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By now most of you have received your Basics In Rhythm books. Here’s the game for Fall: Students are to pair up with a parent to make a two-person...

Congratulations to Logan (pictured above) and Sean (pictured below) for winning (1st and 2nd place respectively) the Summer Sightreading Challenge!  Of course we’re all winners but these two won...

Every day when I teach in the Summer, kids tend to come to their lessons full of energy and life. We have a great time making music together, and...

This is an article I came across a few weeks ago, by a mom with two kids who recently finished high school. Her mindset on how to deal with...

As part of Summer Sightreading, we’re going to be focusing on reading and feeling rhythms in this week’s lessons, starting Sunday. Rhythm problems can be the biggest obstacles to...

Check out this cool artwork I picked up in Cuzco, Peru! I’ll be giving it away at the end of August to the student who accumulates the most miles...

Attention Students! The summer lesson calendar is now available online – please click here to view it!

A couple of the violinists really liked my synthesizer steel drum sound when we played “Under The Sea” from The Little Mermaid.  So in the middle of the performance...

I’m playing keyboards with the North Carolina Symphony this weekend.  We’ll be doing music from The Lion King, Pocahontas, Little Mermaid and all sorts of other fun Disney stuff!...

Big thanks to the parents who encourage their children in the arts, to Ruggero Piano for hosting, and most of all to the students who have been working hard on...