Louisiana Piano Teachers

Holly Rollosson

Holly Rollosson recently moved to New Orleans from Seattle, where she has enjoyed teaching piano for many years. She’s been delighted to find many things to fall in love with in this charming and irreplaceable city.

Holly has a passion for people that is contagious, and a true flair for making music enjoyable. She provides one-on-one piano lessons to students of all ages, and enjoys teaching children, teens, adults, and senior citizens alike. She believes in guiding students’ musical education in a positive and fun environment, and specializes in gearing the teaching method and music selection to the particular student’s learning style and tastes. She also understands the importance of regularly communicating with parents to help them understand their child’s musical needs, and coaches them on how to assist in their child’s musical growth. Her fervent belief is that with the involvement and encouragement of teacher and parent, a child’s (or adult’s!) life can be immeasurably enriched by learning to play music they love, and gaining a skill they will enjoy for the rest of their life.

Holly has been a self-employed piano instructor for 13 years in the Seattle area. She also recently spent several years teaching at Beverly Park Music Academy, a nonprofit institute that focused on group piano classes on digital keyboards.  She has served as a pianist and keyboardist for her church for 14 years, and receives a great amount of joy from sacred music and from training other church musicians.

Holly is happy to provide a free consultation to anyone who is interested in exploring the possibility of music lessons for themselves or their child.

 

Emily Fransen

Emily Fransen was recently awarded a scholarship to pursue a Masters in Piano Performance at Loyola University New Orleans, where she also received her Bachelor of Music degree in 2008.  As an undergraduate student, she studied classical voice with Mona Bond and classical piano with Jac McCracken.  As a performer, she received the 2003-2004 annual Irving Carr award for Musical Excellence awarded by the Junior Philharmonic Society of New Orleans, Junior Philharmonic winner in both voice and piano, and 5-time performer in the LFMC Honors Recital.  She has performed in MASNO’s Piano x 4 event, the Trinity Artist Series and the annual Bach Around the Clock celebration, and she is currently a member of and frequent vocal solist with the Symphony Chorus of New Orleans, where she also acts as Administrative Director of the chorus.

Prior to her college career, Emily studied classical piano with local New Orleans teachers, Lynn Celestin and Peggy Fransen.  She began her private teaching career in her mother’s piano studio teaching young beginners when she was in high school.  She continued to teach throughout high school and kept a small studio in her first year of college.  Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, she was offered a position as a private instructor at Hall Piano Company in Metairie, LA where she has consistently kept a studio of 25-40 private students since 2005.  She is a member of several professional music organizations including the Louisiana Federation of Music Clubs, the Metairie Music Club and the Junior Philharmonic Society of New Orleans.  Her students participate annually in the LFMC Festival, the Metairie Music Club Piano Competition, the Romantic and Contemporary Auditions, and the Junior Philharmonic Competition, where they have consistently earned high marks.

 

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Cristina Perez

Cristina Perez, a native of New Orleans, has a passion for sharing her love of music through teaching as well as performing regularly throughout the city. Cristina is a graduate of Loyola University New Orleans, with a Major in Music Therapy and a minor in Psychology. While there, she studied piano performance with John Murphy and Donna Clavijo, jazz voice with Leah Chase-Kamata, and guitar and songwriting with John Rankin. Cristina also served terms as President and Vice President of the Professional Women's Music Fraternity, Sigma Alpha Iota and as Treasurer and Vice President for the Music Therapy Association.

Her background in performance includes playing piano in various festivals and events since age seven, playing viola in her high school orchestra with whom she traveled to Paris and Lourdes, France as well as the Bahamas, and currently playing jazz rhythm guitar and singing with her own band around the city. She has currently released her first, self-titled album and has been featured as a vocalist on the albums of other local bands.

As a teacher, her philosophy is to cater her lessons according to each student’s goals, needs, and schedules. With a background in classical and jazz, she is open to working on any and all types of music with her students, while implementing healthy performance techniques and a solid foundation in music theory. A Board Certified Music Therapist, Cristina is happy to offer private sessions for students with special needs. (For more on Music Therapy, please visit the National website: Musictherapy.org). She offers plenty of performance opportunities for all students including local and national events, festivals, and competitions as well as two recitals per year.

In addition to private lessons, Cristina also teaches the Scott Houston Play Piano in a Flash Adult Group courses.