Experienced tutor in Piano in Flint, Russ offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

He’s very encouraging of my son and flexible. He’s willing to show him new things outside of traditional written music. He’s easy going and laid back, always a pleasure to work with.

Russ has been a great teacher. My daughter has been taking lessons from him for over a year. She loves going to her lesson every week. She has learned so much with him. He has the right balance of humor and seriousness that works great for keeping attention and teaching. My daughter has learned so much and even wrote her own song! I highly recomend him for a teacher.

I liked that Russ was fun. I got to practice with the owner once and he was really fun and think Russ would get some ideas from him on how to be even more fun! But Russ doesn't have kids I don't think and the owner has a lot of kids. Ha ha. I really liked the day I was on the drums and the teacher was on the piano and we made a song. I think Russ was a great teacher. - Madalyn 12yo

We loved that Russ was friendly and professional during his time as Maddys teacher. Madalyn was really nervous to be alone with a man so for half the lessons someone was always with her. Russ was compassionate and never made Madalyn feel out of place. After awhile she was confident enough to stay by herself during class. She improved leaps and bounds in 15 lessons. Madalyn is really shy and we were so excited to see how much fun she had stepping out at the recital with her duet with Russ. We can't wait to return in the fall! We highly recommend Russell and would give 5 stars!

I liked that we had fun together during our drum lessons and that helped me not be scared at the recital and did dance moves with me. - Michael Williams 10yo

From a professional standpoint I always appreciated that Russ was easy to communicate with and we were able to keep in constant contact when needed. Michael's father and I loved that Russ went above and beyond during the recital to showcase the creative fun side of our son. We would highly recommend Russ as an instructor. - Larry and Jessica Williams

He has a very calming demeanor. Very well at explaining lessons. Although I haven’t asked he seems to have knowledge of multiple instruments. My granddaughter says, “he gets me”, so he makes her feel comfortable and confident in what she’s learning. Works really well with students.

He is awesome musician very patient teacher, make you feel very comfortable in every music lesson, and you learn a lot I recommend Russ 100%

I like that my boys enjoy going to lessons. They talk about Russ at home all the time. They like that Russ plays with them (like it's a jam session). As a mom, I like that Russ keeps in contact with me and keeps me updated with how things are going and if lesson is canceled. I also like to hear comments from my boys like, "Wow he's a rock star. I want to play guitar like him and have that long hair." We plan on continuing lessons with Russ.

I very rarely write reviews and even more rarely give 5 stars, but we could not possibly be more satisfied with Russ. He is fantastic and really works well with our son who has a tendency to be really hard on himself. Russ always brings him back to a calm place and has really instilled a love of music in him.