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Welcome to my Blog! Here you can find monthly student features, introductions to my favorite composers, content that I create, and links to helpful resources. Enjoy!
Student Feature: Léa
Léa memorized a beautiful arrangement of "True Colors" by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly as part of a student collaboration for her school's 2020 end-of-year music video. She did a wonderful job! (Credit to Faithe Hackett for the arrangement. )
HD Piano Studio Policies
First and foremost thank you for being one of my students. Each one of you is a delight and blessing to me. I am so privileged to be able to teach music as my job. Thank you for making that possible! I hope these policies make our experience even better by providing...
Recommendations
I get questions from parents about what I recommend for all sorts of things. So I thought I'd create a page which I'll update regularly of people and products I recommend. This list is based on my or my students' interactions with these people and products. Guitar...
Intro to Atomic Habits
I recently read a book called "Atomic Habits" by James Clear (https://jamesclear.com/). It sparked a lot of ideas about how to help myself and my students establish good practice habits. Clear talks about 4 laws. First, make the habit obvious. (Control your...
David Nevue
I'm starting another series in which I feature some of my favorite composers. This will involve talking about the composer and playing one of his or her songs. To start us off, I'm playing "Blessed Assurance," arranged by David Nevue. Nevue is one of my favorite...
Student Feature: Christie
Hi All! I'm beginning a new student feature series. Christie is starting us off with a beautiful performance of Theme from Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. She recently participated in the 2020 online Summer Music Festival hosted by the Hanna Kogan...