Michelle Cosgrove Flute & Piano Studio

05/17/2026

My student Myla played at Carnegie Hall. Super proud! A nice way to finish out my last term as President of the Philadelphia Music Teachers Association.

09/05/2025

08/24/2025

Studio at BucksMont Bonzeroo this weekend! Chamber music at Exhibit B Gallery on Saturday, The Cos-grooves at Branch Creek Taphouse on Sunday. They all did great!
(Whew, I'm tired.)

08/23/2025

Exhibit B Gallery at noon today!

Day 1 of BucksMont Bonzeroo 2025 has come to an amazing end!. We want to thank all of our AWESOME bands and venues for rocking the house! Most of all we want to thank you all for coming out to show the love!! We'll be kicking it all off at noon tomorrow and hope you'll come out to join the fun. If you have any questions find someone with a Bonzeroo shirt and we can guide you on the path to a good time. Rest well and rock on!! Till tomorrow.

04/14/2025

The Studio and my recorder quartet The Fiplettes visited a local Senior community last Saturday to treat the residents to some music.

02/19/2025

There are more than 20,000 high-school band programs in America, some with as many as 400 members. “Over the past 30 years, their shows have evolved into spectacles that John Philip Sousa couldn’t have imagined,” Burkhard Bilger writes. The top bands have dozens of staff, budgets of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and fleets of trucks for their instruments, props, costumes, and sound systems. “They don’t just parade up and down the field playing fight songs. They flow across it in shifting tableaux, with elaborate themes and spandex-clad dancers, playing full symphonic scores.”

Students rehearse intensely, not to play well at football games, but to prepare for a series of fiercely competitive marching-band contests in the fall, culminating in the Grand National Championships, in Indianapolis. The area is “the capital of the new marching-band culture,” Bilger writes, and has two of the country’s most successful marching band programs: the Avon High School Marching Black and Gold and the Carmel High School Marching Greyhounds.

For last year’s nationals, the Carmel marching band performed Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. “The concerto was hard for any high-school band to tackle, yet the Carmel musicians had to play it from memory, while marching, dancing, and crab-stepping sideways across the field,” Bilger writes. “It’s hard to think of another group activity, past or present, of such complexity.” For our 100th Anniversary Issue, Bilger follows three bands to the national championships and reports on the competitive marching-band circuit. Read more: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/20Utp5

12/06/2024

The Cosgrove Studio is running the Caroling portion of Perkasie First Friday tomorrow, 12/6 starting around 6:15pm. Come hear my recorder quartet The Fiplettes perform at 6pm to regal the entrance of Santa, and stay to sing some carols along with the piano. Instrumentalists welcome!
See the comments on this post to get a QR code to the lyrics AND music

07/11/2024

It's official, I'm finally on a Ten Jinn track! Who knew bribing my friend John Strauss with a case of beer for music history help during my grad degree back in 2007 would lead to this. 😂

BLACKSTAR is a Brand New, Monstrous 10-plus-minute EPIC Release Coming July 19th by Legendary Progressive Art Rockers Ten Jinn.

BLACKSTAR was originally slated for release in 2018 for the release Ziggy Blackstar (a tribute to David Bowie) however the band felt that it would probably have been in bad taste to do that so soon after he died in 2016.

Ten Jinn finally settled on releasing their take on the title track BLACKSTAR now as a stand-alone, this completes the circle for the band, taking them from Ziggy Stardust to BLACKSTAR.

THE BLACKSTAR SESSIONS:
John Paul Strauss – Lead and backing vocals, keyboards
Mark Wickliffe – Drums
Mike Matier – Guitars
Ken Skoglund – Saxes
Matt Overholser – Bass
Matt Brown – Keyboards
Michelle Cosgrove – Flutes, backing vocals

Produced by John Paul Strauss, Ken Skoglund and Mark Wickliffe

Mixed and mastered by Ken Skoglund (Sound Control Sweden)
Artwork by Nick Katona

"music you didn't know you would love"

06/02/2024

No better way to end the academic year than with a party!
My adult students and partners came to my place, we wheeled out the piano and keyboard, and cracked open some wine. Sightread some duets, solos, and resurrected our California Dreamin ensemble from last year's Porchfest.

No pics, but lasting memories. What a blast!

05/11/2024