Every year I have a keyboard festival in my studio. Keyboard festival is similar to Clavinova festival if you are familiar with those. Matter of fact, the reason I started keyboard festival was because of the Clavinova festival experience I had years ago! I thought it...
Music for Space Themed Recital
This week my students will be choosing pieces for our spring recital, Reach Beyond the Stars. I thought that it may be helpful to share the pieces I have found for my students to choose from in case you are doing a space themed recital or might in the future... If you...
Halloween Festival 2014
Every year my students dress up in costume and perform a halloween piece in October. It's one of our favorite events to look forward to! Every year I also like to put a little twist on the event and come up withsomething between the performance pieces. And let me tell...
Be Our Guest: Adjudication & You – How To Survive
I'm happy to introduce our guest for July- Kassandra Weleck, a piano teacher from Tucson, AZ. Kassandra has shared a fantastic post on adjudication that I think you will enjoy reading. Some good tips for all, no matter what your role is. Enjoy... Hello! My name...
Brownie Points this week!
This Saturday is my spring recital, so this week is our recital rehearsals. Students come for one hour on their normal lesson day. They play through their pieces and we go through performance tips, etiquette and any other things I need them to know about the recital....
Flashback Friday!
Recital season is upon is. Maybe yours is already done? Mine is next week! Just thought I would re-post an idea that worked great in my studio last year. Did again this year! It's working out great! Visit: An Idea For Your Recital Program Best wishes to everyone and...
Be Our Guest! Common Time: Creating Community Within Your Studio
I'm happy to introduce our March guest, Megan Desmarais. You will want to make sure you read her post as it is filled with wonderful ideas. Be sure to visit her blog, Pianissimo- a very piano blog when you get the chance. Common Time: Creating Community Within Your...
Free Halloween Music
This week my students have been picking out Halloween music to play in our yearly Halloween Festival. If you are new to the blog, you might not be aware of my early elementary halloween pieces you can download for free! Click here to find them. Enjoy!
An idea for your recital program
This year in my studio students earned jewels throughout the year for different accomplishments. Next week at our group lesson (post recital) party I am holding an auction so students can "spend" their jewels (we did a pirate theme). I have 36 students that...
Halloween Festival
Happy Halloween! A week and a half ago was my studio Halloween Festival. I always like to do some kind of pass along game during the event. The trick is to think outside the box so I'm not doing the same thing every year. This year I had the idea to do a trick or...