Category: Piano Teaching
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Before Grade 1 – The Pre-prep Test
This is the first in a series of posts looking at the certificate options available for young beginners to tackle before they are ready to start working on Grade 1. I have used the ABRSM Prep Test for over a year now which has proved popular with my students, giving them a taste of what…
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Students perform in Chester recital
Thirty students performed in the Charity Piano Recital last week at The King’s School. The concert raised a further £180 towards Betina’s lesson bursary bringing the total raised this year to over £400. With a year of lessons costing £300 this means there is a surplus to go towards her exam fees and other costs.…
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Christmas and New Year
Might I take this opportunity to wish everyone a joyous Christmas and a peaceful New Year! Piano lessons in school will be finishing by 20th December. View your rearranged lesson times. Other than students at Upton Heath who will have a lesson as normal on Tuesday 14th Dec, you will only have another lesson if your name…
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Composition Competition 2010 – Results
It was great to receive 11 composition submissions to the competition and many of my students had worked hard on their pieces. In the end though I had to come up with two winners from the entries received and these pieces were performed at the concert on 4th December, 2010. I will add some more…
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Christmas Piano Music
I first wrote this post over two years ago as “Easy Christmas Carol Books”. Having had a few queries since from parents about which music to buy their children for Christmas, I decided to add some books below with more challenging yet fun arrangements. — “As the frosty mornings are starting to set in and…