Hi, I'm Jennifer Camche, your teacher
I grew up in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and did most of my training there, classical and popular both. Piano first, at seven. Violin and guitar came around twelve, cello after that. I finished the Royal Conservatory levels including advanced theory, history and counterpoint, and I started teaching at eighteen at Gordie Brandt's music school in Prince Albert, with forty or fifty students almost straight away.
In my early twenties I moved to Quebec, and I have been teaching here ever since. Several hundred students by now. I have worked alongside musicians and singers at every level, from people who had never performed in front of anyone to people making records, and I picked up a few awards along the way as a musician, singer, songwriter and vocal coach. Those were nice. What actually kept me in this work is watching someone play something they could not play a month earlier.
Some of what I wrote and recorded is on SoundCloud if you would like to hear it.
Thirty-odd years in, I am convinced that almost anyone can learn an instrument or learn to sing. What it takes is liking the music enough to keep coming back, a way of working that suits you, and a fair amount of practice. There is no way around the practice, and I would not trust anyone who told you otherwise.
Some of my students want to play for themselves in their own living room and nothing more. Others are working toward exams, or toward playing in front of people. Both are normal here, and I will teach you toward whichever one you actually want.
I taught in person, in a studio, for most of my career. I moved everything online in 2020 and stayed there. Part of that is reach, because I now have students in places I would never have met otherwise. But my local students stayed online too, since not driving across town for a lesson turns out to be worth something. What the switch taught me is that the room was never the important part. It is the teacher and the student, and what goes on between them.