Levine offers private lessons, group classes, including beginner classes and enrichment classes for teens and adults, and duo coaching for pianists of all styles, ages and abilities. Students may begin studying piano at Levine as young as age 3 1/2 as part of the Suzuki method or for private lessons or group piano classes, we generally suggest the student has entered first grade.
Download the information packet for piano students which includes important piano department event dates.
Learn more about the Suzuki program for piano.
For more information, contact:
Piano Department Chair, Melinda Baird (202) 686-8000 x1004 or
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Asst Chair, MD Campus, Sayaka Jordan
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Asst Chair, VA Campus, David Davenport
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Group Piano Coordinator, Cole Burger
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Piano Department Events Coordinator, Grace Cho,
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Read reviews of the Advanced Solo Recitals in the Levine Piano Department.
Private Lessons
Private lessons provide students with individual instruction with one of Levine’s talented faculty members and are geared towards the specific goals, needs and aspirations of each student regardless of experience or age. For new students, we take the time and ...
Levine offers private instruction year round in 22 instruments and voice – for the beginner, lifelong amateur, or budding virtuoso. Private lessons provide students with individual instruction with one of Levine’s talented faculty members and are geared towards the specific ...
Group Classes
(Ages 11 - 18)
This fun-filled camp is a great opportunity for talented young musicians in middle and high school who are interested in performing rock, jazz or blues. Participants are grouped into bands based upon skill level, the wishes of ...
(Ages 12 - 18)
Develop your chamber ensemble skills in a fun-filled environment! This week-long camp is a great opportunity for violinists, violists, cellists, and pianists to make music together and learn from the area's leading professional musicians.
Prerequisite: string players ...
(Adults)
This three-day workshop is designed to give amateur jazz musicians an opportunity to come and expand their jazz experience under the direction of Levine's expert jazz faculty. The workshop includes small and large group jam sessions, level-specific jazz instructional sessions, ...
(Adults)
If you’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, get a jump start! In this concentrated two week course, students acquire basic pianistic and music notation skills. During class, each student will have access to his/her own accoustic piano. ...
(Ages 14 to Adult)
This course guides students through fundamental material about pitches, intervals, triads, seventh chords, voicing, harmonic progressions, chord substitutions and scales, including seven diatonic modes, blues scales and symmetrical scales. Students analyze recorded performances and also write their ...
(Adults)
Adult piano students perform in an interactive and constructive concert-style setting (class of six to ten students).
(Adults)
Advanced adult piano students perform in an interactive and constructive concert-style setting (class of up to seven students).
(Adults)
Make two pianos sound like one! Learn to listen like a pro and fine tune your ensemble skills with this established duo piano team of Barbara Wing and Elizabeth Lane. Discover how to prepare an excellent performance from the very ...
(Ages 12 to Adult)
Using elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, structure and expression, students of all instruments develop the ability to improvise in many styles, including jazz. Students also learn how to listen to and interact with each other while improvising ...
(Adults)
This yearlong weekly course is designed for beginning adult students who have never had any training on a musical instrument. Each adult is provided with his or her own acoustic piano in the classroom. The course provides a basic foundation ...
(Grades 1 - 3)
This yearlong weekly group class provides students who have not studied music previously with an introduction to music at the piano. Students develop a strong foundation in rhythm, note reading, and basic technique that leads to successful ...
(Teens and Adults)
Like to play, but hate to practice? Learn some valuable tips on how to create effective and efficient practice strategies to maximize your progress. Applicable to all instruments and voice.
Ensemble Classes
(Ages 11 - 18)
This fun-filled camp is a great opportunity for talented young musicians in middle and high school who are interested in performing rock, jazz or blues. Participants are grouped into bands based upon skill level, the wishes of ...
(Adults)
This workshop provides adult piano students of all levels an opportunity to perform together in a group setting. Paired with another adult student prior to each meeting, participants learn specialized techniques to help them successfully perform as an ensemble.
