Repetition brings skill.
Nurture the whole child with life skills through music.
Pacific School of Music offers lessons in the art of learning to play a musical instrument. We seek to grow skills in a positive and nurturing environment.
The process of studying an instrument to a very high level will affect everything they do, and each student will acquire skills that carry over into many aspects of life, including self esteem, self-discipline, determination to accomplish difficult things. Setting long term goals is a trait not found in many other areas of modern life, making this a unique way to discover how skills grow.
Our vision is to create a more beautiful and loving world through the discipline of studying music, creating sensitive hearts in all our students.
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Tiffany Osborn
Executive Director & Founder
Tiffany Osborn, Violin
Tiffany was raised a Suzuki student, starting violin at the age of 3. Now she is dedicated to living and teaching Suzuki philosophy. Received BA from University of Illinois, and has extensive training through the Suzuki Association for violin books 1-8 plus many other enrichment courses. Residing in Los Angeles for the past 16 years, she is the String Specialist in an LAUSD Arts Magnet Elementary School teaching 8 weekly orchestra classes, teaches private lessons, and serves as director of Pacific School of Music. 21+ years experience teaching violin, including 3 years working as a teaching artist in the LAPhil’s Youth Orchestra Mentorship Program (YOMP), two years as director of the Suzuki Program at Cornerstone Music Conservatory in Santa Monica, as well as preschool, baby and toddler music classes. As a violinist, Tiffany has performed and recorded with a variety of groups locally, nationally, and internationally, and is now a practicing parent with her two daughters as well, experiencing all three sides of the “Suzuki Triangle”: student, parent, and teacher.
Mana Azimi, Piano
Mana Azimi grew up watching her mom teach piano, and she started playing piano herself at age seven in Tehran, Iran. After moving to the United States as a child, she began participating in many competitions on the piano, and she started learning the harp as well. She won second place in the East Valley Music Teachers’ Association Piano Competition, third place in the Yamaha Young Artist Piano Competition, and first place in the Dobson Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. Mana has been teaching piano at the Los Angeles Music and Art School as well as harp during her graduate studies at the University of southern California. She has a bachelor of music from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master of music from USC. Mana enjoys performing and recording different styles of music, and she has a Youtube channel with videos of her playing harp and piano, everything from classical masterpieces to arrangements of jazz and pop songs. She loves teaching students of all ages and tries to create an encouraging atmosphere where every student can do their best.
Sepideh Moazzez, Violin
Sepideh is a violinist and educator based in Los Angeles. She started her violin lessons at the age of 10 with master Marjan Ghanbari Mehr and continued her academic music training at the Tehran Girls Music Conservatory.
Sepideh holds a Master of Music (MM) in Violin Performance from the University of Tehran. After being awarded a scholarship in 2017, she moved to the United States to study with Yang Liu. She is an active performer and music educator with over 15 years of teaching experience, working with musicians of all ages and skill levels. She is a Suzuki Association of the Americas Registered Suzuki Teacher. Sepideh has collaborated with various orchestras and ensembles in multiple concerts in Iran and other countries. She is also an award winner of theNational Youth Music Festival and Fajr Festival.
She believes that learning music changes lives by bringing hope and peace to students. During her fifteen years of teaching, many of her students have successfully passed auditions for music colleges and universities.
The Suzuki Method
Dr. Shinichi Suzuki developed a way to learn music that parallels the way we all learn language. He also believed that noble hearts and good character could be built teaching children to be sensitive to music through instrument study.