Instructors

Soroosh Meili offers in-person and online piano instruction designed around each student’s level, musical interests, and goals. His lessons emphasize confident technique, musical expression, thoughtful interpretation, and the freedom to develop an individual musical voice.

His teaching approach combines classical and modern techniques with personalized guidance. Students are encouraged to understand the music they play—not simply reproduce the notes—and to build the musicianship, independence, and confidence needed for lasting growth.

At Sovana Piano Lessons, Soroosh works with students across levels and helps them develop technique, theory, sight-reading, rhythm, ear training, interpretation, and performance skills through a structured but individualized approach.

Daria Kuzmenko offers personalized online clarinet instruction centered on confidence, expression, sound, technique, and musicality.

Her supplied instructor material emphasizes learning to play the clarinet with confidence, expression, and joy from anywhere; mastering sound one note at a time; and developing the art of clarinet playing through personalized online lessons.

Her approach is designed to help students breathe, play, listen closely, and let the music speak while receiving focused individual guidance.

Eloá Gonçalves is a Brazilian pianist, composer, and educator. Her supplied biography states that she studied Jazz Piano at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz (KUG) in Austria under German pianist Olaf Polziehn, completing the course with an outstanding-performance mention.

She also holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Popular Music from UNICAMP in Brazil. Her supplied material notes a discography that includes 15 albums and four DVDs across project collaborations and bandleader work.

At Sovana, Eloá brings a broad performance, composition, and educational background to online piano instruction, with an emphasis on musicianship, interpretation, and developing an individual musical voice.

Mahdi Mohammadi’s supplied biography notes a singing license officially granted in the early 2000s and vocal mentorship with Mohammad Nouri, Ahmad Parsi, Narbe Cholakian, Aria Zand, and others. His training also includes masterclasses with experts from Austria, Italy, and Germany, theoretical and practical music studies with university professors, piano studies with Ahmad Asadi and Peyman Sadri, and professional acting training under Amin Tarokh.

His academic and teaching work includes serving as a lecturer and head of a music association at a major applied science university, founding and conducting multiple choirs, conducting Paytakht Choir, coaching artists, and delivering more than 20 vocal workshops.

His supplied biography also lists a first-prize Golden Trophy in a national music festival, solo appearances with national orchestras under Maestro Farhad Fakhreddini, collaborations with ensembles and festivals, work as an assistant and vocal instructor with renowned maestros and music production units, vocal coaching for prominent artists and performers, and published articles on vocal science.

His teaching philosophy is that anyone with a passion for singing can find their true voice with the right guidance, while avoiding technical pitfalls through a supportive and scientific approach.