Hello! I hope your April is starting out beautifully. We are excited that our Spring Concert is right around the corner! Drummers, pianists, vocalists, guitarists, ukuleles and Rock Band will be performing! We’d love to have you join us. Here
December 2015 Newsletter
My college drum teacher, Doug Auwarter, told me, “a live performance is worth three lessons” and I agree wholeheartedly. There’s nothing like seeing another musician perform to give one new
Should a parent ever force a kid to take music lessons?
Recently an acquaintance and mother of five was talking to me about music lessons for their son. Her husband highly valued music education and wanted all their children to have lessons during their childhood. But, one of their sons had absolutely
Diversify
Diversify: Usually a business term or perhaps for investing, but this word is at the core of what I do as a musician. First some background: I started playing piano when I was 6 (ish) because my parents were both
Practicing the Performance
I have made amazing, huge, horrifying mistakes under the influence of performance anxiety (a.k.a. stage fright). I vividly remember an All-State Band audition I took my senior year of high school: I was auditioning on trumpet, an instrument I had