about sara landeau
Sara Landeau is a guitarist, bassist, drummer, music program coordinator, music director, teacher, producer, and band coach in NYC. She teaches women and girl musicians of all levels, coaches at the Girls Rock Camp in NYC, and specializes in working with adults learning an instrument for the first time. She's also available for transcriptions, creating charts for musicians, and teaching sight reading for guitar, bass, or drums.
She is affiliated with The Brooklyn Guitar & Drum Studio for Women & Girls which was formed in 2002 in the Pencil Factory Building in Greenpoint. This is the only place of its kind that offers rock instrument lessons for women and girls all year round. Here women can study guitar, bass, or drums, play loud, learn theory or to sight read, and achieve their musical goals - whether its to start their own bands, become serious at learning an instrument, or just for personal empowerment and fun. Students of all ages and levels are encouraged.
Sara is the guitarist for The Julie Ruin along with Kathleen Hanna (vox), Kathi Wilcox (bass) , Kenny Mellman (keys), and Carmine Covelli (drums). Album due out in 2013.
EDUCATION:
THE NEW SCHOOL, THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL NYC - Audio technology, classical guitar, music theory, ear training, Pro-Tools, percussion, transcription, guitar theory
Private instruction: over 17 years rock drums and private guitar and bass lessons
B.A. in Art History from Columbia University 2002.
OTHER WORK:
GIRLS ROCK CAMPS, NYC - ongoing band coach and guitar teacher for the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls in Brooklyn NY and Ladies Rock Camp since 2005. Worked at the Austin Rock Camp for Girls in the summer of 2010.
SEMINAR SPEAKER - courses for the Learning Annex NYC include the seminar "How to Read Music in One Night" and "Learn to Play Guitar." Both were written up in the Village Voice "Best of Education" Issue.
FILM - played the role of a jazz guitarist in the Julia Roberts film "Mona Lisa Smiles" and as worked as a consultant for actors playing musicians in films.
FILM - played the role of a jazz guitarist in the Julia Roberts film "Mona Lisa Smiles" and as worked as a consultant for actors playing musicians in films.
MUSIC - Co-produced, engineered, or coached dozens of female bands (teens and adults), broadway and film actors, and professional musicians who have had #1 hits in Europe and the US.
TEENAGERS and KIDS - several of her high school and college bound private students have gone on to audition and ultimately attend top music schools including LaGuardia High School in NYC (the Fame school), New York University, and Berklee College of Music in Boston.
TEENAGERS and KIDS - several of her high school and college bound private students have gone on to audition and ultimately attend top music schools including LaGuardia High School in NYC (the Fame school), New York University, and Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Thanks!! Sara