The Young Beginner: Keys to Connect
byFun and imagination for a Spirit of Play What is this world of the young beginner? It is fun, fantasy, and exploration. Seriousness? Teacher-driven…
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Reviewed by you: Samantha Coates
byFrozen Piano Duets These piano duets are absolutely delightful. It reads like a score, with the secondo line running under the primo line at…
April New Resources
byEugenie Rocherolle‘s music has recently had a resurgence in Australia as of late. Chatting with teachers at PD events about Eugenie’s music, most of them hadn’t…
Reviewed by You: Angela Turner
byJazz Hits for Piano Duet – Eight Arrangements for One Piano, For Hands Arranged by Jeremy Siskind Intermediate Having been much impressed by Jeremy…
Reviewed by You: Thembi Shears
byAnimal Crackers (Eric Baumgartner). Pianovations Composer Series. [columns_row width=”third-and-two-thirds”] [column] [/column] [column] This book is my favourite recent discovery for early intermediate repertoire….
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…
The Art of the In-home Concert
byNearly 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
byThe Christopher Norton Eastern Preludes Collection is a superb selection of highly distinctive arrangements of native themes from the east (including Brunei, China, India,…
The Pirate Challenge!
byEach year in my studio, I come up with a new whole studio challenge for all of my students to get involved in. This…
It’s All in the Rhythm
byA series of professional development workshops held across Victoria by the AMEB When I was first approached about these workshops, I put a question…
Beginning Improvisation — A Brief Look at Two Magical Scales
byImprovisation can be a richly rewarding pursuit and help lead to exciting new avenues of musical discovery and expression. And one needn’t necessarily have…
The Busy Teachers’ Guide to Repertoire: Solo Collections
byThere’s something very exciting about discovering and working with repertoire that you know students are going to engage with, including finding composers and works…