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“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.” ―George Eliot On January 5th, we begin again! Please visit my Contact page to set up your first Meet & Greet and First Free Lesson!

Sounds of the Season! The Donnelly Music Studio ~ Holiday Recital Saturday, December 20th, 2025 The Program is below.

Students from the Donnelly Music Studio and the Studio of Ken Chen.

Congratulations to my student from the Donnelly Music Studio on his performance at Piano Ensemble!! Gobble Wobble Rag (Secondo) and Passacaglia (Secondo). Wonderful!

Congratulations to my student from the Donnelly Music Studio!! Hooray! We had a spectacular, scary, scrumptious, and sostenuto afternoon!

video6629633844 Please visit my Contact page to set up your first Meet & Greet and First Free Lesson!

video4634528137 Preparatory Exercises for beginning pianists from “Fundamentals of Piano Technique: The Russian Method” by Lev Conas and Olga Conas, (p. 13)

For more information on the Taubman approach, visit the Golandsky Institute website found here: https://www.golandskyinstitute.org/

Here are several recordings, completed unedited, from early this summer in my studio. For information on the levels, please refer to Jane McGrath’s “The Pianist’s Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature.” The piano is a Steinway & Sons Model 45, 1960. To record, I am using a Logitech Snowball microphone, processed through Zoom usingContinue reading “Muzio Clementi, Alexander Scriabin, and Johann Sebastian Bach”

In late September, following the inspiring (and technique-building) Jr. Hanon Competition, three students will perform three different Sonatinas, and other students, who will be working on a Sonatina next year, will evaluate the performances. It is not a competition, but rather a first look at what it means to evaluate another pianist and what itContinue reading “Autumn Sonatina Salon”