Take Singing Lessons and Piano Lessons with Patrick Jang and Neighbour Note

Neighbour Note truly does have the best of the best music teachers on faculty. Two Neighbour Note teachers won a Juno Award and one Neighbour Note music teacher was nominated for a Juno Award. Ten Neighbour Note teachers have completed a PhD or DMA in music while thirty-nine Neighbour Note teachers have completed a Master's degree. Seventy-one teachers at Neighbour Note have completed Bachelor's degrees in music, education, art, and science. Not only are Neighbour Note teachers highly educated and awarded, they are also extremely talented and passionate about performing music, composing music, and teaching.

Patrick Jang is also an exceptional teacher. He holds multiple university degrees in music and law. Patrick completed a Master of Music degree in Opera Performance from the University of Toronto Opera School. He completed a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from the University of Western Ontario and a Juris Doctorate degree from Queen's University. Not only is Patrick an accomplished performer, he is also a national scholar. Patrick has been awarded a Canadian Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and a National Excellence Award from the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation. In terms of performance credits, Patrick has performed roles with Opera Atelier, Toronto Operetta Theatre,Toronto Summer Lyric Theatre, the Tanglewood Music Festival (Boston Symphony Orchestra), the Bel Canto Institute (Florence, Italy), and the Aspen Music Festival (as a winner of the 2009 concerto competition). He has performed in concerts and operas throughout Canada, the United States, and Italy, and has studied law in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Patrick has performed multiple seasons with the Canadian Vocal Arts Festival, Opera NUOVA, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity's Opera as Theatre program. Patrick is a gifted Tenor who loves to sing! He has a beautiful Tenor voice and has the ability to captivate an audience when he sings and performs.

Patrick is an elementary school French teacher and also teaches private French and Italian language lessons to students who want to become multi-lingual or bi-lingual. In addition to teaching languages, Patrick also teaches private music lessons in singing and piano in Toronto with Neighbour Note. Patrick's singing and piano lessons are always fun and educational.

Patrick's teaching philosophy is as follows: Patrick believes in a comprehensive approach to music education. He believes above all else that students should feel excited about learning music. So as much as rigorous practice and disciplined exercise do yield excellent results, Patrick always makes sure his students are having fun too. Patrick teaches with an interdisciplinary approach meaning that he builds musicianship and artistry into his teaching alongside with solid pedagogical techniques that reference the latest in brain science. Good teaching is about calculated inquiry and collaboration. Patrick's students seem to learn best when guided through a process of discovery. Patrick teaches his students to be active listeners and to delve into their own process of inquiry. He wants them to eventually know themselves to be their best and for him to be their trusted guide.