This week I finally took a risk, doing something scared, playing through and making the final video of Gnomes by Modest Moussorgsky, from the Pictures at an Exhibition. It's not perfect, yet it's workable. I still have tons of work, yet grateful to get to this point. Hope you enjoy what I've learned. Maybe one day I'll return to the song. Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy has been on my "radar" for many years and I finally took the risk and "did it scared". I'm so blessed to ha

I started in late August with my piano and voice students on Halloween songs. Here are two short songs: Monsters Everywhere and the main theme of In the Hall of the Mountain King. I gave them another song, yet so proud of them for trying these short pieces. What did your students learn for Halloween? Would like to know. Thanks for your support. Blessings.

This week I'm introducing some ideas that are definitely bigger than myself regarding to vocal and piano selections. I'm working on letting each vocal student decide a song and they will lead it and the rest of the vocal/piano students will be the "back-up". The piano students will learn some duets, trios and quartets to play with each other. I'm really excited about this event. Yet I'm curious what are some of your favorite Christmas Songs? I know it's only October, yet we h

Every teacher out there is working hard to get their students to develop practicing skills, yet I'll be honest I've been in the "battle" of getting two of my students to work on any piano music. One student is "fighting" me every week, even though the parents are making the student take lessons. It's a literal "battle" to find piano music that they want to play or not get an attitude, no matter how kind or stern I will be. However, the student and I keep showing up. What I've

My students did a fabulous job at "A Howling Fall Studio Event" . You blew me away with all your hard work. Thanks to everyone who made...

During my birthday week in August, I created a song and finally had a chance to make a video and share it. Life has been busy returning...