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Jerome Couture M.S.T. Maestro Couture is President and founder of The Music School, Inc. and a master teacher and performer on 15 instruments. His early teachers were from Julliard and Russia. He won scholarships to study conducting at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, teacher training at the University of Michigan with Robert Culver, and orchestral studies at the University of Washington with James DePriest, Murry Sidlin and Rafael Druian. Jerome earned his B.A and M.S.T. from Portland State University, and earned acclaim as musical director and conductor for Portland Civic Theatre, and as string specialist in the West Linn and Lake Oswego school districts. Mr. Couture is a prolific composer, performer and arranger, and released his debut album "Too Haute To Handle" in 1988 followed by a tour with the Jerome Couture Fusion Quintet. He is a frequent performer at local blues and jazz clubs, and has performed as soloist under the baton of James DePriest and with the Marylhurst Symphony. Jerome spent the last 20 years writing, arranging, performing and recording with Corinne Couture as the Haute Couture Duo, and has become a computer technician, web designer, and videographer. He is currently developing a unified theory about how people learn based upon the thousands of lessons taught at The Music School and research done throughout the scientific world, and filming a series of teaching videos based upon that theory.
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San Francisco Conservatory of Music (1980) It has been 30 years since Jerome and Corinne Couture founded "The Haute Couture Duo" (Ot-ku-'tur) while studying at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Since then they have performed hundreds of concerts, recitals, and weddings throughout the western United States and Canada and have recorded more than a dozen CD's including classical, jazz/rock fusion, gospel, and Christmas music. Their live concerts mix humor with music and feature performances combining Piano with Electric and Acoustic Violin, Viola, Cello, Contra Bass, Voice, Flute, Saxophone, Didgeridoo, Synthesizers, Drums, Mandolin, & Guitar. They currently enjoy a schedule full of teaching, performing, recording, filming, writing, arranging, conducting, and mentoring.
Corinne Couture M.M. Corinne has been teaching piano lessons in the West Linn and Lake Oswego area for the past 20 years and is a master piano teacher and founding Vice President of The Music School Inc. She is considered one of the top accompanists for local universities, churches, school districts and solo/ensemble contests and is known especially for her interpretation of modern works. Corinne records a yearly CD of inspirational (gospel) piano music, and a yearly Christmas CD with Jerome as the Haute Couture Duo. As a youth, she played piano for Melodrama in Jacksonville, Oregon, and was piano soloist with the Rogue Valley Symphony. Her early teachers were from Julliard, and the University of Indiana. Corinne won scholarships to Pacific Lutheran University and earned her B.M. in pedagogy, accompaniment and solo piano. Her M.M. is in accompaniment from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and she is a member of the National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC).
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