Keyboard Festival 2010

Keyboard Festival was on Saturday, March 6th. The theme was "I Got the Music In Me!" 29 students performed pieces with a midi background accompaniment for family and friends. Afterwards a participants name was drawn for a gift bag prize that had some musical goodies inside. All the students recieved a certificate and music dog tag for their participation and hard work. Cookies and lemonade were enjoyed when it was all done. It was a fun day for all.

Our Performers...









Families, Friends and Fun...


















Gift Bag Drawing Winners...




Enjoying cookies and lemonade...

2010 PMTA Ensemble

On February 27th was the 58th Annual PMTA Ensemble event held at Camelback High School. 13 Grand Piano's were provided by Steinway of Phoenix. Five students from our studio participated in this awesome event. Caitlin, Katarina and Jason performed Heart and Soul and McKenna and Juan performed Lion Hunt. Congratulations on a great job!

Tuning the piano's before the big event...


Waiting to get in...



Almost time to start...




Going on a Lion Hunt...



Performing Heart and Soul...

Group Lessons- Piano Olympic Fun

This quarter for group lessons I wanted students to share their Keyboard Festival piece (or if they weren't participating, a piece of their choice). So we played Musical Truth, Dare or Perform. Everyone had a chance to perform in the end. If they got Truth they had to answer a question like, how many days did you practice this week or what's your favorite thing about lessons? Or a some dares might be play a piece kneeling down, play a piece while sticking out your tongue or you are a conductor, lead everyone in a March. If they chose Perform they played their prepared piece. It was a lot of fun!






Afterwards students played some Musical basketball, answering theory questions in their level before trying to make a basket for an extra point. Making a basket was a lot harder then they thought it would be, with the exception of McKenna who astounding everyone but making a basket every time!

Music at the Mall

December 12th was our yearly Music at the Mall event at Metrocenter. Students performed a couple Christmas pieces for family, friends and shoppers a like. Music at the Mall is a great way to ring in that holiday spirit!

Christmas Camp 2009

This year our theme for Christmas camp was "Piano Olympics over the Holidays". Students worked on events such as Tempo Aerobics learning various tempo's, rhythm activities including Tic Tac Total doing some musical math and Rhythm Races for some fun rhythm dictation. Some of the events were pretty challenging. They reviewed and learned music vocabulary words, ear training and more! For a little break between events, students made a Piano Olympic ornament and designed their own medal. The end of each evening students shared a Christmas piece they have been working on.


Shadow our studio mascot- protecting everyone's music bags...