If you’ve been following along, last week we had an adventure-filled time at this year’s Piano Expeditions piano camp: To the Grand Canyon with Grofé and His Suite. Now that everything has been tried and tested, the whole package is available for anyone else who wants a ready-to-go piano camp program for use in their […]
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Piano Camp Day Five – To the Grand Canyon with Grofé and His Suite
If I could transmit all the energy that was in our studio at piano camp today your screen would leap out in front of you and break into a wild song and dance! Everything felt like a whirlwind as we tried to fit in all of our activities and prepare for a presentation for the […]
Piano Camp Day Four – To the Grand Canyon with Grofé and His Suite
The most exciting moment of piano camp today came when one of my 8-year old boys finally decided to disclose the “classified” object in his pocket and it proceeded to jump onto the floor! That’s right, it was a real live toad! Truly, never a dull moment! Now, on to other highlights: The light-up drum […]
Piano Camp Day Three – To the Grand Canyon with Grofé and His Suite
Wednesday often feels like a turning point in the piano camp week; the students have grown comfortable with the setting and with one another and tend to be very energetic (a.k.a. naughty). I found this to be true of my younger group today, but not so much with the older ones. Nevertheless, it was still […]
Piano Camp Day Two – To the Grand Canyon with Grofé and His Suite
What a delightful second day we had at piano camp today! With a combination of repetition and variety in the lesson plans each day, the students are becoming more familiar with what to expect and a quick pace keeps anyone from becoming bored. Here are highlights from today’s activities: For our Welcome to Piano Camp […]
Piano Camp Day One – To the Grand Canyon with Grofé and His Suite
IT’S HERE! Piano Expeditions piano camp is one of the highlights of the summer here in our studio, and today was the first day of a week full of fun and learning! Since so many of my students who started out participating in these Piano Expeditions camps five years ago are still coming, I decided […]
