Under the Lid
byA piano should be properly maintained. That goes without saying. However, you would be surprised what piano owners do to their instruments over time….
A piano should be properly maintained. That goes without saying. However, you would be surprised what piano owners do to their instruments over time….
Jazz Hanon by Peter Deneff 696478 This book is kind of ugly, and kind of unbalanced (all the exercises have busy right…
Once upon a time… the suburbs were born, and piano teachers found themselves increasingly isolated, working in home studios far away from shops, offices,…
There is an undeniably special relationship between a piano teacher and student. My piano teacher was like a second Mum to me and we…
Three years ago I had the pleasure of addressing a group of embryonic piano teachers at one of Australia’s distinguished universities. The thirty or…
We think we may just have found the luckiest teachers in Australia! We asked Meg Blackley, Lynette Pfundt, Rob Deavin, Chris Murray, Sue Patterson…
This year thousands of piano students from across the world have taken up the 40 Piece Challenge. Register for the challenge by sending an…
New Zealand Christopher Norton was born in New Zealand in 1953. He began composing at the age of 14, and, by the age of…
The Getting to…series is a home-grown Australian music publishing initiative that has developed into a phenomenon. Originally intended to be no more than a…
I frequently hear piano teachers say that they simply cannot ask parents to buy books of music as the cost will be beyond the…
Well, perhaps not but indeed J.S. Bach taught his sons using the music of his time – popular dances, preludes and exercises by living composers….
Mark Griffiths says that the introduction of the AMEB’s P Plate Piano into his teaching program has helped inspire his students to want to…