7 Ways to Practice Your Concert Pieces!

For Parents, For Students, Performance

When you are preparing for performance, practising your pieces in a variety of ways can help! Here are seven different things you could give a try: Try it like a performance: walk to the stage, set yourself up, bow, perform the piece, bow, leave the stage. Rehearsing...

Performance Parties: 7 Top Tips For Hosting A Great Party!

For Teachers, Performance

  This weekend we are hosting a performance party at my home studio. It is the first performance opportunity this year for our students. I started these parties about 18 months ago and we now do three a year. At first it took a little while to get students into...

Stress Free Concert Organising!

Performance

This past month we have been preparing for our Annual Concert. There is a great deal of preparation and thought that goes into organising each of these concerts. Each year at Novar Music, we host two large concerts in addition to the other performance opportunities...

Christmas At My House

Performance

How do you use your piano skills at Christmas time? Several years ago I thought about starting an annual carols night at our home to invite friends and family to sit around the piano and share a night of carols together. This started fairly small and was open to...

G&T with Jovanni-Rey de Pedro!

Interviews, Performance

At the Australian Piano Pedagogy Conference in Toowoomba last year I met Concert Pianist Dr Jovanni-Rey De Pedro. He played the opening recital and it was wonderful! I particularly enjoyed hearing the world premiers he played (here is the Norton Sonata) and the...

Live Music, Performance Opportunities and Your Students

For Teachers, Performance

  For the past few years I have concentrated on creating performance opportunities for students, crafting different events in our studio calendar to support the growth and diversity within our studio. We now have Performance Parties, Recitals, Concerts and Panel...