What’s Cooking? An End of an Era (a very fine era it was, too)
byWhether you know it or not the Australian piano teaching landscape is about to experience big change. It’s the kind of change that happens…
Whether you know it or not the Australian piano teaching landscape is about to experience big change. It’s the kind of change that happens…
Piano Select is proud to invite piano students from around Australia to participate in our upcoming Scholarship series for 2016. The Piano Select Scholarship…
I was really surprised playing through Take 5 of the Best Children’s Songs. I saw ‘children’s songs’ and thought they would be really daggy,…
Nearly everyone in my family is either a teacher or a doctor, so I’ve always been taught to place a high value on service….
The Christopher Norton Eastern Preludes Collection is a superb selection of highly distinctive arrangements of native themes from the east (including Brunei, China, India,…
Each year in my studio, I come up with a new whole studio challenge for all of my students to get involved in. This…
A series of professional development workshops held across Victoria by the AMEB When I was first approached about these workshops, I put a question…
Improvisation can be a richly rewarding pursuit and help lead to exciting new avenues of musical discovery and expression. And one needn’t necessarily have…
There’s something very exciting about discovering and working with repertoire that you know students are going to engage with, including finding composers and works…
The Magic of Standards Eight Piano Solos The Magic of Standards is a collection of eight new arrangements of beloved songs. Refreshingly original takes…
Each of us has a ‘way we do things’ and our studios are no different. When it comes to communicating the way things are…
Every now and then I stumble upon a piece that I fall in love with where the composer was previously unknown to me. I…