Teenage musicians are teaching Music virtually to students all over the world, reports Vytas Mazeika in the San Jose Mercury News. Classes on QuaranTunes are free. Contributions go to the CDC Foundation to fight the pandemic.

Julia Segal, a 16-year-old junior at Palo Alto’s Gunn High, started by teaching her 10-year-old sister, then “held a songwriting class via Zoom for 40 elementary school children in Los Altos as a favor to her mother’s friend,” writes Mazeika.

Segal, a singer and songwriter, recruited her musician friends, who signed up their friends. Most of the music teachers are high school and college students.

QuaranTunes offers lessons in piano/music theory, drums, voice, violin, guitar, bass, ukulele, songwriting/composition, intro to music production, cello, viola, clarinet and flute.

Stanford-bound Naama Bejerano, a 17 year-old senior at Gunn who plays the flute and has performed in Carnegie Hall, is the chief operating officer at QuaranTunes.

“Definitely the start of it was small scale and it’s sort of grown globally,” said Bejerano, noting that some students who take lessons hail from the East Coast, Europe and India. “It doesn’t matter where you are around the world, you can participate in this either as a teacher or the student just because it is a strictly online platform.”

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