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 …
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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 …
Concert raises funds as Autumn Leaves fall
The Autumn Leaves project has now concluded and a number of students have taken part. The completed videos can be found on the playlist below and have also been shared on the Noteflight Studio. A particularly interesting contribution came from Justus, who is our new bursary student at Kampala Music School. Justus’ and Maya’s videos …
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Justus – New Bursary Student
As Betina is no longer able to have violin lessons we are now pleased to be able to support Justus Archangel Mugumnya who is 22 years old and has been playing the piano since 2007. He was born in Nairobi but came back to Uganda at the age of four and has done all his schooling in …
Autumn Leaves Composition Project
Over the next half term I am running a composition project in which all my students are entitled to take part. The composition entitled “Autumn Leaves” must fit with the video and could take the form of a backing track or a song. There is a score of the appropriate length already set up on …