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Build resilience and creativity with experienced and qualified teachers in a nurturing environment that helps you SHINE! Helen Perris Music Studio is a boutique music school in the Blacktown/Hills District of Western Sydney. We create bespoke lessons to cater to the exact needs of our students and clients because we understand that circumstances, learning styles, and brain wiring differs from stud
17/06/2026
***40 PIECES CHALLENGE***
Our 40 Pieces Challenge for 2026 is well underway and we have our first group of students who have hit the 40 piece milestone. By learning so much music, these students are changing their brains every week!
Congratulations to the following students:
Ms L
Ms V
Ms E
Ms S
Ms S
Ms A
Well done and great work!
Some people call what we do “music education”. All we know is that our piano and voice lessons are super addictive and have our students leaving completely changed. 😉🎶
14/06/2026
There is so much more going on behind the scenes at a music school than people realise!
10/06/2026
While learning is its own reward, we do like to acknowledge the special efforts that our students put into their piano lessons. As part of our 40 Pieces Challenge, we give certificates to all students for every ten pieces learnt from 40 pieces onwards, and when they reach 100 pieces in a challenge year, they are awarded a medal.
Congratulations to these six students who earned their 100 Pieces Medal in 2025 and were presented with them at (or just after) our concert earlier this year:
Ms A, Ms E, Mr L, Mr R, Ms V and Ms E.
Well done!
09/06/2026
Can you believe that we are now in June? It's getting colder and we are rapidly approaching the mid-year Winter break.
Here's some of our May highlights.
If you’re only learning 3-6 pieces a year, you’re doing it wrong.
You heard me. Focussing on 3-6 pieces a year is the recipe for quitting your instrument and not being able to play again.
A repertoire-rich approach where students have a large variety of musical experiences enables them to go both broad and deep. It gives them the musical skills to continue playing long after lessons have finished, and it provides them with more of the benefits that will permeate the rest of their lives, setting them up for success in whatever career they choose.
Our students do the 40 pieces challenge every year and most learn well over 40 pieces. How much repertoire is your child playing?
Oh look, it’s our new favourite student, coming to learn piano and voice with us!
If you’d like to be our new favourite music student, drop us a “LESSONS” in the comments and we will get back to you. We promise it’ll actually be us and not an AI bot.
06/06/2026
It was very much the end of an era this week, as Marni had her last lesson at HPMS after 11 years and 4 months at the studio. We don’t usually make a big deal of students when they leave, but Marni is such a stalwart of HPMS that only Bella and Helen herself have been here for longer. So it definitely seems appropriate to do a Marni appreciation post.
I’m going to get very sentimental here, but I need to impress upon you all how important Marni has been to us, and how special she is.
Marni is one of our hardest working students. She started lessons in 2015 as a high school voice student with big dreams of being in theatre, but a lot of technical issues. She has constantly worked towards that goal, building her voice to the absolute powerhouse it now is, working professionally as a performer and being cast in several dream roles. Her incredible resilience has helped her to keep striving after every setback. A couple of years ago, Marni decided to start learning piano and at this year’s concert, accompanied herself singing an absolute banger of a song. There is literally nothing she can’t do once she sets her mind to it.
Her dedication to her lessons saw her maintaining her weekly appointment online, even managing time zones differences, from car parks, motel rooms, or the back of her van as she travelled Australia for the best part of a year. Always reliable, Marni has helped out with concert organisation and been a sounding board for ideas. She has been a role model and unofficial mentor for so many of our younger students. Marni is, without a doubt, one of HPMS’s biggest success stories. We are so incredibly proud of the amazing woman she has become.
We wish Marni all the very best for her new adventure overseas and hope to see her back again when she returns to Australia sometime in the future.
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Could I have done what Sterling did? Maybe! I would need to see the score to be able to tell. I'm really good at a skill called "comping" where I improvise accompaniments, and my sight reading is decent to a point, but the exposed solos may have been too much pressure in the moment.
Could you? How are your sight-reading skills? How are your improvisational skills? Are you learning enough music to develop these skills?
Also, a shout out to friend of HPMS,
who had three hours notice to play the entire gig on the following day! Clearly he has the sight reading skills as well.
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| Wednesday | 3:30pm - 7:30pm |
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