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  in  the   Department  of  Music,   an  examiner for Conservatory Canada and is  the  Provincial  Secretary-Registrar  for  the  Ontario  Registered  Music  Teachers’  Association.  Alessandra graduated from 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 pursuing a PhD  in the Interdisciplinary Research in Music program at the University of Ottawa.  She  is  also  an  ORMTA  workshop  clinician and  is the organist/pianist for St. Patrick  Church in Niagara Falls where she accompanies two choirs.

Along with fellow colleague Rebecca Goode, Alessandra is the co-author of the beginner piano technique series Take Off! With Technique.  For more information please visit: www.takeoffwithtechnique.com.

In 2008, Alessandra 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 currently a member of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers’ Association where she has held positions at the local and provincial level.

When not practicing jiu jitsu, Alessandra spends time with her husband Calvin and their sheepdogs Scarlett and Ruby.