Crescendo Piano Studio

06/03/2026

To all my brave adult music students, thanks for joining me in the studio!

Over the past twenty-five years, the vast majority of my piano students have been children and teens. I expected this. I, after all, started my lessons at the age of seven and continued all the way…

05/24/2026

First weekend morning coffee on the deck!

10/09/2025

08/28/2025

This is the time of year where I still enjoy sharpening pencils and stocking up on notebooks--good thing I'm a piano and guitar teacher so I have a good excuse to peruse the school supplies aisle 😀

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07/02/2025

Some of the things I like best about summer: cold meals eaten outdoors, a bouquet of peonies, and forgetting what time it is.

04/30/2025

https://imagineitinwriting.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/the-thread-of-music/

Occasionally, while scrolling through Facebook, I find an inspirational saying that seems to hit the nail right on the head. On April 13, right before I was packing up for a short stay in Sylvan La…

09/08/2024

Things to do on a fantastically hot weekend: read (applicable on any day, really), enjoy live music at an outdoor concert (Roots, Blues, and Barbecue at the Badlands Ampitheatre--wow!), and washing my Jeep in the driveway. No complaints here.

05/20/2024

https://imagineitinwriting.wordpress.com/2024/05/20/emotional-journeys/

I’ve never been a natural performer. Maybe it’s to do with all my festival and RCM exam experiences which, in my day, seemed as much about rattling the musician as offering her an opportunity to pe…

01/11/2024