Olivia
Founder of Allegro Music,
Piano & Violin Instructor
Olivia is an award winning Musician and Certified Teacher through the Royal Conservatory of Music. She studied Music at Wilfrid Laurier University and at the University of Waterloo. She has taught hundreds of students over the past 20 years including both children and adults. She has won many prestigious awards through the Kitchener-Waterloo Record Reader's Choice Awards, the Guelph Mercury, Cambridge Times, and in her local Community. She enjoys sharing her passion for music with her students and working with them through their musical journey. She prepares modern day repertoire working from the Internationally Acclaimed Wunderkeys Method Books, Suzuki Violin, RCM, Faber Piano Adventures to keep students engaged in learning and so they enjoy the material they are working on.
Natalia
Voice, Piano, Guitar, Ukulele Teacher
Natalia is a graduate of Randolph College for the Performing Arts where she received intensive training in voice, acting, and dance.
After graduating she became a part of Toronto's musical theatre industry with credits including Sweeney Todd: In Concert, Hello, Dolly!, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Enchanting. She has also been on the hit T.V. series The Handmaid's Tale with an appearance on their Super Bowl commercial in 2019. She recently moved her work primarily into music composition and recording arts as a singer/songwriter and has dabbled in audio production. You can find her most recent music available on all streaming platforms under Natalia Zuk. As a member of The National Association of Teachers of Singing and The Pan American Vocology Association, she is incredibly passionate about staying on the cusp of new research and techniques within the study of vocal health and rehabilitation.
“In just over the past 10 years. New research has been redefining what we know as the vocal athlete and it’s incredibly important to work with coaches who continue their education after graduating as techniques are ever changing based on the vocal demand that exists in today’s industry. I am so excited to continue to keep bringing the joy of music, performance and even musical composition into my lessons. It’s really important to me that I show my students what they’re capable of.” - Natalia
Nicole
Voice, Piano, Guitar, Ukulele Teacher
Nicole is so excited to be a part of Allegro Music teaching vocal, piano, guitar and ukulele. Music and dance has been a passion of Nicole's since taking early childhood music programs and dance lessons at an early age. She regularly performs by auditioning for musical theatre productions and has participated in a variety of shows throughout her school career. She also has performed in Canadian Music League competitions and various parish events, and consistently was a part of school choirs. Nicole also completed exams through the Royal Conservatory Music with high standings. She is passionate in working with children and graduated from the Laurier Brantford and Nipissing University concurrent education program with Honours. Therefore, she has always been a lifelong learner, and eager about teaching and improving her instructional skills through professional development such as workshops and courses. She has completed her Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Arts with teachable subject qualifications in music and English. She is now an itinerant music teacher for the Waterloo Catholic District School Board and a member of the Ontario Music Educators Association (OMEA) and hopes to emphasize the importance of the arts in a well-rounded education for children throughout her teaching career.
Jan
Piano, Guitar, Bass, Accordion, Voice Teacher
Jan has his M.A. in Fine Arts from the Academy of Music in Gdansk, Poland. He graduated from Teacher’ s College in Warsaw with a music option and completed the course Koda’ly Method of teaching vocal music. He was a music professor and choir conductor at a high school, in Gdansk.
He was also for many years a bandleader on the passenger ship traveling from Europe to Montreal, New York, Canaries Islands and around the world. When he came to Toronto to visit his family he was invited to teach music in a private music school. He also completed the Koda”ly Music Education Program at the Faculty of Music at Wilfrid Laurier University, and Communication Technology for High School Teachers at the University of Western Ontario in London. He was a supply music teacher for many years for our local school boards and was also involved in our community radio station CKWR FM 98.5 broadcasting his polish radio program.