Jennifer Kern Hancock has been offering piano lessons to students since 1997. She is recognized in Durham and Orange Counties for her specialized skill with children as young as 3 and as old as 18. Her musical expertise, nuanced teaching technique, and her genuine appreciation for and connection to each of her students has imbued a love for the piano in hundreds of youngsters in our community.

What began as her own passionate interest and talent as a child growing up in Columbus, Ohio – both with the piano and with percussion — turned into focused and awarded academic study through college. She capped her instrumental studies with coursework in music business, arts administration, and even a semester internship studying ethnic percussion at the Jamaican School of Dance (Kingston, Jamaica), where she taught dancers a notational system to assist them with documenting and recalling traditional dance rhythms.

Jennifer was drawn to the Suzuki method from the outset of her teaching career. As she explains, “In my own life, a love of music is what began and continues to bring me joy and inspiration. The Suzuki method introduces students to this love from the very outset. Once students can ‘hear’ and appreciate the music on the keyboard, the addition of tools like note-reading flow so easily.”

Jennifer has completed coursework in Suzuki Piano pedagogy, books one through six. She works as a Suzuki workshop clinician throughout the United States. In addition, she is recognized by the Music Teachers National Association as a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music.

Jennifer maintains a teaching studio in her home near Mebane NC. She provides occasional piano music at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Hillsborough. Jennifer also serves as Director of the Triangle Music School in Durham, NC, a widely recognized center for individual and group instrumental and voice instruction including a wide range of instruments, styles and subjects.

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