Chester Competitive Festival of Performing Arts 2009
With 2009 now well under way, it is time to look at other local competitions and festivals taking place for pianists. Chester Competitive Festival of Performing Arts has a number of open choice classes that may be of interest to my students.
The festival will take place at the King’s School, Chester on Saturday 25th April, 2009.
There is [...]
Piano Points League – January 2009
Piano Points Leader board. Top nine points scorers. Alice leading with 16 points. 55% of students on target.
Read moreTwo Rivers Festival – Celebrity Recitals at Birkenhead School
This year sees the launch of the Two Rivers Festival, an initiative to create a new festival of music and the arts using many of the beautiful buildings and locations on Wirral.
ENTENTE CORDIALE – Jonathan Small, oboe and Ian Buckle, piano
perform a programme of English and French music of the 20th and 21st Centuries [...]
African Elephant Composition by Oliver, age 8
Oliver showed me his composition today, which I think was pretty good for an 8 year old. This is the first time I have used Noteflight which is a bit like google docs for musical scores; making the score viewable, searchable and printable on the noteflight site and producing an embeddable, printable flash score for [...]
Read moreBeth – First four terms at the piano ¦ Podcast Episode 5
The first podcast of the new year follows the progress of six-year old Beth through her first four terms of piano study.
The pieces featured, following a spooky theme, include:
Ghost (Oct ’07), Scarecrow (Mar ’08) and Ghostly Tale (Jan ’09).
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