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Student Showcase Saturday

Happy Saturday everyone!

This week’s performers are Myra, Zachary, Grace, Karissa and Nikash. They will be performing the following pieces:

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Alejandra Diaz-Acosta Alejandra Diaz-Acosta

Student Showcase Saturday

Hello all! I hope you enjoy this week’s performances. My students will be performing pieces from Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Miles, Wilhelm Friedman Bach and Edward Grieg. I'm so

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Student Showcase Saturday

Happy 4th of July! This week we have students playing pieces from composers including: Ludwig Van Beethoven, Thomas Attwood, 

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Speed limit: 25 mph

One day, a friend of my family, and a genius Cuban pianist stayed at our house the night before her performance at Carnegie Hall. She sat on the sofa and read her concerto as if she were reading a novel. She started to practice and my dad called me down to listen to her practice her warm-up exercises. "Do you hear how she is practicing? She is one of the most incredible concert pianists. Listen to how slowly she is practicing." I'm 99% sure I

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Alejandra Diaz-Acosta Alejandra Diaz-Acosta

Student Showcase Saturday

Here are this week’s performances. They did a great job playing pieces by Beethoven, Schubert, Bach and more! Enjoy!

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Student Showcase Saturday

Hi all! I want to share with you a new series we’ll be doing. In my years at Manhattan School of Music Precollege, there was a showcase called music hour. Basically, students would perform one piece in a performance space to practice playing in front of an audience.

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COVID-19 VS. In person lessons

I make my living teaching piano. I’ve taught lessons at music schools, my students’ homes and my home studio. But what does one do when you’re not allowed to go outside? I’ve adapted as we’ve all had to and started my first week of teaching online lessons. I’m not going to lie; I never understood how online lessons could work with piano, but it totally does work! Here are some things that have made online lessons work smoothly for me:

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Here’s how I go about a student's first piano lesson

There's something so special about giving someone their very first piano lesson. Be it the 4 year old who has been begging their parents to learn piano, the 16 year old who really wants to learn that song they heard on the radio or the 57 year old who has always wanted to learn piano but never came around to it; there's usually a healthy dose of nervousness, excitement and child-like energy!

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How I became a piano teacher

I grew up in a musical household. My father is a concert pianist and professor, my sister an opera singer and my mom a lover of music. My father had piano student’s day and night. As a kid, I would come home from school and my father would be teaching. Sometimes there would be yelling at the lack of practice but most always, there was laughter and enjoyment at both ends.

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