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How to Host a Teen Friendly Piano Recital

Concerts should be a wonderful time for all your students to show off their skills. So how can we make sure we provide a teen friendly piano recital? Think about it from a teenager’s perspective. If your student concerts have mostly young kids, with balloons and silly “kiddy” songs, they might not feel like they…

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Filed Under: Business, Practice Tagged With: concert preparation, getting ready for piano recitals, piano performance, teaching teenage piano students, teen piano teaching

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Performance Preparation with Fun Group Lessons

Can you believe it’s already almost December? This year just feels like it’s flying by and I’m already only two weeks away from my Winter concert! Last week was our performance preparation class.Three weeks before any performance, I hold a group lesson where we rehearse our concert pieces. I’m sure many of you are also holding…

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Filed Under: Music Theory, Practice Tagged With: improvisation, music theory, music theory games, performance anxiety, performance preparation, piano performance

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Nicola Cantan is a piano teacher, author, blogger and creator of imaginative and engaging teaching resources. She loves getting piano students learning through laughter, and helping teachers to teach through games and off-bench activities, so that their students giggle their way through music theory and make faster progress.

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