Harmonia Conservatory

Zoom Piano party/recital December 12, Friday 7 pm
Link will be sent Friday.
Students are invited to share a Christmas carol or Certificate of Meritvpiece with the group. We will have a piano decorating contest,cand an ugly Christmas sweater contest.

Soka Performing Arts Center features outstanding world class musicians. They offer discounts to students with ID. Check them out! Parking is free.

Halloween was celebrated with spooky music and treats for those who celebrated it. One student dressed as his favorite composer, Chopin!

Carol at Cookies Fantastique made the most gorgeous cookies for my last recital.

Recital time. Students played beautifully. Certificate of Merit handed out. Trophies to the 40 piece piano challenge winners. Ribbons to the MTAC convention honors winners. Bravo !

MTAC Baroque Festival winner!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas here at the piano studio. The students really look forward to playing their favorite carols and Hanukkah songs.

So proud of my former student. Started him at age 8. Now he is a USC grad and film composer.

Fascinating article about a fine composer. I met her at a convention once and heard the premiere of “Fanfare for the Common Woman”.

Composer Joan Tower is finally going easy on herself With plenty of humor, the octogenarian talks about her far-reaching career — including why she fled the modernist school of composers — and some mysterious visitations from her dead heroes.

Good advice

“The ability to work out a new piece in a slow, secure rhythm, even on the first reading, is one of the key ingredients in successful practice. Later, when a piece is ready for public performance, one of the best tests of security is to play a fast piece at half tempo or a slow piece at double tempo.” - Frances Clark

Shout out to Carol at Cookies Fantastique for the popular piano cookies.