Long Island Violin Lessons
Providing Suzuki classes and traditional private lessons
with professional violinist and educator, Gergana Haralampieva
About your teacher gergana
Gergana Haralampieva is an active professional violinist, educator, and co-founder of Long Island Chamber Music. Gergana has earned degrees from Curtis Institute of Music and New England Conservatory. She has performed throughout the United States and internationally as a chamber musician and soloist. Most recently, Gergana was a fellow at Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect. Through Long Island Chamber Music, Gergana performs regularly at local venues across Long Island and works in public school’s orchestra programs providing residencies and workshops through Nassau and Eastern Suffolk BOCES Arts-in-Ed.
Gergana is a dedicated and passionate teacher who enjoys personalizing her approach to each individual student. Her students regularly receive the highest marks at NYSSMA, attend all-county and all-state festivals, and are successful with auditions and competitions for pre-college and college programs.
About Our Suzuki program
We provide students with in-person group classes and private online lessons for children ages 4 - 6 utilizing the Suzuki method for the violin. We currently offer Pre-Twinkle classes and NYSSMA-Prep/Suzuki combination classes.
In-person group classes meet weekly on Saturdays at Christ Lutheran Church in East Northport, NY. We maintain comparatively small group class sizes of between 3 and 6 students affording each student more individual attention. Our 30-minute online private lessons are one-on-one sessions that will be scheduled between Gergana and the parent based on mutual availability.
Parents will join their children at both in-person group classes and private online lessons as active participants.
Please note that we only offer online private lessons and believe that a hybrid model of in-person group classes and online private lessons makes music lessons more accessible to busy families.
What is the suzuki method?
Japanese violinist, Dr. Shinichi Suzuki observed that children all over the world learn to speak their native language with ease from a young age. He applied the basic principles of learning a language to learning the violin. The ideas of parent encouragement, learning to play first by ear, and consistent repetition are some of the special qualities of the Suzuki method.
How to get started
Our parent information session will be on Saturday, September 17th at Christ Lutheran Church in East Northport, NY. Classes will begin on September 24th, 2022.
Please contact Gergana to sign-up, reserve a spot at the parent information session, or with any questions you might have at: gergana@lichambermusic.com or by using the form below.
About our traditional private lessons
Long Island Violin Lessons provides traditional private lessons for violinists of all skill levels and ages. Lessons are highly individualized to the level and needs of each student. Students regularly receive the highest marks at NYSSMA, attending all-county and all-state festivals and are successful with auditions and competitions for pre-college and college programs.
Lessons are available in person at Gergana’s private home studio in Commack, NY, and online over Zoom. Online lessons can be done on a tablet or laptop without any extra equipment.
To request more information including lesson rates and availability, please contact Gergana by email at gergana@lichambermusic.com or use the form above.