I have been working with Dr. Steve Fiess of High Range Piano for the last 10 months as an adult piano student, and I have been extremely satisfied with his instruction. I have been making great progress, and I've been improving faster than I have in the past with other teachers. Overall, Steve is a quiet, calm, all-around kind person. He is always encouraging, even when offering constructive criticism of my playing. I always look forward to my next lesson. After each lesson, I leave feeling good about my playing, and also like I received good feedback, so I know where I need to improve. Steve has been great at helping me select songs to play. As we move on to new pieces, the next one is always just the right difficulty--challenging enough to help me progress but always within reach with a little bit of work. He's also always open to me bringing in pieces that I want to work on. I usually bring a few in, and he helps me decide which piece will be the best fit for my current skills. Steve's depth and breadth of piano knowledge is also impressive. I often ask him questions about why a particular piece is written a particular way or some other detail about a piece. He always has a thorough answer that covers the relevant areas of music history, theory, and practice. I've never met another piano teacher who is so knowledgeable about the piano and piano music. It really helps to give some context to the music I'm playing and helps me understand it better. Overall, I've been very pleased, and I would not hesitate to recommend High Range Piano to anyone looking for a piano teacher. read more

My husband and I have been in the adult group for many years (7 for me and 10 for my husband). Steve and Neal are extremely gifted musicians and as teachers they are patient and kind. They instill in all of their students a love for music. If there is a piece I want to play because it speaks to my heart, they will find the music and help me learn it. When my left hand was injured and unable to play for over a year, Neal played the left hand of my pieces and later when I had the use of that hand back, we continued to incorporate duets and a trio (with my sister on the violin) into our music lessons. They knit all of the adult students together in adult studio class, an informal pot luck at which we played for each other. It has been wonderful. We are continuing with on line lessons and adult studio class by Skype. read more

My child has studied piano with Dr. Fiess for more than four years. We are completely satisfied with Dr. Fiess's teaching. My child has learned a lot from Dr. Fiess and made tremendous progress in the last few years, not only in piano performance skills but also in piano theory and music history in general. Indeed, Dr. Fiess is a mater piano educator. He holds a doctoral degree in piano education, very rare among piano teachers. Dr. Fiess has comprehensive knowledge of piano composers and knows most of the popular piano pieces. Based on a student's level, he can immediately create a list of piano pieces most fitting for the student's level. Dr. Fiess has taught all levels of students, from beginner to middle levels, and college levels. He is very patient, soft talking, and has the sharpest ear to tell the problems. He has the magic ability to teach students how to play the piano correctly from the very beginning. Dr. Fiess is also very kind and generous, frequently praises students for their progress and achievements. Under his teaching, students are motivated to learn more and perform better. As a tradition, all the students are gathering together to do a recital every half a year and participating in various local and national performance contests, such as Guild. In addition to being a piano teacher, Dr. Fiess is also an excellent piano performer and even a piano composer. We have listened to Dr. Fiess's performance on Liszt piano pieces several times at a local church for the charity fundraising. We are amazed by such a high-quality performance, just as good as those performed by a master pianist. Dr. Fiess has composed many piano pieces. We have listened to some students who played his piano pieces, truly wonderful and beautiful melodic pieces. During the recent pandemic period, even though we can not send the child to Dr. Fiess's home to face-to-face learning, we continue the online learning. Thanks to the Zoom platform, online learning is incredibly easy, convenient, and equally efficient. This is an especially good time for a schoolchild to learn the piano, as the child has more free time, and learning music can help them concentrate and move away from the endless cell phone, game, and computer screen time. We are fortunate to have Dr. Fiess as our child's piano teacher and truly recommend Dr. Fiess to anyone who is looking for a great piano teacher. read more