Cherisse Miller Piano Studio

12/28/2022

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05/15/2022

THIS is your brain on :

03/14/2022

Look who has an article published in spring issue. I’m so excited.

SPRING ISSUE RELEASE: We are thrilled to announce that the Spring 2022 issue of Piano Magazine is now LIVE on our website! Read the flipbook here: https://bit.ly/3tacObP

This issue explores the theme of making meaningful music with all students. It features an interview with Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero, as well as articles about inspiring creativity and artistry with students of all levels and abilities.

Highlighted articles:
-Gabriela Montero: From Advocacy to Artistry— An Interview with Luis Sanchez
-Create to Motivate: Using Repertoire to Incorporate Creativity in Lessons, Chee-Hwa Tan
-Undefined by Hearing Loss: My Career in Music, Cherisse Miller
-The Seven Types of Rest: Strategies for Recovery, Paola Savvidou
-Sounding Florence Price for a New Century, Samantha Ege

Links to all in the comments.

Additional contributors: Pamela D. Pike, Olivia Ellis, Jennifer Snow, Debra Perez, Laura Beauchamp-Williamson, Carmen Doubrava, Choong-ha Nam, Nicholas Phillips, Suzanne Schons, Daniel Glover, Ivan Hurd, Ernst Kramer, Sarah Rushing

03/03/2022

This week some of my students are gearing up to perform at a local festival.

Getting a piece up to performance level is not easy and then there's more work to be done after that's accomplished!

The next task is to prepare for what happens when a mistake creeps in during a performance.

We're human and errors will happen. But with good planning, errors don't need to derail a performance. They should seem like a small "bump" in the road and not a pothole.

Unfortunately, pianists can't take their piano with them so good planning includes getting to know the foreign piano they are about to perform on.

That's why I equip students with a "warmup" plan. More like a ritual that they use to kill the "chatter in their head" and check out how the piano responds--how much weight does it take to create a forte sound, how light of touch works to create a quiet sound...etc.

Click on the link and you'll find a FRESH freebie at my site called "How to Make Friends with a Foreign Piano."

Perfect is a worthy goal but recovery from imperfection is reality.

https://www.leilaviss.com/make-friends-with-a-foreign-piano

02/27/2022

China’s star freestyle skier, Ailing (Eileen) Gu, plays piano during her downtime at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

02/23/2022

02/23/2022

What do you think.....thanks to Classical Music World Wide for sharing.....

01/02/2021

You are never too old to learn something new.

It can be a scary thing to start something new later in life. Martin Buzacott, with the help of ABC Classic listeners, explains why you should take up learning an instrument.

06/16/2020

We can play so much better if we are willing to make the effort required to develop precision.

03/28/2020

A standard piano has 88 keys: 52 white and 36 black. But who decided this number would be the norm, and why?