Crescendo Piano Studio

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

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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…

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.

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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…

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It's time to register for piano lessons! I still have a few time slots available.

♫ Competitive Rates
♫ Royal Conservatory of Music
♫ Contemporary, Jazz, and Chording
♫ Theory and Technique
♫ Composing Your Own Music
♫ Children and Adults Welcome

Please contact me today at [email protected] or 403-518-5858.

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I was learning so many things with the guitar that it required two posts! Here's Part Two, from April 24th.

Guitar Lessons, Part 2 As a Royal Conservatory of Music piano student, I’d always described myself as classically trained which, for me, meant I had a strong background in classical music, a broad term that includes musi…

As a musician, it's always good to stretch yourself. I've been doing this with guitar. Here's Part 1 of that adventure, first posted on April 11 this year.

Guitar Lessons, Part 1 I’ve been playing piano for forty-six years and it’s my favourite instrument. But I also love others—French horn, oboe, cello, and guitar, to name just a few. In high school, I attempted French hor…