Master Drew

Congratulations to our piano student, Drew, who successfully tried out for a traveling competitive league baseball team!  Drew will be playing baseball 5 days a week!  Drew will also continue his piano lessons and practice!  Congratulations Drew!  We are proud of you!

Nursing Home Recital

Please join me in a standing ovation for our students who did an amazing job playing the piano for the residents of a local nursing home!

Our fantastic performers were:
Charlie
Rachel
Sebastian
Gracie
Adelyn
Bridget
Charlotte
Lucy
Stacie
Ellie
Celeste
Grant

A lot of the students and their parents joined us at a local frozen yogurt shop afterwards to celebrate! 

It was a fantastic evening of fun!  It was wonderful to share our talents with the residents who were extremely grateful that we came to visit and perform.

Thank you to our performers!  Thank you to all of the parents who made the evening happen!

Master Alex

Please join me in welcoming Master Alex to our piano family next week.  I am looking forward to working with Alex at the piano!

Miss Lucy

Please join me in a huge warm welcome to Miss Lucy!  Miss Lucy will be joining our piano family this week!  Lucy has been teaching herself to play the piano from her sister's books.  I am thrilled and excited to work with her at the piano bench!

Piano Performance Pizza Party / Class

We had our 1st ever Piano Performance Pizza Party!

We ate Popcorn, Pretzels, Pepperoni Pizza, and "Plain" Pizza aka double cheese Pizza!

When we were "Parched" we had Pink lemonade!

We had Plenty of food before we went to class...

We laughed, we learned, we made new friends, we got to know friends better!  We all practiced introducing ourselves and had to tell everyone something interesting about ourselves that no one else in the room already knew!  That was fun!

We had a lively discussion about stage fright, and how to overcome it!

We practiced performing in front of each other on the grand piano and practiced being a good audience.  We talked about how Practice makes Perfect!

Then the students begged me to play.  So I played a Pop song while the students had a dance party - talk about distractions!  WHEW!  Then I played a piece of classical music (Pachelbel Canon in D) while the students shouted out the different emotions they thought the piece represented.  Then the students crowded around the grand piano to watch all of the moving parts.  Again that was quite distracting.  So we concluded about how we worked through the distractions and fears!  It was a Positive and Perfect Piano Performance Pizza Party! All of the students earned pretty certificates and had a folder of goodies to take home!

Thank you to all of our students who participated!  Thank you to all of the parents who chauffeured the students tonight!

Good night!  This piano teacher is pleasantly tired!

Miss Celeste Continued

Congratulations to Miss Celeste!  Celeste recently performed in a local performance of High School Musical 2.  Celeste had a terrific time, however, she informed me that hanging out backstage was the most fun!  Hooray for Celeste!

Miss Celeste

Please join me in congratulating Miss Celeste!  Celeste successfully auditioned for a role in a local production of a Rodgers & Hammerstein Musical! 

My homework was to locate my collection of Rodgers & Hammerstein music.  I completed my homework and I am looking forward to sharing it with Celeste!