Mariya has the very unique combination of being exceedingly pleasant, incredibly skilled as a musician while also displaying a great talent as a teacher. There are many teachers who are able to describe the mechanics of playing piano, however, Mariya adds an amazing ability to demonstrate and then effectively transmit to the student the musicality, or what makes a piece of music sound beautiful.

Mariya has been able to guide me, my wife, and children through an amazing spectrum of music over the past few years and has always been able to find that point where our personal preferences are stimulated and we are challenged appropriately from a technical perspective.

Under Mariya’s guidance, I have played pieces that I thought were far beyond my abilities and have begun to recognize how to start to play them more musically in a way that emphasizes the melodic beauty that must have motivated the composer.

Mariya has an immense personal talent and appreciation of the beauty of the piano and she couples this with a very effective teaching style.