Jelica Mijanovic

Please check www.jelicamijanovic.com I have 15 years of experience teaching students aged 5 to 75. I hold a Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy and a Master of Arts in Music Performance from Europe (HES-SO Geneva). I worked as a guitar professor/instructor at conservatories, colleges, and universities in Europe and Canada. I was invited as a lecturer and juror at around 30 international music festivals across Europe. I currently work as a guitar instructor at Mohawk College, and I am enrolled in the Doctor of Musical Arts program at U of T. I won a dozen of international guitar competitions and played concerts in Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Romania, the Balkans etc. At the age of 20, I published a book for guitar beginners co-financed by the Ministry of Culture of Montenegro that is widely used in music classrooms in several countries. I am fluent in French, English, Italian, Spanish and German in addition to my mother tongue (Serbo-Croatian) and happy to welcome the students who are not yet fluent in English. I am primarily a classical guitarist, but I also play and teach world music (Balkan, flamenco and Middle-Eastern in particular) and the basics of popular and jazz music. I do not fully adhere to any particular teaching philosophy, as I tailor my lessons to fit a student's potential, personality and aspirations. I can prepare you for competitions, open your horizons to less familiar universes of music or help you enjoy and progress in any repertoire of your choice. I am open to parent-child or two siblings/ friends classes for the price of one. Whichever mode and intensity of learning you opt for, I will enable you to discover and strengthen the connection between your character, our instrument, the geo-historical context of the composition and the science that music is built upon. The way you are perceiving music, whether played or listened to, will expand and intensify for a lifetime.