Jana Kaminsky

Hi! My name is Jana Kaminsky and I am a experienced violin teacher with a studio aged four to 78. I am eager for more violinists to join me and my 20+ other students to learn together and build a community. I hold three online recitals a year, and support students being in contact with each other because sometimes you learn best from your peers. Alongside the big community, all my students learn basics such as good intonation, tone, shifting, vibrato, and double stops. I like to encourage all of you to have big goals, knowing that violin takes time and lots of TLC to learn. Outside of teaching, I am a professional violinist playing with the Greenville Symphony, the Venice Symphony, and the Palm Beach Symphony. I hold a bachelors, masters, and post masters degree in violin performance from McGill University and Indiana University, and am an avid chamber musician as well as play solo recitals and record newly written works. Teaching students is inspiring to me, because my students often are so eager to learn, and this eagerness and hard work pushes me to keep learning as well.

Whether you are a retired adult looking for a hobby, or a parent of a kid who you'd like to introduce violin to, you have come to the right place. My teaching style is all about making the experience with your violin a fun but fruitful time. I like to joke around all the time with my students, I really get to know them, but I also like to know that this hobby is being taken seriously. My students learn violin skills through various genres of music including classical, jazz, pop, hymnal, and even old time country/blue grass. Starting my youngest students with a standard approach such as the Suzuki method offers them the opportunity to grow as violinists at a high level by building a strong foundation, and allowing my adult students the freedom to choose what they like to learn gives the motivation and support such a hobby requires with a busy schedule