Ane is a gem. I cannot say enough good things about her. She has all the qualities you would hope…read moreto find in a music instructor for children. First, she has a clear gift for connecting with children, making them comfortable and encouraging a natural appreciation of music. Second, she is incredibly patient, never critical and always finding chances to complement and encourage. Third, she tailors the music for her students, often rewriting! a musical piece to accommodate the level of her student. And fourth, she is flexible in scheduling to accommodate lessons. All three of our children have thrived under her instruction in the past 2 years. My husband and I are so glad that we have found Ane!

Lingling has made playing violin a long-lasting passion for my daughter. My daughter started her…read moreviolin career with Linging 6 years ago, and it is still going... Lingling strives to know her students well. She tirelessly demonstrates, corrects, and identifies problem areas until students come close to perfecting the techniques. While her disciplinary approach has laid a solid foundation, Lingling's enthusiasm for violin has helped nurturing my daughter's life-long love for music, which is Lingling's ultimate goal. She is an excellent teacher who teaches from the bottom of her heart, and I know, my daughter knows that. We are grateful to have Lingling as our violin teacher.

Lingling is a very accomplished musician, and her standards are high. She encourages each student…read moreto learn and play to the best of their abilities. From the beginning, she focuses on musicality -- dynamics and personal expression, in addition to technical skills. From her example and guidance, students learn the qualities of beautiful violin music. Our son has been taking lessons with Lingling for the past three years. He started in the summer before middle school, and thanks to Lingling's skilled instruction he was able to play in the school orchestra that fall, despite being new to the instrument. He enjoys taking lessons with Lingling very much, and her approach to teaching has inspired him to continue his violin studies beyond school orchestra for personal fulfillment and fun. He says Lingling is an awesome teacher!

Rani taught piano to both our boys when they were in elementary school, and has been our daughter's…read moreteacher for five years. She is patient, kind, encouraging, and responsive, and she has fostered a great love for music in our daughter. Rani uses a classical music curriculum, but she's not rigid -- she is willing to teach 'fun' pieces to students when they request them. She organizes student performances a few times/year. Our daughter can read music and play with expression, and Rani has even figured out a way to get her to practice with the metronome voluntarily and without complaining (any musician will recognize this major pedagogical accomplishment...)! After nearly a decade of having her teach my children, I highly recommend Rani.

Rani has taught my daughter piano from the beginning and is great with kids. She is very gentle…read moreand clear, and makes learning a non-stressful experience. She has a great musical background and tells us about concerts and other educational things we can do.

As of this writing (November 10, 2025) I have been taking weekly half-hour long lessons with Jes…read moresince the beginning of August 2025. I stopped playing when I graduated from high school in the very early 1990s. Prior to that I had minimal formal instruction (2 years of elementary school instruction coupled with 2 summers of paid lessons). I faked my way through middle and high school orchestra in the subsequent 7 years with a combination of bad habits and truly poor technique. Jes has been an absolutely wonderful instructor to work with. I told her about my background and she has been extremely accommodating and helpful in curing me of the bad habits and poor technique that I retained after over a third of a century. She has an amazing knowledge of historical cello technique and pedagogy and has been applying it in dragging me out of 1983 and into this century. She has really gone out of her way to set me on the path to growth.

I've been learning cello from Jes for nearly an year. It was very hard to find a teacher as an…read moreadult at first, but Jes eased me into the cello with her talented, experienced teaching skill and depth of knowledge not just in cello but also with music theory. She catored towards my goal, so I got to play pieces I wanted quickly without sacrificing all the basic knowledge and skills necessary to be a good cellist! Shes the best yay!

Virginia is not only a very patient teacher (kid and adults alike), she is also an accomplished…read morepianist. On top of that, she is also a very talented arranger. Many music teachers only teach what they want you to learn. With Virginia, you get to request what YOU want to learn as a student! How cool is that! If she couldn't find the sheet music to the song you want to learn, she'd put her talent to use to write a piano arrangement for you! Doing arrangements is totally outside of her work hour. She didn't have to do that. But she did. Because that's how much she loves and cares about her students. =)

Virginia is an accomplished piano instructor. She is super helpful and breaks down any problem and…read moretries to identify the mistakes and helps improve. She incorporates a wide variety of pieces in her teaching. She organizes a bi annual recital as well! And the best part is getting to pet her 3 adorable cats!

I studied flute with Cecily for 7 years (6-12th grade) and she helped me grow so much as a…read moremusician, both in solo and orchestral playing. I started taking lessons as almost a brand-new flute player, and over the years, Cecily helped me prepare for and pass orchestra auditions, win awards, and play more confidently everywhere, including: - Youth orchestra (GSYO), where Cecily helped me level up from the lowest (6th grade) to highest (12th grade) group, and played successful auditions to earn principal flute and piccolo parts. - 2025 CASMEC (all-state), qualifying as one of 40 of the state's top flutists. - Solo recitals, where Cecily encouraged and coached me to perform challenging and exciting repertoire. - Admission to Northwestern University, where I prepared a flute performance portfolio as part of my academic application. Cecily has been an extremely well-rounded teacher; in private lessons, we always cover tone, technique, musicality, interpretation, etc. - everything to be successful in performing and auditioning. She shares different methods for approaching challenging pieces or excerpts, clearly drawing from her own training and experiences as a musician. She responds quickly over text about scheduling lessons and questions about music, and she's professional yet friendly. With Cecily, I've grown as both a musician and a person. Highly highly recommend taking lessons with Cecily!

Terminated Without Explanation and then Ghosted…read more My daughter, now 13, started weekly flute lessons with Cecily one year ago, in November 2020. We had an OK experience with her up until this month. All lessons have been remote via FaceTime, we have never met her in person. Yesterday I received an email and a text from Cecily, out of the blue, stating that it has not been working out and the lessons will stop. When I immediately replied, asking for details about why, she did not respond. The only possible reason I can imagine for her "terminating" us is related to a billing question that came up this month. But this is truly an unreasonable way to resolve such a difference. Here is what happened. Each month, Cecily sends an invoice in advance of that month's lessons. The invoice is sent by email and payment is expected by the 7th. The invoice is sent on different days, for example I received: -- August invoice on 8/4 -- September invoice on 8/29 -- October invoice on 10/16 -- November invoice on 11/3 Though the invoice is for upcoming lessons, she states that payments are late if not received by the 7th. This month I missed the 11/3 email and so she replied on 11/9 that I now owed a late fee of $25. I promptly paid the invoice plus late fee, but also sent some feedback such as: -- typical payment terms for businesses are things like NET30, NET45 which is based on the invoice date; I have never received an invoice from any business that is considered late within 4 days -- if you are expecting payment by 7th of each month, sending the invoice on the 3rd is putting a lot of burden on your customers to monitor their email boxes and respond in just a few days -- you are invoicing for services not yet rendered, which seems even less reasonable to call a payment late for a service not yet rendered and a suggestion: -- One simple change you could consider to mitigate most of the above concerns is to send your invoices sooner or have the due date be a little later in the month. Say you send on the 1st and they are due on the 15th, or keep the date at 7th but send the invoice 14 days before that. Cecily also cited that her "studio policy" clearly states that there is a late fee. However, I had only signed the previous year's version, which had no mention of late fees. She never sent me the "2021" version (which does mention a late fee) until after this month's discussion. I was in the process of debating whether to continue with her -- because it wasn't clear how much benefit my daughter was gaining from the lessons -- and so I didn't immediately send back the signed 2021 studio policy. So that was the situation when I got the email and text from Cecily.  No explanation of what wasn't working out. No effort to provide any closure to her young student, or give her any final feedback or encouragement about her playing. She just pulled the plug and ghosted me. Fortunately my daughter is quite resilient and didn't take this personally. But I felt I needed to share my story here for others who are considering working with Cecily.

Elly was my daughter's piano teacher for the last six years. She learned so much over the years…read moreincluding music theory, which prepared her for her music classes at school and the choir she later joined. I'm truly amazed at how much she knows about music now. Elly is also patient, dedicated, and engaging especially at the younger ages when they're just beginning. She also pushed when my daughter needed the challenge. We were so lucky to have found her.

I have taken lessons with Elly for a few months, and absolutely love her teaching style! I am 25…read moreand have a background in singing, but am not great with physical instruments. I'm learning way faster than I expected. Elly has provided me spot-on guidance, compassion, relevant examples, and helpful exercises. She is the epitome of what you would want in a music teacher. Please go to her if you have ever wanted to take piano!

My daughter has been taking piano lessons from Ms.Lin since 2021. We feel so grateful to have such…read morea great teacher. Ms. Lin is patient, kind and knowledgeable. She uses different ways to describe hand movements and different concepts so that a 6 year old is able to understand. She taught my daughter to count a half-beat as "pi-zza" so we pizza pizza through the whole song. She encourages my daughter to participate in recitals and competitions, but never pushes. Participating was a great motivator to practice. My daughter always feels proud when she finishes each recital and receives her trophy. Each of her accomplishments is celebrated by us and her most wonderful teacher. We also love Virtuoso Music Studio. The waiting area fulls of new books and the kids love getting HI-CHEW candies and stickers when they finish their lessons. The principal Ernest is a great violinist. He truely cares about the studio and is very attentive to details, such as the decor and making sure restroom is very clean.We love learning music here.

My daughter has been taking cello classes with Ms Zoe for about a month. My daughter didn't have…read moreprior experience with the instrument, but had two years of experience playing the viola at her school. Ms Zoe creatively adapts her teaching to help my daughter draw relationships between viola and cello. It really helped my daughter master the basics fairly quickly. Instead of being strict on sticking to one learning pathway, Ms Zoe encourages my daughter to bring her school pieces and ask questions. One thing that my daughter really likes about Ms Zoe is that she plays along with the student. It's very encouraging to my daughter, and it makes her feel that the teacher is in this with her. My daughter really enjoys Ms Zoe's classes. I also would to share my experience with the studio. The service was excellent! The studio was able to put me in touch with Ms Zoe pretty quickly. There are many classrooms in the studio, and they're well maintained. Virtuoso also has a strong team of teachers teaching various instruments. We're very happy to have such great music studio in our community. I highly recommend this place!