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My heart is full!! So proud of all my students for a wonderful evening of music! Please post photos and videos here!
So excited to start new music this week!!

This is so cool!

Did you know that a 3-year old (top left image) and a 6-year old (top right image) have significantly different skeletal structure in their hands?! Notice the bones in the wrist of the 3-year old -- many of them are still mostly cartilage! Look at all the spaces in between the bones where muscles and tendons will change through the years. Even the difference between a 6-year old and a 14-year old (lower right) is huge!

Preschoolers have SO much development to do before they can write the way school-aged children or adults can!

Please do NOT stress if your preschooler does not want to write or draw. Some love it and some don't.

While they are growing, strengthen those little bones and muscles! Here are some great pre-writing, muscle-strengthening activities:

* painting, drawing, coloring
* playdough
* tearing and cutting
* gluing
* poking holes in things (try toothpicks and paper!)
* digging in dirt
* building with LEGOS, marble runs, or other blocks
* beading (try beads, cut straws, or even bobbins!)
* puzzles
* squeezing (try stress balls, squeezing water in a sponge, or using a pipette)
* picking up and throwing balls (use different sizes!)
* playing with toys (watch what their little fingers do when they pick up and move little cars, marbles, action figures, etc!)
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These all strengthen and help develop little hands, muscles, and bones. When they are physically ready to write, it will be so much easier than if they were pushed when they didn't want to and weren't ready!

Young People's Concerts

Please take your children to hear live music!!!!

Young People's Concerts https://newhavensymphony.org/events/category/young-peoples-concerts-events/

Such a proud day today! Brady as Troy in High School Musical Jr, then Tim as Willard in Footloose! You were both awesome!!!

97-year-old pianist, and last surviving pupil of Rachmaninov, signs landmark record deal

How often do I tell my students that music is something they will still be able to do when they’re 97?!

97-year-old pianist, and last surviving pupil of Rachmaninov, signs landmark record deal Former child prodigy and the last-living pupil of Sergei Rachmaninov, pianist Ruth Slenczynska celebrates her astonishing nine-decade long career with a new album.

Teenage skiing prodigy credits ‘nine years of piano playing’ for Gold medal at Winter Olympics

“I’ve played piano for nine years, so I am very attuned to a sense of rhythm.”

Teenage skiing prodigy credits ‘nine years of piano playing’ for Gold medal at Winter Olympics China’s star freestyle skier, Ailing (Eileen) Gu, plays piano during her downtime at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

Russell Wilson - When The Saints Go Marching In

If you think this is cool.....go practice!!!

Russell Wilson - When The Saints Go Marching In http://member.tripod.com/~oldtimepiano/ Highlights of the 2010 Old-Time Piano Contest held Memorial Day weekend at the Hotel Pere Marquette in Peoria, IL. Ru...

Students! Piano Maestro has a summer camp feature right now! Check it out!!

Music director, Meet Me in St. Louis at Masuk High School this weekend!

IN PERSON lessons begin today!!! Remember to please wait in your car for me to come out for you. This will allow my previous student to leave, and give me a chance to clean the piano keys. Also, please pull over to one side of the driveway, not the middle. Can't wait to see everyone!!!!! Don't forget to bring your books/music!

Beethoven - "Rage Over a Lost Penny" Op. 129 - Rudolf Buchbinder Piano

Great listening for today! Beethoven! https://youtu.be/Wgarw0ULlAs

Beethoven - "Rage Over a Lost Penny" Op. 129 - Rudolf Buchbinder Piano This famous piece by Beethoven was composed in the late 1790s but was left unpublished. Fellow composer Anton Diabelli had the piece published in 1828 so it ...

Ha! How many of you can relate??!! (A teacher friend of mine shared this with me).

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We hope you have this word "yet" in your vocabulary!! 😉😎❤️🎶🎶🎶🎶

Our fall semester is going GREAT! Here’s some great tips for parents.

Fall piano lesson info (all online) was sent out via email today to currently enrolled students. Students that began this summer can choose their lesson day/time starting this Monday. If you received my email, contact me asap to get the day/time of your choice!

Question: why do pianos have 88 keys?

World Piano Day! Go play!

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

Online lessons are going GREAT! Thank you to everyone for being so flexible! Just imagine with all this time at home how much they can learn! Get on those instruments every day!!!

This weekend we're working on setting up e-lessons. That means for the time being, students that are interested will be able to have FaceTime/Skype or Zoom lessons. The studio will be closed to in-person lessons. I'll be in touch!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

If You Want to Accelerate Brain Development in Children, Teach Them Music

Yet again....

If You Want to Accelerate Brain Development in Children, Teach Them Music According to a USC study, music education accelerates brain development in young children, including the area of the brain responsible for language and reading.

I absolutely love this! Parents, please read!!!

It's getting spooky in the piano studio! Practice those fun Halloween pieces!!

Parent support goes sooooooo far!