Beyond Recitals: Perspectives on Performances for the Next Generation
byEach spring, as many teachers do, I host an all-student studio recital, and while the protocol remains the same from year to year, several…
Each spring, as many teachers do, I host an all-student studio recital, and while the protocol remains the same from year to year, several…
In the same year AMEB is celebrating their Centenary, they will also be releasing a new piano syllabus for use from 2019. This will…
Over the years, the SA/NT branch of the AMEB has started a number of teachers’ groups in different regions — and one of them…
Good pedagogy moves from the known to the unknown. We all know this! However, we don’t always consider what is most well known to…
The What and the Why Learning the piano can be quite an isolating experience compared to other activities in a child’s life. Their sports…
Have you been uneasily watching students get their dopamine fix from beeps and tweets of so-cial media? Ah, valuable time that could be for…
As his principal instrument, the piano was inextricably a part of Leonard Bernstein’s musical life. There was no piano in his family home until…
Benjamin, we love the piece you composed for the 2017 Australasian Piano Pedagogy Con-ference and are so excited to share it with Piano Teachers…
No matter where you are in your journey of developing a music teaching business, or music school, you are not the only one who…
This series of unique, distinctive piano arrangements of popular songs consists of seven books (and growing, so my friends at Hal Leonard tell me!):…
Once upon a time, there were three different sized pianos: Papa Bear, Mama Bear and Baby Bear. Ok, enough with the bedtime story style……
Josie Thomas – BMus Ed (Melb), Cert Teach (Primary), Cert Singing (Primary Teaching) Josie was born in the Netherlands and migrated to Australia in…