Tania Granata, piano, Music for Young Children™
TANIA teaches
- piano
- Music for Yong Children™
Tania began her musical studies at the age of 4 in Ottawa studying
with Sonia Pescatore. She excelled through the various young performing
arts clubs and participated in local, provincial and country wide
competitions winning top prizes, awards and scholarships. She continued
her studies at the University of Ottawa earning a Bachelor’s degree in
Music and Modern Languages. She also earned the Associateship of the
Royal Conservatory of Toronto in Piano Pedagogy and is passionate about
musical education.
She has performed as a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician for
many organizations and as an invited guest at the Italian Embassy and
the National Arts Centre. She has collaborated with many
internationally renowned musicians and composers such as Nancy Telfer,
Stephen Chatman and Christopher Norton who called her “a musically
sensitive player that is a true artist.” After completing her studies,
she was asked to come on as faculty at Camerata Music. She has been
recorded for the Ottawa Citizen as well as several voice and chamber
music CD’s.
Tania is heavily involved with Contemporary Showcase Ottawa Carleton
for which she is the Centre Co-Coordinator, a position she has held for
the past 15 years. She has a love of most genres but is passionate
about the pursuit of Contemporary Canadian repertoire. She is Past
President of the Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Registered Teacher’s
Association and also chairs the annual Canada Music Week auditions and
recitals. She is also the past president of the Ottawa West Junior
Music Club as well as Chair of the Audition and Programming Committee
where she held that title for 10 years.
As well as teaching privately, Tania teaches the Music for Young
Children program, which is a group based program for beginners ages
3-10. She is a Certified Music for Young Children Teacher Trainer and
has travelled across North America training teachers on the MYC
philosophy. She is also the Assistant Co-coordinator for the Eastern
Ontario and Southern Ontario groups of teachers. She has given
workshops at various Piano Pedagogy Conferences across North America as
part of her passion for instilling a love of music in young children.
Tania has also been a judge for the past 15 years in the world’s
largest composition festival which is held in Kanata as part of the
Music for Young Children program.
Tania has accompanied for various instruments and ballet studios
throughout Ontario and Quebec but has focused on accompanying for voice
students and professional singers. In 2012 she was the Musical Director
for You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown. In 2015, she was the pianist for
the touring production of La Bohème through Ottawa’s Bytown Operantics,
Toronto’s Opera by Request and Sudbury’s Theatre Cambrian series.
Recently she has been studying with Thomas Muraco, Professor of Vocal
Accompaniment with the Manhattan School of Music in NYC. In 2016, she
co-founded the South Ottawa Performing Arts Collaborative with her
business partner, Ottawa-born soprano Morgan Strickland, which is a
multi-genre performing platform and they are currently in their second
season of programming.
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