Teaching Beyond Major and Minor
byDisclaimer: if you live in the 19th century or earlier this article won’t have much relevance for you. Working on the P Plate Piano…
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75 Pieces in One Year?
byHow Ben Went From Beginner to Grade 2 in 10 Months! In 2011, I challenged all my students to learn at least 40 pieces…
Australian Composers: Max Cooke, Roderick Macfarlane and Warren Thompson
byMax Cooke After leaving school, and after one year at the Conservatorium, Max spent four years in the RAAF during the war. At war’s…
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….
Jazz Resource File Part 2
byJazz Hanon by Peter Deneff 696478 This book is kind of ugly, and kind of unbalanced (all the exercises have busy right…
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byOnce upon a time… the suburbs were born, and piano teachers found themselves increasingly isolated, working in home studios far away from shops, offices,…
Diary of a Piano Mama
byThere is an undeniably special relationship between a piano teacher and student. My piano teacher was like a second Mum to me and we…
Sight Reading Practice in the 21st Century
byThree years ago I had the pleasure of addressing a group of embryonic piano teachers at one of Australia’s distinguished universities. The thirty or…
Are these the luckiest piano teachers in Australia?
byWe think we may just have found the luckiest teachers in Australia! We asked Meg Blackley, Lynette Pfundt, Rob Deavin, Chris Murray, Sue Patterson…
40 Piece Challenge 2013
byThis year thousands of piano students from across the world have taken up the 40 Piece Challenge. Register for the challenge by sending an…
Composer Profile – Christopher Norton
byNew Zealand Christopher Norton was born in New Zealand in 1953. He began composing at the age of 14, and, by the age of…
Getting to…
byThe 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…