For those in their teen years, music can be an important emotional outlet

Learning is not a one-way street. Teachers teach students, but students also teach teachers. I was reminded of that recently while...

I recently helped run a local music festival/audition for area music students K-12 grades. Some Festivals and Auditions are very serious...

One of the sweetest gifts a student gave me years ago was a poem she had a written for an English class titled "The Music Machine." It...

Learning by rote versus learning musical skills such as reading music, technical skills, understanding styles.

At the age of eight, I started piano lessons with great enthusiasm. My parents had an old upright cabinet grand (I am talking HUGE)...

I met a very successful doctor at a party who said to me, when he discovered I teach piano, "I don't believe in MAKING my children do...

Keyboards, that is. Or more specifically, keyboards versus acoustic pianos. "What should I buy when I take piano lessons?" I have been...