STUDIO OF DR. MINJU CHOI WITTE

(As of August 2024, Dr. Choi has one time slot available.)

Dr. Choi is currently accepting late intermediate to advanced-level piano students in the Indianapolis area. Students must be minimum age of 13 & above to audition. If in-person lessons are not possible, Dr. Choi would also consider video lesson arrangements. Additionally, she offers online masterclasses to help pianists prepare for concerts and competitions. Please complete the online registration carefully below. After submission, you will be contacted for scheduling auditions and will receive studio information. If you have any questions, please e-mail minjuwitte@gmail.com.

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

My interest in learning originated as a teaching fellow at The Juilliard School 20 years ago, where my university teaching career began and then continued until most recently at Missouri State University as an Assistant Professor of Piano. I craft my teaching techniques to meet the wide array of my students’ needs.  My students are continuously challenged to become effective communicators through their playing regardless of their level.  The goal of my teaching is for me to try to understand a student through his/her playing and find the best possible way for them to express their temperament.  The level of literature is selected based on each students’ maturity of playing and the needs of the students’ individual learning.  I teach my students to innately understand that a performance comes from inside the pianist.  Every week, my teaching is supported by my desire to instill integrity, confidence, and musicianship in the students’ playing.  My hope is the students will take what they learn from each literature and recreate it independently in another literature when they see fit—whether that may be tone production, phrasing, articulation, or finding the shades of nuances in musical expression.  What does not interest me as a teacher is a performance of a piece of music that sounds alike from one another.  It should have a historical basis, and my students are encouraged to not only succeed in performance but to be an independent scholar of their music. 

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