Dear Lena, Thank you always for your enthusiasm in teaching the kids the beautiful art! I really appreciate it and we learn and get inspired a lot every time.

— Fumiko Yamaguchi, mother of Jacob and Naomi Rowock

Dear Lena, We are so grateful that you have Emma in your class! Your passion for the music is contagious. It influences how Emma (and I) approach playing piano and experiencing music. Like you said, piano playing is a fine art that can truly touch people’s lives and souls.

— Lin Yao, mother of Emma

Dear Lena, I want to express how much we have appreciated your guidance over the past year. Ashly has made significant progress in her piano technique and performance under your tutelage, and I am incredibly proud of how far she has come. You have been an exceptional teacher, and Ashley and I hold you in the highest regard.

— Michelle, mother of Ashley

Dear Lena,
Please allow me to express our gratitude for you in the meantime. We are thrilled to see Angelina progressing every day. We greatly appreciate that you ask nothing less than perfect with kindness and caring. It is truly magical, thank you so much!

— Pamela, 2013

To Mrs. Grozman,
The reason why I’m sending an email, instead of giving you a phone call or meeting you in person, is so that I have time to think all my thoughts through and make sure what I say is truly what I want to say.
That being said, thank you so much for the years we have spent together. You’ve taught me innumerable things about piano and music that will stay with me for the rest of my life. I owe a great deal to you for all the time and effort you’ve invested to teaching me, and you’ve helped me mature both with regard to music and as a person. Without a doubt, I wouldn’t be where I am today without your help………..I want you to know that the skills you’ve taught me are being put to good use.
Again, thank you for everything. It’s hard to say goodbye after all these years…

— Douglas, 2013

The pleasure was mine! Hearing your students play Saturday was even more moving than I remembered! Their technique is superb, but their ability to capture and express the heart of the music is truly extraordinary. Upon leaving your house, I remarked to your husband, “Does Lena know what a supremely great teacher she is?” And he replied, “No — I don’t believe she does.”

BELIEVE, my dear! And thank you so much for letting me share your wonderful gifts!

— Sondra

Thanks very much for the workshop yesterday! Katherine said that she really enjoyed the workshop a lot. She told me it’s very fun and she liked each kids’ performance, especially Claire’s. 🙂

When we came back home, she can not wait to show us how you help her to improve the three pieces, and she even showed us how to introduce herself and how to bow in an elegant way. It’s quite surprised me and my husband. You can not imagine that we struggled a lot at this part in the morning of the workshop day. And when she showed us the three pieces at home, we also WOW for the improvement. It’s so amazing. Thanks very much for your effort and help!

Have a good day and see you this afternoon.

Thanks again,

— Jing Hu

I am writing to express my gratitude for your piano instruction to me. I learned so much from you, and hope that you enjoyed our lessons as much as I did. You taught me that music was beyond playing the correct notes and you helped me connect to the music I played. Thanks to you, I began to develop my own musical point of views.
In the fall, I have decided to continue my studies at Vanderbilt University on the Cornelius Vanderbilt scholarship, where I will double major in piano performance and pre-med.
I really appreciate all the years of your tireless coaching, and I am extremely grateful to you!
Thank you for everything you have done for me.

— Miranda Shum

Thanks for your help! You not only teach Katherine how to play, but also teach us how to love music. We all enjoy your classes a lot and Katherine always wants to be in your class, that’s her most enjoyable time in the week. As everyday she spends tough time with me for practice, but she enjoys the music journey with you. 🙂
Thanks for being her teacher!
Thanks for all your encouragement and unlimited enthusiasm of music to inspire us.

-Best Regards, Jing

Lena,
Thank you so much for the lessons for Naomi and Jacob today. I was deeply impressed with how you teach with such focus in artistic expression. I understand completely how your students play the way they do. I wish I had a teacher like you when I was growing up! I feel like I was missing the whole point!

Fumiko Rockower

Dear Lena
I am really grateful to you for teaching Freddy with his small hands and with high expectations. I have more than several experiences with music teachers in the past and you are the best teacher for Freddy.
Best wishes,

Tsuneko (Freddy’s parent)

Hi Lena,
I thought about our conversation at the last lesson for quite awhile. Before I go on, I’d like to say that you’ve been such a wonderful teacher and mentor. I always look forward to our lessons together because you always manage to inspire me to practice harder with your kind words of encouragement and your gentle guidance. You have motivated me for such a long time to keep practicing, even when I was discouraged and I hadn’t won any competitions for two consecutive years. If it weren’t for your patience and dedication, I would have quit piano long time ago. I will always appreciate the time and effort you put into teaching me and will remember the time we spent together with great affection……..

Amy Zeng

Hi Lena,

Thanks for your help! You not only teach Katherine how to play, but also teach us how to love music. We all enjoy your classes a lot and Katherine always wants to be in your class, that’s her most enjoyable time in the week. As everyday she spends tough time with me for practice, but she enjoys the music journey with you. 🙂
Thanks for being her teacher!
Thanks for all your encouragement and unlimited enthusiasm of music to inspire us.

-Best Regards, Jing

Dear Lena,

How fabulous! … I meant to write you right after the recital and thank you for your wonderful students!? I also wanted to give Alice and Anna special credit for playing so well While Sharing a Single Bench! That goes beyond musical talent! 🙂

And your younger students, Catherine and Miranda, were just breath-taking. All of your students should be showcased in more concerts in this area — you produce absolutely superb musicians!

So again, thanks — I’m always so pleased to hear my music played by your students!

Happiest wishes,

Sondra Clark

Hi, Lena:

The positive comments are very encouraging, and we love to see Catherine’s progress under your teaching in such a short period of time !

Regards,

Lu & Chaofeng Huang April, 2010

Dear Mrs. Lena,

Thank you for helping me win the first place in the MTAC solo competition. Without you, I would not have won. It means so much to me. Thank you very much…

Best Wishes,

Anna Boonyanit April, 2010

Dear Lena,

I got a notice from Pacific Musical Society that I made the Finals. Thank you for being such a wonderful piano teacher and making all my dreams come true! I think you are an amazing teacher, and I’m so glad you put so much effort into polishing my Chopin piece. See you tomorrow!

Your student, Alice

Alice Zhu

Thank you for being such a great piano teacher. You
have taught me a lot of basic techniques to get
me where I am today. If it weren’t for you I wouldn’t
have had the chance to go to my dream school with a scholarship!

Lulu Shu

Hi Lena! This is Cary. …After all that nostalgia I guess I just wanted to say thanks for being my piano teacher. Even though I had no talent, and was not a good student in the later years (I didn’t practice nearly enough, only an hour a day), learning how to play the piano made me love classical music forever…

I was only 8-13 years old when I was taking lessons, so I was too young to appreciate how good of a teacher you were. I remember wondering why we had to do all those scales and arpeggios, and do them perfectly with the metronome! Or how you focused on performing the piece instead of just pounding the notes at the right beat. It makes much more sense to me now…

Cary

Dear Lena,

Thank you very much for everything you’ve done for NiuNiu. You are a truly inspirational teacher and musician! You will always have our deepest affection.

Love,

NiuNiu, Leilei and Tat-Jin Teo

Dear Ms. Grozman,
You are the best piano teacher in the world. I really appreciate when you polish the competition pieces and show me how to express beautiful music. Thank you for being my piano teacher. Wish you a Happy New Year.

Clare

Congratulations Lena on such a beautiful class today.

Your teaching and musicianship is so fluent that the students respond to you almostimmediately and the changes were palpable. It was a special event to watch and I’m so glad we could host it here at the store. I am eagerly looking forward to hearing your students perform here in June.

Many thanks again Lena for your wonderful teaching.

Chris Hepp, DMA
Sherman Clay

Hi, Lena:

The positive comments are very encouraging, and we love to see Catherine’s progress under your teaching in such a short period of time !

Lu & Chaofeng

Dear Lena,

What a treat it was to hear your students play! They are so very lucky to have such a superb, devoted teacher! And of course, I loved hearing Eileen and Jennifer play Miami Mambo…Lena, you are simply amazing to me. Thank you so much for inviting me to your recital and for teaching my pieces.

Warmest wishes,
Sondra Clark

Dear Lena:

I can’t say thank you enough for what you’ve done in the past couple of months for Charlene. As a matter of fact, every time we took lessons with you, we found them fruitful and productive. The structure, the intensity, the depth, the emphasis on discipline and quality are all right on. Experience counts. …you’ve already left a deep mark in Charlene. She said right after the lesson she’ll miss you. … Thanks so much for nurturing young musicians.

Charles Ma

Dear Lena,

…We(’re) truly thankful for your passionate teaching. You are a wonderful piano teacher…

Tomas, Julie & Andrew Chan

Amy, this is wonderfully musical! What talent! Lena, you are the most amazing piano teacher!! I swear you can somehow teach musicality.

Kyoda

“The importance of Jon’s (Nakamatsu) email is that he is saying that Anna (Boonyanit) is playing at a level of maturity well beyond her chronological age . . . Anna (Boonyanit) is blossoming under Lena’s tutelage so much so that a great artist like Jon Nakamatsu took important notice of her playing.”

Chris Hepp, D.M.A.
Sherman Clay Pianos

Thank you for your generous spirit and constant support. I’m so blessed by your friendship and thanking God for bringing you into my life! I have to thank American Fine Arts Society for hosting competition in the bay area!!! :)…

Love,
Sandra Wright-Shen

Dear Lena,

…I want to let you know that both Albert and I are very grateful for all the wonderful lessons that you have given
him over the past 7, 8 years. Albert will not be Albert without you in terms of his piano education …

Becky Wu

Words cannot express our sincere thankfulness to your tremendous help in making Andrew successful in his recent competitions. We always appreciate your passionate teaching.

A million thanks,
Thomas Chan

Dear Mrs.Lena,

Thank you for your kind letter, it really makes me have a warm and happy heart! You are a great, helpful, patient, and kind piano teacher. I really want to be a piano teacher and pianist when I grow up.

Nina

Dear Lena,

I got a notice from Pacific Musical Society that I made the Finals. Thank you for being such a wonderful piano teacher and making all my dreams come true! I think you are an amazing teacher, and I’m so glad you put so much effort into polishing my Chopin piece. See you tomorrow!

Your student, Alice

Hi, Lena.

I hope to have the pleasure of meeting you in person someday, Lena. I’ve come across your name through many student competitions, having adjudicated and run many of those events, and having had the pleasure of hearing the fantastic work of yours and your students at these events!

Sarah Chan

Hi Ms. Grozman,

Hope you are doing well. I wanted to let you know that Benjamin was picked as the winner in the Marilyn Mindell competition. Actually, all three winners studied with you before!

We owe a lot to you as you were the first to really encourage and teach Benjamin and made him truly believe he was a musician and pianist at heart. He would not be where he is today if it weren’t for you. Thank you!

Dave Park

Dear Mrs. Lena,

Thank you for helping me win the first place in the MTAC solo competition. Without you, I would not have won. It means so much to me. Thank you very much…

Best Wishes,

Anna

Bless you, Lena,

I’d love to come to your recital May 1st. And Gordon would, too — he liked your recital last year so much!

I just can’t thank you enough for the joy you give me!

Sondra (Clark)

Dear Lena,

How fabulous! … I meant to write you right after the recital and thank you for your wonderful students!? I also wanted to give Alice and Anna special credit for playing so well While Sharing a Single Bench! That goes beyond musical talent! 🙂

And your younger students, Catherine and Miranda, were just breath-taking. All of your students should be showcased in more concerts in this area — you produce absolutely superb musicians!

So again, thanks — I’m always so pleased to hear my music played by your students!

Sondra (Clark)

Hi Lena,
I thought about our conversation at the last lesson for quite awhile. Before I go on, I’d like to say that you’ve been such a wonderful teacher and mentor. I always look forward to our lessons together because you always manage to inspire me to practice harder with your kind words of encouragement and your gentle guidance. You have motivated me for such a long time to keep practicing, even when I was discouraged and I hadn’t won any competitions for two consecutive years. If it weren’t for your patience and dedication, I would have quit piano long time ago. I will always appreciate the time and effort you put into teaching me and will remember the time we spent together with great affection……..

Amy

Dear Lena
I am really grateful to you for teaching Freddy with his small hands and with high expectations. I have more than several experiences with music teachers in the past and you are the best teacher for Freddy.

Best wishes,
Tsuneko

Lena,
Thank you so much for the lessons for Naomi and Jacob today. I was deeply impressed with how you teach with such focus in artistic expression. I understand completely how your students play the way they do. I wish I had a teacher like you when I was growing up! I feel like I was missing the whole point!

Fumiko Rockower

To Mrs. Grozman,
The reason why I’m sending an email, instead of giving you a phone call or meeting you in person, is so that I have time to think all my thoughts through and make sure what I say is truly what I want to say.
That being said, thank you so much for the years we have spent together. You’ve taught me innumerable things about piano and music that will stay with me for the rest of my life. I owe a great deal to you for all the time and effort you’ve invested to teaching me, and you’ve helped me mature both with regard to music and as a person. Without a doubt, I wouldn’t be where I am today without your help………..I want you to know that the skills you’ve taught me are being put to good use.
Again, thank you for everything. It’s hard to say goodbye after all these years…

Thanks, Douglas

Dearest Lena,

The pleasure was mine! Hearing your students play Saturday was even more moving than I remembered! Their technique is superb, but their ability to capture and express the heart of the music is truly extraordinary. Upon leaving your house, I remarked to your husband, “Does Lena know what a supremely great teacher she is?” And he replied, “No — I don’t believe she does.”

BELIEVE, my dear! And thank you so much for letting me share your wonderful gifts!

Sondra (Clark)

i don’t think i could have a shot at what I’m doing today with songwriting and the music industry career life without what you taught me.
i think i remember when we moved back to france to Bordeaux, the conservatory teachers there were quite impressed with my rachmaninov prelude (which you were working on with me)