Elizaveta Gupta

Ms. Elizaveta Gupta received her Bachelor of Music degree in Accompanying and Piano Pedagogy from Kemerovo Music College in Russia. She also received a Bachelor's Degree in Piano Performance from the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music and a Masters of Music degree at Manhattan School of Music. Ms.Gupta also holds a Masters in Philology from Kemerovo State University. Ms.Gupta’s performance teachers included Jeffrey Biegel, Raymond Beegle, Jeffrey Cohen, Lina Yarovaya, and Eva Zinger. She also studied piano pedagogy at Manhattan School of Music with Dr.Carol Aicher and with Dr.Jane Palmquist at Brooklyn Music Conservatory.

Teaching Experience
Despite her love for performance since childhood she knew she would dedicate herself to teaching. Her teaching career started when she was only seventeen and she's been passionately pursuing it ever since.
Since 2001, Ms. Gupta has been preparing students to successfully pass all levels of the ABRSM and the Royal Conservatory Music Development Programs as well as teaching group piano classes for students of various ages including adults, and Music and Movement classes for kids ranging in age from 1 to 4 years.

Teaching Philosophy
Music is a phenomenon that awakens the sense of beauty in the heart of a human being. It can be an integral part of everyone's emotional as well as intellectual development. Research on music and intelligence concludes that music training improves children's abstract reasoning skills greater than computer instruction. Therefore, all children should be exposed to music regardless of their perceived talent or lack thereof. A music teacher's purpose is to inspire and maintain a student's love and interest in music, to teach him or her to communicate this form of art in order to express themselves in ways that are not possible by other means.