Meet Your Teacher
Miss Amanda
A good piano teacher can professionally inspire the student
“It is the right of every citizen to be taught the basic elements of music, to be handed the key with which he can enter the locked world of music. To open the ear and heart of the millions to understand music poses a serious challenge…”
-Zoltán Kodály
About Amanda R. Davis
Royale Piano — a piano instruction service created by Amanda Davis.
After many years of training and experiences, Royale Piano has established itself as a premier provider of high-quality piano lessons and private instruction across the West Coast and beyond. Guided by a teaching philosophy that integrates both the Kodály and Suzuki methods, along with many other teaching techniques, Miss Amanda empowers students with tools and strategies that help develop and deepen knowledge, ingenuity, imagination while fostering a growth mindset. She remains committed to helping students learn how to access their creative intelligence, build strong musicianship and achieve academic success.
ABOUT MY BACKGROUND — I grew up during the start of the 90’s in San Jose and started my formal training at age 4 in classical and jazz piano at a Russian piano school called Almaden School of Music. I was also deeply involved in singing at this age, performing with my youth group and church congregation.
After 7 years of piano lessons, I started high school and became highly involved in performance and theater arts. A few years later, my family relocated to Murrieta in Southern California. During this time, I began to develop a repertoire of video game music, practicing more advanced, modern techniques on piano. I also began writing original pop compositions, character songs, love songs, comedy sketches, finales, atmospheric scores and sound bites— many created in the moment, shared only with my friends.
In 2011 after starting my first year in college, my piano teacher offered me a job at a piano teaching company called Keyboard Educators. It was there when I started my music teaching career at age 20, receiving mentorship and guidance by music teachers at San Francisco State, as well as other esteemed music educators and formally trained musicians from institutions such as University of Southern California (USC), the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Juilliard.
During a period of transition and personal reflection, I decided to move back home to be closer to my family. In 2014, I transferred to Cal State San Marcos and began offering private piano lessons, teaching to students of all ages throughout San Diego and Riverside County.
After graduating in 2017 with a Bachelor’s in Visual Performing Arts & Music Technology, I moved to the vibrant, indie arts community of Portland to explore new professional opportunities, build a new chapter for my family, and possibly restart my teaching practice. I was contracted as a piano teacher at a private Christian school, and soon after, I began expanding my own private teaching practice and music education business. Since then, it has been such a privilege to give piano lessons and teach music to hundreds of children and adults in churches, private and public schools, daycares and homes throughout Portland.
I absolutely love teaching and working with kids, as well as all ages. My professional goal is to continually refine my teaching approach and curriculum, making learning the piano always as easy, simple, affordable and enjoyable as possible for everyone.
