Rosalinde teaches everyone from 6 to 96.

Rosalinde is available for private piano instruction for children and adult beginner and intermediate players. She also teaches art privately as well as hosting artist salons—two-to-three-hour group intensives. Artist salons are ideal alternatives for birthday parties, teacher/staff days, vacation time, etc. Salons are available for children and adults. Materials are included. For more info, email me through the contact link or call 646-331-0261.

One need not be a child to be a child at heart. We are never too young to create!!

Teacher Profile

Rosalinde has been teaching piano and voice to adults since she was a student at Sarah Lawrence College. Her work with children began in the mid 1970s when she taught art and music in special ed. programs. That work inspired her to conduct children’s art salons. One could find Rosalinde and her students propped with their easels and palettes everywhere from Central Park to the Brooklyn Bridge to the maze of the Times Square subway station. The popularity of the art salons, combined with Rosalinde’s cross-over talents, led to spin-off salons for other outlets such as music composition/ recording sessions and creative writing workshops. In 1994 Rosalinde was invited to launch an after-school program at P.S. 199 in New York City, where she led students through the process of writing for musical theatre.

Rosalinde spent three years running the music department at The Hoboken Charter School in New Jersey. There she worked hands-on with pre-Ks through seniors, teaching everything from instrument-making to music appreciation to rap poetry. During that time she wrote a lot of children’s music—funky, upbeat songs that to this day are recited verbatim when she runs into these kids on the streets of New York. Six-foot 18-year-olds have been known to come up to her and start singing songs she wrote for them ten years earlier.

Given her strong reputation as a composition teacher, Rosalinde was invited to participate in the Mentors and Protégés series under the auspices of the New York Philharmonic Young Composer Series. From 1996 to 2001 she worked with dozens of children, helping them compose and arrange for the orchestra. Over the years, she has taught piano privately to several dozen students each week. She uses an alternative approach to teaching, drawing from her classical, jazz and pop training and utilizing her gifts— encouraging kids to create their own compositions—from writing and arranging to recording. Rosalinde also hosts kid concerts at various senior centers in the New York area. These events have brought in media coverage—an exciting experience for her students as they have been interviewed and photographed for newspapers.