Instructor Profile - Scott Milner
Scott Milner has been performing, teaching and studying music for over forty years. He holds Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D degrees in
music and is a certified music teacher in Montana and Pennsylvania. He has taught guitar at the prestigious CAPA High School for the Performing Arts in Pittsburgh and performed widely with the folk-duo, Milner & Kobertz. He has sung as a soloist and with symphony choruses and select choirs on the stages of Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, and at the Symphony Halls of Boston and Pittsburgh.
Born and raised in Hamilton, Scott now makes his home with his wife, Miriam, in the Flint Creek Valley, at Hall, Montana. Scott has played in garage bands since middle school, and is currently performing as a solo artist.
Scott Milner’s compact disc recordings: Tracks and Ties (Milner & Kobertz), Haven’t lost a Thing, and Riding to Montana (with brothers Eric and Kelsey) are available at music stores and on the web at CDbaby.com.
My musical philosophy:
Developing musicality and skill with guitar and/or voice will provide a life-long source of enjoyment.
My teaching will help the student master the guitar for vocal accompaniment, or as a solo instrument, or as an effective part of an ensemble.
Strong technique is a key to achieving confidence in the singing voice in any setting.
Study Guitar
Impress your listeners with a wide range of styles: “Hank Williams to Cole Porter to BB King to Mel Bay and back”
Acoustic or electric flat-picking
Facility with solo and ensemble techniques
Play in upper positions with flexibility and ease
Play smooth, fast and fluidly
Read music on the guitar
Create effective accompaniments
Master the fingerboard through scales and chord structure
Study Voice
Sing artistically in English, German, French and Italian
Classical and Popular styles
Increase the range and power of your singing voice
Learn the technique of breath management to Improve your vocal quality and pitch
Master the secrets of “head voice” to improve range and flexibility
Comfortably blend or “take the stage”
Develop sight-singing and ear training
Other Instruments
Scott Milner is well qualified to teach woodwind, brass and percussion instruments, and also beginning to intermediate piano.
