Sarah Barclay Piano Teaching

06/28/2024

State conference! Local friends!

Spokane chapter members showing up at the State Conference, attending fellow member's presentation!

06/07/2024

Studio Recap! It's been a great year, and fun to review all of our achievements!

12/20/2023

My very first arrangement is finished & published! As a teacher, I'm regularly taking classes to find new things to help my students and improve my own musicianship. This was a wonderful process, and it felt like writing a novel! A lot of fun taking this arranging class with a fabulous and skilled mentor, Bradley Sowash Music . Link to arrangement in comments. 🎹🎶🎄Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful.

03/16/2023

Congrats to our wonderful student for being selected to perform in the honors recital Saturday night at Steinway Piano Gallery of Spokane . Out of over 300 participating students, 40 were selected to perform here! Skyline Elementary 2nd grade representing!

12/15/2022

Deck the Halls this morning Skyline Elementary elementary

05/16/2022

Such a full week of music and trying new things! Kids did a fantastic job on their pieces, the adjudicators were great, and made it fun for the kids. I also did some fill in work for the musical on keyboards as a student got sick and couldn't finish out the shows!!!

06/21/2021

This was really interesting and not at all what I was expecting! Part of the story intertwines with Nazi-occupied Denmark which was enlightening, and the opening scene with a surgical clean room operating on a locket had my interest! And the exchanges between iconic composers was awesome! I absolutely LOVED one of the conclusions about Beethoven's clarity of thought and mental toughness.

05/09/2021

When people say "give the gift of music" this is what it means to me.

This is a piece of music I very specifically remember working on with Mr. Saggert. Internally I want to criticize so many parts of this but that isn't the point today.

It is a rough version of a beautiful Debussy Piece called Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum.

I grew up the oldest of 6 kids, with a dedicated (and boy do I mean dedicated) stay at home mom! Finances were tight as you may well imagine, but my mom made piano lessons happen for me. In fact, I really don't know how she and my dad managed it as I look back with adult eyes.

This piece represents my mom finding me a concert pianist to learn from.

My mom always wanted to play the piano, but she made it happen for me. There were so many untold sacrifices and a determination to give her children more than she had.

To me this piece will always mean my mom's determination and sacrifices.

Thanks mom for the gift of music. ❤🎹🎶

05/05/2021

My first class in 21 years! 😍