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  • Creatures Great and Small

    My Piano Tuition theme this term is “Creatures Great and Small”. For the studio composition project however, I will not be making a video. Instead you must choose three contrasting animals from either Pets, Farmyard, or Jungle categories and compose either a suite of three short pieces featuring the three animals or one piece which features the three animals in relating themes.

    I was really pleased to hear that one of my youngest students had already pre-empted this composition project when she showed me her dinosaur composition yesterday, having chosen to represent three different dinosaurs, two of which I’d never even heard of before!

    Watch out for the weekly listening task in the Evernote listening folder following Saint-Saens’ famous “Carnival of the Animals” suite.

    The term will culminate with  the Summer Charity Concert which will take place at All Saint’s Church, Hoole on Saturday 30th June at 11am concluding with another “multimedia spectacular” which is currently in preparation!

     

  • Celebrating Success at Step One

    LCM Music ExamsFollowing the second entry I have submitted to the LCM exams, Dominic came away with a distinction (86/100) in his Step 1 Piano Exam and was very keen to share some of his favourite pieces from the exam in this video.

    Step One Exam Success

  • March: Month of Concerts

    Instead of organising one end of term concert for my students this term, there will be five! Four of the concerts will be taking place in schools during the school day and will be an opportunity for EVERY piano student in that particular school to take part in a performance. As usual, I will also be inviting some of my students to take part in the end of term “Playing Together” Charity Concert which will be held at All Saint’s Church , Hoole.

    The concert listed below in bold are the piano concerts. I have also included some details of a few other concerts in which I will be taking part this month for information!

    12th March – Upton Heath – 9am

    15th March – Saighton – 10am

    17th March – CMSYC Spring Concert, All Saint’s, Hoole – 7:30pm

    24th March – NES Spring Concert, Neston Parish Church – 7:30pm

    26th March – St. Werburgh’s – 10am

    27th March – St. Oswald’s – 2:45pm

    31st March – “Playing Together”, All Saint’s Hoole – 11am

    3rd April – Nave Choir Passion tide Devotion, Chester Cathedral – 7:30pm

    As a taster for the forthcoming series of concerts, the video clip below features the talented Year 3 Pianists at St. Werburgh’s taking part in their own concert at the start of this term.
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  • Playing Together – 31st March 2012

    The next “Playing Together” concert is due to take place at All Saint’s Church, Hoole starting at 11am on Saturday 31st March 2012.

    Ticket sales for the concert will continue to support a student bursary at Kampala Music School. Tickets are priced £3/adult and £1/child and can be purchased in advance using the paypal button below or may be purchased on the door.

    The programme will feature a variety of solos, duet and piano-based ensembles performed by students and friends of Will Hay Piano Tuition

     

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  • Sea Idylls Composition Project 2012

    The composition project this term has a nautical theme. Students must compose a backing track to the associated video which is 1 minute and 21 seconds in length. A template score has been provided in Noteflight which already has the correct number of empty bars laid out for each section. Providing the tempo remains unchanged and the number and position of bars are left as they are then notes input onto this score should fit in with the video.

    The piece must be in rondo form, taking as the three themes, the poetic ideas of “Waves”, “Pebbles & Shells” and “Lighhouses”. The closing date for completion of the project is 24th March, 2012 which is a week before the next concert.

    (Please note that at this stage it is not possible to hear the notes composed AND playback the video within noteflight, it has to be one or the other. If you open the video in a seperate browser window to the one in which you are running noteflight then it is almost possible to synchronise the two!)

    Students taking piano and keyboard lessons in school will have been organised into groups to work on this project in their own time with tutorial guidance during lessons.

    More information about the project along with links to some more sample scores have been posted on my noteflight forum