Piano Lessons In Your Home

Specialties

Welcome to the official listing for the music school Piano Lessons In Your Home, Inc. Other schools may have similar names but it is our school that set the precedent to follow. Since 1996, our school has assisted families in finding the right instructor for children and adults who are interested in formally learning music. Although our primary focus is piano, we also provide voice (singing), guitar, violin and cello lessons. As we continue our evolution, we are adding several woodwind and brass instruments to our roster as well. Piano Lessons In Your Home offers lessons to a wide age range of students. Depending on the instrument we begin as young as 4 years old, and we of course teach adults. Our school instructs beginner to advanced level students in a traditional lesson format. Classical, jazz music, popular music, musical theatre and opera repertoire are all options of study. Music theory, sight reading and ear training are also regular parts of our lesson structure.

Meet the Manager

Christie T.

Manager

Christie joined the PLIYH team in September 2000 as a private piano instructor and became the Piano Pedagogy Faculty Member in 2001. Her Bachelors and Masters Degree studies were in Piano Performance at West Virginia University, and at Ohio University. Her minor is in Dance from WVU. In addition to studying with her father, Fred Chiles, Dr. Charlotte Giles, Peter Amstutz and Sylvia Henry, she performed in Master Classes with Nelita True and Christopher Taylor. Her chamber music coaches include Rudolph Haken, Stephen Boe, Jean Barr, and Howard Beebe. She was a 1995 Young Artist Concerto Competition winner and the recipient of the Marion Anderson/​Alvin Ailey Award for Excellence in the Arts. She has been featured as a soloist and chamber musician in the US and Scotland and a competition and exam judge for the National Federation of Music Clubs, NAACP Act-​So Competition, Tiferith Israel Young Jewish Competition, and the Illinois State Music Teachers Achievement in Music (AIM) exams.