Music Lessons for All Levels

Including in-person in the Bay Area

Instruments

  • Piano keys

    Piano

    Maryliz has performed as a professional accompanist for thirty years, contributing her expertise with soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras around the world.

  • Organ pipes

    Organ

    Maryliz has performed internationally as a concert organist for decades, playing in iconic places like the Sydney Opera House and Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.

Disciplines

  • A metronome at the edges of a piano.

    Fundamentals

    Maryliz teaches all the technical skills of the language of music, with a broad range of practices customized for the student.

  • Hand-written musical notation.

    Composition

    Maryliz brings her work as a composer and sound artist directly into the teaching space, creating a studio environment where technical craft and artistic intuition develop together.

  • An abstract image of golden musical notes in motion.

    Improvisation

    Maryliz guides musicians toward their own improvisational voice—not a style to imitate, but a way of hearing and responding that is distinctly their own.

Format

  • Maryliz Smith at her grand piano.

    In Studio

    At Maryliz’s Woodside home studio
    Sliding scale periodically available

  • A sunlit living room.

    In Your Home

    Limited to the Bay Area, San Franscisco
    Sliding scale periodically available

  • Someone playing an electronic keyboard in front of an open laptop.

    Online

    Dependent on learning goals
    Sliding scale periodically available

Interested in lessons?