🕐 1-hr lessons, weekly or bi-weekly, one-on-one
📍 Location: Brooklyn, NY or online
💰 Tuition: sliding scale of $100 -$150 per hour
📆 Booking: see below
🚀 Group workshops: now taking applications! Check ‘em out
Music helps me find the whole person I was born to be. I love to compose and perform music because it reveals and energizes parts of me that lay buried for years, and it welcomes those parts into connection with listeners. I love to teach music because it thrills and inspires me to see my students connect with their own hearts and souls, ally with their unconscious minds, and build courage to embody their fullest selves.
You can start from any skill level – I’ve taught students who’d never sung in public before, and others who’d never finished writing a song. I’ve also worked with steadily gigging guitar players, experienced singers, and songwriters with deep knowledge of music theory. What makes you a candidate is whether you’re looking to bring your whole emotional, imaginal, and embodied self into connection through songwriting and/or performance. All you have to know is that you want to; I’ll help you discover how.
Hart's lessons always leave me inspired. He has a knack for connecting to the artistic and emotional undercurrents of whatever I'm bringing to a lesson. We don't just focus on drilling technical details – we connect to the truth of a song and do the work (emotional and technical) to let that truth come out.
— Huw Thomas
For a while I’ve struggled to pull together my contemplative practice with my love for making and performing music. Hart just speaks my language and understood the challenge right away. He has a deep grasp of psychological and contemplative concepts and their relevance to creative flourishing. Together we’ve been working toward not just technical proficiency, but a full bodied integration of creative expression with these deeper currents of my life. He’s also just an incredibly warm, safe person to explore all of this stuff with. Highly recommend.
— Dan Grossman
Working with Hart was exactly what I needed to get over life-long barriers with singing. He's genuine and embodies what he teaches, creating a space where you can meet whatever comes up and shed what's in your way. He can take you from 'my voice stays in the shower' to 'I'd love to share a song with you' or 'let's sing together.' Months later, this continues to prove true and my singing practice is still evolving constantly. If you want to sing but feel stuck, Hart's the real deal.
— Rob Kancler
Hart is such a kind, intuitive instructor. I went to him because I had a lot of anxiety about performing in front of people. He taught me to tune into my body and to be kinder to myself. He was the first person I sang in front of in a while, and his nonjudgmental presence really helped ease my nerves. A few months after working with him, I was able to perform a song on guitar in front of friends and family, and I haven’t been able to do that before.
— Joyce Ling
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to find justified confidence, access your full emotional range, and play freely
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Justified confidence in your voice means learning exactly what you can do with your vocal chords, activating your abilities more of the time, and expanding those abilities healthily.
To access your whole dynamic emotional range, you may need to make personal discoveries about how/why parts of you got fenced off, and take small risks to reconnect. I don’t explicitly probe into your biography, but I continually call on your life experience to animate your voice.
By “play freely,” I mean both that you play your instruments (including the voice) with technical facility, and that you play – like a kid playing pretend – with curiosity, imagination, and emotional freedom.