Music education · reflective practice
Music Lessons with Skill, Heart, and Depth
Violin, voice, piano, theory, and musical development for children, teens, and adults.
Lessons arranged by appointment · Friday and Sunday mornings
Sliding scale: $60–$130 per hour
Healing Frequencies for a Fractured World
The practice
A language for listening, learning, and connection
Music reaches beyond performance. Learning a phrase, finding a steady rhythm, or answering another person’s musical idea gives us ways to practice attention, build confidence, and express something of our own. Jeremiah’s Fiddle brings that spirit into lessons, with practical skills and room for connection. For some students, the work also becomes a way to take stock: to notice what matters, build a relationship with their own voice, and find a next step through practice.
Our tagline names a relational, cultural, and educational hope: reconnection through learning and sharing music.
Lesson pathways
Find your way into music
Each pathway combines technical foundations with your interests and way of learning.
Violin
Develop posture, bowing, tone, intonation, rhythm, and reading. Beginner and intermediate lessons make space for the music you want to explore, at a pace that supports both skill and enjoyment.
Voice
Work with breath, pitch, tone, and close listening. Explore singing in tune, ear development, nusach, or trope, with practice shaped around your interests and learning style.
Music Theory & Reading
Connect the sounds you hear with the patterns you read. Study intervals, rhythm, and harmony through examples that relate to your own music-making and musical questions.
Piano & Improvisation
Learn beginner fundamentals while trying ideas at the keyboard. Early improvisation makes room for exploration, with lessons shaped toward interests such as accompaniment, songwriting, or musical fluency.
How I teach
Clear structure, close listening, room for curiosity
Every student arrives with different interests, abilities, questions, and ways of learning. Lessons are patient and adaptive: we build real skills, listen closely, and work with clear structure—without pressure to perform before a student is ready. Alongside technique, lessons can be a reflective space to notice what brings you energy, where confidence grows, and what you want to express. Nolan offers mentorship within a music-education practice, using listening, repertoire, improvisation, and practice as concrete ways to explore growth and direction.
Notice a note.
Shape a phrase.
Listen for what comes next.
Technique gives expression something to stand on. Curiosity gives practice somewhere to go.
Meet Nolan
A lifelong musician helping others enter music with confidence and depth
Nolan grew up playing violin in orchestras and chamber ensembles. After time away during school, he returned through piano and singing, and then renewed his violin practice in 2025. That return led him toward what felt most natural: helping other people learn. His lessons bring patient attention to the work of building skill, confidence, and a richer musical life.
Music, Meaning, and the Wider World
A musical practice connected to Gestalt
Jeremiah’s Fiddle is the musical branch of a wider inquiry into attention, meaning, relationship, and the environments that help people grow. It brings this inquiry into the concrete work of learning, listening, and making music together.