Sam Ng

Bottomline: I have been a college music educator for over 20 years. 

1. I can help you learn and master the content for all kinds of music theory exams: AP (USA); ABRSM (UK); RCM(CAN), etc. 

2. I love teaching classical piano, especially if you already have a few years of classical piano under your belt and would like to get to a more advanced level.

Here is a more detailed credential of mine:

Sam Ng, Associate Professor, is a music theorist specializing in tonal phrase rhythm, classical instrumental forms, metrical issues in Brahms’s music, Schenkerian studies, and the relationship between analysis and performance. At CCM, Dr. Ng regularly teaches courses on tonal theory,  rhythm and meter, form and analysis, and a seminar on analysis and performance. His research and reviews have appeared in Music Theory Spectrum, Indiana Theory Review, Theory and Practice, Music Theory Online, Intégral, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, and Nineteenth-Century Music Review. His book chapter titled "On the Oddness of Brahms's Five-Measure Phrases" is published in Brahms and the Shaping of Time by the University of Rochester Press. Ng has given papers at national and regional conferences, including Society for Christian Scholarship in Music, Society for Music Theory, Music Theory Society of New York State, Music Theory Southeast, the Society of Music Perception and Cognition. 

As a pianist, Ng has earned licentiates in piano performance from the Royal School of Music, London (LRSM), and from the Trinity College of Music, London (LTCL). He has previously taught music theory at the Eastman School of Music, Eastman Community Music School, Hochstein School of Music, and Louisiana State University.

Ng is the recipient of the Teacher Appreciation Award from Louisiana State University, the Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award from the Music Theory Society of New York State, Alfred Mann Dissertation Award and Raymond Ball Dissertation fellowship from the University of Rochester, and the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the Eastman School of Music.

I am a listener and an encourager. I listen carefully to your playing and your ideas about the music, and I encourage you to take ownership of your practice and growth in your understanding of and love for the music.