Piano Lessons with Craig

Piano Lessons with Craig I teach piano from my home studio in Queen Creek, or via Zoom. My specialties are classical, music theory, sight-reading and practice techniques.

I'm a member of MTAC and several of my students participate in the Certificate of Merit program.

Here's a real charmer. I liked it enough to play it at my students' recital on the 18th. Enjoy!
05/23/2024

Here's a real charmer. I liked it enough to play it at my students' recital on the 18th. Enjoy!

Scarlatti was a master of motivic writing. Notice the little rhythm that he places at the end of many of the phrases (two 32nd notes to a 16th note). He does...

Here's K. 22. I hope you'll enjoy it!
05/23/2024

Here's K. 22. I hope you'll enjoy it!

In K. 21, Scarlatti raised the ante of hand crossing, writing large sections using the technique. In K. 22, Scarlatti takes it to the next level! The differe...

This was a toughie. Such incredible keyboard writing! I love how it never lets up for a moment. Enjoy!
05/22/2024

This was a toughie. Such incredible keyboard writing! I love how it never lets up for a moment. Enjoy!

Four minutes of unrelenting intensity! I'd like to dedicate this recording to my friend, Patrick Norris, who asked me a couple of months ago if I was familia...

Here's a new one from Friday morning. Enjoy!
05/05/2024

Here's a new one from Friday morning. Enjoy!

Such a enjoyable, challenging piece! At the beginning, Scarlatti clearly wants you to trill the top note of several right hand interval (3rds and 6ths), but ...

I hope you'll enjoy this charming dance from Scarlatti, K. 17.
05/04/2024

I hope you'll enjoy this charming dance from Scarlatti, K. 17.

Fun fact: I was getting worse, not better, the more I practiced the descending triplet figures at the end of each section. The intent was obvious - play this...

K. 16 ready for you listening pleasure. Enjoy!
05/03/2024

K. 16 ready for you listening pleasure. Enjoy!

The variety of these sonatas is breathtaking. Here we have an upbeat excursion into B flat major, with trill for days (I followed Scott Ross' example and omi...

This 4-voice Fugue was a great challenge. I started working on it 5 months ago, in order to give myself an extra month t...
03/10/2022

This 4-voice Fugue was a great challenge. I started working on it 5 months ago, in order to give myself an extra month to prepare. It's densely written and stretches to 6 pages, as opposed to the usual two pages of most of the other Fugues. I hope you enjoy all 5 minutes of it!

"This Fugue is sprawling in terms of the amount of material in the subject, the number of entries of the subject, and its length. The A minor Fugue has 37 en...

Here's the 1st mvmt of the Moonlight. The nickname came 5 years after Beethoven's death, when a music critic, Ludwig Rel...
02/18/2022

Here's the 1st mvmt of the Moonlight. The nickname came 5 years after Beethoven's death, when a music critic, Ludwig Rellstab, said that the piece reminded him of an evening excursion on Lake Lucerne by the light of the moon.

"Beethoven always sounds good." - Ivan Y (age 9), who arrived for his lesson while I was playing this piece"The "Moonlight" Sonata is not only the most famou...

Here's the charming Allegretto from the famous Moonlight Sonata. Enjoy!
02/11/2022

Here's the charming Allegretto from the famous Moonlight Sonata. Enjoy!

"A little flower between two abysses." - Franz Liszt"Its grace displays a melancholy poetry." - Charles Rosen, Beethoven scholar and pianist

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