Piano teacher refuses to teach me due to misunderstanding

[kujiraya]

- student distracts with seemingly interested questions in order to avoid working in lesson...

...don't make assumptions, don't think you can read minds, and do communicate!  

This is very interesting. So, if we could time-warp to apply this back to the OP's scenario, could the teacher have explained and/or demonstrated how the vibrato should be played (or shown the Enrico Pace youtube video above, HEHEHE - mind you, he did win the Liszt competition from way back) and then added something like, "I've been feeling quite impatient, frustrated and bum-steered this lesson while I've been answering your question, because it's used up time that I felt could have been better spent on improving your actual piano-playing, so I hope that our future sessions could be focused more on piano-playing."?

[faa2010]

It seems that your teacher is very impatient and doesn't tolerate the human errors, that is not a good teacher.  A teacher no matter what happens, he/she needs to have enough patience.

At least, what I could possible do, is to try to clear the misunderstanding. However, I wouldn't return with him for support, not even for piano classes anymore.

The reason is that, according to your post, your teacher was very aggressive and insensitive, he make you cry and only because of something simple.  It's natural that when someone hurt you, the relationship changes, and uncounsciously you start to put certain limits in the relationship.

And it is because of those limits that you start to feel uncomfortable with that person, and if there are limits, you won't study properly, you will feel uncomfortable and you will see your teacher as a "bad" person.

Well, that's my point of view.  You may try to understand the teacher, but you cannot give the teacher another chance as a teacher, you will have to find another teacher, one who is patient and comprenhensive even though he/she is not a remarkable and well-known pianist.

[keypeg]

This is very interesting. So, if we could time-warp to apply this back to the OP's scenario, could the teacher have explained and/or demonstrated how the vibrato should be played (or shown the Enrico Pace youtube video above, HEHEHE - mind you, he did win the Liszt competition from way back) and then added something like, "I've been feeling quite impatient, frustrated and bum-steered this lesson while I've been answering your question, because it's used up time that I felt could have been better spent on improving your actual piano-playing, so I hope that our future sessions could be focused more on piano-playing."?

Reductio ad absurdum?  That is annoying.

I wrote a general post, about general things that happen,  which was in response to comments that were posted, in general.

In response to the above scenario, the teacher thought that his expertise was being questioned, so I don't understand your take on it.

[kujiraya]

I'm interested to know how the teacher could have handled the incident without becoming aggressive towards the OP, nor having to sacrifice, disregard and invalidate the teacher's own emotional response.