Music Teacher LA story of willpower and hard work
We are thrilled to invite our lovely Los Angeles community to celebrate with us this prominent date. Music Teacher LA celebrates 31 years in music teaching business! <3
Music Teaching is in our name! Music Teacher LA evolved and grew our Los Angeles community.
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Years 1991-2001
Our founder Olesya MacNeil graduated from the Soviet Union’s University with three Master’s Degrees in Music, Psychology and Pedagogy. She immigrated to the US and established the music school in 1991, naming it Olesya Piano Lessons.
In those years, Olesya taught children and adults herself. She taught children of Larry King, Billy Baldwin, Suzannah Grant and many other famous people in Los Angeles. Not to mention that the school was expanding exclusively through the word of mouth. The news of the amazing music teacher had spread throughout the Beverly Hills and Pacific Palisades areas.
Since October 1991, Olesya’s work has consisted of over 100 working hours per WEEK! The shift of 14-16 hours per day 7 days a week was a continuous part of her commitment to our Los Angeles community. The school quickly became popular and 52-53 weekly students became Olesya’s musical family. While creating the close ties with Los Angeles families, Olesya has started giving back to her local community.
Years 2001-2011
Overwhelmed by the demand and unable to let any student go, Olesya expanded the school. She hired the most qualified teachers in Los Angeles to provide lessons on other music instruments and named the school Music Teacher LA. Besides outstanding references, teaching credentials and extensive years of teaching, the newly hired instructors have been going through the training provided by Olesya. The training has ensured the excellence of teaching, delivery of the outstanding lessons, and satisfaction of LA families’ expectations.
Quickly, Los Angeles local schools started copying Olesya, using similar to Music Teacher LA business names.
Olesya created the website for Music Teacher LA. On her website, she provided resources to help families discover answers to their questions. The Music Teacher LA Student Library, Music Activities for Kids, and many other useful to musical families’ webpages were designed and published by Olesya.
Since that time, many schools were looking up to Olesya’s style of running business, her website, and her ideas for inspiration!
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Years 2011-2019
With the birth of Olesya’s firstborn, she took a break from personal teaching for 6 weeks. That change made her realize that she was more needed in the office to run, account, advertise, train teachers, support our students, and so much more! She then officially became part of the administrative team.
Olesya’s commitment to Music Teacher LA did not stop with the sudden divorce and obstacles of a 3-year-long legal process.
Her large community of friends and music students kept growing. Although her only blood family in Los Angeles at that time was her son, she has been fortunate to have a large close circle of business-family and friend-family. The family ties with her community and students were important to her. She made the decision on having a second child with the help of modern technology.
When her second child was born, she pushed herself from the hospital bed just hours after giving birth. Then, she sleepily slouched by the window in an effort to catch a better internet connection. Her newborn daughter instantly became her Music Teacher LA associate-in-tow at just a few hours of age! 🙂 In the first month of her life, Olesya’s daughter visited multiple schools and local organization and witnessed her mom give back to the community through business partnerships, discounts, PTA events, donations, and so much more!
Today, Olesya’s children, the piano and vocal students at Music Teacher LA, are part of the “face” of Music Teacher LA. They often perform in our recitals as a duet.
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Years 2019-current, the pandemic
Music Teacher LA is still going strong! The business survived the economical downfalls of years 2001 and 2008. So, Olesya was not afraid of challenges of the Pandemic.
Little did Olesya know that she would soon face the challenge of battling the aggressive stage 3 cancer. She had spent hours each week in the hospitals, holding her laptop and forcing herself to work despite the severe sickness from cancer-fighting medications. Additionally, the hospitals did not allow children in offices during the pandemic. Not to mention that her large circle of friends avoided potential exposures to covid-19. Thus, finding sitters for Olesya’s kids while in treatments was a stressful task.
Some of Music Teacher LA teachers used to have gigs and deals with TVs prior to the pandemic, in addition to teaching. That all stopped with the arrival of covid-19. So, many teachers asked for more students.
Despite the health situation, Olesya was forcing herself out of the bed. She had to work for the sake of her beloved teachers and her network of students. She felt sick like never before- the medicine like poison was spreading in her body. Nonetheless, Olesya was determined to deliver and continue to be our community’s model. She succeeded!
Music Teacher LA had been the ONLY music school in Los Angeles that has continued providing in-home lessons throughout the pandemic to any family that asked about that. Olesya was later thanked by those families. Many of them were parents with only one child. Thus, the parents were happy that their children were seeing our teachers (masked, vaccinated, and frequently tested) in person! Parents noted that we helped their kids stay away from the depressive feelings in 2019-2021 years!
Our school is continuously giving back to Los Angeles community. Not only we bring smiles and exceptional music education to young and old, but we also positive experiences and accomplished musicians. This would not have happened without Olesya’s commitment and dedication.
Celebrate and share about Music Teacher LA and our founder’s willpower with friends and family! We invite you to challenge yourself, take music lessons with us, and stay happy!
For more about our school, read the article 24 Years in Business, published in year 2015.
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