Teacher in the Los Angeles Area

[rekabb]

Greetings,

I'm a composer, professor, and, pertaining to this particular post, the proud father of a six-year-old boy who simply exudes musical instinct, intuition, and understanding (although, admittedly, I'm biased!).

For a bit of context, he memorized the prelude to "Parsifal" after being shown once, in addition to the minor variation after the opening Ab. He demonstrated the same understanding with the opening theme of Mahler 3 up to the "timpani crashes" on that big A5. He regularly uses the "Giant's Theme" from "Das Rheingold" as a foundation for improvisations, routinely transposing keys, modes, tones, etc, in addition to the main theme of Brahms 3/3 (noticing a preference for 19th century Germany? guilty as charged!).

As someone who has been playing music since the age of four, received multiple full-tuition scholarships to various institutions during my academic career, and has been blessedly awash in the transdenominational oneness of Great Music for my entire life, I feel confident in saying that my son has "the gift" (or curse, depending!) and, as such, I am eager for him to begin regimented, yet approachable lessons with someone capable of personifying the authority and consistency that I would, but who is, however, not me. 

We live in the La Quinta (about 40 min south of Palms Springs) area, but are frequently in Los Angeles for work, so I'm ideally seeking someone who would be fine with a scheduling regimen the likes of "We'll be in town this weekend. Can you teach _____ on Saturday?" for lessons of a longer duration, in which my son will be given a healthy amount of material to work on (and that I can aid him in practicing in the interim between lessons), and which would take place roughly every 4-6 weeks, with the incumbent expectations regarding progress that such an interval would assume.

Would any of you perhaps have a recommendation for me?

In an ideal world an elderly Russian Jewish woman with a heart of gold, a functioning samovar, and an earthy sense of work, hearth, the old ways would be preferred, but perhaps I've just concocted a character from a film in my mind. :-)

Thank you all in advance for your help and I'm looking forward to what you've got to say! Thanks!