natural physical movement, we aim to enable students to experience healthy learning to enrich their understanding and bring the joy of music to each one’s life.
Utau creates an environment to nurture, encourage creative individuals to achieve the highest level of success.
Music enriches people's lives !!
It is the intrinsic truth that I strongly believe and I want to share with people through my life.
For many, playing the piano provides a lifetime of enjoyment. This amazing instrument allows us to study fundamentals of music such as reading musical scores, establishing a sense of rhythm, developing an ear for harmony and sound. And also, the benefits of studying piano are applicable to other areas of one’s life including self-discipline and perseverance, self-confidence, analytical skills, and more.
Classical... Jazz... POP/Rock ... and Tango
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In our lesson, we find the comfort zone of each student and maximize their musical strength and also their personality with fun activities based on theoretical and technical approaches.
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We developed the ability to effectively approach students of all levels and all ages by supporting them in a specified way including by adopting improvising, arranging, and composing methods.
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We teach in multiple languages. We offer you a special class where you can develop your Japanese skill through a Piano Lesson.
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Mayu Funaba
Mayu is a pianist/keyboardist originally coming from Japan. She began her music studies at 4 and since then she devoted her entire life to develop her musical skills and share her love for music with people.
She had more than 10 years of experience as a professional pianist and also a music teacher. Her extended performance experiences are beyond the genres. Based on her first performance style as the soloist and accompanist in classical music, she also studied Jazz which gave her a more flexible approach to perform in Pop/Rock music and also improvisations.
She successfully completed a Bachelor of Music in Faculty Program Jazz concentration at McGill University for Jazz piano study in 2019. For the classical piano performance, she completed the Stuttgart Music University Master Class (Germany) under a scholarship from the Tokyo International Association of Artists in 2010. She also passed The Associated Board of Royal College of Music Diploma (U.K.) in classical piano performance with distinction in 2009. She also completed the music production course and received her Higher Diploma certificate at the Academy of Contemporary Music (U.K.).
Her extended performing career also leads her to compose music for the exhibition of the audio and visual installation piece "a stake in the river" at the Nakanogo Biennial 2013 in collaboration with other artists. She also performed a piano improvisation at the exhibition. And also, she participated in the Stow Tango Music festival 2019 where she performed as one of the members of the Stow Tango Orchestra with maestro Nestor Marconi.
RECENT SELECTED MUSICAL ACTIVITIES
• November 2019 : Piano and Marimba music workshop for children in Ohtsu elementary school ( Japan)
• November 2019 : Piano accompaniment at Saki Kurata (Marimba) First album ‘Solano' release concert
• August 2019 : Piano performance with Tango Orchestra at Stowe Tango Music Festival 2019
• June 2019 : Montréal Contemporary Music Lab 2019 (LMCML) with Piano performed sound
experimental ensemble with Esin Gunduz, and music ensemble with Nathan Giroux.
• May 2019 - Present : Music performance volunteer for the patient at CHUM
Available Lessons
All courses are available ...
at the teacher's studio, at your home, and on-line.
in English, Japanese, French
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In-home lesson fee: added $15〜
