Experienced tutor in Piano in Los Angeles, Mann-Wen offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

I am very happy to whole-heartedly recommend Dr. Mann-Wen Lo as a violin teacher.

I have been playing violin for over 60 years as an avocation. I have risen to the position of concertmaster in three of the last four community symphonies I've played in and principal viola in another here in Southern California. That being said, I know that inadequate technique from the many years without lessons was keeping me from realizing my potential as a violinist.

I met Mann-Wen three years ago at a concert and have heard her play many times since then. Her impeccable technique and the friendship we had developed inspired me to ask her, in 2018, if she could coach me. We began lessons in person, and when the pandemic made that impossible, we continued quite effectively online.

Her strengths as a teacher, at least for me, are her warm patience, her confidence in solving the problems she sees in my playing, and her uncanny understanding of the physics of body movements relating to bowing, fingering and musicality.

The amazingly rapid weekly improvements in bowing, fingering, intonation, etc., that I have been experiencing have been very rewarding to me. I am actually excited to work on the selections Mann-Wen has chosen for me each week.

If you are at the point in your musical development where you need a coach to help you get to the next level, then I highly recommend Mann-Wen to you. Enjoy your time learning from her.

-Roger Johnston

I've been learning with her for over a year and I always enjoyed her lessons. She's able to make a relaxed learning environment while being professional and keeping every lesson structured and meaningful. She gives feedback throughout the lesson, from your gestures to the flow and emotion of your music, which I found very helpful.

Dr. Lo is definitely the most gentle, patient, knowledgable, talented, and responsible instructors in my life. She would teach each student to focus on the different traits and problems specifically of the student. She encourages students to play the violin with confidence. For example, I am born with a relatively short little finger which is not very good for playing the violin. My previous instructor usually just told me that I am not born fitful for playing the violin. However, from Dr. Lo‘s perspective, she taught me how to adjust my body gesture to make up my shortage of little finger. Besides that, Dr. Lo's characteristic in personality also motivates me to be a better person: she is very down to the earth and still stays in a very low-key lifestyle. I feel so privileged of knowing her and being one of her students!