Piano Lessons, Tiamoyo Arts and Education Cleveland, OH Sharon Brown Cheston, Ph.

Tiamoyo Arts and Education

Sharon Brown Cheston, Ph.D.

Cleveland Institute of Music, Academy Music Theory Faculty.
Cleveland Orchestra Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Chorus Rehearsal Assistant.
^{Vocal Arts Mastery Program Summer Faculty, Cuyahoga Community College.}
^{Piano Program Summer Faculty, Cuyahoga Community College}
^{Cleveland Metropolitan School District K-8 Vocal/General Music Teacher, 2021-2023.}
^{Vocal/Orchestra Music Tutor/Accompanist, Orange City School District, 2024, 2017-2021.}

^{Taught Suzuki and Traditional Piano at Laurel School's Laurel Music Academy, Shaker Heights, OH, 2012-2015}
^{Cleveland Institute of Music Faculty, Suzuki Theory, 2003-2009}
^{Orange
Community Education and Recreation/Orange School District/Orange Board
of Education, Pepper Pike, Ohio: Early Childhood Music Specialist,
Orange Early Childhood Center, 1999-2001.}

^{Experienced music educator; taught at every level from graduate school through}

^pre-school

^{Ph.D. in Music Education, Case Western Reserve University (joint program with Cleveland Institute of Music)}
^{Doctoral
Dissertation Student of Dr. Cynthia Crump Taggart (Dr. Taggart is a
former student of and has co-authored with Dr. Edwin Gordon, one of the
leading experts in music aptitudes, music audiation, music learning
theory, and music development in infants and young children)}
^{M.Mus. in Music History/Ethnomusicology}
^{Bachelor of Music Education (B.M.E.)}
^{Licensed/Ohio Department of Education, State of Ohio: Music/Special K-12 (expires in 6/2025)}
^{member
of Suzuki Association of the Americas (SAA), Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), Society for Ethnomusicology, National Association for
Music Education (NAfME), Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA)}

^{Suzuki Piano Teacher Training: Cleveland Institute of Music with Katherine Monsour (Kiki) Barley}
^{Registered piano teacher with and member of SAA (Suzuki Association of the Americas); Enrichments: Dalcroze Eurhythmics}
^{Suzuki Piano Teacher Workshop with Dr. Ray Landers at the Cleveland Institute of Music}
^{Studied
piano with James Tannenbaum at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Dr.
Robert Mayerovitch of the Elysian Trio and Piano Pedagogy with Evelyn
Gott at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music}
^{Studied voice with George Vassos, Elizabeth Unis Chesko and Melvin Hakola}
^{Studied organ with Adeline Huss at the Cleveland Institute of Music}
^{Graduate courses in Music Theory at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Alvaretta West}
^{Training
in Suzuki Theory Curriculum and Pedagogy at the Cleveland Institute of
Music with Dr. Jennifer Conner (author of CIM Academy and Public Programs Theory Curriculum and Director of Academy Musicianship Studies)}