I would thoroughly recommend Lois as a music teacher. I have been to clarinet lessons with Lois for about 18 months. I was a very mature learner and almost a beginner at playing the clarinet when I started lessons with Lois. She has been very encouraging and has a lot of patience and perseverance. She is always on time with lessons and always finishes the lesson on a positive note so that I always come away feeling I have done as well as I can. She also takes an interest in other musical events in which I have been involved in the village and the church and has been very encouraging in all that I do. I certainly feel more confident in my playing having had Lois as a teacher.

Edna

Lois’s lessons were always lots of fun, and this inspired me to take my clarinet playing further. Lois taught me for several years, starting with me having just done my grade 5 Theory and practical and finishing with me passing grade 7. Lois really helped me become a good clarinet player. When I first started having lessons we used to do a lot of technical exercises, looking back this was really good as I had never really concentrated on my technical ability and Lois managed to pick up on this fact in my first couple of lessons making her teaching methods effective to me as an individual. Whilst Lois was teaching me the clarinet I decided to take my grade 4 Alto Saxophone, so I asked Lois to give me a couple of lessons on the Saxophone. It turns out that Lois wasn’t just good at teaching the Clarinet but the Saxophone as well! Lois also started to teach me my grade 8 pieces for clarinet, before she left York, which I got a merit in this November. I wouldn’t have been able to do it without her support. I’m currently playing the clarinet and saxophone (alto and baritone) in bands with a wide variety of genres as well as on my own. I would thoroughly recommend Lois as a teacher.

Matt