David Mihaly has been teaching music for thirty years in New Jersey, New York, and San Francisco, California. He gives one on one lessons on the drum set, the guitar, the bass, the marimba, and the piano. He also conducts workshops and groups and is an experienced classroom teacher and clinician. He has taught students aged three through 68, using a mixture of Suzuki methodology, musical notation, listening studies, improvising, sound tracing, and transcriptions of music that motivate each individual student. He teaches in his S.F. studio or in your home. Please email me concerning rates, location and other queries or call 415 387-4132.

Mihaly earned a B.A. in Music Theory and History, and a B.A. in Psychology from Drew University, as well as studying with Andrew Cyrille and Barry Altschul in Manhattan, and Jack Van der Wyck and Zakir Hussain in the S.F. bay area. He has toured the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the South Pacific and written for jazz, rock, mixed genres, voice, and string quartets and been featured on many recordings as a performer and a composer. Music has many positive values. Enjoy.