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Re: How to gracefully switch teachers

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2017-08-18 17:33

Every person will treat this in their own way. My experience went like this. I had been studying with Eric Simon for a year and a half in HS and then two years at the Mannes College of Music. I owe him my inspriration to become an orchestral clarinet player and introducing me to the clarinet classics. After a summer at Aspen I heard of Leon Russianoff's teaaching reputation and decided to transfer to Manhattan School of Music to study with him. When Simon asked me why I was transferring I just politly explained to him that after 3 1/2 year I thought it would be a good idea to study with someone else. Then while studying with Russianoff I wanted to study bass clarinet with Joe Allard privately, a well respected teacher of clarinet, saxophone and bass clarinet teaching at Juillard. So i asked Russianoff if he would mind if I took lessons from Allard on bass while studying with him and he said, Joe is a very good teacher. Even though it was bass clarinet Russianoff was not threatened. My point, just be honest and sincere. Every teacher reacts differently. I never minded if a student asked me if it was ok to study with someone else during the summer, I even encouraged it with someone i respected. All I expected was telling or asking me.

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