PROFESSIONAL PIANIST | PIANO TEACHER | ARRANGER | COMPOSER
 
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Teacher

Hi! My name is Laura Reynolds, and I have been teaching piano professionally since 2005 - first in Las Vegas and Houston, now in Austin, and online. 

During my music career, I have noticed there are two linear ways of thinking when it comes to teaching and learning music:

  1. You are either an improviser and mostly play by ear

  2. You can read and play classical pieces as the composer intended

But rarely are BOTH found, encouraged, and blended in music lessons.

When I wanted to play soundtracks and popular songs, creatively arrange, and compose my music, little of that was taught or encouraged until much later in my education.

So when I began teaching piano, I wanted my studio to focus on a more well-rounded approach to music education. I want my students to discover all aspects of music and decide who they are as musicians. 

My piano lessons focus on giving students the tools needed to play many different music genres, improvise, compose or write a song, and especially have the theory to understand how to use it all where it matters - in their music. 

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Music Arranger

As a piano teacher, I arrange popular songs into sheet music beginner piano students can easily learn. 

I love making these because they reinforce learned concepts from our lessons like: 

  • chord structures

  • new rhythms

  • new notes and the relationship between each other

  • key signatures

  • scales

These beginner versions integrate with music lessons and method books and open their eyes to the fact that those music theory ideas not only apply to classical music and technique but ALL music. 

Having the ability to see and apply this gives them a new appreciation for music and also makes them stronger musicians. 

Composer

While successfully managing my studio in Houston and Austin, I have continued to compose and arrange music.

My passion for expressing stories, experiences, and feelings characterizes my music.

Personal hardship, spiritual growth, art, poems I have written, and landscape and portrait photography all influence my songs and the story I am trying to tell.

I am originally classically trained in piano and composition but have many other genre influences, including jazz, blues, and contemporary.

My style is cinematic in quality, but I continue to study my love for music composition through various musicians, books, and classes.

I am releasing the first song of my album Chrysalis soon. Join my mailing list for updates on its release.