Sasha Karaulova is a Providence based organist, pianist, composer and choir director. She has received an extensive music education in piano and organ performance, choral conducting and music theory. She earned her Bachelor’s degree (2014) from the Academic Music College at the Moscow State Conservatory, Moscow, Russia, and her Master’s (2017) from the Basel Music Academy, Basel, Switzerland. She gave her first organ recital at the age of eighteen at the Lutheran Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Moscow, Russia. Over the years, she has worked as a private piano and voice tutor, school music teacher, organist, choir director, singer, and a music librarian.

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Having taught privately for over a decade, she has come to realize that there is no such thing as a “one size fits all” approach to teaching piano performance. Therefore, she custom tailors the method and repertoire to each student’s needs, preferences and ability. She is equally comfortable teaching classical repertoire, jazz standards and pop. She also teaches all levels of music theory, all of her past students have successfully passed the AP music theory test and some even chose to major in music. 

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With younger children, she keeps the lessons as fun as possible, introduces different characters, uses games and empowers the kids with simple tools that let them improvise, explore and compose their own music, while always making sure the children learn the proper hand position and piano technique. She always gives her students manageable weekly and monthly assignments, updates the parents with their child’s progress and facilitates building a practice habit which is the most important part of learning any skill!