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"The teacher-student relationship is incredibly important, regardless of the age of the student, and a positive, supportive and mutually...

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Joe, my neighbor-piano mentor friend pictured here before he played my Duchess, loves to prepare for months for his student recital every...

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Last night I played Schumann's "Traumerie," Mendelssohn's "Confidence (intermediate arrangement)," Schumann's "Foreign Lands," Aram...

Shaky self esteem and self confidence seem to be major challenges for many senior or "older" adult piano students. A former piano teacher...

Opera singer Joyce DiDonato, a mezzo-soprano, is a miracle maker. In a 45-minute Mistress Class mezzo-soprano DiDonato transformed a...

Love him or hate him -- there's just no "in between." Is he the best (or worst) pianist who has ever lived or who is alive today? Some in...

Today after a short conversation with my composer-pianist friend Bruce, this strange idea came to me: Do you think up there somewhere in...

At the end of March, 2023 I will accomplish 24 months of weekly piano lessons. So what do I wish I had known before I returned to study...

Bruce, a composer-pianist-broker friend who is significant to my growing musical confidence and knowledge, recently asked why my music...

I was reading two poems about “Inner Voices,” in a manuscript of Ann’s second volume of poetry which is scheduled for publication later...

Being an amateur pianist who studies in individual zoom lessons at home, is a lonely affair. It occurred to me after about a year of such...

I'm eternally curious about what makes for an effective piano teacher. Here's a helpful list of 19 common elements present in the methods...

Words fascinate me. When I was in early grammar school and it was about time to leave for school in the morning, my mom used to find me...

After the just-past 21 months of piano lessons, I have arrived at the conclusion that there are no (or very, very few) "best practices"...

The more I delve into new words and concepts from the world of music, the more I find ambiguity and vagueness. So often the experts I...

I'm an exuberant lover of health and the arts. As a “baby boomer” child growing up in Texas and at the urging of my mother, I pursued...