Author: glasshouseofmusic

Well, here we are! Is the school year over already? 😅 With all the personal chaos this year- finding a place to live, moving, starting a new job, getting promoted, experiencing holiday hours in retail for the first time in my life 🤯, managing my senior puppy’s health issues… just to name a few- the year has flown […]

Nuvole Bianche. Italian, for white clouds. What a perfect song to play at your own wedding. Wait, what? Yes!!  I had an adult student get married this summer, and he played this for his bride while she walked down the aisle. So beautiful!! ❤️ What an incredible accomplishment for him, too. He worked on this piece with […]

Maria was fortunate enough to have grown up in a musical family. Her father was a professional clarinetist, and so he taught her this instrument. She also played the violin (as well as piano, of course)! Maria entered a school for music at the age of 8. She would take a long subway ride every […]

Maria Rosales has been teaching me since October 2020. She has been a rock for me through all the trials of life during the pandemic, and everything that life has thrown my way since then. She is exactly the teacher I needed, at exactly the right time. Isn’t it funny how it often works out […]

I’ll keep it short, and let the music speak for itself. My heart and soul went into this piece over the past year. As I was practicing the final variation one day, my mum said to me “that’s a scary one.” To this I replied, “you have you no idea…” lol. It certainly was a […]

As a continuation of last week’s post, I will relay some very interesting information from professor Carol Leone’s presentation a few weeks ago. She has helped to redesign the piano keyboard to fit smaller hands! Today’s conventional keyboard has an octave (8 notes) of 6.5 inches. There is now a keyboard that has a 6 […]

I wish!! Master classes are the one-off opportunities to learn from true masters. I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to meet and play for professor Carol Leone two Sundays ago. She teaches at SMU Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas, Texas, and is considered the world’s leading performer, teacher, and researcher […]

Every young music student has undoubtedly considered the prospect of The Juilliard School at some point or other. You can’t study the arts and not have heard of it – it’s one of the hottest schools on the planet! I started studying with Jarred Dunn almost 10 years ago and was impressed that he had studied […]

Inspiration at last! There’s nothing like live music to reignite the soul. This was exactly what I needed- a natural escape from life. These musicians were fantastic, and successfully transported me to another realm. A string quartet wasn’t my first choice of concerts to attend, but since (sadly) I missed both featured pianists this season […]

Some of you may have noticed that my blog posts have been scarce recently. It’s because I picked up a second job… in construction! Even though it’s only part-time, the days can be very long; sometimes more than 17 hours if you include the commute. The priority has been to balance teaching, practicing and of […]