Guitar Lessons

Specialties

I have been teaching guitar, music theory and history of music for the past ten years, in Italy and in NYC. I have experience in teaching students from beginners to advanced, from 5-​year-​old to adults. I also prepare students for music school and college admission.

My teaching style is focused on the student. I use to customize my lessons on the student’s skills, abilities and musical tastes. My goal is to make her/​him independant from the teacher, able to pick up a score and play, develop her/​his ideal sound, hear a song, transcribe and play it, write his/​her own musical idea, finally to be able to say something musically.

I use to work on thechnique in a very stimulating way, giving those suggestions, smart tricks, to get better difficults passages. I like to share what I’ve worked on in my career and in my playing and continue to develop. With beginners I start giving them the best technique and learning style, making them able to play since the first lesson.

I can help mid level students developing their tone and improving the legato playing so that they can play a melodic line like it’s a vocal line and then accompany themselve by playing a bass line and chords behind that, as a background in a picture.

I love exposing my students to a wide repertoire, from early music to contemporary, helping them understanding the cultural history behind the notes.

Meet the Business Owner

Isabella A.

Business Owner

Isabella Abbonizio is an Italian classical guitarist and musicologist currently based in New York City. Her passion for music manifested early in her life and brought her to pursue both instrumental and theorical studies. After studying at the G. B. Martini Music Conservatory of Bologna (Italy) she graduated cum laude in musicology, and got the Ph.D. at the University of Rome.

Isabella is a professional music and guitar teacher with more than ten years of teaching experience in public and private schools, in Italy and USA.