Cello Lessons in San Diego

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Eric Moore
Cello Teacher in San Diego

 

Eric Moore | Cello Teacher

Hey there! I'm excited that you're interested in cello lessons in San Diego (or online).

  • Full-time cello teacher since 2010

  • Over 15,000 hours taught

  • Other cello teachers use my cello method, Cellosophy

  • I currently train professionals on 3 continents, including a college cello professor, through my advanced online technique course

  • I co-edited a technique book that has been required at Juilliard and the University of Michigan for 10 years.

  • My high school students won cello positions with La Jolla Symphony and Grossmont Symphony

  • My students have majored in Cello Performance, Composition, Conducting, and Music Education

  • I’ve taught online cello lessons since 2013

  • Outside of my studio of 15 students in San Diego, I currently teach 8 students online in Boston, Chicago, DC, New York, the SF Bay Area (3)

 

My Cello Method

The Cellosophy Method, used by teachers across the country

 
 

My Current Cello Studio

  • I work with a select group of 24 cello students

  • More than half are adults, many had no musical experience

  • I teach kids (age 7+)

  • I teach absolute beginners & I train professionals

  • My students have played with:
    La Jolla Symphony & Chorus | Grossmont Symphony | North Coast String Orchestra | Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra | UC San Diego Chamber Orchestra | Napa Valley Youth Symphony | Santa Rosa Youth Symphony | New Youth Orchestra | San Diego Youth Symphony | Mainly Mozart Youth Orchestra | San Diego Civic Youth Orchestra

  • I have 5 kiddos enrolled in local youth orchestras, including one who is the section principal

 

I teach in Hillcrest / Mission Hills

 
 
 

Rates

Traditional 1-hour lesson | 200
or
Monthly Tuition | 600
Includes:

  • 4 Weekly 1-hour lessons

  • 1 Monthly 1-hour performance class

  • 1 Monthly 1-hour masterclass

  • Semester recital

  • All 15 method books from Cellosophy

  • Cellosophy reference videos

  • Guided practice videos

  • Masterclass video archive

  • Listening playlists

In the case of extreme financial hardship, scholarships may be available.

 

FAQ

 

  • If you have a cello already, that’s fine. However, I recommend The Violin Shop in Encinitas. They have the best cellos in the area and a rent-to-own program. You’ll need to schedulle an appt.

    https://www.theviolinshopsandiego.com/

  • 60 minutes. For a beginner, we’ll do scales, two pieces of music, technique work, sight-reading, music theory, rhythm workbook and exercises with a metronome. That’s a lot of stuff!

  • Awesome, I love helping adults learn music. It seems like most of my adults practice 30 minutes a day most days of the week. If you can commit to that, you’ll see regular progress.

  • I use my own comprehensive cello method, Cellosophy. Cellosophy is used by cello teachers around the country.

    Cellosophy eventually includes the Popper Etudes, which I co-edited with my teacher (University of Michigan, The Juilliard School).

    I now teach a year-long course to professionals across the world on those etudes.

  • Yes. My rates are discounted for each half hour beyond the normal hour.

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  • I’m uniquely qualified to teach the cello. I co-edited a 70-page advanced technique book (the Popper Etudes) with my teacher, who is now on faculty at the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School and is the most applied-to cello teacher in the US. We did almost 20 drafts of that book, discussing pedagogy at the highest level.

    With that insight, I backwards-engineered my own 15-volume cello method which is so successful that teachers across the country use it. I’ve taught using my method for over 15,000 hours.

    The last time one individual made a method anywhere close to this comprehensive, it was the 1950’s - the Suzuki Method. It was only 10 volumes, didn’t include note-reading, composition, improvisation, lead sheets, videos, and didn’t include music written after 1890 (except brief studies by Suzuki himself).

    Now I’ve released a year-long online course on those Popper Etudes. The first two cohorts that I accepted include conservatory-trained professionals and a college professor. All of them have started implementing my ideas in their practice and with their own students and they’ve all had dramatic results.

    And last, I’m a performer at the highest level. I specialize in performing the most difficult new works of classical music - I’m likely the first person in the world to have taught many of those difficult works to my own students.