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About Polyglot Music
Kimberly Poli, the sole proprietor of Polyglot Music, is a classically trained and certified music teacher who has been teaching private lessons full-time in the Los Angeles area since 2012. She offers studio lessons in Granada Hills, and travels in the San Fernando Valley to offer in-home lessons in piano and voice to all ages....read more about Kimberly
The name "Polyglot Music" is a reference both to the idea of music as a second language, and to the mockingbird, or "Mimus polyglottos", who can be seen year-round in Southern California, showing off his vast repertoire of song. I can't help but be thrilled by the joyous, unselfconscious pride this lifelong learner seems to display while claiming all of the music of his environment for his own....read more about the Polyglot Mission
Kimberly Poli, the sole proprietor of Polyglot Music, is a classically trained and certified music teacher who has been teaching private lessons full-time in the Los Angeles area since 2012. With a B.S. in Music Education, and an M.M. in Voice Performance, her diverse teaching background includes 5 years as a music teacher and choral director in Pennsylvania public schools, and 15 months as an overseas volunteer in Nigeria. Kimberly is an active professional in church music, singing regularly for churches including St. Andrew Catholic Church in Pasadena. She directs the children's choir at Saint Mark's Episcopal in Altadena, and is the Director of Education for Guild Opera Company, bringing professional operettas to area Elementary Schools. See video
In addition to being a dedicated music educator, Kimberly has been performing professionally as a singer and entertainer since she was 16 years old. As a child, she recorded vocals in Nashville for a family folk album, and was an active soloist in her community; appearing on the local telethon and radio station, and singing for church services, weddings and school programs. In High School she placed first chair at District and Regional MENC choral competitions and was honored to participate in the All-Eastern Choral Festival in Boston, MA. Also during her High School years, she started her first job as an entertainer aboard the Proud Mary at Lake Raystown Resort in Pennsylvania, and performed her first operatic role as Hansel in a local production of Hansel and Gretel.
Since then Kim has performed principal roles with Harrisburg Opera Association, Lancaster Opera, Capitol Opera Harrisburg, Loudoun Lyric Opera, Civic Theater of Indianapolis, Shenandoah Conservatory Opera, Sierra Madre Playhouse and Center Stage Opera in Los Angeles; and has had long-term professional engagements with the Indianapolis Opera Chorus, Indianapolis Opera Ensemble, The Tim Brickley Jazz Quintet, the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington D.C. She has appeared as a guest artist with organizations like Hershey Symphony Orchestra, Manchester Symphony Orchestra, The Susquehanna Chorale and Messiah Choral Arts Society; and was featured on a nationally televised Christmas Eve Program on CBS. She has appeared in Los Angeles venues like Catalina Jazz Club and the Mark Taper Auditorium, performing Bossa Nova and other world music.
As Mary (Romance from Lincoln Center to Broadway) with Loudoun Lyric Opera
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As Carmen (Carmen) with Center Stage Opera
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As Carmen (Carmen) with Center Stage Opera
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At the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, CA with Matheus Poli
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At the Mark Taper Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles with Matheus Poli
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As Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus) with Loudoun Lyric Opera
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As Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte) with Loudoun Lyric Opera
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The Polyglot Mission
The name "Polyglot Music" is a reference both to the idea of music as a second language, and to the mockingbird, or "Mimus polyglottos", who can be seen year-round in Southern California, showing off his vast repertoire of song. I can't help but be thrilled by the joyous, unselfconscious pride this lifelong learner seems to display while claiming all of the music of his environment for his own. This sentiment touches on one of my primary motivations as a music teacher: to help my students, at any age, feel an ownership of the powerful part of our environment we call music; and to never feel excluded from this essential part of humanity because of a lack of literacy or self-confidence. My goal is not simply to teach my students how to play or sing songs, but to teach the language of music so that my students have the tools to guide their own lifelong learning.
