Congratulations to Jenny (left), age 10, awarded for Outstanding Performance at the TFMC State Festival in San Marcos, TX, last weekend! She played the first movement (Lively) of the First Sonatina by Olson. Her sister Daisy (right, who also plays) cheered her on!
Kudos to Jenny, age 10, trophy winner at the GCMA 2016 Sonatina Festival!
Congratulations to Georgia, age 9, for top rating at this year’s Gold Cup Festival playing Olson’s Sonatina No. 1 (Sunny Today) and Rejino’s Flying My Kite!
A Keyboard Games class has started on Fridays at *time change* 2pm, in Seabrook.
Your child may join the Friday 2pm class of piano for preschoolers, called Keyboard Games. We also need at least one more student for classes on either Mondays or Fridays at 11am or Wednesdays at 5:30.
Keyboard Games is for children 4 to 5 years old. It’s a fun transition from Music Play to Piano Lessons! Regular monthly tuition is $60 (prorated in months with more or less than 4 lessons). The Music Moves for Piano: Keyboard Games Book A with CD may be purchased from the teacher ($19.95). At home, student needs an acoustic or digital piano, or keyboard, and a CD player or access to Internet on device that plays audio.
Beginning Keyboard Games student Gabriel, age 4, feeling inspired to improvise at the piano!
Music is connection. Getting ready to perform together.
For more information on all Musikhaus classes, see Piano & Early Childhood Music Lessons.
Beginning piano player Ernesto, age 10, pushed the envelope with chromaticisms in G to develop a blues concept so cool and suave it could be out of a 1960s spy movie, complete with orchestration:
My apologies (and gratitude) to Ernesto, Gabi and Takuto for my getting so caught up in the musical moments of their lessons that I forgot to record later versions of their improvisations. Actually I never recorded Ernesto or Takuto playing their blues at all, but at least I realized my mistake with Ernesto after his last class before vacation, so I could record what I remembered of his blues.
Below is an early version of Blues in F created by Gabi, age 11. In the next couple of lessons, she added a left hand accompaniment and extended her performance by adding another 12-bar chorus (a variation of the first 12 bars), shaping the 24 bars generally into an arch. It just kept getting funkier and groovier. But even on the very first day, her idea was already a treat:
Musikhaus Piano Lessons 