Music Room

 

444 Borden Road
Cheektowaga, NY 14224
716-668-5441

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Music Classes From Home

On demand, specialized advanced music courses for students, music majors and even teachers, looking to hone their skills.
 

Instructor Bios

Karen Janiszewski:
Karen (or Kay) has been the owner of Music Room since 2013.  She has a Bachelor's of Music Education from Mansfield University and a Master's of Music Education from Carnegie Mellon University.  She was the General Music and Choral teacher at St. Mary's Elementary School for four years after college until she became the owner of Music Room, where she has been teaching ever since!  Her primary instruments are piano, viola and violin, but has experience teaching all band and orchestra instruments.  Other interests include camping, gardening, writing and music arranging, dance and other performing arts experiences as a volunteer for various non-profits.

Rebecca Kayorie: Becky is one of the resident voice teachers at Music Room, also teaching piano and violin. She also works as a Piano Tuner throughout Western New York. Becky studied Voice in her undergraduate program at The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. She later received a dual master’s degree in Elementary and Special Education from D’Youville College and achieved her NYS teacher certification. Before joining the staff at Music Room, Becky taught Music and Theater at a program for individuals with disabilities. Becky likes collecting and learning to play new instruments. Her favorites are the piano, violin, saxophone, pipe organ, recorder, guitar, trombone, trumpet, accordion, etc. Actually, it’s impossible for her to choose!

Brendan Long: Brendan has been an instructor at Music Room since 2016.  He has a Bachelor's degree in Music Theory and Composition as well as a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the Univerity at Buffalo.  His primary instruments are guitar, bass guitar, ukulele and piano.  Brendan also enjoys the use of technology in music and enjoys making people laugh with creative variations and arrangements of famous songs!

Angela Cwiklinski: Angela is one of the resident woodwind specialists here at Music Room! She also teaches brass, piano, and percussion, and is an instrument repair tech! She completed Villa Maria College's B.A. in Music program, where she focused on oboe and piano, as well as music theory. She has worked there as a peer tutor, professional tutor, and embedded tutor, assisting students with music theory and teaching supplemental music fundamentals classes on her own. Angela loves to tackle as many aspects of music as possible, from teaching, performing, composing and arranging, repairing and flipping instruments, and learning as many instruments as she can!

What is Uplevel U Music?


Uplevel U is a new department that Music Room is offering to advanced students, advanced musicians that are not currently students, college music major, and even current music teachers!


Sometimes there's an upper level skill that you want to learn that there just isn't time for in lessons or in a curriculum, but is still really important.


Our staff at Music Room has a really diverse skill set in music, meaning, we know a lot of weird stuff that you don't see all the time!  And for those that value these skills and topics, it can be hard to find proper instruction for these things. 


Take songwriting for example.  There's a lot to know, but it strays from most curricula so much that how do you begin to learn it?  Or even better, how can you teach it to your own students in an efficient way?


That's where Uplevel U Music comes in.  Click the button below to access our growing catalog of music courses that you can take at home, in a self-paced online format. 

Course Offerings:


  • How to Teach Songwriting to the Inspired Student
  • How to Increase Retention in Your Music Program
  • How to Teach Musicality and Expression 

AND MORE ARE COMING SOON!


It's okay if you aren't a teacher (or a teacher yet), because you can still learn the system that a teacher would use to make it simple for someone new at the topic. 




Click below to begin your next musical journey: