Zavala hopes to return to San Diego\u2019s schools after graduating to enrich children\u2019s lives through music \u2014 just like her teacher did for her 15 years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The stakes for maintaining these private lessons are high; without them, the department risks losing prospective talent to other institutions. For fourth-year music major Sarah Kave, the caliber of one-on-one coaching was the deciding factor in her enrollment.<\/p>\n
As a prospective applicant, Kave reached out to instructor Jonathan Koh for a trial lesson. Kave described herself at that age as an intuitive cello player who rarely considered her technical foundation. She said Koh was discerning and honest in pointing out exactly what she could do to improve her playing. Kave said it was one of the best lessons she had ever received.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lessons are the reason why I picked Berkeley over any other school,\u201d said Kave. \u201cThe teacher is the most fundamental aspect of improving as a musician, especially at this stage in your life. You get that one-on-one coaching, and that’s how you\u2019re able to learn how to communicate what you want to say with music.\u201d<\/p>\n
Berkeley students who benefited from private lessons are currently at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Washington National Opera, and many other venerable institutions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we don’t have those lessons to offer, then incredible musicians aren’t going to want to come,\u201d said Kave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zavala hopes to return to San Diego\u2019s schools after graduating to enrich children\u2019s lives through music \u2014 just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-232788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}