About the Instructor
Lydia H. McCool She has being teaching children and
adults to experience the joy and reward of playing the piano.
She has performed as singers in choruses, and as pianist
in recitals as well as in ensemble settings with singers and
instrumentalists.
She studied classical piano privately since age 6 and sang
in the children's choirs since age 9. She continued studying
piano with the late professor Livingston Gearhart
(1916-1996) at the State University of New York at Buffalo
while working on her Bachelor of Science computer science
degree. She then obtained a Master of Science degree in
Computer Science at the Pace University, New York while
working as a software engineer.
After her move to the bay area in the 1990's, she started
formal study at Foothill college and privately for her second
instrument, guitar (folk and classical), and she went back to
school and received her piano degree from San Jose State
University, California, where she not only furthered her
classical piano study, but was introduced to the wonderful
world of Jazz music, and the learning of various orchestral
instruments, such as woodwinds, brass, strings and
percussions.
Besides teaching piano and guitar, she has worked as an
piano accompanist at the voice studio of Professor Erie
Mills at the San Jose State University. What inspired her to
pursue her piano degree was her singing with the Peninsula
Women's Choir under the direction of the late artist director
Patricia Hennings, and playing piano for the Chinese Mass
at the Mission St. Joseph in Fremont. Since then she
continues to work for various churches as contract pianist,
and most recently, at the Congregational Community
Church in Sunnyvale where she is praised and appreciated
for playing her original compositions during services.
Mrs. McCool is a member of the Music Teacher's
Association of California , and the editor for the newsletter
Tarantella for the MTAC Palo MTAC Palo Alto Branch. She
can provide lessons in English, Chinese, Taiwanese, and
Japanese.
Lydia H. McCool She has being teaching children and
adults to experience the joy and reward of playing the piano.
She has performed as singers in choruses, and as pianist
in recitals as well as in ensemble settings with singers and
instrumentalists.
She studied classical piano privately since age 6 and sang
in the children's choirs since age 9. She continued studying
piano with the late professor Livingston Gearhart
(1916-1996) at the State University of New York at Buffalo
while working on her Bachelor of Science computer science
degree. She then obtained a Master of Science degree in
Computer Science at the Pace University, New York while
working as a software engineer.
After her move to the bay area in the 1990's, she started
formal study at Foothill college and privately for her second
instrument, guitar (folk and classical), and she went back to
school and received her piano degree from San Jose State
University, California, where she not only furthered her
classical piano study, but was introduced to the wonderful
world of Jazz music, and the learning of various orchestral
instruments, such as woodwinds, brass, strings and
percussions.
Besides teaching piano and guitar, she has worked as an
piano accompanist at the voice studio of Professor Erie
Mills at the San Jose State University. What inspired her to
pursue her piano degree was her singing with the Peninsula
Women's Choir under the direction of the late artist director
Patricia Hennings, and playing piano for the Chinese Mass
at the Mission St. Joseph in Fremont. Since then she
continues to work for various churches as contract pianist,
and most recently, at the Congregational Community
Church in Sunnyvale where she is praised and appreciated
for playing her original compositions during services.
Mrs. McCool is a member of the Music Teacher's
Association of California , and the editor for the newsletter
Tarantella for the MTAC Palo MTAC Palo Alto Branch. She
can provide lessons in English, Chinese, Taiwanese, and
Japanese.
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