I offer both group and private lessons through my teaching studio. Which is better? Well, as with so many questions, it all depends on what you want from your lessons. […]
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Just before Christmas I had a breakthrough with one of my students. He is a lovely boy who is in his fourth year of taking lessons. He started in a […]
I love the beginning of a new year. I love the feeling of starting over again and the chance to look back at the year that was. Here are the […]
I recently heard a 5 year old student of mine talking to her mom as she walked away from lesson one day. Her lesson that day had not gone as […]
I was recently teaching one of my adult classes about playing double stops. My students told me that they were finding it difficult, and that they found that their violins […]
You love practicing your scales, right? Ok, maybe not. Do you find that sometimes your brain turns off while you are working on them? After all, the pattern remains that […]
I have recently been nominated for 5 Music NB Awards. The last time I was nominated for an award, a columnist called me to get a reaction and I was […]
I have always envied those people who have enough confidence to pick up a new instrument and teach themselves how to play. I think it is a great skill and […]
I recently performed in a concert called Mozart in the Park. This is a free outdoor concert presented by the NB Summer Music Festival, a classical chamber music festival held […]
Most of us tend to practice the same piece of passage over and over in order to get it right. This makes sense, right? Well, it does, but sometimes, as […]