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1. “HELLENE HINER”
Hellene Hiner is the founder of Music Vision International (MVI) and was born in Leningrad (St.
Peterburg) in Russia and later, her family moved to Ukraine. At the age of 7 she entered a Music School
to learn piano and she graduated with honors prior to entering the Zhitomir Music College in Ukraine to
study music theory, music history, and piano. Pedagogy, psychology, and methodology of music were
her favorite subjects. She graduated at the Zhitomir Music College with flying colors, honors and
Bachelor’s degree in music theory, music education, music history and piano.
After her degree was completed, she continued her musicology education by attending Music
Conservatory in University of Arts in the Kharkov Ukraine in order to receive her Master Degree in
music, completing her 16-year-long Russian classical music education. Her thesis was entitled, “How to
teach children to understand and appreciate advanced forms of music.” The thesis was appraised with
top marks. That is the reason why the committee of the conservatory recommended that it be
published.

2. Hellene has worked as a music educator, teaching in both public and private music schools and
universities. During mid-1980’s, she was able to invent a unique system of ear training and writing
musical dictations. Aside from that, she also developed a system of teaching young students music
improvisations and creating music. During 1991, her students composed an opera, called “kolobok” and
eventually, one of her pupils received a medal in the regional contest of young composers.
In the mid-1990 Ms. Hiner moved to United State and founded “Little Mozart”. It is a Developmental
Music Program. She taught piano using this music program in numerous private schools to children of
ages 2.5 – 13 in groups and individually. Additional to that, she also developed a strategy of teaching 2-5
year old children to play piano exercises in order to improve their eye-hand and two-hand coordination,
and she invented some music games to identify fast and slow music, major and minor, intervals and
chords. Through this, learning Piano became fun and interesting for her students.
Ms. Hiner developed the ‘Soft Way to Mozart’ curriculum for piano learning and music reading from
more than 30 years of research and music teaching. She is also the face of the program and has
appeared on several TV shows and news programs. She is an established and famous entity with some
of the most prominent music institutions in the world including the Moscow Conservatory and the
Madrid Conservatory. As the head Musicologist for Music Vision International, she keeps close contact
and control with the schools and music studios that use the “Soft Way to Mozart” piano teaching
method and learning software.
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