Playing music is fun—and you or your child can do it!
Rose enables music-making by building on students’ strengths in a supportive, enthusiastic environment. You can feel the care in her teaching. Every lesson with Rose is custom, and every student is a success.
Whether you’ve never held an instrument, you’re working on intonation in eleventh position, or you’re preparing for a symphony audition or a church production, Rose can help. She shares easy-to-learn practice techniques that give you great results quickly, so you can experience the joy of making music.
Rose has special abilities with students facing learning hurdles.
Your child is a miracle. Whatever the difficulties, they have the capacity to experience the joy of making music. Often the child with perceived limitations turns out to be the most gifted of all.
Again and again, Rose’s unflagging positive nature connects with such students. Two different mothers reported hearing, “Mom, Rose is the only person who understands me.” Rose’s special insight, interest and receptivity to these children has enabled them to participate in music making and the joy it brings.
Rose has the experience and expertise to make it happen.
Rose Todaro earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory and a Master of Music degree from Bowling Green State University. She has also studied at the New England Conservatory of Music, the University of Michigan and the Aspen Music Festival. She has performed with the Reno Philharmonic, Arizona Opera, Cleveland Orchestra, Arizona Theater Company, Tucson Pops Orchestra and the Tucson Symphony.
Rose has played in the Broadway touring productions of Guys & Dolls, The Producers and The Sound of Music as well as with numerous popular entertainers from Wayne Newton to Luciano Pavarotti. She appears on Merle Haggard’s CD Unforgettable and on the soundtrack of the award-winning Cate Blanchett film I’m Not There.
Rose Todaro has been teaching music for more than thirty years, as a private instructor, with youth organizations like Tucson Junior Strings and at The Waldorf School and Khalsa/Montessori. She loves teaching—and she loves her students.