Intended for both beginning and experienced musicians, our Private Lesson Program allows students to express themselves creatively while providing them with a solid technical basis.

Instructors will create a specialized, level-appropriate curriculum based upon the student’s needs and goals. Emphasis is placed on personal achievement and broadening musical understanding. With individual lessons, students can progress at their own pace, and often improve more rapidly and develop confidence more quickly.

Registration Information

Online registration is now available.
By registering, you agree to our classes policy.
Twelve lessons will be held during the Winter/Spring term.
Lessons will be scheduled at the mutual convenience of the instructor and student, and will be held on Mondays, Tuesdays, or Saturdays between January 26 and April 18, 2009.
Classes are not interchangeable.
Participants can only attend their registered class.
Space is very limited and available on a first come, first served basis.

Tuition per 12-week session:
$420 (half hour)
$630 (45 minute)
$840 (hour)

Private Voice
Instructor: Dawn Frederick
January 27 – April 14, 2009 (Tuesdays)
January 31 – April 18, 2009 (Saturdays)
Register Online

Private Piano
Instructor: TBA
January 26 – April 13, 2009 (Mondays)
January 27 – April 14, 2009 (Tuesdays)
January 31 – April 18, 2009 (Saturdays)
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Note

• Classes WILL be held on February 14 and 16 (President’s Day weekend).

All classes held at the Center for Education at Wolf Trap Foundation.

Teacher Bios

Dawn D. Frederick  graduated from The Catholic University of America where she received her B.M.E. in Choral Education. She is a soloist, choral director, and private vocal instructor. Mrs. Frederick continued her vocal studies after college in London, England where she studied voice and the anatomy and physiology of the voice at the Royal Academy of Music. She teaches Music Appreciation for the Adult Education program for Arlington County. Mrs. Frederick has been a Choral Director for the public and private school system for the past six years. She is a Certified Master Trainer candidate in the Estill Method which presents a more tangible approach to vocal health and technique. She has performed which such conductors as Robert Shaw, Christopher Hogwood, Robert King, Sir David Willcocks, Frances McBeth, J. Reilly Lewis, and William Neil. Her recording credits are A Cathedral Christmas with Denyce Graves (CD and video), Hymns Through the Centuries, Mass for the Sacred Space, and many others.

Marina Chamasyan Herder is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano from The Catholic University of America. She received an Artist’s Diploma and Master of Music degree from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and a second master’s degree from Amsterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands. Her previous teaching experience includes faculty positions at the Conservatory of Utrecht in the Netherlands and the Flint Hill School in Oakton, Virginia. A well-traveled teacher and performer, Ms. Herder has won multiple awards, including the Marjorie Conrad Peatee Art Song Duo Competition and the Ibla Grand Prize International Piano Competition in Italy, and has performed extensively in solo and chamber recitals throughout the United States, Belgium, Italy, and Slovenia. Her teachers include Anahit Bogdanian, Uriel Tsachor, Willem Brons, and Ivo Kaltchev.