Today I spent all day working with some high school students for a musical. When I say that I worked with them, I mean that I play piano and taught them their…
Category: Music Career
Day 156: An Unexpected Sunday Night Soirée with our Neighbors
Ok so tonight’s post is being done by candlelight on my iPad. I only did one other post on my iPad since I started this 365 Day Blogging Project, and that was…
Day 153: A Perk of Teaching Music
One of the big perks of teaching music is that I get to write music for my students. Today I have been working on a new piece for one class in which…
Day 142: Freedom from Mental Bulls##t (Did I mention I was on TV today?)
I feel like I get to breath again. Man, it has been a busy last few days: we hosted two Holiday parties in our home (which involved the prerequisite house cleaning and…
Day 138: Burning the candle…
So I’m sitting at the computer eating a late lunch. I have my first piano lesson of the day in under 20 minutes, and I will be teaching for the next 3…
Day 127: A Year of Firsts
This year has been a great year for examining my life and figure out what was working, what was not working, and making changes to increase my overall enjoyment and satisfaction. There…
Day 121: The Joys of Working with Great People
Tonight I am thinking about the joys of working with great people, specifically the wonderful hosts who’ve brought me in to perform at their homes, organizations, and facilities over the years. I…
Day 118: Have Fake Book, Will Travel
In case you didn’t know, I’m a classically-trained professional musician. I was trained to play classical piano starting the summer after 6th grade (prior to that I played a little on my…
Day 113: It was music all the way, baby
It’s funny how significant memories stay with us, those moments where we saw with great clarity who we are, and what we are about in this lifetime. We can look back on…
Day 104: My Little Music Community
I have been teaching piano for over 12 years now, and have been running my own piano studio here in Sacramento for close to 7 years now. Tonight I ran one of…