Author: glasshouseofmusic

The Olympics of piano, as I like to call it 😊 The Chopin competition takes place every 5 years (although this time we waited 6 due to covid), in Warsaw, Poland. For the first time in history, Canada won the grand prize!! 🇨🇦 We also placed 6th, which is no small feat. Over 500 pianists from 53 countries […]

September is always a busy month with going back to school. It takes a few weeks to get everyone’s schedules sorted out and back into a practice routine. Add a couple of master classes to the mix, and the whole month just flies by!  My first event was a Polonaise weekend. It began with a […]

I hope everyone enjoyed their summer, and is geared up to begin this new and promising academic year! I’m excited to start in-person lessons again, and can’t wait to see what everyone‘s been working on this summer! ☀️ As always, I will arrange two recitals (most likely Facebook video recitals again), and look forward to preparing […]

To start off, I will answer Seymour’s first question from our zoom class. The question was this: Why do you study music? Answer: I love music. It’s what keeps me going. It’s always been there for me as a comfort and a challenge throughout my life. I would go as far as to say that […]

The zoom master class with Seymour this past Sunday was incredible! I learned SO much. It was supposed to be 2 hours but ended up running for 3! The time just flew by. Each student only had 15 minutes of individual attention, but the whole group benefited so much from the entire class. You can […]

I recently joined a new platform called tonebase and am loving it! It was actually founded in 2017, but I heard about it last summer for the first time, when Jarred Dunn created a video for them. I’ve been watching snippets of videos, just biding my time until I could make the leap and purchase […]

One of the biggest challenges for most kids learning the piano, is all the alone time. Children like interacting with others and crave constant encouragement. Then again, don’t we all? 😏 Here’s a solution: learn a duet! It can be so much more fun to play piano with someone. Sure, the work still needs to be done independently, […]

Due to our current situation, live recitals are not an option. This is the single most exciting thing we are missing out on in regards to piano lessons. BUT, we have the next best thing- video recitals! 😍 Everyone benefits from recitals! 💯 The students (as terrified as they may be in the moment) love it! They […]

Earlier, I talked about how some children can feel overwhelmed with piano. Sometimes, that’s because it’s one more place in their life where they don’t feel like they have any control. But the piano can be an escape- even for the tiny ones.  When small children first begin learning piano, we don’t spend the full […]

Improv isn’t just for comedians – it’s also for piano students!  For young children first learning the piano, just pressing the keys is a new experience for them. The excited kids just want to bang away. The shy ones might tentatively press a key… very softly.  Improv is a way to get children used to […]