Private / Group Lessons - Masterclasses - Workshops - More

Whether you are a student just beginning, an aspiring professional, or an adult looking to build your musical skillIs, I would be grateful to help you achieve your goals as a musician. As a professional Trumpeter, Singer, Pianist, Organist and Conductor, my experience in the music world informs my teaching, so that I can cater to your exact needs, while discovering our own joy in music.

As a trumpeter and singer, I have given masterclasses at:

-the Universities of Oregon, Texas, Central Florida, West Florida, Wisconsin-Whitewater, Nazareth University, Adelphi University, and countless grade-schools across the United States, and Dominican Republic.

Lessons

Private Lessons

• One on one coaching on the instrument of your choosing. We focus on your individual needs and goals, technically and musically.

  • $75 per hour

Group Lessons

• Working together as a group to improve in specific areas technically, as well as developing the skills to make music and blend with other musicians.

  • $75 per hour

Classes / Workshops

I come into your school, or community to share whatever knowledge and insight that I can. My main goal for any class or workshop is that we work together to crate a class that best suites your students and community. *Contact me for pricing.

This could look like:

Sectional / Ensemble Coaching

This can be as specific as working with one specific instrument section, or the ensemble as a whole. Are you preparing for solo-and-ensemble? A school concert? I would love to help.

Class / Discussion on subjects such as:

• A Healthy Approach to a Life in Music:

  - Geared towards all musicians, student, amateur and professional, and focuses on approaching our instruments as extensions of our body, discovering a healthy and efficient technique, as well as focusing on the physical and mental health aspects of being a musician, and how music can play a role in our lives beyond school.

• The Art of Listening:

  - The importance of using our ears to become a better musician, and to deepen understanding and meaning in our own lives.

• The Golden Sound:
  - How to uncover our natural and most “golden” sound.

  • Geared towards Trumpeters, but can work for all brass instruments.

• Find your Truest Voice

  - Geared towards singers, focusing on finding a healthy, free, and authentic sound.

  - Allowing that voice to express ourselves as a musician.

  - Choosing music to sing, finding collaborators, creating art!

• Becoming a Professional Musician

  - Focuses on the professional world of music, what it takes to become one, and my perspective after being a full time professional musician for 10 years.

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Music

  - In recent years, our eyes and ears have been opened to something that should have happened many many years before. But what does this mean in our classical music world, a world filled with traditions and long standing practices, and repertoire. I don’t pretend to have the answers, but I can share what I have done and perhaps open our eyes to some music that I have added into my repertoire, that has been neglected and overlooked in the past. As well as share my thoughts on collaborating, commissioning and creating new music and art with colleagues in our field.

additional subjects could be:

• Recording an Album - HOW TO

  I have recently recorded an album, entirely on my own, as well as being a part of an ensemble that recorded two albums, and being a hired musician for dozens of others, I have the experience to help shed light on this process.

• Grants - HOW TO

  Grants are a huge part of a musician and artists life. With my experience applying for and successfully receiving grants, I can shed some light on this daunting, but very helpful process.

• Learning New Music

  The music I am performing often changes on a weekly basis, including performing and recording dozens of brand new, never before played/sung pieces. With music to learn as a singer, trumpeter and pianist, I can share the tips and tricks I’ve learned, to effectively learn music in an efficient and time-conscious way.

  Memorizing - Having memorized dozens (perhaps hundreds) of pieces of music, this daunting process doesn’t have to be so.

• Different Instruments - I’d love to share a bit about other / lessor known instruments that I have developed skills on, such as:

  - Armenian Duduk

  - Cornetto

  - How to approach learning a new instrument

Contact me, michaelhawes91@gmail.com or 248-860-6163, if you’d like to learn more, or discuss further. Cheers, and thank you all!