"THE SOUND IS YOU"

Ferenc’s teaching methods are based on the Kodaly Method of Music Education.

Ferenc Juhasz studied classical clarinet and music education at the Zoltan Kodaly Conservatory of Music in Debrecen, Hungary. During this time, he performed as a classical clarinetist with the conservatory’s Symphony Orchestra as well as with the Csokonay Theater in Debrecen. After completing his education in Debrecen, he taught classical clarinet at the Lajos Bardos Public Schoolin Fehergyarmat, Hungary to middle through high school aged students and during this time also became interested in the music of jazz. With the help of his very first music teacher, Béla Bárány, he traded in his clarinet for a saxophone and learned how to play it practicing in city streets for change from passer-bys. Formal education of jazz saxophone and popular music followed at the Felix Mendelssohn Conservatory for Music and Theaterin Leipzig, Germany. While studying there he also taught all levels of jazz saxophone, clarinet, and flute as well as beginner’s piano to private music students. During this time period, Mr. Juhasz experimented with various forms of jazz-based performance (jazz standards, bee-bop, free jazz, bossa-nova and Latin American music, improvisational music). This diversity, combined with his earlier education in classical music, is now reflected in his teaching of and interest in all types of music. He has been teaching in the greater New York area of the USA for the past two years.

“After all one can live without music. There is a way even across the desert. But we, who are working that every child should get the key to good music, and with it a talisman against bad music, we don’t want them to walk their path of life like those wandering through the desert but like those passing through blooming flower gardens.”

– Zoltán Kodály –

"THE SOUND IS YOU"

* MUSIC LESSONS *

The Kodaly Method