Our Teachers
Jennifer Aradhyula
Director & Instructor
Jennifer Aradhyula, Director and Instructor
Ms. Jennifer founded Keynote Piano Studio in 2007, after completing a Master of Music in Piano Performance and Pedagogy at SMU. Since then, KPS has been operating at full capacity with a 2+ year wait list.
Jennifer began studying piano at the age of 3 under the tutelage of a master Suzuki teacher in Louisville, KY. During the summers, Jennifer’s training was accelerated as she performed in master classes given by Haruko Kataoka who was responsible for adapting the Suzuki violin method to piano. However, at the age of 12, Jennifer transferred to a non-Suzuki teacher, thus gaining experience as a student of both traditional and non-traditional methods of teaching.
In 2005, Jennifer became the recipient of a full scholarship and a Teaching Fellowship at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. Jennifer’s teaching responsibilities included undergraduate class piano for music majors and non-majors, private lessons for undergraduate non-majors, private lessons and group lessons for pre-college students. While at SMU, Jennifer gave a lecture-recital on three composers, Muzio Clementi, Claude Debussy and Erik Satie, based on primary research conducted at the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris; performed a solo piano recital including works by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms and Rzewski; and presented a lecture-recital by invitation at the McGill Music Graduate Symposium at McGill University in Montreal. Jennifer was nominated by her professors and chosen to receive the Music Teacher’s National Association StAR award for excellence in piano performance and pedagogy.
Chiara La Ferla
Instructor
Chiara La Ferla, Instructor
“A life without music is a life without soul.”
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Chiara graduated at the secondary school specializing in classical studies in Italy. She started her musical education in piano when she was seven years old. During her musical career she achieved her Master degree in piano performance, the license of musical theory, harmony and history of music.
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She took part as an accompanist pianist in many musical theatrical representations about Spanish and Russian cultures and performed in many masterclasses given by important artists such as Homero Francesch, Roberto Bianco, Epifanio Comis, Violetta Egorova and Daniele Petralia. During the week of the International Piano Fest in Subotica (Serbia) she performed a solo recital for the Chopin International Piano Fest - Electe.
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She has taught piano lessons for more than 15 years and has worked in several school projects and events organized by local institutions. Winner of the 5th European Musical Performance Competition in Sicily, she also took part to meeting about “Music therapy applied” and worked as piano accompanist of the famous Italian opera singer Marcello Giordani.
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She moved to the US from Italy and is enjoying making her home in the North Dallas area.
She is an active member of DMTA and collaborates as a teacher with Collora Piano in Dallas.