Edward Nemirovsky

I’ve been taking piano lessons from Edward for almost 3 years now, and I have to say he is a truly inspirational, passionate teacher. Before meeting him, I took lessons from another teacher in the city through a Groupon deal, which turned out so disastrously that I didn’t even finish using the package. Fortunately I stumpled upon Edward’s website after googling and calling around, and have been a happy student since. Considerations I took for giving him 5 stars–
Quality of lessons: Edward is an amazing piano player himself (you’d think that’s a given but trust me, my first teacher wasn’t), and is willing to work with many different styles of playing. He incorporates a good amount of technical work (through scales, etudes, etc) into building up your repertorie. I wanted to play a couple of Chinese pop pieces, and he very patiently worked on those with me along with the more classical pieces he suggested.
Pricing: $ 50/​hour for adult students who go to his home studio in Long Island City, but he always wants to get through all of your material and doesn’t mind going over the hour mark if he doesn’t have another student coming (at no additional charge).
Flexibility: Unlike most teachers/​programs that require you to take lessons weekly, Edward will accommodate your work schedule. I started off with weekly lessons but found that I didn’t have enough time to practice in between, so I cut back to bi-​weekly lessons the second year. My work got more hectic recently and now we’re operating on an ad-​hoc basis where I simply email him when I have time to go (averaging once a month).
The only minor consideration is that he hasn’t done any rehearsals (as far as I’m aware), so maybe you wouldn’t get the same exposure to group performance as you would at a more formalized music program. This wasn’t at all important for me though, and I’m sure he would have been willing to work something out with me if it had been.

Edward Nemirovsky is a Master piano teacher and one of the best I have found throughout my long musical career. To add to that, the prices are more than reasonable and fair in this competitive New York Market. You get what you pay for and much more in my opinion. I first met Edward during my search for a piano teacher who could assist with me working through some technical inconsistencies and weaknesses that I believed were holding me back from taking a graduate level piano accompaniment class at Westminster Choir College that I wanted to pursue in the fall of 2012.
From our first lesson, and in each and every subsequent lesson, Edward was masterful in balancing the technical work required with the artistic aspirations of an adult student who needed to make up lost ground in order to participate in a class comprised of graduate piano performance and piano accompaniment majors. As the only non-​piano major in the class at Westminster, it was remarkable to see how my private work with Edward each week produced tangible results. He not only kept me afloat and inspired me to not give up by working toward manageable ends to overcome technical deficiencies, but I also managed to come out of the class with an ‘A’. While I understand that I put in the work, I can say without any reservation whatsoever, that I could not have done so without Edward’s tireless help. Edward’s command of piano skills, his penetrating insight, his deep knowledge and his ability to motivate his students is what sets him apart from other piano teachers that I have had previously. Thanks to Edward, I feel like a true artist albeit one who still needs much development and practice. With Edward’s help, I am confident that I will continue to refine my technical skills and deepen my sensitivity and emotional response to any music put before me. Edward is an exemplary MASTER teacher so it is without reservation that I recommend him to any student looking to discover the exuberance and joy of playing the piano.