Guitar · Piano · Composition
Talia Rubenstein
Guitarist, songwriter + educator
Talia is a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and teacher whose lessons move easily between technique, ear training, theory, songwriting, and the music a student already loves.
About Talia
Follow the music that made you want to play.
Talia’s teaching starts with a simple idea: the music a student loves is not a distraction from learning. It’s one of the best ways into it.
Her background is in jazz, but her musical life has always been broader than one genre. Talia works across folk, pop, rock, jazz, classical music, and musical theater, and plays guitar alongside piano, mandolin, ukulele, bass, drums, and voice.
That range makes her especially comfortable with students whose musical interests don’t fit neatly into one box. A lesson might involve reading, chords, ear training, improvising, learning a favorite song, or starting to write something original.
Since 2015, Talia has taught students from early childhood through adulthood in private lessons and classroom settings.
The lesson
Foundations with room for curiosity.
Talia balances the things musicians need to learn with the things that make them want to keep learning.
She gives students a real technical and theoretical foundation while adapting repertoire and projects around their interests, personality, age, and goals.
Beyond the lesson
A musician with a wide musical life.
Talia performs and releases her own music as Talia Rose. Her work brings together intricate guitar writing, jazz-informed harmony, and singer-songwriter storytelling.
Her performance career has included solo work, bands, theater, and sideman roles in New York and internationally.
Hear Talia
The music behind the teacher.
Talia’s own playing is a big part of what she brings into lessons: listening closely, arranging creatively, and finding an individual voice on the instrument.
Background
Jazz training with a broader idea of musicianship.
Talia earned her undergraduate degree in Jazz Studies at New York University and her Master of Music at the New England Conservatory. Her studies gave her a deep grounding in harmony, improvisation, arranging, ear training, and ensemble playing.
Education has remained central to her work. At NEC, Talia received a community engagement grant to develop resources for incorporating more women into jazz history curricula, connecting her work as a musician with a broader interest in how music is taught.
On Talia’s music
“A celebration of song, orchestration, and creative freedom.”
Julian Lage · on Carry it Closely
Learn with Talia
Make the music you already care about your way in.
Tell us about the student, where you are, what they want to play, and what their schedule looks like. We’ll let you know whether Talia is the right match and what her availability looks like.