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I am a local voice and piano teacher for the Lancaster, PA area. in Music Education, and have taught both privately and in schools for several years. I teach using a combination of teaching methods: Kodaly, Suzuki, and several others. I have taught students as young as 4 yrs. I also have experience in teaching children both physical and mental disabilities. Music can be a wonderful and fulfilling experience for everyone!
07/20/2018
As I always tell my students, it's never about playing perfectly, it's about being prepared, doing your best when you're really nervous, and training yourself to move on when you make a mistake.
How Juilliard Teaches Musicians to Handle Stress – Thrive Global – Medium Their techniques can work for people in many fields, too.
04/21/2018
After being given a 13 page, nightmare accompaniment by Schumann 1 week before a concert, I'm thinking I might write a Soloist's Guide to Keeping your Accompanist from Killing You. It might look something like this (with the explanation that every yes is multiplied by at least x days of practice).
1. Is the piece by Debussy, Schumann or Schubert?
2. Is it an orchestral reduction?
3. Is it filled with triplets at a ridiculously fast tempo for more than 4 pages?
4. Are there so many notes and accidentals scattered everywhere that you have to squint to read the music?
5. Do your hands need to be the size of Rachmaninoff's to reach most of the chords?
6. If you find a recording of the piece, is the accompanist also named and takes a bow before or after the performance?
If the answer is yes to more than one of these, you should've given you accompanist the music weeks ago.
Accompanists: the unsung heroes of music They get little credit and less pay than the singers they support. So why do accompanists do it? Tom Service finds out
11/11/2017
This is so true!
QUIT TELLING YOUR KIDS THEY CAN’T SING This blog will take a sharp turn for the serious, this subject has been churning around in me for a long time. My Dad heard me waxing on about this last week and he thought I ought to blog it, fun…
08/12/2017
This is such an important article for singers everywhere.
Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice? The long read: More and more singers are cancelling big shows and turning to surgery to fix their damaged vocal cords. But is the problem actually down to the way they sing?
07/08/2017
A wonderful article on the importance of vocal cross-training.
Broadway Actresses Who Demonstrate the Importance of Vocal Cross-Training Vocal cross-training is extremely important for musical theatre singers today, and this goes far beyond ‘style’.
Musical genius at work! This is something that even my youngest students start to learn: something big begins with a small, simple pattern and can be expanded and contracted from there. AMAZING!
01/16/2017
Love this!
Science Says Piano Players’ Brains Are Very Different From Everybody Else’s Find out how the brain of a piano player is significantly different from other people, by virtue of the multi-tasking required to play the instrument.
Yes!
This is so cool. When people ask me what experience I had before taking on piano/voice students with disabilities, I would say "Not much, but I'm very creative and resourceful and equally as goal-oriented."
09/02/2016
If you want to know what parts of the body you are using when singing, here is a good little post about that.
Lead Vocals - Anatomy of the Voice Lead Vocals is a free of charge resource for aspiring vocalists, who are learning the craft of singing and who practice their art by singing along to playback recordings and to other selected musical performances on video.
What an inspiration!
I want to give a shout out to all of my students who performed last night. They did such a great job and I am so very proud of them all :)
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