PARENTS, I NEED YOUR HELP!

PARENTS, I NEED YOUR HELP!

I love my students. I have mainly children, but I also have a wonderful group of adults. It is the children’s practice time that I am addressing here. My next studio recital will be in a couple of weeks. Recitals are an important goal for progress! I try to have...
WHY CAN’T MY CHILD READ NOTES?

WHY CAN’T MY CHILD READ NOTES?

How is it possible? Normal intelligence, high intelligence, early readers, late readers, why can’t my child read music notes? Why doesn’t my child look up to look at the notes? I see this issue all the time. I would say that about 1/4 of my studio is comprised of...
ADULTS WHO LEARN DIFFERENTLY

ADULTS WHO LEARN DIFFERENTLY

ADULTS WHO LEARN DIFFERENTLY – I have taken some time off to totally focus on my next program which will be the Schumann Piano Quintet and the Shostakovich Piano Quintet. More about that later! Under my site’s recital tab, I have put links to my live...
Is there such a thing as Musical Dyslexia?

Is there such a thing as Musical Dyslexia?

Is there such a thing as Musical Dyslexia? First, an update to my last blog post and the frustrated young student: My student’s mother started working with her child consistently, daily, even just 15 or 20 minutes a day, and…(BEHOLD!)  a new attitude in piano lessons...
Piano Students’ Parents

Piano Students’ Parents

I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel! I am fully vaccinated and so are all my students’ parents. Some of my students’ parents  are asking if they can resume in-person piano lessons in my home. They may have been frustrated by having their child’s...
ZOOM PIANO RECITAL THOUGHTS

ZOOM PIANO RECITAL THOUGHTS

I’m finally relaxing after my piano students’ Zoom recital!  This was the 3rd recital I’ve had on Zoom, and I think there are both  pros and cons. 14 of my students played today, ranging in age from 7-16. (My adult piano recital will be next week.) I started having...