Congratulations!

Congratulations to our many piano students who have recently completed successful fall sports seasons!  Best wishes to those who still have a few tournaments left to play.

Good luck to those who are starting to play winter sports too!

Our piano students are very busy with many extra curricular activities in addition to piano lessons!  These students are learning valuable time management skills.

Miss Madison

Please join me in a huge round of applause for Miss Madison!  She successfully completed her Level 2B Piano Adventures Series Books this evening!  She has already started to work on her Level 3 "Green Books".  When Miss Madison is not playing the piano, she can be found playing soccer, field hockey or basketball.  Congratulations Madison!

MIss Natalie & Miss Jason

Congratulations to Miss Natalie and Mr. Jason for doing a terrific job playing songs from memory on the organ at a local science center.  The guests at the center were able to recognize the songs & commended them on doing a wonderful job!  Hooray!

Miss Natalie also played one of her winter holiday recital songs from memory at her choir practice.  People in the area were wowed by her performance.

Nursing Home Recital

Please join me in a huge round of applause for Jackie, Serena, Sydney, Abigail, Emily, Jason, Natalie, Grant and Ellen who played the piano at a local nursing home for the residents.  All of our students did a terrific job! 

Thank you to students who visited with the residents following the recital.

Thank you to the students who played additional songs that they were not planning to perform.

Thank you to the students and parents for being patient as we had a significant communication failure, which was completely my fault, about what time we were to begin the recital. 

Thank you to the residents for being an incredible audience!

Thank you to the nursing home staff for sharing donuts and punch with our students following the recital.

We are looking forward to another recital at this nursing home on December 6th.  The time is yet to be confirmed. 

Miss Jordyn

Congratulations to Miss Jordyn!  She recently performed "A Song About Cats" for her 2nd grade music class at her school on the piano.  Jordyn said she enjoyed having everyone clap for her.  Hooray for Jordyn!

Best wishes

Best wishes to all of our students who are heading back to school!  I hope you have a terrific year full of fun, friends and learning!  Keep in mind that your hard work can pay off for you with entries into the "Good Grades Jar".

Our Harry Potter Inspired Music Class

As you can clearly see from the photos above, we had a TERRIFIC time with our Harry Potter Inspired Music Class!  I think that my husband and I had as much fun as our students!  All of our students who are working from Level 1 lesson books or higher were invited to this special one time only group piano class!  Many students arrived in costumes and/ or brought props!  All of the students enjoyed snacks, including Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans & listened to some Harry Potter Soundtracks.  I think that the ear wax & soap flavors were more popular over booger, black pepper, dirt, earthworm, grass, rotten egg, vomit & sausage flavors.  All of the students (also known as Muggles & Half Bloods) watched a documentary on the music and sounds effects of the Harry Potter Movies.  During the documentary, we had paused to have multiple discussions about how important a soundtrack is to a movie, how the music was composed & transposed, etc.  Our Muggles LOVED the interviews with the composers!  Following the documentary, our students were "sorted" into houses for a special project.  Thank you to my friend, Patti, for letting us borrow her Sorting Hat.  Thank you to my friend, Michael, for letting us borrow his cauldron!  Once our students were sorted into houses, we formed alliances and went into the piano studio to study a simple version of "Hedwig's Theme".  Then our houses of Hufflepuff and Gryffindor worked together while Ravenclaw and Slytherin worked together.  Each of the two teams recreated their own version of "Hedwig's Theme" and performed it for the other houses and parents.  As a souvenir of our journey, each student received several Harry Potter silly bands to wear & trade.  So much fun was had by all!  Thank you to all of our students who participated!