Although each member of our faculty
is qualified to teach in many areas of music not one of them teaches outside
their specific area of expertise. Each
student is given the benefit of individual attention, tailored to each need and
goal. Each teacher lives in
Due to the high demand for piano teachers, we have a varied faculty to cover this need.
PHILLIP DIECKOW, the founder and director of the DSM, is also the Artist in Residence in Piano at the Stevens Institute of Technology. His teaching schedule is filled.
JAMES REDCAY,
assistant director of the school, is
not only an accomplished pianist and accompanist but is also a composer and his
flexibility in this regard allows him to personally hand tailor a teaching
program to each individual student. He
is currently majoring in composition and piano at
SOREN PACKER,
recently a music graduate of
PAUL VAZOPOLOS is a highly qualified pianist and teacher in the Bayonne area of New Jersey. His years of study with Phillip Dieckow amply qualify him as a superior teacher for children from age five through adults. He teaches out of his Bayonne home studio and presents his students in the four concerts a year in Hoboken with the Dieckow School of Music.
Since the remaining categories, voice, violin/viola and guitar have only one teacher each, please click on any faculty name below for their backgrounds which also include the piano teachers’ bios.
(Click on faculty members' names to read their biography.)