Covid19 UPDATE
We have returned to In-Person lessons and recitals. If the need arises, we will move to Virtual Zoom lessons. Tiamoyo Music Academy studio is equipped with 4 cameras and 2 large-screen monitors in order to deliver high-quality Virtual Zoom lessons, recitals, and group classes.
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Tiamoyo Music Academy is OPEN in-person
unless otherwise indicated.
INCLEMENT WEATHER-RELATED INFORMATION
Tiamoyo Music Academy is OPEN in-person.
Please visit often for latest updates. Also, please check your e-mail for weather related closings.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
2 Recital DATES:
Recitals are NOT open to the public,
but are private performances, reserved ONLY for students and their families.
Church of the Western Reserve 30500 Fairmount Boulevard Pepper Pike, OH 44124 Firelands Room
Chamber Music Trio Recital Sunday, October 27, 2024 2:00 P.M.
Spring Recital
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Time: 4:00 P.M.
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Tiamoyo Music Academy "Community Outreach" Concert
Montefiore Nursing Home
Beachwood, Ohio
Performers not pictured: Dylan Y., Peter K., Joshua C., and Brian K.
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Reggie Pittman Jazz Workshop-July 19, 2011eggie Pittman Jazz Workshop-July 19, 2011
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WELCOME TO
TIAMOYO MUSIC ACADEMY
Serving the Chagrin Valley
Sharon Brown Cheston, Ph.D., Licensed Music Educator
Woodmere Village, OH
mailing address:
Tiamoyo Arts and Education
Post Office Box 32
Chagrin Falls, OH 44022-0032
CONVENIENT DAYTIME CLASSES FOR
PRE-SCHOOLERS AND HOME-SCHOOLERS
Tiamoyo Music Academy is a place where students of all ages can enjoy music. Located in a peaceful, country-like setting, in the village of Woodmere, Ohio, Tiamoyo Music Academy is under the direction of Dr. Sharon Brown Cheston, educator, pianist, singer, ethnomusicologist, composer, author, conductor, wife, and mother.
"I really try to meet each student where he or she is in order to provide individualized, appropriate music instruction that coincides with the student's learning style. I believe each student has a unique musical voice that awaits an opportunity for expression. I value each student as a person, not just as a piano student and for their musical accomplishments."
Sharon Brown Cheston, Ph.D., Owner and Director
MUSIC TIME
Suzuki-based
Early Childhood Music Program
MUSIC TIME FOR INFANTS (birth-18 months)
MUSIC TIME FOR TODDLERS (18 months-3 1/2 years)
SUZUKI KIDZ FOR PRE-SCHOOLERS (3-5 years)
SUZUKI PIANO PROGRAM (4 years & older or instructor's approval)
Music Time, a Suzuki-based music program established on the philosophies and concepts of Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, is an exciting, eclectic, fun music curriculum that features developmentally appropriate activities for children to enjoy and explore music. Infants and toddlers, along with their caregivers, will explore rhythmic finger plays, musical nursury rhymes, songs, musical dramatization, literature, and movement. Students will use their voices, musical instruments, a variety of toys and props, and listening skills to explore various musical elements and things about themselves and our world. Children will play rhythmic games and explore movement, such as those used in Suzuki instrumental programs and in Dalcroze eurhythmics. In addition, the music learning approaches of Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, Dr. Edwin Gordon, Emile Jacques Dalcroze, Zoltan Kodaly, Carl Orff, and others will be used. For more information on the aforementioned music learning approaches, please click on the links below.
Suzuki Kidz, is a fun, pre-school Suzuki instrument study preparatory program that, while extending the Music Time curriculum, introduces Suzuki concepts, including learning melodies of the repertoire in Suzuki Piano School and Suzuki Violin School, Volume 1, singing, listening, movement, drama, pre-notation Suzuki theory concepts, and hands-on experience with piano, violin, guitar, and recorder.
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Emile Jacques Dalcroze-Dalcroze Society of America
Edwin Gordon-Music Education from GIA Publications, Inc.
MUSIC PROGRAMS for students of all ages
MUSIC THEORY/MUSICIANSHIP
PRIVATE LESSONS:
CURRICULUM FOR HOME-SCHOOLED STUDENTS
all programs listed above PLUS
PERFORMING ENSEMBLES
Choral Ensemble * Instrumental Ensemble
and Music Classes for grades Pre-K through Grade 12
SCHEDULE OF MUSIC TIME CLASSES
E-mail musicacademy@tiamoyoarts.com for details
MUSIC TIME FOR INFANTS (birth-18 months)
TBA
MUSIC TIME FOR TODDLERS (18 months-3 1/2 years)
TBA
SUZUKI KIDZ FOR PRE-SCHOOLERS (3-5 years)
TBA
TBA Private Lesson SUZUKI PIANO PROGRAM
TBA (call for details) CLASSES FOR HOME-SCHOOLED STUDENTS
2024-2025 TUITION
note: please add annual non-refundable registration fee
of $30 to tuition total
New, first-time students may register at any time during a given semester. Tuition is prorated.
Tiamoyo Music Academy lessons are divided into 3 Semesters:
Semester 1 = FALL: August/September - January
Semester 2 = SPRING: January - May
Semester 3 = SUMMER: June - July
SUZUKI PIANO PROGRAM/PRIVATE LESSON TUITION
30 minute lesson = $30
45 minute lesson = $45
60 minute lesson = $60
$ 540.00 per 18-week semester (30 minute lesson)*
$ 810.00 per 18-week semester (45 minute lesson)*
$ 1,080.00 per 18-week semester (60 minute lesson)*
*(some semesters have fewer than 18 weeks; tuition will be adjusted)
Please add annual non-refundable registration fee of $30 to tuition total.
New, first-time students may register at any time during a given semester. Tuition is prorated.
PRIVATE LESSONS are available for the following:
SUZUKI PIANO PROGRAM
PIANO (traditional)
PIANO IMPROVISATION
PIANO/KEYBOARD IN WORSHIP
VOCAL COACHING
MUSIC THEORY
MUSIC TIME CLASSES
INFANTS, TODDLERS, and SUZUKI KIDZ
$300.00 per semester ([15] 40-minute classes)
COURSES FOR HOME-SCHOOLED STUDENTS:
Choral Ensemble
Instrumental Ensemble
General Music Classes for grades Pre-K through 12
Music: Special Topics for grades Pre-K through 12
New, first-time students may register at any time during a given semester. Tuition is prorated.
Sharon Brown Cheston, Ph.D. 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
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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-
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Ph.D. in Music Education, Case Western Reserve University (joint program with Cleveland Institute of Music)
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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)
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M.Mus. in Music History/Ethnomusicology
Bachelor of Music Education (B.M.E.)
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Licensed/Ohio Department of Education, State of Ohio: Music/Special K-12 (expires in 2025)
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member of Suzuki Association of the Americas (SAA), Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), National Association for Music Education (NAfME), Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA)
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Suzuki Piano Teacher Training: Cleveland Institute of Music with Katherine Monsour (Kiki) Barley
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Registered with and member of SAA (Suzuki Association of the Americas)
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Suzuki Piano Teacher Workshop with Dr. Ray Landers at the Cleveland Institute of Music
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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
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Studied voice with George Vassos, Elizabeth Unis Chesko and Melvin Hakola
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Studied organ with Adeline Huss at the Cleveland Institute of Music
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Graduate courses in Music Theory at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Alvaretta West
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Training in Suzuki Theory Curriculum and Pedagogy at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Dr. Jennifer Conner (author of CIM Preparatory Division Theory Curriculum and Suzuki Theory Program Head)
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