Each year our state association commissions a composer to write a piece of music. This year’s composition, Impressions, is a piece for Quartet – piano, violin, viola and cello – by Miriam Overholt. When asked by our Commission Composer Chairperson what he could share with us about her, she responded: “A Mom can write music.” […]
Musical ESP: Expressively Synthesized Performance
Dr. Carolyn E. True is currently giving this session. She is our guest artist/clinician for the weekend and her performance last night was delightful. Her sessions today promise to be equally so: Dr. True began with a performance of China Gates by John Adams and encouraged us to think back to a day when we […]
Improvising is Easy!
Well, I didn’t plan to live blog at all from the conference, but since I have free wi-fi here and I”m sitting in an interesting workshop, I figured, why not? 🙂 Nancy Blockcolsky, our KMTA President-Elect, is giving this workshop – Improvising is Easy! – and is giving us a systematic approach to teaching improvisation […]
This Week in Photos
I’m thinking of starting a new weekly post idea…throughout the week I’ll take pictures of various activities and lessons in my studio and then on Friday I’ll put up a post with a couple of favorite pictures. What do you think? Since I’m leaving tonight for our annual state music teachers conference, I’ll post this […]
Too Funny!
Poor Mario Ajero must not have any piano-playing friends…he has to resort to playing duets with himself… 🙂
Win a Free Piano Bears Musical Storybooks collection!
Rebecca over at Piano Teacher’s Retreat is hosting a giveaway. Go visit her site and comment to get your name in a drawing for a chance to win your own Piano Bears Musical Storybooks collection! Read Rebecca’s review of the collection here.
