DiCienzo Piano - Piano Lessons

Alessandra has been teaching since 1999 and maintains a full time music studio in Niagara Falls, Ontario where she teaches private piano lessons, theory and history from beginner to Associate level.  She is an instructor  at  Brock  University Department  of  Music,  an  examiner for Conservatory Canada, the  Provincial  Secretary-Registrar  for  the  Ontario  Registered  Music  Teachers’  Association, co-author of a beginner technique series Take Off! With Technique, workshop clinician and the organist/pianist for St. Patrick church.

Alessandra is a graduate of the University of Ottawa with a  Master of Arts  degree  and  Graduate Diploma in Piano Pedagogy Research, Western University with an Honours Bachelor of Music specialization in Music History, and has an ARCT in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music. Currently she is completing a PhD  in Interdisciplinary Research in Music at the University of Ottawa.  

In 2024  Alessandra  was the  recipient of  the  ORMTA  Contribution  to  Teaching  Award  and  in  2008  was awarded the Tom and Miggsie Lawson National Teacher Travel and Study Scholarship from Conservatory Canada where she was recognized as an outstanding teacher along with five others from across Canada.  She also gives  professional development workshops for teachers throughout Ontario.  Alessandra is a member of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers’ Association where she has held positions at the local and provincial level.

Alessandra loves to travel, read and takes voice and guitar lessons.  She enjoys the outdoors with her husband Calvin and their dogs Ruby and Poppy.