About Jil

Jil teaches piano the way she plays it: with strong classical roots and real range. Her repertoire spans Bach, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, and Prokofiev. She competed in the Concours des Grands Amateurs de Piano in Paris and studied with Kenneth Amada, a world-touring concert pianist whose training traces directly back to Chopin.

This fall she begins a Master of Music in piano performance at the University of South Florida, where she earned a scholarship and a graduate assistantship as a collaborative pianist, accompanying fellow musicians across campus. Her students get a teacher who is still a student herself: in the practice room, preparing repertoire under pressure, and taking lessons of her own.

That tradition of serious classical training runs through every lesson. Students build solid technique from the ground up: proper hand position, music reading, theory at the keyboard. They’re encouraged to bring the music they love too. The classics build the foundation. The music students love keeps them at the piano.

Lessons are for ages 4 through adult, beginners through advanced, weekdays at my home studio in Dunedin and Saturdays at Piano Distributors in Clearwater. Young beginners start in Faber and Suzuki; older beginners and transfer students get an assessment at the first lesson so we start in the right place. If you want to know how I think about practice, start here.