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Early Opportunities Angeles Temple Conservatory piano lessons from age 8. Teacher's training classes which began her life-long love for music and teaching. Night school piano and harmony classes, learning the names of the chords she already played. Summer seminars: lectures by contemporary composers at the Greater Los Angeles Music Stores, learning prize teaching pointers for later use.

Summer Activities Practicing piano up to 8 hours a day on her own. Substituting as pianist from age 12. Preparing materials for her mother's harmony and music history classes; Participating in their recitals and yearly picnics -- Music was her life!

Teenage Years Two year equivalent in harmony in a special high school program (similar opportunity later in college). Featured pianist and accompanist on graduation exercises. Teaching piano and learning several other instruments. Writing her own compositions, plus transcribing for others.

Married Life Art and Aviva married at 19 and raised three children.  Art taught the boys trumpet and saxophone, while Aviva taught their daughter piano, accordion and guitar. In the Midwest, Aviva taught several instruments, as well as summer theory classes for the Norman School of Music. In Arizona, she was a member of the Phoenix Piano Teacher's as well as the State and National Music Teacher's Associations. Meanwhile, Aviva continued composing and creating charts with booklets to answer questions for her daughter and other students.  In fact, it was her daughter, Lynette Shlomit, who originated the idea of the chart.   In 1967, this first chart evolved into Aviva's Music Companion Handbook, said to contain "all you want to know about music theory", and so endorsed also by Professor Eliyahu Schleifer. Aviva's music to Psalm 91 was written, with great feeling, while their daughter was dying of cancer in 1980. Later, Aviva added the six part harmony for voices. Aviva's unique Take A Psalm series was first tested in Israel (their home since early 1983) on 4 to 9 year olds in the mid 80's and was enthusiastically received by Home Schoolers in the U.S.A., parents and children alike. All these things Aviva did "for fun or to be helpful".   Thus, as you use her charts, sing, or play her songs, "Have fun!"   This is her trademark.